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The CrowdStrike crash was a modern earthquake

We rely on the internet in much the same way as our forebears would have relied on their deities

Sam Leith

What should we do with the data of the dead?

Carl Öhman’s The Afterlife of Data is sure to make the most skeptical reader stop and think

Simon Ings

Zuckerberg’s Meta AI investment backfires

The best thing he could do when Meta’s next batch of quarterly results are announced is call in sick

Matthew Lynn

Curing your phone addiction

How much of a smartphone’s terrible pull is contained in its hyper-real backlit colors — each bright app the product of billions worth of research?

Mary Wakefield

Prejudices

The digital habit

The vast majority of people neither living in what they call ‘real time’ nor experiencing life and the world itself at first hand

Chilton Williamson, Jr.