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Interview

How Amazon runs Alexa, with Dave Limp

The senior vice president of devices and services gets into the weeds

Nilay Patel
John Carreyrou’s final chapter on Theranos

Covering the blood testing startup in print and audio

Nilay Patel
Why does Amazon make games?Why does Amazon make games?
Andrew Webster
Visions is the most exciting Star Wars has been in a long time

Producers at Lucasfilm explain how the anime anthology came about

Andrew Webster
How Fuck You Pay Me is empowering creators

Information is power

Nilay Patel
WhatsApp CEO Will Cathcart on a rocky year for the app

A candid Q&A on encryption, privacy, and ProPublica

Casey Newton
How Slack changed Apple’s employee culture, with Zoë Schiffer

Remote work has made organizing easier

Nilay Patel
Loot is a viral social network that looks like nothing you’ve ever seen

Vine creator Dom Hofmann’s new project, explained

Casey Newton
Why the global chip shortage is making it so hard to buy a PS5

Harvard professor Willy Shih explains the existential problem affecting cars, phones, computers, and more

Nilay Patel
The quirks and features of YouTube car reviews with Doug DeMuro

Building a career on pushing buttons and seeing what happens

Nilay Patel
What Twitter should copy from Tinder

You’ll likely be able to verify yourself twice on Tinder before you can do it once anywhere else

Casey Newton
Meet the self-driving brains working with Volkswagen and Ford

Argo AI CEO Bryan Salesky on a new partnership with Lyft and setting realistic expectations for self-driving cars

Nilay Patel
Here’s why Apple’s new child safety features are so controversial

Encryption and consumer privacy experts break down Apple’s plan for child safety

Nilay Patel
YouTube chief product officer Neal Mohan on the algorithm, monetization, and the future for creators

A peek behind the curtain at the creator economy and what’s next for YouTube Shorts

Nilay Patel
The special effects behind Loki’s doomed planet of Lamentis

How the team at Digital Domain destroyed a world

Andrew Webster
The careful balancing act of translating an Ace Attorney game

A chat with localization director Janet Hsu

Andrew Webster
Chuck Todd on why Meet the Press can’t survive on just one platform

Personality-driven journalism applies to traditional media, too

Nilay Patel
How Capcom used motion capture to bring Resident Evil Village’s scariest monsters to life

Presentation director Masato Miyazaki on animating the likes of Lady Dimitrescu

Andrew Webster
How Loki built a different reality with retro hardware

Production designer Kasra Farahani explains the show’s distinct look

Alexis Ong
Can Polestar design a new kind of car company?

Polestar CEO Thomas Ingenlath wants the freedom of an auto startup with the benefits of an established player

Nilay Patel
Slack launches Huddles, Discord-like audio calls you can hop in and out of

Slack gets new features born out of the pandemic

Tom Warren
Juul and the business of addiction

Bloomberg’s Lauren Etter on the rise and decline of an e-cigarette upstart

Nilay Patel