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Why Regulating Facebook’s Algorithm Could Be Unconstitutional
By Julia Zorthian
Latest Tests Bring Israel a Step Closer to Commercial Drones
By JACK JEFFERY / AP
This Is the White House's Plan to Take on Facebook
By Brian Bennett
How Fixing Facebook's Algorithm Could Help Teens—and Democracy
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Instagram Is Doing Grave Harm to Our Generation. We Need Help to Stop It
Although Destinee was just 13 when she created her first Instagram account in 2012, she was late to the world of social media. She remembers standing in her best friend's bathroom, posing in front of...
By Destinee Adams
September 21, 2021
Why Apple's Health App Could Be the Sleeper Hit of iOS 15
When Apple's iOS 15 goes live Monday, it will come with the usual bevy of software upgrades meant to enhance slightly older iPhones while also laying the groundwork for the Cupertino, Calif. company's next generation...
By Alex Fitzpatrick
September 20, 2021
What China's Tech Crackdown Means for the U.S.
New regulations include: only three hours of video games per week allowed for kids, limits on social media algorithms, and a ban on online celebrity fan clubs
By Billy Perrigo
September 1, 2021
Technology Can Help Foster Inclusivity, Productivity at Work
'We destigmatized working from home— letting the messiness of our personal lives permeate a sanitized working world'
By Anjali Sud
August 11, 2021
How China Is Using AI to Fuel the Next Industrial Revolution
"AI is the engine fueling the fourth industrial revolution. China is at the forefront in manifesting this change"
By Kai-Fu Lee
August 11, 2021
AI Can Endanger Lives. We Must Enforce Stronger Safeguards
Too often we fall into the trap of “enchanted determinism”: the belief that A.I. systems are both magical and superhuman
By Kate Crawford
August 11, 2021
TikTok Now Collects 'Faceprints.' What Could That Mean?
Potential uses for the data have caused concern among experts who say security and privacy could be at risk
By Megan McCluskey
June 14, 2021
How to Regulate Tech Platforms Like Facebook
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is telling everyone who will listen that it is time to regulate the internet. But do Facebook and other platform companies support meaningful oversight or simply a regulatory Potemkin...
By Tom Wheeler
April 5, 2021
Big Tech Should Treat Users Like Shareholders Not Resources
We need a new relationship between Big Tech and its users, built on mutual cooperation, revenue sharing and a shared purpose
By Sid Mohasseb
January 28, 2021
How Crypto Tools like Signal and Bitcoin Protect Democracy
The battle for privacy is moving to the next medium: money
By Alex Gladstein
January 26, 2021
Codebreaker Elizebeth Friedman Never Got Her Due—Until Now
Elizebeth S. Friedman was one of the brightest codebreakers of her generation. But her biggest achievement was kept secret her whole life
By Suyin Haynes
January 11, 2021
The Chinese Company Revolutionizing How Goods Get Delivered
Could this be the first time that a Chinese firm truly writes global rules?
By Charlie Campbell / Hangzhou
November 23, 2020
Zuckerberg: Not Deleting Kenosha Militia Page Was a Mistake
On Tuesday, a 17-year-old named Kyle Rittenhouse allegedly fatally shot two people and injured a third
By Madeleine Carlisle
August 29, 2020
How Far-Right Personalities and Conspiracy Theorists Are Cashing in on the Pandemic Online
A global pandemic, a summer of protests and the 2020 election have led to a windfall for extremists and conspiracy theorists
By Vera Bergengruen
August 20, 2020
How Camera Film Captured the Bias in American Culture
Technologies, such as photographic film, sometimes capture the issues and beliefs and values of the times
By Ainissa Ramirez
July 24, 2020
Facebook Cannot Fix Itself. But Trump's Effort to Reform Section 230 Is Wrong
In a week that saw the official death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States surpass 100,000, when the number of applications for unemployment insurance exceeded 40 million and Americans were protesting in...
By Roger McNamee
June 4, 2020
Taiwanese Chipmaker Plans $12 Billion Factory in Arizona
TSMC said it will start construction of its next major fabrication facility in 2021, to be completed by 2024
By Debby Wu and Ian King / Bloomberg
May 15, 2020
The Surprisingly Long History of Video Chat
The first video-call technology was demonstrated in 1927, but the idea was largely a failure in the years that followed. Here's why
By Francine Uenuma
May 11, 2020
How Deaf Advocates Won the Battle for Closed Captioning
Whenever people watch videos with captions, "they have the deaf community to thank"
By Olivia B. Waxman
March 16, 2020
How Electric Elevators Transformed the Modern City
Land in a city is worth so much because of what can be built on it, or rather, what can be built above it. Without electric elevators, all that vertical space would be worth far less
By Robert Bryce
March 10, 2020
20 Years Later, the Y2K Bug Seems Like a Joke—Because Those Behind the Scenes Took It Seriously
Some of the fixes put in place in 1999 are still used today to keep the world’s computer systems running smoothly
By Francine Uenuma
December 30, 2019
How Artificial Intelligence Is Helping Identify Thousands of Unknown Civil War Soldiers
And in 2020 the site is planning to add a new feature
By Olivia B. Waxman
December 19, 2019
Epilepsy Foundation Presses Charges After Hackers Sent Seizure-Inducing Images to Its Twitter Followers
The attacks targeted its Twitter feed during National Epilepsy Awareness Month
By Mahita Gajanan
December 18, 2019
It’s Not Necessarily Bad if Your Kid Spends Lots of Time Online. But Watch for These Warning Signs
Is “time” really the problem with “screen time”? Researchers have described the negative effects of large amounts of time online and the beneficial effect of moderation. For instance, a 2019 study of more than 6,500...
By Dr. Harold Koplewicz
October 28, 2019
12 Innovations That Will Change Health Care and Medicine in the 2020s
Pocket-size ultrasound devices that cost 50 times less than the machines in hospitals (and connect to your phone). Virtual reality that speeds healing in rehab. Artificial intelligence that’s better than medical experts at spotting lung...
By TIME Staff
October 25, 2019
Employees Accuse Google of Developing 'Surveillance Tool' to Prevent Unions
A Google representative says the claims about the tool are "categorically false"
By Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg
October 24, 2019
The Federal Government Has Lost Our Trust. It Could Learn Something From Our Cities
Today in America, public trust in our national government is the lowest it’s been in more than two decades. And, according to Gallup polling, the decline cannot be attributed to just one political party or...
By Martin O'Malley
October 18, 2019
'We're Not As Healthy As We Should Be.' Fitbit CEO James Park Discusses New AFib Detection Partnership With Bristol-Myers Squibb-Pfizer
“We’re not as healthy as we should be.” That’s what Fitbit CEO and co-founder James Park said at Thursday's TIME 100 Health Summit, where MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle interviewed him about the company’s future in...
October 17, 2019
The Presidential Candidates Need a Plan for Big Tech That Isn’t “Break Up Big Tech”
On October 15 the Democratic presidential candidates will once again have the opportunity to debate their positions on a range of issues affecting this country. Let’s hope that this go-round we hear their visions for...
October 14, 2019
Is Capitalism or Communism Better for Women? How the Kitchen Debate Gave a New Meaning to the Cold War 'Home Front'
"Your capitalistic attitude toward women does not occur under Communism," Khrushchev retorted
By Madeline Roache
July 24, 2019
TIME Launches New Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality App, TIME Immersive, to Showcase Groundbreaking Visual Journalism
Today, TIME launches TIME Immersive, an augmented reality and virtual reality app, available on both iOS and Android devices, to showcase new AR and VR projects from TIME. The first activation featured in TIME Immersive...
By TIME Staff
July 18, 2019
Woman Chronicles Her Daring Mission to Rescue Her AirPod From Subway Tracks
"Omg you guys he’s still down there"
By Megan McCluskey
July 11, 2019
A Lot of Cars Got Stuck in the Mud After Following Google Maps on a Detour Due to Unforeseen Circumstances
Nearly 100 cars were stranded
By Megan McCluskey
June 27, 2019
The Surveillance Threat Is Not What Orwell Imagined
We've feared Big Brother. We should fight against Big Other
By Shoshana Zuboff
June 6, 2019
Google Celebrates 50 Years of LGBTQ Pride with 'Living Monument' to the Stonewall Riots
The monument includes interviews with activists as well as archival material
By Madeline Fitzgerald
June 4, 2019
Experts Say 'How Much' Is the Wrong Way to Assess Screen Time
Way back in the late 1990s—not long after home Internet use became widespread in the U.S.—researchers started turning up links between time spent on computers and poor mental health. A 1998 study in the journal...
By Markham Heid
May 29, 2019
New York Lawmakers Considering a Ban on Reading This Article While Crossing a Street
Following the lead of cities like Honolulu and Montclair, Calif, New York could become the first state to ban "distracted walking." If passed, the bill would prohibit using any portable electronic device while crossing the...
By Madeline Fitzgerald
May 21, 2019
Stop Debating Whether Too Much Smartphone Time Can Hurt Teens, and Start Protecting Them
When I talk to parents about my research on teens and technology, their questions often boil down to this: Is it bad for my teen to be spending so much time on electronic devices? Recently,...
March 21, 2019
Why High-Tech Weather Forecasts Don’t Save More Lives
The tornado that devastated Lee County, Alabama, on March 3 came as a shock, but not a surprise. Meteorologists had warned of severe weather days in advance. Forecasters monitored the area closely, blasting out warnings...
By Thomas E. Weber
March 14, 2019
Doodle for Google Contest Winner is 2nd Grader With A Big Dream
Google is sharing the work of the 2018 Doodle for Google winner on its US homepage today. Every year for the last ten years, Google have invited students to submit their sketches – this year,...
By George Steer
January 8, 2019
YouTube's Temporary Outage Caused Outcry on Social Media
The disruption appeared to affect users around the world
By Eli Meixler
October 16, 2018
'Donald Daters' the New Dating App for Trump Supporters Leaked Its Users' Data on Launch Day
"Make America date again"
By Megan McCluskey
October 16, 2018
Google's Been Hiding a Delightful Secret Treasure Hunt Game From You. Here's How to Play.
Google is for so much more than just searching
By Melissa Locker
October 1, 2018
People Think Apple Missed Out on the Music Collaboration of a Lifetime
The 2018 Apple keynote event on Wednesday had plenty of buzzy moments, ranging from Tim Cook's fake-out prank to the reveal of the latest edition of the iPhone, but enthusiasts thought that the tech giant...
By Cady Lang
September 13, 2018
Washington Takes on the Threat of Big Tech
Once the fresh-faced darlings of D.C., Big Tech executives now receive a decidedly cooler reception on Capitol Hill. On Sept. 5, Twitter chief Jack Dorsey and second-in-command Sheryl Sandberg got a tongue lashing in Senate...
By Haley Sweetland Edwards
September 6, 2018
20 Years Of Google Has Changed the Way We Think. Here's How, According to a Historian of Information
In the years since Google was founded on Sept. 4, 1998, the way people process information has changed—in one very specific way
By Lily Rothman
September 4, 2018
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