Vaping companies are using the same old tricks as Big Tobacco
Vaping companies are using the same old tricks as Big Tobacco.

November 17, 2017 at 08:44AM
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Your boss might be better as an algorithm
As the Alexas and Siris of the world proliferate, it’s only a matter of time before we all have personal AI assistants to tend to our every whim. But as AI gets smarter, our roles will reverse, and we will inevitably start working for AI instead of it working for us.

November 16, 2017 at 06:19PM
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Amazon’s Fast Shipping Has A High Human Cost, And Other Facts
​Welcome to What We Learned This Week, a digest of the most curiously important facts from the past few days. This week: The shady ethics of Amazon Prime Now, the everlasting appeal of Vans and the innate sexism of Slack.

November 16, 2017 at 05:19PM
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Holy Crap, Boston Dynamics’ New Robot Can Do Backflips
Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot just keeps getting more and more agile and stable, bringing the robot apocalypse a few jumps closer.

November 16, 2017 at 05:13PM
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The Female Supercomputer Designer Who Inspired Steve Jobs
The designer and artist Tamiko Thiel gets her due in a new show at MoMA.

November 16, 2017 at 02:58PM
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This Parrot Can Turn On And Off The Lights Using An Alexa
And then the parrots just sits there, in the glaring light, murmuring strange nothings to itself.

November 16, 2017 at 10:31AM
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When Dentists Criticize This Online Braces Company, It Takes Them To Court
SmileDirectClub is trying to silence its critics with legal threats after the American Association of Orthodontists lodged complaints against the Nashville startup in 36 states.

November 16, 2017 at 07:33AM
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Proper choose-your-own-adventure TV series are here, but don’t call them that
“That Moment When” is a new take on a well-known format.

November 15, 2017 at 05:01PM
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Why is this company tracking where you are on Thanksgiving?
A data collection service called SafeGraph collected 17 trillion location markers for 10 million smartphones during the holiday last year.

November 15, 2017 at 04:03PM
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23andUs | Jacob Silverman
What is 23andMe trying to say, and why are its ad campaigns, with their soft colors and eugenicist overtones, so relentlessly creepy?

November 15, 2017 at 02:54PM
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