Humans and Technology

A look at how technologies from AR/VR, brain-computer interfaces, and chip implants to health trackers, biometrics and social media are changing the most basic aspects of human life—work, friendship, love, aging, sickness, parenting, learning, and building community.

Humans and Technology

The anatomy of a sextortion spam campaign

The latest genre of nuisance email tries to blackmail victims with threats to send embarrassing images or information to their contacts. A new analysis reveals just how much money this type of scam can generate.

Person holding smartphone

Humans and Technology

Teen video app TikTok is the latest battlefield in the Kashmir conflict

Hindu nationalists are flooding TikTok with videos declaring they plan to go to Kashmir, get married, and ostensibly make the majority-Muslim contested region Hindu.

The map of India; with Kashmir highlighted

Humans and Technology

AI could be your wingman—er, wingbot—on your next first date

AIMM wants to disrupt online dating. What could go wrong?

A screen capture from AIMM's promitional video

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Facebook is funding brain experiments to create a device that reads your mind

Big tech firms are trying to read people’s thoughts, and no one’s ready for the consequences.

Facebook prototype thought helmet

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Alexa is powering new games where you control the action with your voice

Games played with voice commands are catching on, and now Amazon is betting on the nascent industry.

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Biotechnology

The transhumanists who want to live forever

For a core of longevity true believers, the time to intervene is now.

by Antonio Regalado
2019-08-16T07:30:48-04:00

Biotechnology

Don’t count on having kids if you freeze your eggs

Michele Harrison froze 21 eggs. Only one was suitable for IVF.

by Bonnie Rochman
2019-08-14T10:07:20-04:00

an image of a pregnant woman's belly

Humans and Technology

A fingernail-size gadget could help prevent babies from being stillborn

by Tanya Basu
2019-08-09T13:45:52-04:00

A virtual employee called Barry.

Humans and Technology

You can now practice firing someone in virtual reality

by Will Knight
2019-08-09T11:00:18-04:00

A man checks an Apple Watch

Humans and Technology

Your Apple Watch might one day spot if you’re developing Alzheimer’s

by Charlotte Jee
2019-08-08T15:39:34-04:00

image of man sitting alone at bench looking at phone

Humans and Technology

You’re not imagining it: always checking dating apps makes you feel worse

by Tanya Basu
2019-08-01T17:33:38-04:00

image of man shopping for clothes

Humans and Technology

Amazon hasn’t dominated the clothing industry yet. Here’s why.

by Tanya Basu
2019-07-30T17:09:27-04:00

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Tech Policy

A new bill would ban making social media too addictive

by Angela Chen
2019-07-30T13:56:42-04:00

AN image of rubber hands

Humans and Technology

The VR illusion that makes you think you have a spider’s body

Psychologists have long toyed with an illusion that lets you feel “ownership” of a different a body—even one that is not human. It could revolutionize gaming.

by Emerging Technology from the arXiv
2019-07-24T09:31:47-04:00

Portrait of Nathan Copeland, one of the first people to have a brain computer interface, with a robot arm behind his head

Humans and Technology

Man with brain implant on Musk’s Neuralink: “I would play video games”

Nathan Copeland, a pioneering research subject, talks about his brain-computer interface and why he’s excited for Elon Musk’s.

by Antonio Regalado
2019-07-19T03:00:01-04:00

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