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.

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Analysis

The pandemic is revealing how bad our technology really is

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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

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Opinion

The temptation of coronavirus surveillance

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Feature

Coronavirus is an opportunity to rethink tech

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Feature

How to survive a pandemic on social media

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Analysis

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

Analysis

Why are calendar apps so awful?

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Feature

Why YouTube is the true successor to TV

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Feature

How the iPad quietly transformed computing

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Analysis

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

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Feature

Does social media silence grief?

Feature

Technology did more good than harm this decade

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Analysis

Too anxious to press play

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Analysis

Google's uncertain future

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Feature

Why you should delete your favorite apps this holiday season

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Analysis

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

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Analysis

Can Apple make VR mainstream?

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Feature

How the tech duopoly killed the headphone jack

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Feature

The troubling age of algorithmic entertainment

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Opinion

Mark Zuckerberg's reckless idea of free speech

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Analysis

We're losing control of our computers

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Feature

Is Microsoft's Surface Neo too little too late?

Analysis

Amazon's dystopian plan to be anywhere and everywhere

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Analysis

Is it unethical to upgrade your iPhone?

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Feature

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

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Analysis

Facebook doesn't care about your mental health

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Feature

Why Teslas aren't the future

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Feature

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

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Analysis

How TikTok has captured a generation

Analysis

Who owns your tech?

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Opinion

Why Amazon should be worried about Instagram

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Feature

Surveillance tech is making gentrification worse

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Opinion

The internet is too big

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Opinion

Why 'deepfakes' aren't the problem

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Feature

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