Selfies Are Lies
To make up for the limits of smartphone lenses, phones use algorithms and an array of images you already have to produce the picture you want.

April 28, 2018 at 08:04AM
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MoviePass is no longer too good to be true
Restrictions on seeing movies more than once, and no longer selling its one-movie-per-day plan, are bad signs.

April 27, 2018 at 03:23PM
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It’s Time to Stop Saying “If You’re Not Paying, You’re the Product”
The pithiness that makes “you are the product” so quotable risks obscuring the complex pact between Facebook and its users, in ways that make social media’s problems seem inevitable and insoluble. They’re not.

April 27, 2018 at 03:23PM
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This Smartwatch That Turns Your Arm Into A Touchscreen May Not Be Super Practical, But It’s Pretty Cool
“No, I’m not looking at my phone. Just looking at my hand.”

April 27, 2018 at 01:05PM
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Gary Numan’s ‘Cars’ Was Meant To Be Played By This Computer Hardware Orchestra
Gary might not have known upon its writing, but this “floppotron” cover is the song’s ultimate destiny.

April 27, 2018 at 11:01AM
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Everything You Need To Know About Crispr Gene Editing
How scientists can repurpose a bacterial immune system to alter DNA, making everything from cheap insulin to extra starchy corn.

April 27, 2018 at 10:01AM
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A Pioneer In Predictive Policing Is Starting A Troubling New Project
Pentagon-funded research aims to predict when crimes are gang-related.

April 27, 2018 at 04:03AM
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Experts Admit They Have No Clue How Artificial Intelligence Will Change Our World
Will AI destroy humanity? Will it save us from ourselves? Or will it leave us about where we are now?

April 27, 2018 at 03:00AM
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Inside AMD’s Quest to Build Chips That Can Beat Intel
There are few gambles in the tech world as big as spending billions to build a new computer processor from scratch.

April 26, 2018 at 07:41PM
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A New Startup Wants To Use Crispr To Diagnose Disease
Genetics pioneer Jennifer Doudna has launched the first commercial Crispr platform for detecting disease-causing DNA.

April 26, 2018 at 06:55PM
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