Stories by Mike Elgan

A widely held myth says Google eavesdrops on your life to improve search results. It doesn't, but should it?

An entire anti-drone industry is emerging. These new tools will enable drone detection, tracking, identification, disabling, and even hacking and hijacking the drones as they fly.

Services like Keep, Evernote and Microsoft OneNote are often called "note-taking apps." But they've grown beyond their roots, now offering collaborative workflow, reminders, checklists, geofencing, optical character recognition, voice transcription, sketching and more.

Dozens of companies promise conspicuous, bulky and expensive smart glasses. But the best idea is regular glasses that are smart.

Two innovative startups figured out all-day video chat sessions, without making it weird

It's hard to know what's true and what's false, and always has been. But the same web that can be used to spread lies also holds truth.

There's no question that A.I. is the next UI. The question is: Whose A.I.?

A drone alone can't make 'last-mile' home delivery scale. But robots can. Here's how.

A new class of mobile device is tiny, cheap and gives you total information awareness about your stuff.

Tech giants don't want to live in a world where someone else makes the world a better place better than they do.

The technology-using public now demands more than mere information. They want to feel like they're really there.

Automation is nice, but it doesn't mean you should hand over responsibility to the machines.

The world of mixed reality will be populated by countless 'spirits, demons, angels, ghosts and gods'

Years ago, everybody wanted their social activity unified into a single stream. Is the dream still alive?

Google finally embraces mobile live video streaming. Here's why the world will never be the same.