SlateGoogle What Is Google After Larry and Sergey? slate.com - Lizzie O’Leary The founders’ departure signals the beginning of a new era at Google.
SlateStarbucks Why You Should Be a Little Skeptical of Starbucks’ Claim That It’s Achieved Pay Equity slate.com - Mark Morgioni These assessments shouldn’t just be based on median salary.
Slate A Holdover From the “Hanging Chad” Debacle Is Making It Harder to Secure Voting Systems slate.com - Chris Iovenko Will the specter of the hanging chad never cease to haunt us?
SlateVaping We Need to Be More Specific About Vaping. Enter: “Teen Vaping,” “Virgin Vaping,” “Dark Vaping.” slate.com - Shannon Palus Yes, these constructions are a little clumsy. But the problem is urgent.
SlateSocial Media Companies TikTok Admits It Suppressed Videos by Disabled, Queer, and Fat Creators slate.com - Elena Botella TikTok asked moderators to watch 15-second videos and decide if the creator looked like the type of person others might want to bully.
SlateLinguistics A Linguist on What Baby Yoda’s First Words Might Be slate.com - Lisa Davidson Even if Baby Yoda lived with other Yoda-style speakers in the past, it’s still doubtful that he would have typical Yoda syntax.
SlateElon Musk Elon Musk Says “Pedo Guy” Was a Common Insult in His Youth. We Checked With 17 of His Schoolmates. slate.com - Aaron Mak Thirteen of them have no idea what he's talking about.
SlateUnited States How Scientific American Ended Up at the Center of a Massive Twitter War slate.com - Susan Matthews A Thanksgiving blowup reveals something about the state of science journalism and the echo chamber effect of social media.
SlateGoogle Google’s Co-Founders, Who Have Been Disappearing From the Company for Years, Are Stepping Down slate.com - Aaron Mak Their absences included not showing up to testify to Congress.
SlatePrivacy Congress Is Finally Tackling Privacy! Now Let’s Do Cybersecurity. slate.com - Jeff Kosseff A national privacy law is long overdue. But the intense focus on privacy has overshadowed cybersecurity.
SlateMichael Bloomberg Michael Bloomberg Ads Are Dominating the Internet slate.com - Aaron Mak They're even at the top of Google search results for "climate change" and "gun control."
SlateHerpes How Herpes Became a Sexual Boogeyman slate.com - L.V. Anderson The real story of its journey from minor skin condition to “sexual leprosy.”
SlateFaith A.I. Could Bring a Sea Change in How People Experience Religious Faith slate.com - Ruth Graham “A Priest, a Rabbi, and a Robot Walk Into a Bar” shows knotty questions about the union of religion and technology.
SlateRobotics Read the New Short Story “A Priest, a Rabbi, and a Robot Walk Into a Bar” slate.com - Andrew Dana Hudson Artificial intelligence is changing just about everything. Why not religion, too?
SlateMotherhood China’s One-Child Policy Still Casts Its Shadow Over Women’s Experience With Motherhood slate.com - Betsy Joles The country still has a lot of work to do toward making motherhood work for women.
SlateInformation Overload Max Headroom Anticipated the Head-Exploding Information Overload of Today slate.com - Jonathan Weiler Max Headroom was an early avatar of the knowing, cynical, and irony-laden sensibility that dominates the media landscape today.
SlatePrivacy Misinformed YouTubers Are Undermining the Fight for Children’s Privacy Online slate.com - Harsimar Dhanoa and Jonathan Greengarden This conversation shouldn’t frame privacy laws as an impediment.
SlateEmoji How Emojis Have Invaded the Courtroom slate.com - Stephen Harrison At least 2.3 trillion mobile messages incorporate emoji annually. Naturally some percentage of those communications would turn up in legal disputes.
SlateInstagram Can That Dog on Instagram Really “Talk”? slate.com - Jane C. Hu There’s an important distinction between Stella’s button pushing and actually understanding language in the way that humans do.
SlateClimate Change Climate Change Has Finally Broken Through slate.com - Susan Matthews Stop complaining about how little time politicians debate climate change and recognize how much the conversation has already changed.
SlateRussia Fiona Hill’s Story of Russian Disinformation Sounds Very Familiar slate.com - Morten Bay Western journalists no longer have to go to Moscow to receive compromising leads.
SlateInternet How Iran Turned Off the Internet slate.com - Josephine Wolff Turning off the internet for an entire country is not impossible, but it’s rarely cheap, quick, or easy.
SlateTesla Here Is What Will and Won’t Break Tesla’s New Cybertruck slate.com - Aaron Mak Won't break it: sledgehammers and bullets (maybe). Will break it: metal balls and withering tweets.
SlateChina Inside TikTok: The Challenges of Chinese Ownership slate.com - Seth Stevenson The app’s growing popularity in the U.S. has lawmakers worried about Beijing’s influence.
SlateGoogle Will Google’s Changes to Political Ads Hurt Democrats or Republicans More? slate.com - April Glaser Campaign ads on Google and YouTube will be less targeted—and maybe less creepy—now.
SlateTechnology People Are Talking to “Voice Activated” Paper Towel Dispensers slate.com - Jane C. Hu It’s not immediately obvious that this is a prank, which is what makes it so funny—and alarming.
SlateVaping What the E-Cigarette Bans Get Wrong slate.com - Jacob Grier Once again, humans are notoriously bad at risk assessment.
SlateSuicide The FCC Chairman Wants to Make It Easier to Call the Suicide Hotline slate.com - Abby McIntyre Calling the suicide hotline could become as simple as dialing 988.
SlateFacebook When Things Go Wrong for Blind Users on Facebook, They Go Really Wrong slate.com - April Glaser “The bugs on Facebook are like the garbage on 57th Street. I’ve stopped noticing.”
