A primer on how the smartphone generation is redefining communication.

LGBTQI groups found rare freedoms online, but this year, many were shut by censors. It feels like slowly being sanded down, said one member.

Pakistan has received global praise for the design and maintenance of a vast system that holds the information of 98% of the country’s population. For some, however, it is making normal life impossible.

Finding the author of Pictures for Sad Children.

In the “smart nation,” robot dogs enforce social distancing and an app can claim to neutralize racism. The reality is very different.

Awash in coders, crypto, and capital, the city is loving—and beginning to shape—its newest industry.

To deal with climate change and power the cars of tomorrow, we’ll have to solve the cobalt problem.

The story of Theranos.

But there’s one way that NFTs are profoundly different from the last generation of online disrupters. In terms of ownership, they actually move in the opposite direction of projects like Napster, BitTorrent and the software communities that destabilized the entertainment industry. Those were about reproducing data and sharing it for free, or eventually, a subscription fee. NFTs are about taking what should be a fully shareable image and sticking a SOLD sign on it.

The rise and ruin of Couchsurfing.com.

A profile of Christopher Soghoian whose “productions follow a similar pattern, a series of orchestrated events that lead to the public shaming of a large entity—Google, Facebook, the federal government—over transgressions that the 30-year-old technologist sees as unacceptable violations of privacy.”

When a child vanished in Nova Scotia, online sleuths got involved in the search. Then they lost their way.

Bill Landreth was one of the whiz kids, poking around Pentagon servers with the friends he had never met. But one of them was an FBI informant.

If you’re one of four million Ahmadis in Pakistan, posting on Facebook can mean exposing yourself to danger.

Selling the story of disinformation.

Here I should conjure my sister for you. Here I should describe her, so that you feel her absence as I do—so that you’re made ghostly by it, too. But, though I’m a writer, I’ve never been able to conjure her.

Today, artificial intelligence and information technologies have absorbed many of the questions that were once taken up by theologians and philosophers: the mind’s relationship to the body, the question of free will, the possibility of immortality.

On the rise and demise of the Segway.

The death of the woman he loved was too much to bear. Could a mysterious website allow him to speak with her once more?

Too much has been lost already. The glue that holds humanity’s knowledge together is coming undone.

A junior Microsoft engineer figured out a nearly perfect Bitcoin generation scheme.

How North Korea almost pulled off a billion-dollar hack.

John McAfee created one of the first anti-virus programs. Then he traveled to Belize, where he lived with a harem of young women and a lot of guns. His neighbor was murdered under mysterious circumstances.

Kurtis Minder finds the cat-and-mouse energy of outsmarting criminal syndicates deeply satisfying.

Educating the TikTok generation.