Presidents have many jobs, and one is telling us who we are. For the first 240 years of U.S. history, at least, our most revered chief executives reliably articulated a set of high-minded, humanist values that bound together a diverse nation by naming what we aspired...

Russian trolls posing as an American college student tweeted about divisive social, political and cultural issues using an account that amassed thousands of followers -- and appeared in dozens of news stories published by major media outlets -- as recently as March....

Den politiska diskussionen på Twitter drivs delvis av misstänkta botar. Tekniken är i dag tillgänglig för i princip vem som helst och Försvarshögskolans expert, Björn Palmertz, manar nu till stor vaksamhet. Botar är i grunden automatiserade konton som används för att...

Default privacy settings often aren’t very private. Our tech columnist is back with round two of his clickable guide to improving your privacy on all sorts of devices and online services. It’s not just Google and Facebook that are spying on you. Your TV, your...

    People come to Twitter to see and discuss what matters to them — from breaking news to the day’s events and memes. This is because whatever is happening in the world, is happening on Twitter — with real-time conversation. There’s no better example than...

"It's a beautiful day for flying," the captain said, his introductory message piped through my Libratone Track+ headphones. I don't usually hear these messages: I've long since stopped using wired headphones on airplanes, preferring an Apple Music playlist on...

Ever since he began his campaign for president, Trump has engaged in a largely rhetorical battle against the press, casting the reporters who cover him as the enemy of the average American and as disseminators of what he calls “fake news.” But for the most part,...

The U.S. media industry waits on one man: Rochard Leon. A senior judge at the U.S. District court for the District of Columbia, Leon will decide on Tuesday whether to approve AT&T’s $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner. AT&T’s argument for the merger is...

When Anthony Bourdain rose to fame in the early aughts, the celebrity-chef-industrial-complex was reaching its most bloated moment. Food Network stars like Mario Batali, Bobby Flay, Wolfgang Puck, and Emeril Lagasse were seemingly everywhere at once, using their very...

Once upon a time Elon Musk was our era’s real-life Tony Stark, a billionaire Iron Man streaking across the sky with technology to save the planet and take us to Mars. Reusable rockets, electric cars, solar power, he did them all, taking time out to advise Robert...

John Sculley and Apple co-founder Steve Jobs got together every weekend for five months as Jobs was trying to convince Sculley to take a job at Apple. Sculley, who was the CEO of Pepsi at the time, first met Jobs after Thanksgiving in 1982. "We got to know each other...

Journalister har spridit och lajkat inlägg om Fredrik Virtanen i sociala medier, inlägg där han anklagas för våldtäkt och bland annat beskrivs som en ”sadistisk mansspillra” och en ”farlig man” som ”hatar kvinnor”. En av de som sprider Cissi Wallins första inlägg är...