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Everything we have published, newest first — 83 pieces across 8 months.

August 20266 pieces

  1. We Let an AI Agent Do Our Shopping

    Experiment · AI & Future · 5 min

  2. The Web Got Heavier and Nobody Noticed

    Feature · Tech & Culture · 4 min

  3. The Unsubscribe Link That Goes Nowhere

    Short · Essays · 3 min

  4. We Are All Temporarily Abled

    Essay · Accessibility & Human Experience · 5 min

  5. The Password You Cannot Remember Was Never for You

    Essay · Tech & Culture · 5 min

  6. The Cookie Banner Is a Monument to a Law That Worked

    Essay · Law & Power · 5 min

July 202612 pieces

  1. The Caption Generation

    Feature · Accessibility & Human Experience · 5 min

  2. The Alt Text Problem Nobody Wants to Solve

    Essay · Accessibility & Human Experience · 5 min

  3. Nobody Knows How Old You Are

    Investigation · Law & Power · 5 min

  4. We Optimized the Internet Until Nobody Enjoyed Using It

    Essay · Tech & Culture · 5 min

  5. The Website That Would Not Let Her Die

    Feature · Accessibility & Human Experience · 5 min

  6. Your Résumé Was Read by a Machine

    Investigation · Law & Power · 5 min

  7. The Productivity Score on Your Back

    Feature · Law & Power · 4 min

  8. The Meeting That Should Have Been a Document

    Short · Essays · 3 min

  9. The Gig That Scores You

    Investigation · Law & Power · 5 min

  10. Nobody Answers Email Anymore

    Short · Essays · 3 min

  11. Domino's Fought a Blind Man All the Way to the Supreme Court. Over a Pizza.

    Feature · Law & Power · 16 min

  12. We Tested the 100 Biggest US Retailers With a Screen Reader

    Investigation · Experiments & Investigations · 5 min

June 202611 pieces

  1. The Tip Screen Turns Toward You

    Essay · Tech & Culture · 6 min

  2. The Price You See Is Not the Price

    Investigation · Law & Power · 4 min

  3. Buy Now, Regret Later

    Investigation · Law & Power · 6 min

  4. The Subscription That Owns Your Car

    Feature · Tech & Culture · 5 min

  5. The School-Issued Laptop Is Watching

    Investigation · Law & Power · 5 min

  6. Homework Was the First Thing AI Ate

    Feature · AI & Future · 5 min

  7. A Week Online With the Screen Turned Off

    Feature · Accessibility & Human Experience · 5 min

  8. The Toddler With an Audience

    Essay · Tech & Culture · 6 min

  9. The Patient Portal Is Not for Patients

    Feature · Accessibility & Human Experience · 5 min

  10. The Group Chat Is the Last Good Place

    Essay · Tech & Culture · 5 min

  11. America Built a Second Front Door to Society. Then Forgot the Stairs.

    Essay · Essays · 5 min

May 202611 pieces

  1. We Tried to Cancel 50 Online Subscriptions

    Experiment · Experiments & Investigations · 5 min

  2. The Therapy App Will See You Now

    Investigation · AI & Future · 5 min

  3. The Symptom Checker That Cannot Say “I Don’t Know”

    Essay · AI & Future · 5 min

  4. The Form That Decides If You Eat

    Investigation · Law & Power · 5 min

  5. We Were Promised Convenience. We Got Accounts, Apps, and Password Resets.

    Essay · Essays · 6 min

  6. The Town That Runs on Facebook

    Essay · Essays · 6 min

  7. The Algorithm Did Not Ask What You Wanted

    Essay · Tech & Culture · 5 min

  8. Nobody Covers the City Council Anymore

    Feature · Tech & Culture · 5 min

  9. The Internet Forgot How to Forget

    Essay · Law & Power · 5 min

  10. Search Stopped Finding Things

    Feature · AI & Future · 4 min

  11. Overlay Nation: The Widgets That Promise Accessibility in One Line of Code

    Investigation · Accessibility & Human Experience · 5 min

April 202611 pieces

  1. Everything Is a Video Now

    Short · Essays · 3 min

  2. We Timed How Long It Takes to Reach a Human at 30 Major Companies

    Investigation · Experiments & Investigations · 5 min

  3. We Read the Privacy Policies of a Single Morning

    Experiment · Experiments & Investigations · 5 min

  4. The Machine That Cannot Be Appealed

    Investigation · Law & Power · 5 min

  5. The Last Honest Interface

    Essay · Essays · 4 min

  6. We Asked 20 AI Website Builders for an Accessible Website

    Experiment · AI & Future · 5 min

  7. The Moderator Who Saw Everything

    Interview · Law & Power · 5 min

  8. The Man Who Still Runs a Forum

    Interview · Essays · 6 min

  9. The Archivist Racing the Delete Button

    Interview · Tech & Culture · 5 min

  10. Why Thousands of American Businesses Keep Getting Sued Over Their Websites

    Investigation · Law & Power · 6 min

  11. The Warehouse Runs at the Speed of Software

    Feature · Law & Power · 5 min

March 202611 pieces

  1. The Repair Shop That Cannot Get the Part

    Feature · Tech & Culture · 5 min

  2. The Data Centre in the Cornfield

    Investigation · Law & Power · 5 min

  3. The Map Decided Where You Live

    Essay · Tech & Culture · 5 min

  4. The Last Cash Register

    Essay · Essays · 5 min

  5. The Algorithm Is Changing How You Talk

    Feature · Tech & Culture · 5 min

  6. The ADA Was Written Before the Web. Courts Are Improvising.

    Feature · Law & Power · 5 min

  7. The Star Rating Is a Lie Everyone Agreed To

    Short · Essays · 3 min

  8. The Second Screen Ate the First

    Essay · Tech & Culture · 5 min

  9. Terms of Service: The Contract Nobody Reads and Everybody Signs

    Essay · Law & Power · 5 min

  10. Everything Sounds Like an Ad Now

    Investigation · Law & Power · 5 min

  11. Who Owns Your Face? Inside the Biometric Gold Rush

    Investigation · Law & Power · 5 min

February 202611 pieces

  1. The Ring That Scores Your Sleep

    Feature · AI & Future · 4 min

  2. The App That Counts Your Steps and Your Premium

    Investigation · Law & Power · 5 min

  3. Nobody Is Bored Anymore

    Essay · Essays · 5 min

  4. Why Every App Suddenly Wants Your Phone Number

    Short · Tech & Culture · 3 min

  5. The Referee Is a Camera Now

    Essay · Tech & Culture · 5 min

  6. The Church Has a Streaming Problem

    Feature · Essays · 5 min

  7. The Restaurant Menu Is a Website Now

    Short · Essays · 3 min

  8. The Recipe That Would Not Shut Up

    Short · Tech & Culture · 2 min

  9. The Quiet Death of the Personal Website

    Short · Tech & Culture · 3 min

  10. The Fridge That Needs a Firmware Update

    Feature · Tech & Culture · 5 min

  11. We Tried to Buy a Train Ticket in Five Countries

    Experiment · Experiments & Investigations · 5 min

January 202610 pieces

  1. We Asked Ten Companies for Our Data

    Experiment · Experiments & Investigations · 4 min

  2. The House That Locks You Out

    Investigation · Law & Power · 5 min

  3. CAPTCHA Is a Turing Test We Are All Slowly Failing

    Short · AI & Future · 3 min

  4. We Let the Defaults Decide for a Week

    Experiment · Experiments & Investigations · 6 min

  5. The Slop Is Coming From Inside the House

    Feature · AI & Future · 5 min

  6. The Junior Job Is Disappearing

    Essay · AI & Future · 5 min

  7. We Are Training on the Exhaust

    Essay · AI & Future · 5 min

  8. The Voice on the Phone Was Not Your Mother

    Feature · AI & Future · 5 min

  9. The Model That Learned From Your Work

    Investigation · Law & Power · 5 min

  10. The Help Desk Is a Hallucination

    Short · Law & Power · 3 min