Cleo Abram

Big professional news: After 5 years at Vox, I’m going independent!

I’m launching my own show on YouTube + TikTok. Journalistically rigorous, genuinely optimistic explainers about tech that could change our future.

Introducing… Huge If True 🧵 youtu.be/54IteWmegk0

This huge machine can detect dark matter...

These four people just spent over a year in total isolation in a Mars simulation…

When I first heard about brain chips, I thought, "they're going to read my thoughts!"

But that's not how this tech actually works, at least not yet. What they're actually doing is reading your intention to move.

They say it feels like using The Force...

Here's how a brain computer interface today works:

Your map shows Antarctica wrong.