Category Technology

What banning phones in schools can — and can’t — do. Schools in at least 41 states are using Yondr pouches to lock up students’ phones.John Leyba/Denver Post via Getty Images Anna North is a senior correspondent for Vox, where…

At what point can we believe that an AI model has reached consciousness? Getty Images/Westend61 Kelsey Piper is a senior writer at Future Perfect, Vox’s effective altruism-inspired section on the world’s biggest challenges. She explores wide-ranging topics like climate change,…

Former Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin is among those lining up to buy TikTok if Congress enacts a law that forces its Chinese owner to sell. Former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and his wife Louise Linton hold a 2017 sheet of…

The House passed a bill to ban TikTok on Wednesday. But it’s not over yet. Due to security concerns, the Chinese-owned video app TikTok has already been banned from US government devices.Matt Cardy/Getty Images Nicole Narea covers politics and society…

The US House passed a bill that could ban the social video app, but sending TikTok into the ether won’t make social media any safer Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images A.W. Ohlheiser is a senior technology reporter at…

The app skews younger, its users appear more politically polarized, and its user base is changing. Supporters of the TikTok app demonstrate outside of the US Capitol before the House of Representatives votes to pass the “Protecting Americans from Foreign…

Researchers tried to get AI optimists and pessimists on the same page. It didn’t quite work. Javier Zarracina/Vox Dylan Matthews is a senior correspondent and head writer for Vox’s Future Perfect section and has worked at Vox since 2014. He…

It’s one of two cases asking whether the government is allowed to speak freely to private companies. A man wears an NRA hat in front of the US Supreme Court building.Mark Wilson/Getty Images Ian Millhiser is a senior correspondent at…

Survey sites recruit respondents with the promise of a reward, which may lead to bogus answers. That doesn’t mean the data is unusable. Kira Hofmann/picture alliance via Getty Images A.W. Ohlheiser is a senior technology reporter at Vox, writing about…

The company you might not have heard of is now worth $2 trillion — more than Google or Amazon. Nvidia, founded in California in 1993, originally made chips mainly used for gaming.Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images Whizy Kim is a…