Tech

A trip to CES, “what a World’s Fair might look like if brands were more important than countries.”

In search of the perfect lie detector test.

From pinball prohibition in 1940s NYC to Dave & Buster’s, the rise and fall of the American arcade.

A eulogy for the activist.

An internet pioneer loses hope in the promise of web culture.

On Dylan Yount, a man who jumped from a San Francisco building, and the people who watched, recorded and, in some cases, encouraged his suicide.

How a burgeoning tech workforce swallowed San Francisco.

How amateur satellite aficionados track the U.S. government’s spy technology.

On the U.S. government’s pursuit of a legendary hacker.

Tracking cyberextortionists and their roving swarms of bots.

A “crude table-tennis arcade game” called Pong and the birth of the video game industry.

A master troll on trial in New Jersey.