A week of Kamala Harris losing the elections, mud being thrown at Spanish politicians and insurance companies hiring companies to decline medical procedures
A week of a judge blaming Breonna Taylor’s murder on her boyfriend, violence at a parade in Brooklyn and ongoing starvation in Sudan
Help, I feel depressed because my house is rotting. Can tech fix this?The UK’s crumbling housing stock is compounding the health, wealth and climate crises. Can a slew of new technologies solve this, or will they just widen the chasm? Zoe Rasbash & Illustration: Esther Lalanne
The rise of little brother in the digital ageThe society of the spectacleAdele Zeynep Walton & Illustration: Rosa Kusabbi
Can we all agree that the TikTok aesthetic machine is out of order?On Mob Wives, Office Sirens and the slow marketing of female economic impotenceNing Chang & Illustration: Rosa Kusabbi
Behind the Green Curtain: the truth about Big Tech’s carbon footprintCan carbon accounting cut through Big Tech’s vague climate pledges and force real accountability?Zoe Rasbash & Illustration: Esther Lalanne
A Body OnlineOn the migration to the metaverse and why we post onlineBrendon Holder & Illustration: Sabrina Gevaerd
A fight across the seas: Diaspora activists demand Meta do better in IndiaAhead of the Indian elections, activists seal off Meta's London HQ to pull up company for “crimes against democracy”Manasa Narayanan
AI, Elections and Democracy: How Big Tech hijacks our free will and prices our consciousnessOn platform models taking the stage for truth and influenceNikta Sabouri & Illustration: Driss Chaoui
The cloud is filled with carbonHow the climate impact of doom-scrolling helped me kick the habitAdele Zeynep Walton & Illustration: Natasha Phang Lee
Does radical vulnerability hinder us in the digital arena of love?Finding love is a little more complicated than a simple formula (or algorithm)Fope Ajanaku & Illustration: Esther Lalanne
Are you the consumer or the product?The Truman Show to TikTok pipelineOphelia Dos Santos & Illustration: Alex Francis
Can tech help us get closer to nature?Three technological interventions tackling the nature deprivation crisis in marginalised communitiesZoe Rasbash & Illustration: Esther Lalanne
Islamophobic governments have a new weapon – AI and algorithms are the new surveillance stateNew technologies are reinforcing age-old inequalities in the 21st centuryAdele Zeynep Walton & Illustration: Heedayah Lockman