We Asked 105 Experts What Worries Them Most About The Future
Welcome to the dark side of Motherboard’s two-part poll about the future.

December 5, 2018 at 08:57AM
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Bad Landlord? These Coders Are Here To Help
When Dan Kass moved to New York City in 2013 after graduating from college in Boston, his introduction to the city was one that many New Yorkers are all too familiar with: a bad landlord.

December 4, 2018 at 08:57PM
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Can This Little Magic App Make Your Headphones Sound Perfect?
Could the future of making music sound good be an app that compensates for the terrible headphones most of us insist on buying?

December 4, 2018 at 04:46PM
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We’re No Longer in Smartphone Plateau. We’re in the Smartphone Decline.
Every smartphone manufacturer is now facing a world where, at best, they can hope for single-digit growth in smartphone sales — and many seem to be preparing for a world where they face declines.

December 4, 2018 at 04:46PM
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Are Headphones A Legit Fashion Accessory Now?
White headphones, both wired and wireless, are becoming an unignorable fashion statement, possibly for the first time since those ’00s ads.

December 4, 2018 at 03:41PM
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An Eye-Scanning Lie Detector Is Forging A Dystopian Future
EyeDetect is pitched by its makers as a faster, cheaper and more accurate alternative to the notoriously unreliable polygraph. By many measures, EyeDetect appears to be the future of lie detection — and it’s already being used by local and federal agencies to screen job applicants.

December 4, 2018 at 01:37PM
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Buying an Apple Product Will Always Hurt
Our ancestors knew the pleasure of leaves crunching underfoot. We know the delight of peeling the plastic from a new iPhone. But eventually, the new-gadget feeling fades. The time comes to buy a newer, better product.

December 4, 2018 at 06:56AM
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Homeland Security Will Let Computers Predict Who Might Be A Terrorist On Your Plane — Just Don’t Ask How It Works
The new DHS program will give foreign airports around the world free software that teaches itself who the bad guys are, continuing society’s relentless swapping of human judgment for machine learning.

December 4, 2018 at 06:56AM
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Police may have used Tesla’s Autopilot feature to stop driver asleep at the wheel
After flashing their lights and sirens in an attempt to pull the car over, the officers deployed a strategy based around their assumption that the Tesla Model 3 was running on Autopilot: two unit cars pulled up in front and behind the Tesla to get the car to gradually come to a stop, after a seven-mile chase.

December 3, 2018 at 09:30PM
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The CRISPR Baby Scandal Gets Worse by the Day
The alleged creation of the world’s first gene-edited infants was full of technical errors and ethical blunders.

December 3, 2018 at 08:27PM
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