Category Technology

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 Nvidia, founded in California in 1993, originally made chips mainly used for gaming.Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images Whizy Kim is a…

How doomsday proclamations about AI echo existential anxieties of the past.  A Canada goose stands on the snow-covered figure of a Tyrannosaurus Rex at Cologne Zoo in Cologne, Germany in January 2024.Federico Gambarini/Picture Alliance via Getty Images If you’ve followed…

Bitcoin’s surge is fueling crypto optimism. The price of bitcoin has hit a new all-time high.Nikos Pekiaridis/NurPhoto via Getty Images Nicole Narea covers politics and society for Vox. She first joined Vox in 2019, and her work has also appeared…

Those Tumblr, Reddit, and WordPress posts you never thought would see the light of day? Yep, them too. Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images A.W. Ohlheiser is a senior technology reporter at Vox, writing about the impact…

The viral fiasco in Scotland that made kids cry — and prompted calls to police. Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka in the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images Li Zhou is a politics reporter at…