Christopher Mims

Virtual-reality headset makers say 2016 will be the year of VR. Content-creators, however, tell a different story. VR isn’t ready for prime time.

Columnist Christopher Mims writes that questions about a Facebook bias should focus on the service’s news feed rather than its trending topics.

Estonia offers an example of the kind of innovation possible around government services, writes Keywords columnist Christopher Mims.

Startup investment is cooling. Valuations are falling. But many investors and entrepreneurs haven’t yet grasped the reality that there is a correction in the offing, writes Christopher Mims.

The number of new packaged goods introduced each year has soared as a result of productivity gains and advances in manufacturing and supply-chain management. More recently another factor is propelling the trend: Facebook.

There’s no one-size-fits-all platform for wearable devices because they are being used to address different desires.The idea that we should have or even want one wearable for everything could well be wrong.

For members of Generation Z, now in their teens or early 20s, a new rite of passage has taken on outsized importance: sending your first email.

In the battle between privacy and security, you might think a breach of the iPhone would be a bad thing for the user—but experts say this is exactly how the system should work, writes Christopher Mims.

Apple fired a broadside at what remains of the PC industry last week, when its marketing chief claimed the company’s new iPad Pro is aimed at anyone still using an old PC. Still, it isn’t clear Apple’s iPad Pro can deliver on that goal—at least not yet.

Columnist Christopher Mims writes that startups, and Google, are racing to solve Wi-Fi’s “home-spectrum crunch.”

Columnist Christopher Mims writes that augmented reality, or AR, is the most exciting technology you’re ever likely to encounter, and it could transform how we interact with computers in the 21st century.

Columnist Christopher Mims writes that CircleUp’s Classifier software exemplifies a finance trend in which algorithms play a growing role in markets for areas including startups and real estate.

The legions of cheap 3-D printers on the market now are mere toys compared with what is coming, writes Christopher Mims.

The technical details are irrelevant in the fight between Apple and the FBI. The real issue is that, if a judge agrees, Apple could be forced to make the data on any iPhone available to any law-enforcement agency demanding it.

Columnist Christopher Mims writes that apps are no longer the ideal user-interface model for the mobile revolution but adds that other options aren’t far off.

Apple CEO Tim Cook is playing a dangerous game of brinkmanship with the U.S. government. In the process, he may set in motion political and judicial processes that will endanger the security of all our mobile devices, Christopher Mims writes.

Facebook’s strategy to get people in the developing world onto the social-media site is no longer suited to its organization’s goals, writes Christopher Mims.

Columnist Christopher Mims says that perhaps one way to make online dating less fraught is to treat it with clinical detachment. With Valentine’s Day near, it’s time to bring on the economists.

The current version of Soylent, the meal replacement of choice for techies and early adopters, is much evolved from its nearly unpalatable first version.

Twenty years after the book “The Innovator’s Dilemma” came out, companies still fall prey to nimble competitors. One venture capitalist thinks he knows why so many businesses often fail to build the next big thing.