Disruptive

Your online avatar is here, and sorry, it doesn't look like Luke Skywalker.

Silicon Valley is killing entrepreneurship. Weird, right?

Software company Tableau wants to give ordinary people data visualization software that's as easy to use as Facebook.

The Philly train crash should have been averted, but who's going to prevent the disaster brewing for automated train technology?

The portal to the future might be your desk lamp.

Facial recognition software is about to take all the fun out of looting.

Quantum computers will make your laptop look like an abacus.

Streaming music is still looking for its leader.

Smartwatches and other innovations are slicing thought down into short bursts. Get used to it.

Apps are about to make most doctor's appointments obsolete.

Now that the dream of airborne autos is about to come true, do we really want 'em?

Millennials are bucking the traditional pull of suburbia and clinging to the jobs and joys offered by cities.

We don't yet know what the ideal form of communication is, but we are sure it's not email.

Apple's the most valuable company in the world, and desperate to reinvent itself.

Steve Jobs gets too much credit for his ideas and too little for the way he conducted his complex symphony.

At this point, the technology industry might be better off without any patents.

The Internet of Things is like religion: Everywhere and hard to explain.

Carpe diem, my ass! I'm not doing anything until I can find some clothes that fit.

Doomsayers are predicting that artificial intelligence is going to get too smart for our own good.

Recent advances are about to put entrepreneurs into orbit.

Kiss that popcorn goodbye: Audiences move from theaters to hand-helds.

Yes, startups are sexy, but the big tech companies have some advantages.

Nobody knows how to stop these cyberattacks, which will only get more sophisticated and more treacherous.

…and the other top tech trends of 2015.

Get ready for horizontal work, in which you do many jobs over the course of a day.

In Silicon Valley's Game of Thrones, it's winner-take-all.

Online dating is a mess, but be patient: Data know better.

Obama says the Internet will spread freedom; history says think again.

The tech boom is fizzling, while the world is burning.

The mighty Amazon might be sunk by the demand for instant gratification.