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Analysis

Sometimes the news can be complicated and nuanced, which is why our experts go deeper into the most important developments and trends in the tech world to help you understand how they might evolve through analysis, explainers, critical takes, and expert points of view.

This is part of Disney’s legacy now

ABC’s decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel in fear of Donald Trump is already casting an ugly shadow on the Disney brand.

Charles Pulliam-Moore
Republicans’ political purge is just getting started

Government officials are pledging to go after alleged left-wing organizations they believe are funding political violence.

Lauren Feiner
Nest is dead, long live Google Home

With Nest stripped for parts, can Google’s new AI-powered Google Home win back users?

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
The right to anonymity is powerful, and America is destroying it

Is now really the time to put up ID checkpoints on the internet?

Adi Robertson
Yes, Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension was government censorship

The First Amendment matters, even if Disney and ABC were cowards, too.

Adi Robertson
The right wing is creating a society of snitches

The Vice President of the US has blessed hunting people down for Charlie Kirk wrongthink.

Elizabeth Lopatto
I’ve been using macOS Tahoe 26 since June and here are the eight best things about it

Liquid Glass is solidly mid at best, but Tahoe ain’t terrible.

Antonio G. Di Benedetto
The WSJ carelessly spread anti-trans misinformation

The Wall Street Journal’s fuckup while covering Charlie Kirk’s killing needs more than an editor’s note.

Elizabeth Lopatto
Why does Apple think three lenses are eight lenses?

Apple’s lens math doesn’t add up.

Antonio G. Di Benedetto
Borderlands 4 turns off your brain and turns on the fun

If you liked what the previous games have done, you sure are getting exactly more of that.

Ash Parrish
Anonymity is dead and we’re all content now

We aren’t your friends, and you’ll never be alone again.

Elizabeth Lopatto
Inside Philips Hue’s plans to make all your lights motion sensors

Hue’s CTO explains how its new MotionAware feature works and why it’s better than previous RF sensing.

Jennifer Pattison Tuohy
The Trump administration promised a fourth wireless carrier — America got a hot mess instead

The plan to make Dish a wireless carrier was doomed from the start.

Karl Bode
AI doesn’t belong in journaling

The ‘inconvenience’ of a blank page is the entire point.

Victoria Song
The Made by Google event felt like being sucked into an episode of Wandavision

Jimmy Fallon, a parade of influencers, and a live studio audience — this was not your typical product launch event.

Victoria Song
Elon Musk’s gangster tech regulation comes for Apple

Musk’s ‘antitrust’ tantrum takes on a new target.

Elizabeth Lopatto