Tag: tech

Seven schools in China have installed facial recognition technology in classrooms to monitor — and score — their students. At The Disconnect, Yujie Xue reports on this “intelligent education” initiative.

What happens when you ride an e-scooter out of the city limits — until its battery dies?

“The idea seems to be that we all live in the great database in the sky, occasionally summoning aliens with our minds.” Emily Harnett explores Silicon Valley’s appropriation of UFO culture.

Amid controversies and unethical practices, tech giants like Facebook and Google are no longer dream companies to work for.

In the Bay Area, there are two migrations: young people in tech moving in, ready to disrupt, and young people with other dreams — the artists, teachers, blacksmiths, therapists, mechanics, musicians — who leave because there’s no longer a place for them.

As a result of Trump-era immigration policies, fewer highly skilled and educated legal immigrants — like 26-year-old Akirt Sridharan from India — are being hired by U.S. companies, despite their qualifications.

Is that not how the saying goes? Someone tell Amazon.

Lucie Greene’s new book “Silicon States” is about the danger of concentrating so much power in so few hands.

Greenville, South Carolina has revitalized its city center by incubating start-ups. Can other Southern cities do the same?

Looking inside the new tech company who is building a cost-effective digital wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

As once-popular Snapchat becomes an increasingly irrelevant platform, Helena Fitzgerald finds beauty in its uselessness.

To every man and woman their own Dorito.

When an online news outlet goes out of business, its archives can disappear as well. The new battle over journalism’s digital legacy.

On how a new administrative technology is being conflated with radical politics.

On the macro forces that have made digital nomadism something more powerful, and more sinister, than just another “lifestyle choice.”

The popular online tool is great at rapid decoding. Extracting meaning? Not so much.

After helping shape the public image of numerous tech companies, Margit Wennmachers is now helping shape the story of Silicon Valley itself.

Hiroshi Ishi­guro has spent his career creating robots. But does he know enough about humans to make them lifelike?

The mysterious creator of bitcoin asks a journalist to help reveal his identity.

The Facebook CEO is in control of his company. He could just use a little more confidence.

The internet is not pleased with start-up bros who want to “disrupt” bodegas.

Sleek-kitschy idiosyncrasy is all the rage.

When your Ubud neighborhood becomes a luxury tech bubble.

It’s not the pace of housing construction. It’s that the world’s most successful companies are gathered in a small number of cities.

“I’ve lived in Seattle for seven years, single most of them. The only thing that has changed is the increase in men I’d never want to go out on a date with.”

Who needs fear and loathing in Las Vegas when you can have joy and harmony in Miami?

Tilt was once a start-up with extravagant soirées, hazy business plans, and a $375 million valuation. Then it came to the end.

As the company begins its bookstore expansion, a joyless retail experience awaits.

“I think it’s coming along,” said Tim, “though we expect—” “I think it sucks!” said Jobs. His vehemence made Tim pause. “Why?” he asked, a bit stiffly. “It just does.” “In what sense?” said Tim, getting his feet back under him. “Give me a clue.” “Its shape is not innovative, it’s not elegant, it doesn’t […]

The story of Google’s groundbreaking, buzz-generating modular smartphone — aka Project Ara — from bang to whimper.