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  • 9 questions about the threats to ban TikTok, answered

    Mar 8, 2023, 11:59 am By Sara Morrison
    A TikTok ban would surely upset many of the nation’s teens. | iStockphoto/Getty ImagesSo you heard TikTok’s being banned. Here’s what’s actually happening. Since its introduction to the US in 2018, TikTok has been fighting for its right to exist.…
  • Maybe AI can finally kill the cover letter

    Mar 8, 2023, 6:30 am By Rani Molla
    Paige Vickers for VoxJobs still require cover letters. Apps like ChatGPT can help. Grace wanted a better-paid job based closer to where she lived, but she dreaded writing another cover letter. And although her job as a land-use planner does require some…
  • Musk’s Twitter is getting worse

    Mar 6, 2023, 1:25 pm By Shirin Ghaffary
    Twitter’s quality has suffered at the hands of Musk’s leadership. | Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty ImagesLinks aren’t working on Twitter due to an “internal change” that had “some unintended consequences.”…
  • Snow Crash author Neal Stephenson predicted the metaverse. What does he see next?

    Mar 6, 2023, 1:20 pm By Peter Kafka
    Neal Stephenson at the SXSW conference, March 2022. | Amy E. Price/Getty Images for SXSWThe science fiction pioneer on making a template for Mark Zuckerberg, not making movies, and a worrisome climate change scenario. Every science fiction author tries to…
  • A new era of technology coverage on Vox

    Mar 6, 2023, 10:22 am By Adam Clark Estes
    VoxFor something that’s defined by change, the world of technology feels extra disruptive lately. Artificial intelligence is making headlines on a regular basis. Electric vehicles are taking over the roads. Microchips are made in America again. For the…
  • The exciting new AI transforming search — and maybe everything — explained

    Mar 4, 2023, 6:00 am By Sara Morrison
    Malte Mueller/Getty ImagesGenerative AI is here. Let’s hope we’re ready. The world’s first generative AI-powered search engine is here, and it’s in love with you. Or it thinks you’re kind of like Hitler. Or it’s gaslighting you into thinking it’s…
  • TikTok isn’t really limiting kids’ time on its app

    7:00am By Sara Morrison
    TikTok’s younger users will now be told when they’ve been watching for a while. | Westend61/Getty ImagesTeens can still click right on through the new screen time limit. Amid growing concerns (and lawsuits) about social media’s impact on the mental…
  • Section 230, the internet law the Supreme Court could change, explained

    Feb 23, 2023, 3:07 pm By Sara Morrison
    The Supreme Court is considering two cases that could change the internet as we know it. | Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesThe pillar of internet free speech seems to be everyone’s target. You may have never heard of it, but Section 230 of the…
  • Social media used to be free. Not anymore.

    Feb 21, 2023, 5:55 pm By Shirin Ghaffary
    Sandra Hunke, a plumber who is one of the most popular craft influencers in Germany with 120,000 Instagram followers and now also works part-time as a model, poses for a photo in her workshop in North Rhine-Westphalia. | Friso Gentsch/picture alliance via…
  • Stop using your phone number to log in

    Feb 21, 2023, 6:00 am By Sara Morrison
    iStock/Getty ImagesPhone numbers were never meant to protect or identify us, but we use them to do that all the time. We shouldn’t. When Ugo moved to a new country last October, he got a new phone number. Ugo, who lives in Europe, where WhatsApp is very…