Hard Fork
Episodes
Why Roomba Died + Tech Predictions for 2026 + A Hard Forkin’ Xmas Song
19 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, iRobot, the pioneering American robotics company behind the Roomba, filed for bankruptcy and announced that it would be taken over by its C...
Australia Kicks Kids Off Social Media + Is the A.I. Water Issue Fake? + Hard Fork Wrapped
12 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Australia implemented the most aggressive social media ban in a democracy to date, kicking children under 16 off 10 of the most popular soc...
OpenAI Calls a ‘Code Red’ + Which Model Should I Use? + The Hard Fork Review of Slop
05 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s A.I. model rollout season in Silicon Valley, and OpenAI appears to be feeling the pressure. Sam Altman, the chief executive of OpenAI, sent a m...
Hard Fork’s 50 Most Iconic Technologies of 2025
28 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Last year we debuted Hard Fork’s 100 Most Iconic Technologies list, in which we ranked the technologies from across all of history that best define ...
The Interview: How Wikipedia Is Responding to the Culture Wars
25 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Last month our colleague Lulu Garcia-Navarro had a conversation with Wikipedia’s co-founder Jimmy Wales about the challenges the site is facing — ...
We Asked Roblox’s C.E.O. About Child Safety. It Got Tense.
21 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Roblox's popularity has exploded among kids since the pandemic. Today Roblox has more than 150 million daily active users, and functions as one of the...
Google's Gemini 3 Is Here: A Special Early Look
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Google’s much anticipated new large language model Gemini 3 begins rolling out today. We’ll tell you what we learned from an early product briefin...
What’s a Hard Fork?
27 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Hosts Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore stories from the wild frontier of tech.What’s real? What’s hype? “Hard Fork” is here to help you ma...