Real Future has merged with Gizmodo
We launched Real Future almost two years ago to tell stories about the ways in which technology is changing both the…
What GitHub did to kill its trolls
A few years ago, the software start-up GitHub faced an uncomfortable truth: It could be a pretty unpleasant place.
Some pervert cyberflashed me on the subway—And I have my iPhone to thank
If you were asked to imagine a flasher, you’d probably think of a cartoonish looking man in a trenchcoat, running…
This 104-year-old blogger is keeping the dying art alive
Dagny Carlsson is a 104-year-old woman who loves to blog.
These coders want to prevent violence with apps
In early November, dozens of people gathered at Fusion's offices in Oakland with one common goal: to find new ways to…
Computer science professor says we need to do a recount to make sure election wasn't hacked
The 2016 presidential election may have been hacked. And if so, there's only days left to save it.
After Trump won, this SpaceX exec quit his job to solve America's polarization problem
To Trump opponents, the country is going to hell in a hand basket. Hate crimes and swastika graffiti have been on the…
You can tell a criminal from his facial features, a completely serious 2016 research paper finds
In ancient Greece, the philosopher Aristotle once said that "it is possible to infer character from features." Through…
Visit the Kansas farm that accidentally became the digital center of the U.S.
Joyce Taylor's family has owned a plot of land near Wichita, Kansas for over 100 years. Now 82, she grew up in a…
This dad is a genius biohacker. But he could lose his kids because of it.
In the name of science, Rich Lee has done things to his body that most of us wouldn't dare imagine. He's implanted perma…
This infamous troll is almost certain his fake Facebook news helped Trump get elected
Despite what Mark Zuckerberg has insisted to the public, it doesn't take a degree in computer engineering to understand…
Edward Snowden just told us we should rely less on Facebook for news. This is why.
In this election, lies sometimes seemed to carry as much weight as facts. You'd see a story declaring that Hillary…
Mae Jemison, the first black woman in space, says colonizing Mars 'doesn't push us hard enough'
Mae Jemison, the first woman of color in space, has an alternative view on the race to get humans on Mars: it isn't…
We have now CRISPR'd a human!
A group of Chinese scientists have become the first to use the game-changing gene-editing technology CRISPR-Cas9 on…
How to build a more civil internet
Over the course of the election, we saw online discourse reach a new low.
Women of color who work in tech imagine a more diverse industry
Election results aside, the future is still female.
How to make sure the future doesn't ruin your job
At this point automation is inevitable, but that just means we need to think longer and harder about how we prepare for…
Edward Snowden thinks we should look outside politics for hope
On Tuesday at Fusion's Real Future Fair, Edward Snowden took the stage via Snowbot to discuss the future of the…
Twitter is finally taking abuse seriously
Over the years, Twitter has become the unfortunate example of what happens on the internet when you govern your…
This app wants to be an alternative to calling the cops
On the main drag of downtown San Francisco, a bearded man with a tattered t-shirt stumbles into the middle of busy…