Joanna Stern doesn't just review technology – she lives it, tests it and occasionally escapes to a cabin in the woods with only her AI chatbot friends to help us understand it.

As The Wall Street Journal's senior personal technology columnist and creator of the "Tech Things" YouTube video series and newsletter, she's spent nearly two decades demystifying our digital world with a signature blend of humor and insight that's earned her recognition as one of tech journalism's most compelling—and entertaining—voices.

Whether she's documenting her quest for digital immortality through artificial intelligence (which won her an Emmy), dropping phones from drones to test...