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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.

Coronavirus.

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Analysis

The pandemic is revealing how bad our technology really is

A phone, Earth, and coronavirus.

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Opinion

Did the virus kill the techlash?

A big foot stepping on a delivery driver.

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Opinion

Coronavirus and the uncomfortable calculus of the gig economy

An eye.

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Opinion

The temptation of coronavirus surveillance

Digital coronavirus.

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Feature

Coronavirus is an opportunity to rethink tech

A person with a phone.

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Feature

How to survive a pandemic on social media

A laptop and phone.

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Analysis

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

Analysis

Why are calendar apps so awful?

A TV.

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Feature

Why YouTube is the true successor to TV

Apple iPad.

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Feature

How the iPad quietly transformed computing

A taxi.

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Analysis

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

An airplane.

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Feature

Does social media silence grief?

Feature

Technology did more good than harm this decade

A person and play symbols.

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Analysis

Too anxious to press play

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Analysis

Google's uncertain future

A phone.

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Feature

Why you should delete your favorite apps this holiday season

A robot writer.

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Analysis

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

A family.

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Analysis

Can Apple make VR mainstream?

A guillotine.

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Feature

How the tech duopoly killed the headphone jack

Stranger Things.

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Feature

The troubling age of algorithmic entertainment

Mark Zuckerberg.

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Opinion

Mark Zuckerberg's reckless idea of free speech

Person plugs into a globe.

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Analysis

We're losing control of our computers

A Microsoft event.

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Feature

Is Microsoft's Surface Neo too little too late?

Analysis

Amazon's dystopian plan to be anywhere and everywhere

New iPhones.

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Analysis

Is it unethical to upgrade your iPhone?

Tim Cook.

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Feature

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

The Facebook Like button.

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Analysis

Facebook doesn't care about your mental health

An old car.

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Feature

Why Teslas aren't the future

Twitter brain.

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Feature

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

TikTok.

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Analysis

How TikTok has captured a generation

Analysis

Who owns your tech?

A bag.

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Opinion

Why Amazon should be worried about Instagram

Amazon Ring.

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Feature

Surveillance tech is making gentrification worse

A laptop.

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Opinion

The internet is too big

Nancy Pelosi.

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Opinion

Why 'deepfakes' aren't the problem

An iPad.

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Feature

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