mobile devices

We get the culture our technology permits, and in the 21st century no technological development has changed culture like that of the smartphone.

From the pianoforte to the smartphone, each wave of tech has sparked fears of brain rot. But the problem isn’t our ability to focus—it’s what we’re focusing on.

We’re capturing the mundane as well as the memorable.

A deep dive into an archive will never be the same.

The presidential text that hits your phone Wednesday will be the first, but it's part of a decades-long lineage of government alerts.

An exclusive excerpt from "The One Device" about the engineering fight that created the iPhone as you know it.

How the FBI's doomed attempt to stop criminal activity conducted via mobile phones shaped the regime of ubiquitous backdoor surveillance under which we live today.

The defining boundaries and problematic categorizations carried by our culture's treatment of the label "millennial."

A review of "Driving With Strangers: What Hitchhiking Tells Us About Humanity."

Decades before 'Zoom fatigue' broke our spirits, the so-called computer revolution brought with it a world of pain previously unknown to humankind.

Apollo 11, the JPEG, the first pop-up ad, and 33 other bits of software that have transformed our world.

Homeowners used to rush to pick up the phone. What happened?