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Navneet Alang

Contributing Writer

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.

The pandemic is revealing how bad our technology really is
Coronavirus.
Analysis

The pandemic is revealing how bad our technology really is

Did the virus kill the techlash?
A phone, Earth, and coronavirus.
Opinion

Did the virus kill the techlash?

Coronavirus and the uncomfortable calculus of the gig economy
A big foot stepping on a delivery driver.
Opinion

Coronavirus and the uncomfortable calculus of the gig economy

The temptation of coronavirus surveillance
An eye.
Opinion

The temptation of coronavirus surveillance

Coronavirus is an opportunity to rethink tech
Digital coronavirus.
Feature

Coronavirus is an opportunity to rethink tech

How to survive a pandemic on social media
A person with a phone.
Feature

How to survive a pandemic on social media

Apple is about to start making laptops a lot more like phones
A laptop and phone.
Analysis

Apple is about to start making laptops a lot more like phones

Why are calendar apps so awful?
Analysis

Why are calendar apps so awful?

Why YouTube is the true successor to TV
A TV.
Feature

Why YouTube is the true successor to TV

How the iPad quietly transformed computing
Apple iPad.
Feature

How the iPad quietly transformed computing

What if the car of the future isn't a car at all?
A taxi.
Analysis

What if the car of the future isn't a car at all?

Does social media silence grief?
An airplane.
Feature

Does social media silence grief?

Technology did more good than harm this decade
Feature

Technology did more good than harm this decade

Too anxious to press play
A person and play symbols.
Analysis

Too anxious to press play

Google's uncertain future
Google logo.
Analysis

Google's uncertain future

Why you should delete your favorite apps this holiday season
A phone.
Feature

Why you should delete your favorite apps this holiday season

Google wants to finish your sentences. That's a problem.
A robot writer.
Analysis

Google wants to finish your sentences. That's a problem.

Can Apple make VR mainstream?
A family.
Analysis

Can Apple make VR mainstream?

How the tech duopoly killed the headphone jack
A guillotine.
Feature

How the tech duopoly killed the headphone jack

The troubling age of algorithmic entertainment
Stranger Things.
Feature

The troubling age of algorithmic entertainment

Mark Zuckerberg's reckless idea of free speech
Mark Zuckerberg.
Opinion

Mark Zuckerberg's reckless idea of free speech

We're losing control of our computers
Person plugs into a globe.
Analysis

We're losing control of our computers

Is Microsoft's Surface Neo too little too late?
A Microsoft event.
Feature

Is Microsoft's Surface Neo too little too late?

Amazon's dystopian plan to be anywhere and everywhere
Analysis

Amazon's dystopian plan to be anywhere and everywhere

Is it unethical to upgrade your iPhone?
New iPhones.
Analysis

Is it unethical to upgrade your iPhone?

The iPhone Pro is what an off year for Apple looks like
Tim Cook.
Feature

The iPhone Pro is what an off year for Apple looks like

Facebook doesn't care about your mental health
The Facebook Like button.
Analysis

Facebook doesn't care about your mental health

Why Teslas aren't the future
An old car.
Feature

Why Teslas aren't the future

What the Twitter-shaped hole in my brain taught me about tech
Twitter brain.
Feature

What the Twitter-shaped hole in my brain taught me about tech

How TikTok has captured a generation
TikTok.
Analysis

How TikTok has captured a generation

Who owns your tech?
Analysis

Who owns your tech?

Why Amazon should be worried about Instagram
A bag.
Opinion

Why Amazon should be worried about Instagram

Surveillance tech is making gentrification worse
Amazon Ring.
Feature

Surveillance tech is making gentrification worse

The internet is too big
A laptop.
Opinion

The internet is too big

Why 'deepfakes' aren't the problem
Nancy Pelosi.
Opinion

Why 'deepfakes' aren't the problem

Apple just told us they think the iPad is the future of computing
An iPad.
Feature

Apple just told us they think the iPad is the future of computing