“I am not a tech journalist. I have never done this before. I don’t know what’s going on. Like most journalists everywhere, I am hungover.”

On CEO Reed Hastings and the future of Netflix.

The paper reports on a battle of its own.

The life and work of Aaron Swartz, in context.

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.

For the first time, the giants of the tech industry are spending more on creating, buying, and fighting patents than they are on R&D.

Part of New York Times’ ongoing iEconomy series.

A 15-year-old hacker and his tricks.

A look inside Google’s Ground Truth.

Bangka Island, a frequently lethal link in a global electronics supply chain.

How the self-proclaimed “inventor of all things streaming” went from dot-com millionaire to crime ring accomplice.

“For the first few days after the surgery, it was difficult to separate out my newly implanted sense from the bits of pain and sensation created by the trauma of having the magnet jammed in my finger.”

A tech reporter tells the story of his ruined digital life.

How Curt Schilling’s video-game company went bust.

Why people play violent video games.