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Analysis

Sometimes the news can be complicated and nuanced, which is why our experts go deeper into the most important developments and trends in the tech world to help you understand how they might evolve through analysis, explainers, critical takes, and expert points of view.

The right wing is creating a society of snitches

The Vice President of the US has blessed hunting people down for Charlie Kirk wrongthink.

Elizabeth Lopatto
I’ve been using macOS Tahoe 26 since June and here are the eight best things about it

Liquid Glass is solidly mid at best, but Tahoe ain’t terrible.

Antonio G. Di Benedetto
The WSJ carelessly spread anti-trans misinformation

The Wall Street Journal’s fuckup while covering Charlie Kirk’s killing needs more than an editor’s note.

Elizabeth Lopatto
Why does Apple think three lenses are eight lenses?

Apple’s lens math doesn’t add up.

Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Borderlands 4 turns off your brain and turns on the fun

If you liked what the previous games have done, you sure are getting exactly more of that.

Ash Parrish
Anonymity is dead and we’re all content now

We aren’t your friends, and you’ll never be alone again.

Elizabeth Lopatto
Inside Philips Hue’s plans to make all your lights motion sensors

Hue’s CTO explains how its new MotionAware feature works and why it’s better than previous RF sensing.

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
The Trump administration promised a fourth wireless carrier — America got a hot mess instead

The plan to make Dish a wireless carrier was doomed from the start.

Karl Bode
AI doesn’t belong in journaling

The ‘inconvenience’ of a blank page is the entire point.

Victoria Song
The Made by Google event felt like being sucked into an episode of Wandavision

Jimmy Fallon, a parade of influencers, and a live studio audience — this was not your typical product launch event.

Victoria Song
Elon Musk’s gangster tech regulation comes for Apple

Musk’s ‘antitrust’ tantrum takes on a new target.

Elizabeth Lopatto
Chatbots aren’t telling you their secrets

If you want to know what an AI system is doing, look for transparency from the creator instead.

Adi Robertson
Sex is getting scrubbed from the internet, but a billionaire can sell you AI nudes

Online safety laws keep ordinary people from expressing themselves, while companies like xAI cause real harm.

Adi Robertson
RFK Jr. wants a wearable on every American — that future’s not as healthy as he thinks

I’ve lived in that future. Before my health improved, I spiraled into obsession, injury, and disordered eating.

Victoria Song