A reporter watches as a Hindu nationalist government uses tech from the companies he covers to destroy a secular democracy.

Inside the tech industry’s decades-long failure to reckon with risk.

The moderators who keep Google and Youtube free of beheadings and child porn now have PTSD themselves.

Life in Silicon Valley during the dawn of the unicorns.

For the purposes of this essay, I’ll call it ‘ambient privacy’—the understanding that there is value in having our everyday interactions with one another remain outside the reach of monitoring, and that the small details of our daily lives should pass by unremembered. What we do at home, work, church, school, or in our leisure time does not belong in a permanent record. Not every conversation needs to be a deposition.

On labor organizing at a Silicon Valley giant and what happens when a company loses touch with its motto of “don’t be evil.”

It was Hell.

Boomtown San Francisco, as seen from the Google Bus.

On Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism.

On the friendship that made Google huge.

Did Uber steal Google’s intellectual property?

Can local news survive?

The dramatic imbalance in pay and power has created the conditions for abuse.

She turned to Google for help getting sober. Then she had to escape a nightmare.

A visit to the ‘Castle’ where self-driving cars learn.

A talk from the re:publica conference in Berlin:

The good part about naming a talk in 2017 ‘Notes from an Emergency’ is that there are so many directions to take it. The emergency I want to talk about is the rise of a vigorous ethnic nationalism in Europe and America. This nationalism makes skillful use of online tools, tools that we believed inherently promoted freedom, to advance an authoritarian agenda.

“Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.”

A profile of Google’s new CEO, “the most powerful tech giant you’ve never heard of.”

On the battle between Google, Apple, Uber, and Tesla to own the driverless car market, which could be worth more than $30 billion a year.

European antitrust regulators just won’t leave Google alone.

Meet Ben Discoe, a programmer who did it from October 2011 to November 2012.

Privacy, memory, data and advertising—how the modern web has become a Ponzi scheme and how we might be able to fix it.

How the Google co-founder, forced out of a leadership role in 2001, came back to run the company 10 years later.

An ambivalent look at Google Glass, the “Model T of wearable computing.”

The long road to Google’s self-driving car.