Navneet Alang
Navneet Alang is a technology and culture writer based out of Toronto. His work has appeared in The Atlantic, New Republic, Globe and Mail, and Hazlitt.
Latest articles by Navneet Alang
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Why big tech thinks voice control will conquer the world
The Explainer Voice assistant technology could be the glue that holds smart home ecosystems together
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The gaming console isn't dead yet. And the Nintendo Switch proves it.
The Explainer How the Nintendo Switch has thrived in a smartphone-dominated world
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Big tech's convenience trap
The Explainer When tech companies are so focused on making things seamless and convenient, they also make them harder to escape
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How Apple lost its sheen
The Explainer Customers can no longer rely on Apple products to be the best. That's a problem.
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2017 is the year that computers became phones
The Explainer For years, your smartphone wanted to be like your computer. Now it's the other way around.
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We're thinking about internet freedom in all the wrong ways
opinion There is no public space on the internet. This needs to change.
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Is Google too big to disrupt?
The Explainer Why Silicon Valley's Fearsome Five are almost impossible to unseat
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Why we're still so obsessed with the iPhone
The Explainer Apple offers a kind of luxury that's hard to resist
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What Microsoft's ill-fated Kinect can teach us about disruption
The Explainer A revolutionary product is not enough
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The nation of Facebook
The Explainer The social media platform is bigger and more influential than most countries. Here's what that means.
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Should tech companies run our cities?
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Why Snapchat might just win the augmented reality wars
The Explainer Silicon Valley's favorite "camera company" has a smart plan to save itself
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The genius strategy behind Google's new Pixel 2 smartphones
The Explainer This is about way more than a fancy new phone. It's about the company's future success.
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In praise of Twitter's new 280-character limit
The Explainer Twitter as we know it is about to change. That's a good thing.
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Why the Apple Watch is still a business plan in search of a product
The Explainer Who's yearning for the Apple Watch? The company or the consumer?
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Apple's future is not the iPhone X
The Explainer These days, there isn't actually much Apple can do to reinvent or reinvigorate the smartphone
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In defense of Peter Daou's dumb app
The Explainer Yes, it's ridiculous. Yes, it's ineffectual. But at least it's trying to solve a real problem.
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Windows is doomed
The Explainer Microsoft's mobile mistakes are catching up to its signature product
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Samsung's Galaxy Note 8 and the problem with feature abundance
The Explainer Are smartphones ruining us?
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The slippery problem of policing hate on the internet
The Explainer Who gets to decide what constitutes hate?
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Tesla's Model 3 is blindingly overhyped
The Explainer It is techno-utopianism at its worst
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The iPad is still the future
The Explainer Lost amid the buzz about the HomePod and the high-end iMac Pro were some key changes to Apple's tablet
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The sad end of the Apple era
The Explainer With Apple's influence waning, we may come to miss the company that Jobs built
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