Perhaps the worst UI crime in MacOS 26 Tahoe was the inexplicable decision to add inscrutable, distracting icons next to every item in the menu bar. You will recall Jim Nielsen writing about it, rightly describing it as exactly the sort of thing that Mac users look down upon in platforms like Google…

Wind turbines in the San Gorgonio Pass near Palm Springs, seen in 2023. (Photo by Spiglanin) Confession time: Until last month, I hadn’t read “Abundance.” The 2025 book by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson has divided progressives with its provocative argument that environmental regulations are stifling…

Newsletter Jamelle Bouie May 9, 2026 Credit...Nadiya Nacorda for The New York Times See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra más de nuestra cobertura en los resultados de búsqueda. Add The New York Times on GoogleAgrega The New York Times en Google Last month Virginians voted to…

[Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt while being booed] Jonah Peretti is very lucky. Buzzfeed—the viral media company he founded 20 years ago and was once valued at $1.6 billion—was running out of cash when billionaire Byron Allen agreed to buy 52% of its shares. At the same time this new partnership was…

Trump ran on a platform of lowering costs, securing the border, and cracking down on immigration. But after a year and a half, it’s clear that’s not really why Trump ran for a return to the White House. We know he doesn’t give two shits about lowering costs. He says “affordability” is bullshit and…

neuroscience A New Type of Neuroplasticity Rewires the Brain After a Single Experience April 24, 2026 “Neurons that fire together, wire together” is not the full story. A novel mechanism explains how the brain can learn across longer timescales. Read Later The brain stays incredibly plastic…

Programming note: Yesterday, I published an exclusive story about Los Angeles firing its chief heat officer — the latest confounding move by Mayor Karen Bass. Today, I’m publishing an interview with Nithya Raman, one of the candidates to replace Bass. My story includes an exclusive first look at…

Guest Essay May 8, 2026 Credit...Alex Gamsu Jenkins Listen · 8:07 min Leer en español See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra más de nuestra cobertura en los resultados de búsqueda. Add The New York Times on GoogleAgrega The New York Times en Google There is a moment when internet…

Multitasking! Aliases! File sharing! System 7 had it all. A lot of Mac users don’t remember a time before Mac OS X (or macOS, or OS X, depending on the era), but before OS X arrived on the scene, the Mac ran on an entirely different operating system, the classic Mac OS, which was with us from the…

CUPERTINO, Calif. (April 30, 2026) — Tim who? That’s the prevailing attitude around Apple Park in the wake of last week’s blockbuster announcement that Apple CEO Tim Cook would be stepping down after fifteen years. His replacement is John Ternus, senior vice president of hardware engineering and…

Sledge Taylor, 73, walks his corn fields just outside Como, Miss. on Friday, April 17, 2026. The corn stalks are currently between vegetative stages known as V3 and V5, normally when Taylor would be applying nitrogen fertilizer. But he said he may not do it this year because of the cost of…

Tim Cook didn’t get to be a part of a “thoughtful, long-term succession plan” in 2011. After stepping in for Steve Jobs multiple times during the Apple co-founder’s fight with cancer, Cook became CEO, and Jobs became executive chairman just 43 days before Jobs died. Apple didn’t dictate the…

The New York Times PR account, on Twitter/X a week ago: Sunday’s crossword puzzle in the print edition of The New York Times Magazine contains a grid that does not match the clues. The correct version of the puzzle can be found in the news section of Sunday’s print edition of The Times. The puzzle…

Today on Decoder, I want to lay out an idea that’s been banging around my head for weeks now as we’ve been reporting on AI and having conversations here on this show. I’ve been calling it software brain, and it’s a particular way of seeing the world that fits everything into algorithms, databases…

As I wrote in “Living with Digital Key 2 on the Hyundai IONIQ 5” (6 April 2026), I recently took my first long trip in an electric car. While I’m still far from an expert, I learned a lot and am looking forward to our next trip in June. For this trip, I drove from Ithaca down to Arlington, VA, near…

On the final day of the Cretaceous period, some 66 million years ago, Earth was teeming with a dazzling variety of dinosaurs. In North America, the superpredator Tyrannosaurus rex stalked its favorite prey, the three-horned Triceratops. In Asia, agile raptors eyed herds of duck-billed and armored…

Every day the human body replaces billions of cells, flushing out the old and generating the new, healthy ones. The average lifespan of a red blood cell is just under four months, while skin cells last about a month and those in the intestinal lining exist for just a few days. This turnover is the…

Ezra Klein April 12, 2026 Credit...Julia Demaree Nikhinson/Associated Press Listen · 12:55 min See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra más de nuestra cobertura en los resultados de búsqueda. Add The New York Times on GoogleAgrega The New York Times en Google After the 2024…

Current in action, reading one of my newsletters. Every morning, I start my day with breakfast, a cup of tea, and my iPad. This is the latest version of a ritual that began years ago with an actual newspaper that an actual human being left in my driveway. For the last five years, it’s all been…

It's Tuesday morning. Your VP of Engineering is standing in front of a slide deck, vibrating with the kind of excitement usually reserved for people who just discovered cryptocurrency in 2017. They've just come back from a conference. Or maybe a vendor dinner. Three glasses of pinot noir and a demo,…

Like millions of people around the world, I have a mixed marriage: I’ve long used Macs, but my wife Kat’s personal computer is a Windows PC. That categorization isn’t entirely fair, though—because Kat also uses an iPhone and wears an Apple Watch every single day. We have an Apple TV in the living…

The job market for young people is brutal. Is AI to blame? ChatGPT was released in late 2022. Since then, the unemployment rate for recent college graduates has shot up to near 6 percent, its highest level in more than a decade, setting aside the 2020 pandemic spike. That’s true even though the…

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Jack Nooney has pretty much made peace with the traffic since moving to Los Angeles five years ago, but recent soaring gas prices have certainly added another layer of insult to his daily commute. The musician and full-time grocery deli employee drives from his San Fernando Valley apartment to Santa…

As Apple hits its half-century milestone, it seems like we’re all of us waxing a bit rhapsodic about the company, its products, and their effects on our lives. So who am I to skip out on a trip down memory lane?1 Portrait of the author as a young man. Weirdly, I was born almost perfectly in between…

Businessweek | The Big Take Apple’s ‘Nice Guy’ Heir Apparent Tim Cook doesn’t want to talk about retirement yet, but John Ternus is emerging as his most likely successor. March 22, 2026 at 5:00 PM EDT During an all-hands meeting at Apple in January, an employee asked about a spate of executive…

Yes, here in our universe, Apple is celebrating its 50th anniversary. A milestone! The company is looking back on its success, its technology prowess, and the way it’s made us all willing to just say “AirPods” like that’s a set of words that makes any kind of sense. But our universe is only one of…

Generations of Indian workers and businesses have turned the Arab side of the Gulf into a vital appendage of their own country. Listen · 6:09 min Migrant workers taking a break in Dubai this month. March 22, 2026Updated 12:42 a.m. ET Only a few weeks ago, the stars seemed to be aligning for India’s…

Discarded dirty dishes are providing new hints about the cuisines of Stone Age hunter-gatherers in northern and eastern Europe. A new analysis of pottery shards from the region reveals that people living from 6,000 to 3,000 B.C. were choosy about which plants—berries, grasses or legumes—that they…

By the 1980s, Detroit’s once titanic carmakers were being upended by rivals from Japan. Ford, General Motors and Chrysler had grown rich selling gas guzzlers, but when oil prices rose and suddenly cheap, fuel-efficient Japanese models looked attractive, they were unprepared. The collapse in sales…

Shubham Bose, “The 49MB Web Page”: I went to the New York Times to glimpse at four headlines and was greeted with 422 network requests and 49 megabytes of data. It took two minutes before the page settled. And then you wonder why every sane tech person has an adblocker installed on systems of all…

What a funny coincidence that celebrations of Apple’s 50th anniversary would hit the same month that the company introduced the MacBook Neo, a $599 laptop that has the potential to take the Mac to new heights. The facts that Apple was founded in 1976 and the MacBook Neo exists in 2026 shouldn’t have…

Real-time arrivals Upgrade to a paid subscription to get Torched's newest stickers! Log in Subscribe Sign up Sign in Home About Home About Welcome Latest news Transit-first games We've got to improve the way we deliver transit information before millions more people get here Alissa Walker Mar 19,…

If active distraction of readers of your own website was an Olympic Sport, news publications would top the charts every time. I went to the New York Times to glimpse at four headlines and was greeted with 422 network requests and 49 megabytes of data. It took two minutes before the page settled. And…

Somewhere in Mumbai right now, a two-person crew is bolting solar panels to a concrete rooftop while the homeowner watches from the shade with a cup of tea. Tomorrow the team will do it again, three houses down. Then again, the day after. This is what India’s booming electric economy looks like up…

There is a certain kind of computer review that is really a permission slip. It tells you what you’re allowed to want. It locates you in a taxonomy — student, creative, professional, power user — and assigns you a product. It is helpful. It is responsible. It has very little interest in what you…

India relies on huge quantities of cooking gas that is normally shipped from the Persian Gulf. Listen · 5:40 min Indian Kitchens Face Fuel Shortage From War in Middle East The fuel that powers Indian kitchens has been harder to get since the start of the war, which effectively shut a critical…

The M5 MacBook Air gets in on the fruit fun. With the M5 generation, the MacBook Air finds itself in an unfamiliar, though not unprecedented, position: that of the middle sibling. Previously Apple’s most affordable laptop, the Air has been undercut in that department by the new MacBook Neo, social…