She turned to Google for help getting sober. Then she had to escape a nightmare.

When her best friend died, she rebuilt him using artificial intelligence.

On the history of content moderation and what it means for the future of free speech.

Middle class apps struggle to survive.

A week on the campaign trail in the coffin-shaped Immortality Bus with Zoltan Istvan, the presidential candidate for the Transhumanist Party.

After Daniel Rigmaiden was arrested for a multi-million dollar fraud, he didn’t argue that he was innocent. He wasn’t. But he couldn’t understand how he had been caught. Rigmaiden had covered his tracks meticulously — the only way the cops could’ve found him, he realized, was through some secret tracking device that they had never disclosed to the public.

Chasing stardom in YouTube’s crowded universe.

The story of a lawyer-turned-money launderer, stolen evidence, and a bunch of comics selling at outrageously high prices at auction. And Mussolini.

The subject of a child research experiment tries to get to the bottom of what happened to her.

NSA-grade spyware is up for sale, and the world’s worst dictatorships are buying.

How Facebook ‘likes’ landed Jelani Henry in Rikers.

The lonely death of a godfather of the conspiracy theory movement.

A profile of Jesselyn Radack, who represents whistleblowers.

Can an illegal drug heal PTSD?

In 2009, three followers of an Oprah-endorsed motivational speaker named James Arthur Ray died in an Arizona sweat lodge. Now, after serving two years in prison for negligent homicide, Ray is trying to get back on the self-help circuit.

Each soldier in Iraq and Afghanistan generated around 10 pounds of garbage per day. Most of that trash—along with used equipment and medical supplies and other wastes of war—was burned in open-air pits, emitting a toxic smoke that many soliders blame for their poor health today.

The prevalence of online threats against women and why the people who make them go unpunished.

The story of a face transplant.

The daily deals company turned down a $6 billion offer from Google and went public. Now its stock is down 80% and its founder/CEO has been fired. On Groupon’s failed strategy and tenuous future.

The life and work of Aaron Swartz, in context.

From pinball prohibition in 1940s NYC to Dave & Buster’s, the rise and fall of the American arcade.

“For the first few days after the surgery, it was difficult to separate out my newly implanted sense from the bits of pain and sensation created by the trauma of having the magnet jammed in my finger.”

“Transforming into an Administrative Jekyll for a certain amount of time every day limits the amount of time my Creative Hyde can come up with content to market and sell. Luckily, amphetamines have that problem tackled as well: when you’re using them, you don’t have to sleep… at all.”

The fifty-year battle over where we store our nuclear remains.

The game’s past, present, and future.