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A focus group of teenage girls used their smartphones in Santa Monica, Calif., in 2015.

Ideas

What we get wrong about teens and screens

Teenagers actually want to talk to you about their tech struggles. But you need new talking points. 1:34 p.m.

Letters

Polygraphs are not the way forward in police reform

Reducing police misconduct is a worthy goal. Pretending to read the minds of police applicants with polygraphs is not the way to achieve it. 2:15 a.m.

Ideas

Your camera, the police, and you

When you install a surveillance device in your home or business, you’re not necessarily the one doing the watching. 3:00 a.m.

Opinion

My apps tracked my pregnancy and my abortion: Will deleting them protect me?

Apps designed to track reproductive cycles aren’t expendable, and telling women to delete them in light of the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade isn’t a realistic option. 3:00 a.m.

NASA's first images from the James Webb Space Telescope were broadcast in Piccadilly Circus, London.

Ideas

The James Webb Space Telescope is giving humanity what we need right now

How marvelous to see technology used for wonder and exploration rather than for power, profit, or persuasion. 11:02 a.m.

A dragonfly rests on a fan's phone long enough for her to call up the Wikipedia entry to read about it before the start of a baseball game between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees at Fenway Park on July 7 in Boston.

Letters

Wikipedia could be the remedy for polarization

Rather than lumping Wikipedia in with the other social media platforms, we should be encouraging other platforms to take a page out of its book. 2:15 a.m.