Lies about science, civil rights, and the vote itself have turned Americans against one another. Disinformation and its fallout have defined 2020, the …
Tech's 2020: 10 Features Worth Reading
From deep dives into the impact of disinformation on American lives to the privacy costs of using "free" websites, what it means to achieve quantum supremacy and how child porn offenders are being tracked online worldwide, here are some of the best tech-related longreads that we found in 2020.
During the summer of 2011, Robert Stevenson and Tim Wilson of Gaikai, a cloud gaming company in Aliso Viejo, California, boarded a 13-hour-plus flight bound for Samsung Digital City in Suwon, South Korea....
YouTube has always been important to the music business. Now, with YouTube Music, it's trying to build a music universe Spotify and Apple can't touch. …
Trackers piggybacking on website tools leave some site operators in the dark about who is watching or what marketers do with the data
See more from GQ’s Change Is Good issue. There Jaron Lanier and I were, side by side on my computer screen, in a virtual space that looked a little like a conference room and a little like a movie theater....
4chan moderators and leaked chat logs show that the infamous imageboard didn't become the hateful site it's known as by accident. A powerful moderator intentionally helped make it that way. In two decades,...
On June 4, 2019, Sergio Boixo gathered his colleagues on Google’s quantum research team together for an urgent meeting. The group, split across two …
The 14th July 2020 is the 25th birthday of the MP3. We spoke with artist and curator Dr John Kannenberg about its impact and legacy. 1995 was a mixed …
The Child Protection System helps police triage child pornography cases. But as the system expands, it's facing growing privacy concerns. BOCA RATON, Fla. — In December 2016, law enforcement agents seized...
As the AIDS epidemic spread, Ben Gardiner took to the nascent internet — and shaped the way we share health information online Ben Gardiner was a …
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