Here’s a life-or-death question: Do apps that notify people of potential exposure to the coronavirus help save lives, or are …
Israeli phone hacking company faces court fight over sales to Hong Kong
Human rights advocates filed a new court petition against the Israeli phone hacking company Cellebrite, urging Israel’s ministry of defense …
Podcast: Want consumer privacy? Try China
The narrative in the US that the Chinese don’t care about data privacy is simply misguided. It’s true that the …
The human cost of a WeChat ban: severing a hundred million ties
In January, 1989, my 26-year-old father uprooted his life to move to the other side of the world. He had …
How to cast a wider net for tracking space junk
Space junk isn’t going away anytime soon—and neither are the problems it causes. We’re poised to see more satellite launches with …
A new neural network could help computers code themselves
Computer programming has never been easy. The first coders wrote programs out by hand, scrawling symbols onto graph paper before …
It’s too late to stop QAnon with fact checks and account bans
Twitter is perfect as a megaphone for the far right: its trending topics are easy to game, journalists spend way …
Covid-19 data is a public good. The US government must start treating it like one.
Earlier this week as a pandemic raged across the United States, residents were cut off from the only publicly available …
Biden steps up his clean-energy plan, in a nod to climate activists
Joe Biden has raised the ambitions of his climate plan, in a clear sign his campaign is responding to demands …
Will astronauts ever visit gas giants like Jupiter?
Every week, the readers of our space newsletter, The Airlock, send in their questions for space reporter Neel V. Patel to answer. This …