Technology
'This Is An Opportunity': Fareed Zakaria On 'Lessons For A Post-Pandemic World'
In his new book, Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World, Zakaria looks ahead to the ways that COVID-19 might fundamentally change our relationships to work, technology and government. He says Americans in particular have some important decisions to make about the role of government in our lives.
Collect Data, Influence Votes: 'If Then' Traces The Genesis Of Data-Driven Politics
Decades before Google or Facebook existed, a Madison Avenue advertising man started a company called Simulmatics based on a then-revolutionary method of using computers to forecast how people would behave. Historian Jill Lepore tells the story in her new book.
Uncovering The CIA's Audacious Operation That Gave Them Access To State Secrets
Greg Miller of The Washington Post reveals the hidden history of Crypto AG, a Swiss firm that sold encryption technology to 120 countries — but was secretly owned by the CIA for decades.
Edward Snowden Speaks Out: 'I Haven't And I Won't' Cooperate With Russia
In 2013, Edward Snowden was an IT systems expert working under contract for the National Security Agency when he traveled to Hong Kong to provide three journalists with thousands of top-secret documents about U.S. intelligence agencies' surveillance of American citizens.
How Tech Companies Track Your Every Move And Put Your Data Up For Sale
Washington Post tech columnist Geoffrey Fowler listened to four years' worth of audio that Amazon had captured and stored from his Alexa smart speaker. He was surprised by what he found.