Ninety-three percent of smartphone users have never unfolded a foldable phone. Yet Samsung’s latest display technology is already making decisions for them — and most of them have no idea it’s happeni…
Something is running on nearly every server that powers your bank, your streaming service, your hospital’s patient records. You’ve never seen it. You’ve never heard it. But right now, it’s making a de…
A cursor blinks in a dark room somewhere — Minsk, maybe, or Jakarta, or a suburb of Cincinnati. Someone is watching your traffic move through a tunnel you believed was sealed. The sensation of being o…
Something happened in OpenAI’s research labs that nobody was fully prepared for. Engineers watching GPT-6’s benchmark runs reportedly stopped mid-session, pulled up Slack, and started asking each othe…
Researchers at Northeastern University discovered that smart home devices activate their microphones and transmit data thousands of times per day — even when you never said a wake word. That number is…
Nobody saw it coming. One quarter, they were a scrappy team of eleven people working out of a converted warehouse in Austin, Texas. The next, they were worth a billion dollars — and almost nobody in S…
Researchers at Privacy International discovered something that should unsettle every person reading this on a smartphone: Meta builds detailed behavioral profiles on approximately 2.2 billion people w…
A trader in Tokyo watches a number climb on a screen at 3 a.m., his hands trembling slightly around a cold cup of coffee. Across the ocean, a banker in Zurich refreshes a spreadsheet, jaw tightening,…
Nobody in the room wanted to be the first to say the number out loud. Two billion dollars. For an app built by a seventeen-year-old who hadn’t yet taken the SATs. When venture capital firms collective…
Scientists are building living things from scratch, and most people have no idea how far this has already gone. We’re not talking about gene editing or cloning — we’re talking about organisms assemble…