Mark Harris is a freelance science and technology writer based in Seattle
August 2015
Documents confirm Apple is building self-driving car
Exclusive: Correspondence obtained by the Guardian shows Project Titan is further along than many suspected and company is scouting for test locations
Google is testing drones in US airspace by piggybacking on Nasa exemption
Documents show the tech company has skirted regulations for private firms for a year by flying its Project Wing aircraft over private land as part of a deal with Nasa
How Google quietly revved up its very own car company
Documents obtained by the Guardian reveal the tech giant created Google Auto LLC to help develop its self-driving cars even as it courted big car makers
June 2015
Google's self-driving cars are accident-prone – but it may not be their fault
Nasa and Verizon plan to monitor US drone network from phone towers
December 2014
Amazon's Mechanical Turk workers protest: 'I am a human being, not an algorithm'
A Christmas email campaign is asking Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos to improve terms for workers providing cheap digital labour
August 2014
Google lobbies to test self-driving cars in Matrix-style virtual world
Tech giant seeks to modify California regulatory requirement that autonomous vehicles must be certified on real-world roads
July 2014
FBI warns driverless cars could be used as 'lethal weapons'
Internal report sees benefits for road safety, but warns that autonomy will create greater potential for criminal ‘multitasking’. By Mark Harris
