Technology highlights

Claude Dutson employs technology to snoop around the secretive headquarters of Silicon Valley, probing the methodological limits of proprietary architecture.

Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg lets her AI rhino loose in London’s Natural History Museum, prompting philosophical questions about extinction and complicity.

MoMA curator Paola Antonelli on collecting code and their new exhibition, Never Alone: Video Games and Other Interactive Design.

Silicon Valley’s tech moguls designed their apps to be addictive – now they’re offering ways to wean ourselves off them. But can you ever design a perfect digital detox?

Industrial Facility takes Pure back to its roots with the Evoke Play, a minimalist radio for the streaming era.

Destiny Thomas asks what the unequal rollout of e-scooters in major American cities tell us about technology and racial equity.

The FDA ban on Juul has stalled. From Disegno 25, Natalie Kane examines the design themes, memes, and appeal to teens of these slick flavoured e-cigarettes.

We share an article on ambient technology and the screen, published as part of Map Project Office’s e-paper about connected tech in the home.

Pentagram’s Jon Marshall has returned to his back catalogue, designing a new version of the Velo bicycle navigation device.

How have Amazon and its online competitors changed the way we buy books? With the launch of Bookshop.org, Disegno set out to investigate.

How can we measure time in a way that centres long-term environmental change rather than human industry?

Founded in 1958, the DSN is the Earth’s most sophisticated means of interplanetary exchange – the system by which NASA passes telemetry data between Earth and its spacecraft.