Kyle Chayka

A sector-by-sector breakdown of all the ways Apple is sneaking into your daily life, work, and play.

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Digital social dynamics make their way into the real world.

• By Kyle Chayka

The danger of digitizing art.

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With Ashley Madison, the threat of hacking turns public.

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A new report shows online friendship is becoming the mainstream for teenagers.

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In settling the problem of the contract worker, we may find that we have to entirely re-define our country's structure of employment.

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Welcome to the next big fashion front.

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Greece could take a lesson from Estonia.

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It's easy to discuss Deep Dream as an independent creature. But like all kitsch, it comes straight back to its creators.

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The launch of Apple Music is yet another nail in the coffin of online music piracy. Is that a good thing?

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The end result of an AirBnB'd neighborhood is not a profitable artist collective; it's an international bedroom community of "post-tourist" upwardly mobile workers.

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Abuse is rampant on Reddit. Are invitation-only forums the solution?

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The strange case of mechanical keyboards.

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There’s a lot of comfort to be found in virtual worlds.

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It’s not just customers who are benefiting from the Silicon Valley-style normalization of the marijuana market.

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By bringing some Silicon Valley-style innovation to a dusty, through increasingly popular, sector, Neighborly hopes to make supporting local infrastructure projects both cool and profitable.

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It’s venture capital firms, not necessarily start-ups, that are lighting money on fire in pursuit of the next unicorn investment.

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Algorithms are fundamentally uncreative. Every set of crunched numbers, every calculated outcome, needs an equal and perhaps opposite human component to bring it to life.

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Distraction is a necessary method for dealing with the competing stimuli of everyday life. But only the right kind of distraction, which Apple’s newest product fails to provide.

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Smartphone penetration in Spain is similar to that in the United States, but nobody over there seems to be talking about addiction to technology. They are talking though—to each other, in person.

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It’s not just for gaming. Cheap and accessible virtual reality will soon change how we look at just about everything, and this group of novelists, artists, and designers are leading the way.

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The persistent materiality of technology keeps getting in our way.

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Physically co-present with the sociologist Nathan Jurgenson during a break from his battle to dismantle the artificial barrier we’ve raised between life online and in the outside world.

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The Perseus Project is on a mission to make classical texts accessible to all.

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The unfortunate future is likely to be a consumer technology market that splits along class lines.

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The Age of Earthquakes is a kind of philosophical Anarchist Cookbook for the online era, when we are in touch with everyone at once all the time, or at least like to feel that we are.

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Managed by Q’s success shows that it’s possible to create an on-demand product while serving both employees and clients rather than shorting the former for the benefit of the latter (we’re looking at you, Uber, Lyft, and all the rest).

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A new entry in the sousveillance market, Alibi is a smartphone app that can constantly record audio and video of your surroundings—and surrounders.

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We complain that we’ve become addicted to glowing screens, but it’s less the screens themselves than what's behind them that’s the big draw.

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Even, a new company that hopes to provide some peace of mind to hourly workers and freelancers, is a paranoiac technology for a time of justifiable economic paranoia.

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Fear not the machines of the future. We can—and should—use the tools we’ve been developing to be both more critical and more creative.

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We need better ways to control how vulnerable we make ourselves online, treating our virtual selves more like our physical ones rather than less.

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Social media allows us to connect with people on a level we wouldn’t otherwise have access to—but we may have gone too far.

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Next year may finally be the year we stop using cash completely and leave the large social networks we’ve grown accustomed to behind (think Facebook and Twitter) as we seek out safer alternatives.

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This was the year the job broke, the year we accepted a re-interpretation of its fundamental bargain and bought in to the push to get us to all work for ourselves rather than each other.

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YouTube, Uber, Google, Amazon—they all have at least one thing in common: You, the consumer, are up for sale. They’re just building the means of reaching as many of you as possible.

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Even Black Friday sales are falling as more people shift their retail habits to online. Physical stores still have advantages, but we're quickly finding ways to replace them with virtual substitutes.

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Privacy has a branding problem. And until we address that, your personal data is going to be up for grabs.

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The FBI no more deserves a direct line to your data than it deserves to intercept your mail at the post office. But it doesn’t want you to know that.

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Some companies are moving away from the 1099 economy, recognizing that relying on temporary contract workers is bad for businesses, employees, and clients alike.

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Walmart and Best Buy’s Apple Pay alternative has already been hacked. Your mobile wallet could be next.

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The scariest thing about Halloween might be just how seriously we take it. For this week’s holiday, Americans of all ages will spend more than $5 billion on disposable costumes and bite-size candy.

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U.S. technology giants have constructed international offices in Dublin in order to take advantage of favorable tax policies that are now changing. But Ireland might have enough other draws to keep them there even when costs climb.

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Technology is a great way to activate gallery space, but it shouldn’t take it over.

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A lot less. A survey of citizens from 50 countries found that the ideal ratio between CEO and unskilled worker pay would be 4.6:1. In the United States, it's a staggering 351:1.

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A new app hopes to unite local coffee shops while helping you find a cheap cup of good coffee.

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In the 1099 economy, we all work for commission, hoping to find enough opportunities to piece together a part-time salary on full-time work.

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With the recent introduction of Apple Pay, the Silicon Valley giant is promising to remake how we interact with money. Could iCoin be next?

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For women, becoming a parent means you can expect to earn even less over your lifetime—unless you’re Marissa Mayer.

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An 80-year-old ruling that has become a pillar of privacy law in the United States doesn’t hold up in the Internet age.

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