Mark Zuckerberg’s unbelievably bleak AI vision
Of all the many famous Steve Jobs stories that tech industry folks like to share, perhaps the single most famous ...
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What drove the tech right’s — and Elon Musk’s — big, failed bet on Trump
I live and work in the San Francisco Bay Area, and I don’t know anyone who says they voted for ...
These stories could change how you feel about AI
Here’s a selection of recent headlines about artificial intelligence, picked more or less at random:For some recent graduates, the AI ...
The life-or-death case for self-driving cars
I have some bad news: You are almost certainly a worse driver than you think you are. Humans drive distracted. ...
Will the courts break up Google? The tech giant’s big problems, briefly explained.
Google just lost a huge antitrust case. A federal judge in Virginia ruled on Thursday that the search giant illegally ...
In defense of cheap things
A version of this story originally appeared in the Future Perfect newsletter. Sign up here!We live in a consumerist society. ...
The surprising thing I learned from quitting Spotify
Last summer, I quit Spotify, and wrote about it with the rather unsubtle headline “Why I quit Spotify.” My reasons ...
The Facebook tell-all Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t want you to read, briefly explained
In a 2019 speech at Georgetown University, Mark Zuckerberg made a bold statement. Rather than to help college kids get ...
Why you should make your phone boring
I got my latest Screen Time report from Apple halfway through my daughter’s first day at Disney World. Waiting in ...
Turn off your read receipts. They’re dangerous.
For a decade, my wife’s read receipts have been on without her knowing it. She kept checking her phone’s settings ...
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