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Apple Is Bringing A.I. to Your Personal Life, Like It or Not
Last week, Apple held its Worldwide Developers Conference, the annual event that is often used to showcase the company’s most…
Is Google S.E.O. Gaslighting the Internet?
In March, Gisele Navarro watched Google Search traffic to her Web site, HouseFresh, disappear. HouseFresh evaluates and reviews air purifiers.…
What Doge Taught Me About the Internet
In the early twenty-tens, one cottage industry in digital journalism was the unmasking of Internet memes: a journalist would identify…
The New Generation of Online Culture Curators
The current Internet landscape sometimes feels like the Zone in Andrei Tarkovsky’s film “Stalker”: directionless, inexplicable, bound to change in…
Faux ScarJo and the Descent of the A.I. Vultures
On May 13th, during a live event, the artificial-intelligence company OpenAI unveiled the next generation of its technology, GPT-4o, the…
Who Wins and Who Loses When We Share a Meme
If you attended the 2019 Venice Biennale, you might have waited in a long line to see the prize-winning piece…
A TikTok Ban Won’t Fix Social Media
On April 24th, after years of talks about a TikTok ban, President Joe Biden committed to remaking the platform’s existence…
The Revenge of the Home Page
Nilay Patel, the editor-in-chief of the digital technology publication The Verge, has lately taken to describing theverge.com as “the last…