The ban is a disaster, even if you support it.
Holding classes over Zoom just pretends to solve a problem.
Elon Musk’s EV empire is crumbling.
A great public resource is at risk of being destroyed.
What’s your Elo rating?
The founder of Chipotle wants to reinvent lunch using robots. Is that really a reinvention at all?
Keila Shaheen outsold Oprah Winfrey with a journaling book marketed through TikTok. Now what?
For half a century, viewers scorned the laugh track while adoring shows that used it. Now it has all but disappeared.
English is the internet’s primary tongue—a fact that may have unexpected consequences as generative AI becomes central to daily life.
We’re in a golden age for food storage. So why is America’s paradigmatic container brand failing?
Revisiting BlackPlanet, and a lost era when social media was still fun
They don’t make ’em like they used to!
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/04/roku-tv-ads-patent/678041/?utm_source=feed
Dating apps are falling back to Earth.
Welcome to the golden age of voice dictation.
Domain names once gave the internet a sense of place. Now they are meaningless.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/04/domain-names-obsolete/678000/?utm_source=feed
It turns out that connecting brains with computers is the easy part.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/04/neuralink-bci-implant/677996/?utm_source=feed
The earthquake internet actually works.
That’s how you know it’s taking over.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/04/ai-magic-taking-over/677968/?utm_source=feed
This is what happens when wealthy consumers run headlong into actual scarcity.
The crypto mogul, now sentenced to 25 years behind bars, is leaving behind an industry that has started to grow up.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/03/sbf-crypto-sentencing/677913/?utm_source=feed
Sometimes, going viral isn’t as great as it seems.
Looking out from the harbor used to be an exercise in optimism.
Thanks to AI, people may no longer feel the need to learn a second language.
Better browsers made things worse.
What Kate Middleton proved about the internet