Lauren Smiley

Parents and school officials were stumped. The culprit was under their noses all along.

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.

A Boeing senior manager blew the whistle about the Max factory, long before there was any crash. That was just the beginning of his years-long obsessive quest.

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.