Aaron Mak
Aaron Mak

Aaron Mak writes about technology for Slate. Follow him on Twitter.

The Industry
July 10 2018 2:55 PMAll the Ways Elon Musk Tried and Failed to Help with the Thai Cave RescueAaron Mak
Future Tense
July 2 2018 2:46 PMWhat Facebook Admitted and Omitted in Its 747 Pages of Answers for CongressAaron Mak
Users
June 28 2018 7:15 PMThe Profiles of Actual Voters This Bot Tweets Seem Too Good to Be TrueAaron Mak
Future Tense
June 27 2018 6:41 PMThe DOJ Ran a Bitcoin Laundering Sting to Catch Drug Dealers and It WorkedAaron Mak
Users
June 25 2018 7:02 PMWeRateDogs Twitter Account Promises to Never Rename Dogs AgainAaron Mak
The Industry
June 22 2018 1:11 PMWhat an Utterly Bizarre Week of News For TeslaAaron Mak
The Industry
June 20 2018 12:34 PMMicrosoft Touted Its Work With ICE in January. Now Its CEO Is Downplaying It.Aaron Mak
Science
June 16 2018 9:00 AMWhy a Woman Is Suing NASA to Keep a Vial of “Moon Dust”She says she got the vial from Neil Armstrong when she was 10.Aaron Mak
Users
June 15 2018 12:43 PMA Star Clarinet Player Got Offered His Dream Scholarship. His Girlfriend Hijacked His Email and Turned It Down.Aaron Mak
Future Tense
June 14 2018 12:12 PMSteve Bannon’s New Master Plan For “Disruptive Populism” Is Comically On BrandAaron Mak
Users
June 13 2018 2:23 PMYour Twitter Timeline Is About to Change. (Don’t Panic: It’s a Good Idea.)Aaron Mak
Future Tense
June 12 2018 12:25 PMWhy the Gift Bags at the North Korea Summit Could Pose a Cybersecurity ThreatAaron Mak
Future Tense
June 8 2018 1:35 PMHow Did Investigators Read James Wolfe’s Signal Messages?Aaron Mak
The Industry
June 6 2018 1:56 PMA Somber Elon Musk Kept His Job at Tesla’s Shareholder MeetingAaron Mak
The Industry
June 5 2018 4:22 PMUber CEO Urges Employees to Say They “Have the D” in MeetingsAaron Mak
The Slatest
July 3 2018 12:41 PMTrump Administration Will Roll Back Obama-Era Guidelines Encouraging Colleges to Consider Race in Admissions ProcessAaron Mak
Future Tense
June 29 2018 4:19 PMComcast Nationwide Xfinity Outage Caused by a Cut in a Fiber LineAaron Mak
Users
June 28 2018 10:02 AMLinda McMahon Might Be the Best Instagrammer in Trump’s CabinetThe Small Business Administration chief’s account is an endless parade of victories for one of the least controversial Cabinet members.Aaron Mak
The Slatest
June 27 2018 5:26 PMHow Fox News Reacted to Anthony Kennedy’s RetirementAaron Mak
Users
June 25 2018 1:32 PMThe Mind-Numbing Social Media Outrage at Restaurants That Had Nothing to Do With Sarah SandersAaron Mak
Science
June 21 2018 3:11 PMWhy Does Half of the World’s Used Plastic End Up in China?To be reused.Aaron Mak
The Industry
June 19 2018 10:16 AMElon Musk Definitely Doesn’t Sound Paranoid After Emailing His Staff Twice in Two Days About SabotageAaron Mak
The Slatest
June 15 2018 7:20 PMIt Shouldn’t Have Taken a Lawsuit to Find Out Harvard Was Biased Against Asian AmericansAaron Mak
Users
June 15 2018 5:52 AMHow to Watch the World Cup Online If You Don’t Have CableAaron Mak
Future Tense
June 14 2018 8:09 AMWhen School Registration Software Fails at the Worst Possible TimeParents get angry.Aaron Mak
The Industry
June 12 2018 4:50 PMAT&T Wins Approval to Buy Time Warner in Deal That Could Transform Media and CableAaron Mak
Future Tense
June 11 2018 11:21 AMCryptocurrencies Plunged by Billions of Dollars Because a Minor Exchange Got HackedAaron Mak
Users
June 7 2018 1:14 PMConan O’Brien Is Here to Help Apple Cure Your iPhone AddictionAaron Mak
Science
June 6 2018 7:30 AMHow Gross Is a Used Hotel Mattress?Pretty gross.Aaron Mak
Users
June 5 2018 3:15 PMHow Did the FBI Access Paul Manafort’s Encrypted Messages?Aaron Mak

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