Lauren Smiley

To drive your Uber or bring your Instacart delivery, Priscila Barbosa had to be, well, you. (So did 100's of her customers.) A wild tale from the queen of a shadow gig economy, an identity thief within the US immigration stalemate.

When a longtime resident started stealing her neighbors’ Amazon packages, she entered a vortex of smart cameras, Nextdoor rants, and cellphone surveillance.

And that’s how Rafaela Vasquez—and only Rafaela Vasquez—was indicted for allegedly causing the first pedestrian death by a self-­driving car.

How citizen surveillance documented a grisly street brawl -- and then turned the story on its head.

The car wrecks were staged. The injuries were real. Led by a charismatic rogue, one family bloodied itself to pocket $6 million. (In partnership with Epic magazine.)

The hair-raising seven-year ride of a ridesharing folk hero Jeffrey Fang through the gig economy.

A false report on Twitter exploded into a call to arms. Then a bus, carrying a family and two dogs, rolled into a remote Northwestern town. A dive into our summer of disinformation and American discontent.

Karen Navarra was a quiet woman in her 60s who lived alone with cats. She was found beaten to death. The neighbors didn't see anything, but her Fitbit did.

I speak about my Wired feature on gig worker Jeffrey Fang.

What a Silicon Valley couple spends in a month, for the New York Times Magazine's Money Issue.

The tick-tock saga of the failed coronavirus quarantine watched around the world.

The cultural shift of an on-demand world: getting used to getting served.

An 8-part podcast on the family who appeared like the perfect interracial family on Facebook, but had a long trail of abuse that ended off a California cliff.

For years, a mother shielded her family's problems from scrutiny via social media until she intentionally drove them off a California cliff.

The story on an Indian techie killed in a Kansas bar by a white man who screamed "Get out of my country!"