Calling Out a Presidential Lie
How media technology and Donald Trump have changed the way journalists think about describing falsehoods
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Mark Makela / Reuters How Did Cybersecurity Become So Political?
It wasn’t always this complicated.
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Eric Thayer / Reuters What Killed the Pay Phone?
It was more than mobile phones. An Object Lesson.
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John D McHugh / AFP / Getty How Trump’s Immigration Rules Will Hurt the U.S. Tech Sector
Instead of beelining for Silicon Valley, the top minds from countries like Iran may start heading to Canada, Europe, or Asia instead.
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Chester Holme / Mosaic Virtual Reality Can Make the Pain of Surgery Easier to Bear
By distracting patients, VR could minimize the cost and risk of operations—and allow doctors to operate on patients outside the hospital.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Is #DeleteUber Good for Workers' Rights?
The social-media campaign highlights labor issues, but only through the lens of identity.
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Issei Kato / Reuters The Internet Is Mostly Bots
More than half of web traffic comes from automated programs—many of them malicious.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters The Booming Demand for Commercial Drone Pilots
Training programs are popping up around the country for a rush of new jobs.
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Andy Wong / AP 'Look, a Bird!' Trolling by Distraction
Rather than debating critics directly, the Chinese government tries to derail conversation on social media it views as dangerous.
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Alexandra Beier / Reuters The Heirloom Art of the Sewing Machine
Even after automation, sewing remains a craft that’s passed down through generations. An Object Lesson.
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Yuri Kochetkov / Pool / AP Kremlin-Sponsored News Does Really Well on Google
Should technology companies treat state-funded outlets like RT the same way as they treat The New York Times?
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Eric Thayer / Reuters What Do You Mean by 'The Media?'
The term has been weaponized.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters The Exhausting Work of Tallying America's Largest Protest
A pair of political-science professors are combing through news stories and individual reports to estimate the number of people who demonstrated on Saturday.
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Eric Risberg / AP The Demon Voice That Can Control Your Smartphone
Researchers have created creepy sounds that are unintelligible to humans but still capable of talking to phones’ digital assistants.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters How Will We Know Trump’s Inaugural Crowd Size?
It involves satellites and weather balloons.
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Library of Congress How the Fake News Crisis of 1896 Explains Trump
William Jennings Bryan, the populist presidential hopeful, warned of an “epidemic of fake news” in his day.
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Mariana Bazo / Reuters Zuckerberg 2020?
More clues that the Facebook founder is eyeing a run for office
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Carlos Barria / Reuters 'Hard to Believe There’s Just One Day Until Donald Trump Is Sworn In'
A conversation with Matt Novak, who’s been counting down to the inauguration on Twitter for a year and a half.
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Kim Kyung-Hoon / Reuters Nintendo Wants Players to Look at Each Other Again
But will they want to?
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Justin Sullivan / Getty Images How FamilyTreeNow Makes Stalking Easy
The site is only one of many unregulated online people-search services that offer up personal information with few safeguards on how it’s used.
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Barbara Penoyar / Kevin Peterson / Getty / ... Using Tinder in Your Hometown Is Like Visiting an Alternate Reality
Surfing the app on a trip back home can be a way of regressing, or imagining what life would be like if you never left.
