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Will Elizabeth Warren's Antitrust Plan to Break Up Big Tech Work?
The Democratic presidential hopeful has proposed dismantling Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon monopolies.
Was Apple's Failure to Promptly Alert Its Customers About the FaceTime Bug Illegal?
A law professor explains New York's probe into Apple's response to the bug and the difference between privacy and security issues under consumer-protection regulations.
How Data Centers Could Hamper Denmark's Climate Goals
A Danish government memorandum suggests that the country's carbon emissions are due to rise sharply, by as much as 10 percent between now and 2030.
Can Technology Really 'Give Voice' to Disabled People?
Beyond the hype and hyperbole, technologies largely thought to universally empower the "voiceless" are still subject to disempowering structural inequalities.
Even Apple Investors Are Worried About Smartphone Addiction
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.
Apple's Ethics Dilemma in China
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.
The Growing Threat of Global Electronic Waste
To understand—and combat—the impact of e-waste, it first helps to understand its scope.
What Happens When You Tell Siri You're Depressed?
A look at whether smartphone assistants know to recognize and respond when their owners are in acute distress.
The Pay Cap Is Even Less Effective Than We Thought
Companies are increasingly using pay-for-performance to get around a $1 million federal limit on tax deductions for executive compensation.
What's at Stake in the Apple Encryption Debate
The government has never been allowed to create a "backdoor" to encrypted devices. Now, it's trying to force Apple to build one.
Why Apple Is Saying No to the FBI
Apple claims the government wants to put your privacy at risk.
All About That Apple Life
A sector-by-sector breakdown of all the ways Apple is sneaking into your daily life, work, and play.
Smartwatches Do Almost Everything—Except Make You Drive Better
One California lawyer thinks that the tech companies that make them should spend a whole lot of money reminding drivers of that fact.
The Apple Watch’s Distraction Problem
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.
Apple Wants the Computer to Disappear
The persistent materiality of technology keeps getting in our way.
It's Sample Size, Stupid
How Apple's new smartwatch could save lives.
Covering the Apple Watch Launch as a Blind Apple Fan
"I think that, generally, people in the blind community are optimistic. That's even without knowing what's accessible."
Silicon Valley’s Brave New Economic Order
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.
Does Technology Need to Be a Luxury?
The unfortunate future is likely to be a consumer technology market that splits along class lines.
A Modern Family Loves Its Product Placement
Tonight's episode of Modern Family will make you want a MacBook. It's one big advertisement for Apple.
The International Trade of Talent: The Immigration-iPhone Connection
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.
Talent Is the New Oil: OPEC of Tech
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.
Listen Up: It’s Time to Turn Down the Sound
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.
How Are 'Flappy Bird' and 'Candy Crush' Still Making So Much Money?
A closer look at the app economy.