Lauren Smiley

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.

How porch camera culture intersects chaotically with social media, class, and race - and escalated a feud between a package thief and tech-boom San Franciscans.

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.

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.

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!"

An overseas workers conversing with US seniors - via a puppy avatar.

Farmers are adapting to climate change with new technology. I spoke about my reporting on NPR's Marketplace.

My report on the near minimum wage workers in an Instagram factory.

A Silicon Valley idealist sets out to automate the fast food business he grew up in.

In a Silicon Valley Hooverville next to the Stanford campus - people live in a line of Jaycos and Winnebagos.