Mat Honan

Plus a chat about how the Ukraine war is reshaping tech in Eastern Europe, and a stocking stuffer recommendation.

Plus: The inside story on Clear

Welcome to The Debrief with Mat Honan, your weekly take on the tech news that really matters, links to stories we love, and the occasional recommendation.

Rather than analyzing the news this week, I thought I’d lift the hood a bit on how we make it. 

The latest issue of MIT Technology Review is all about food, and more to the point, how we can use technology—high tech and low tech—to feed more people.

Recent demos of smart glasses from Meta and Snap have shown off some impressive visuals. But the brains are the thing.

These new AR glasses are amazing. And extremely goofy.

With this issue, we want to celebrate our milestone as a publication without dwelling too much on our own past.

There are fortunes to be had in making the things we play more appealing, more accessible, more fun.

Whatever we build today will create our future. And if we’re not thoughtful about it, the forward steps we take now could be seen as steps back in the years to come.