Apple

Beyond the hype and hyperbole, technologies largely thought to universally empower the "voiceless" are still subject to disempowering structural inequalities.

• By Meryl Alper

Two of Apple's largest investors called on the tech giant to take smartphone addiction more seriously. Research shows they're right to be concerned.

• By Kevin Charles Fleming

Freedom of information advocates are monitoring the technology giant after it removed software allowing users to bypass the Great Firewall from its China App Store.

• By Massoud Hayoun

To understand—and combat—the impact of e-waste, it first helps to understand its scope.

• By Mariatu Santiago

A look at whether smartphone assistants know to recognize and respond when their owners are in acute distress.

• By Francie Diep

Companies are increasingly using pay-for-performance to get around a $1 million federal limit on tax deductions for executive compensation.

• By Allan Sloan

The government has never been allowed to create a "backdoor" to encrypted devices. Now, it's trying to force Apple to build one.

• By Julia Angwin

Apple claims the government wants to put your privacy at risk.

• By Allison Shapiro

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

• By Kyle Chayka

One California lawyer thinks that the tech companies that make them should spend a whole lot of money reminding drivers of that fact.

• By Kate Wheeling

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.

• By Kyle Chayka

The persistent materiality of technology keeps getting in our way.

• By Kyle Chayka

How Apple's new smartwatch could save lives.

• By Gregory Ferenstein

"I think that, generally, people in the blind community are optimistic. That's even without knowing what's accessible."

• By Francie Diep

A recent study suggests the United States is starting to resemble an oligarchy more than a democracy, and the trend’s cradle is unmistakably Silicon Valley.

• By Andrew Gumbel

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

• By Kyle Chayka

Tonight's episode of Modern Family will make you want a MacBook. It's one big advertisement for Apple.

• By Paul Bisceglio

Just because a net migration number is negative doesn't mean there is brain drain. A shrinking population doesn't always indicate a dying place.

• By Jim Russell

Silicon Valley and Chesapeake Energy face the same problem: the cost of extraction. The technology industry needs to get smarter about workforce development, and fast.

• By Jim Russell

Ambient noise machines meant to prolong uninterrupted sleep may be doing long-term damage to the ears of infants, kick-starting a cycle of hearing loss that's almost impossible to break.

• By Steve Swayne

A closer look at the app economy.

• By Kyle Chayka

In fact, they might be something way more interesting.

• By Jeremy Gordon

On the most powerful aspect of the computer giant’s emotional branding strategy.

• By Nicki Lisa Cole

What is Apple promising consumers in its famous "Silhouette" commercials?

• By Nicki Lisa Cole