Disrupters

Privacy pioneer In March, Meredith Whittaker, president of encrypted messaging app Signal, learned about the Trump Administration’s Signal-gate scandal from a group chat. Slack-jawed, she read the Atl

Trend-setting health tech In a stressful period in 2021, Tom Hale was having trouble sleeping. He bought an Oura Ring, the pioneering smart device that tracks stats about sleep and health, and made a

The social becomes political TikTok—Gen Z’s most popular social media platform, famed for zany dance routines and crooning pets and helmed by CEO Shou Zi Chew (above)—has long faced a possible U.S. ba

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Marketing powerhouse RYAN REYNOLDS IS TRYING TO FOCUS ON our conversation, but all he can think about is the script pulled up on his laptop for a project he has asked me not to share. “I’m obsessive,”

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