Adam Clark Estes

Personalized prices sure sound like a bad idea Companies are using your personal data to set prices. Here’s how to sidestep them.

Delta created a little dustup when it said it was personalizing airfares with AI. The situation is actually much worse when you zoom out. www.vox.com/technology/4...

Nobody doomsday preps like billionaire tech bros doomsday prep www.wired.com/story/mark-z...

Revenge of the flip phone The future of the smartphone looks a lot like its past.

Despite rumors of its demise, the smartphone will continue to be your most important gadget for a very long while. www.vox.com/technology/4...

Yikes www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Little videos are cooking our brains The future of the internet is a slop-filled infinite scroll. How do we reclaim our attention?

I suspected that the bottomless well of TikTok/Reels/Shorts that’s eating our attention might be bad. Turns out it’s very bad. www.vox.com/technology/4...

Don’t let AI steal your job It’s okay to hate AI’s encroachment into work. Learn to use it anyway.

AI should make your job better, not make it disappear. www.vox.com/technology/4...

Google's AI Mode can now have back-and-forth voice conversations | TechCrunch Google is rolling out the ability for users to have a back-and-forth voice conversation with AI Mode.

Finally, you can get into an argument with a Google search techcrunch.com/2025/06/18/g...

‘Uber for Getting Off Antidepressants’ Launches in the US Outro, which is now available in seven states, wants to help people taper off antidepressants without experiencing debilitating side effects.

“For a monthly fee starting at $125…” www.wired.com/story/taperi...

Green-Wood Cemetery’s Living Dead How the “forever business” is changing at New York City’s biggest graveyard.

"They consider themselves 'last responders.'" www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

CGMs are life-saving tools for people with diabetes. I wore various brands for several weeks, and to be honest, it led to some pretty disordered behavior! Maybe my fault. Maybe tracking chemicals in your blood in real time is also just not necessary.

Mark Makary, the new FDA head, told Congress that more healthy Americans should wear CGMs. Casey Means, Trump's surgeon general pick, happens to run a company that sells CGMs.

I covered my body in health trackers for 6 months. It ruined my life. Do Apple Watches, Oura rings, and glucose monitors actually make us healthier?

I spent the last six months wearing every health tracker I could find, from an Oura ring to a continuous glucose monitor. I did not expect to find myself toe-to-toe with RFK Jr. and the MAHA movement. www.vox.com/technology/4...

To be more specific, it's terrifying not because it's so good but because it stands to break the web as we know it — which has been pretty good for nearly four decades.

What is Google even for anymore? Search as you know it is slowly crumbling.

I've been using Google's new AI Mode and I like it and it terrifies me www.vox.com/technology/4...

Stop making cents: US Mint moves forward with plans to kill the penny The U.S. Mint has made its final order of penny blanks and plans to stop producing the coin when those run out.

So do we put the last penny in a museum or just throw it in the trash with the rest of them? apnews.com/article/us-m...

The thing you told your mom about not clicking ads on Facebook, tell her again www.wsj.com/tech/meta-fr...

Dust storms: Never a good omen economically speaking

Wall of Dust Races Across Central Illinois and Pushes Into Chicago

Perfect www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/w...

What are we even doing any more? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Mark Zuckerberg’s surreal new AI app is the future Like it or not, the billionaire gets to decide how half the world uses technology.

Nobody said the future would be good for you www.vox.com/technology/4...

It's increasingly clear that we're being forced to live through a worse version of the 80s www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/s...

Now is a really great time to buy a new toaster www.vox.com/technology/4...

I'm starting to think Her was a documentary after all. Therapy/companionship, organizing your life, and finding purpose are now the top 3 uses of generative AI hbr.org/2025/04/how-...

A surprisingly useful tool for this year’s tax season Doing your taxes is technical and boring. It’s perfect for AI chatbots.

Doing your taxes is technical and boring. It’s perfect for AI chatbots. voxdotcom.visitlink.me/lo8wa9

I Tested The AI That Calls Your Elderly Parents If You Can't Be Bothered inTouch says on its website "Busy life? You can’t call your parent every day—but we can." My own mum said she would feel terrible if her child used it.

Just when you think our AI future can't get any darker… www.404media.co/i-tested-the...

A surprisingly useful tool for this year’s tax season Doing your taxes is technical and boring. It’s perfect for AI chatbots.

I did my taxes twice this year. Once for real and once to see if the AI would try to ruin my life. Pleased to report it did not but still— proceed with caution. www.vox.com/even-better/...

It's almost as if someone is trying to ruin this spring

Whoopsie daisy Bitcoin! Not so independent from the rest of the market, huh?

Whoopsie! www.theverge.com/cryptocurren...

Exclusive: Quartz sells again Canadian firm Redbrick is acquiring the business news brand.

The post-Gawker breakup is nearly complete: G/O Media is down to just Kotaku and The Root. www.axios.com/2025/04/04/q...