Month: February 2026

My refrigerator does not need to know who I am. It has no business having an IP address. And yet here we are. The smart

There’s a particular kind of tired that comes not from doing too much but from being too available. From the perpetual notification, the always-on expectation,

In 2012, “influencer” wasn’t a job title. It wasn’t even really a word in this sense. The people who would come to be called influencers

There’s a video of a public official saying something they didn’t say. It was made with publicly available software, by someone without specialized skills, in

If you follow health media, you might have gotten the impression that smartphones are destroying an entire generation’s mental health, with research to prove it.

The honest answer to “is my data safe?” is: it depends on who you’re asking about, what kind of safety you mean, and your tolerance

TikTok has now been “potentially getting banned” in the United States for long enough that the potential ban has become almost as much a part

I got on the subway last week and realized halfway through the ride that my phone was dead. I had no idea where I was

When a photograph could be doctored in a darkroom, we developed skepticism about photographs. When Photoshop became democratized, we developed more. The technology changes; the

Two years ago, asking an AI to draft something for you felt slightly illicit — like a shortcut you weren’t sure was allowed. Now it’s