The two most important things about the MacBook Neo are these: It has a base price of $599 ($499 for education buyers), and it’s a full-fledged Mac. The price is staggering. The lowest list price for a new Mac, ever, was $499 for the original Mac mini, which famously required you to bring your own…

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…

These days, Apple is approaching its Mac releases a little bit like how a car company approaches its model years: Every once in a while, it does a complete redesign, and there’s a whole new generation of devices. In the intervening years, the devices don’t change much, other than some of the…

The affordable MacBook Neo was designed without reducing the quality of materials or processes says Apple's vice president of industrial design Molly Anderson in this exclusive interview. As the head of the Apple's industrial design team answering directly to CEO Tim Cook, Anderson oversaw the…

In late 2008, Steve Jobs hopped on the company’s quarterly phone call with analysts and, besieged by questions about Apple being threatened by low-cost PC laptops called “netbooks,” he explained how Apple approached its product decision. “We don’t know how to make a $500 computer that’s not a piece…

Apple’s history with education is a long and twisty one. Like many folks my age, my earliest school experience with computers were an Apple IIs, carted in to a classroom, on which you could wait your turn to play Number Crunchers. Later on, it was labs full of newer models where we cleverly wrote…

$599. Not a piece of junk. That’s not a marketing slogan from Apple for the new MacBook Neo. But it could be. And it is the underlying message of the product. For a few years now, Apple has quietly dabbled with the sub-$1,000 laptop market, by selling the base configuration of the M1 MacBook Air — a…

One of the most surprising part’s of Apple’s announcement on Tuesday of new M5 Pro and M5 Max MacBook Pro models was its decision to change how it describes the two different types of CPU cores in its processors. What’s in a name? It’s really a marketing decision, more than anything else. And most…

TL;DR: Apple is adding support for video podcasts to their podcast app Podcasts are built on an open standard, which is why they aren’t controlled by a bad algorithm and don’t have ads that spy on you Apple’s new system for video podcasts breaks with the old podcast standard, and forces creators to…

Listen to this story here Audio Timeline Slider: Use the left or right arrow keys to decrease or increase the slider value. Volume Slider: Use the left or right arrow keys to decrease or increase the slider value. 0:00/ 0:00 Lazing outside her home in the Montréal suburb of Carignan on a breezy day…

A loud cheer and sounds of clapping reverberated around Bansilalpet, a neighbourhood in Hyderabad, when the first trickle of clean water dribbled out of the ground. After an 18-month effort to clear out 3,000 tonnes of rubbish and restore the stone walls and adjacent area, the 17th-century…

It’s time for our annual look back on Apple’s performance during the past year, as seen through the eyes of writers, editors, developers, podcasters, and other people who spend an awful lot of time thinking about Apple. The whole idea here is to get a broad sense of sentiment—the “vibe in the…

Over the past week, I’ve watched left wing commentators on Bluesky, the niche short form blogging site that serves as an asylum for the millennials driven insane by unfettered internet access, discuss the idea that “the left hates technology.” This conversation has centered around a few high profile…

There’s a common thread that connects Google services such as Google Search, Street View, Google Photos and Google Translate: they all use Google’s Tensor Processing Unit, or TPU, to accelerate their neural network computations behind the scenes. Google’s first Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) on a…

It’s hard to remember now that people used to be skeptical about electric bikes. Cyclists didn’t want unlicensed motor vehicles in bike lanes; people who didn’t bike found them to be dangerous. Even as more people adopt them to deal with carbon emissions or traffic, ebikes still have many issues.…

Earlier this month, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported that Apple had scaled back its plans to launch a new Health+ service and was revisiting its entire health and fitness strategy. While this could be seen as being another sign of trouble at Apple, as the company is currently mired in an ongoing…

Boris Cherny gets recognized in public relatively often. At the bar, at the airport, and in generally any public space, people want to take selfies with the creator and head of Claude Code. For the last couple of months, Anthropic’s Claude and its coding platform have been having a moment — on…

Newsletter David Wallace-Wells Feb. 11, 2026 Credit...Illustration by Ibrahim Rayintakath By Opinion Writer You’re reading the David Wallace-Wells newsletter. The best-selling science writer and essayist explores climate change, technology, the future of the planet and how we live on it. The San…

My earliest political memory is watching the Berlin Wall fall. I was six years old. We watched together on the nightly news—strangers embracing, people swinging hammers at concrete, everyone laughing. I didn’t know what the wall was or why it mattered. I remember how happy everyone looked. I…

Dancing linemen who dangled from power poles during the Super Bowl halftime show by Puerto Rican singer Bad Bunny were a pointed reference to the island’s power grid, which has been hit hard by a series of hurricanes and, experts agree, is in dire need of modernization. In the past year, however,…

Newsletter Jamelle Bouie Feb. 7, 2026, 11:25 a.m. ET By Opinion Columnist You’re reading the Jamelle Bouie newsletter. Historical context for present-day events. What motivates President Trump? Not what motivates Trumpism, whatever that is. Not what motivates his MAGA supporters. Not what motivates…

When Matt Hillier was in his 20s, he went camping with a friend who was a nurse. In the morning she told him she had been shocked by the snoring coming from his tent. “She basically said, ‘For a 25-year-old non-smoker who’s quite skinny, you snore pretty loudly,’” says Hiller, now 32. The Guardian’s…

Bill Gates wants you to know he really cares about climate change. Last month the philanthropic foundation he runs with his wife Melinda added climate and gender equality to its top priorities. “Climate change is one of the most difficult challenges the world has ever taken on,” Gates explained at…

The icons are new, as are the marketing phrases stuffed into the app names. I gave some first impressions on Apple’s new Creator Studio bundle earlier this week, but one thing you don’t get to see when things are under embargo is how it all rolls out to the general public, which it did on Wednesday.…

Marcus Edsall-Parr, a teenage kidney patient in Michigan, has been getting dialysis treatments for years. Alyssa Schukar for The New York Times The sickest patients are supposed to get priority for lifesaving transplants. But more and more, they are being skipped over. Feb. 26, 2025 Leer en español…

Patrick McGee (author of last year’s bestseller, Apple in China, and guest on The Talk Show in May), commenting on Twitter/X re: Tim Cook’s company-wide memo regarding the “events in Minneapolis”: This literally says nothing, via intention and cowardice. It’s the kind of language Orwell attributed…

Jamelle Bouie Jan. 28, 2026 Credit...Julia Demaree Nikhinson/Associated Press Listen to this article · 6:47 min Learn more By Opinion Columnist It was clear after the killing of Renee Good on Jan. 7 that “Operation Metro Surge” — the Trump administration’s pretextual immigration crackdown in…

I’m an old Mac-head at heart, and I’ve been using Macs since the mid 1990s (the first Mac I used was an LC II with System 7.1 installed on it). I don’t tend to genuinely think that the computing experience was better in the olden days — sure, there’s a thing to be said about the simplicity of older…

Guest Essay Aug. 6, 2025 Credit...Photo illustration by The New York Times. Source photograph by Sara Krulwich/The New York Times Listen to this article · 7:18 min Learn more By Dr. Pollack-Pelzner is the author of the forthcoming “Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist.” Ten years ago…

This article was updated on January 29, 2026, at 7:15pm ET. The six-car ICE convoy came to a stop and instantly dozens of people swarmed it, cellphones in hand, while others ran out of nearby houses—I saw a woman in gym shorts in the 20-degree weather—and began surrounding the masked and heavily…

The mission demanded the utmost secrecy. A team of American climbers, handpicked by the C.I.A. for their mountaineering skills — and their willingness to keep their mouths shut — were fighting their way up one of the highest mountains in the Himalayas. Step by step, they trudged up the razor-toothed…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain When California neighborhoods increased their number of zero-emissions vehicles (ZEV) between 2019 and 2023, they also experienced a reduction in air pollution. For every 200 vehicles added, nitrogen dioxide (NO₂) levels dropped 1.1%. The results, obtained from a…

There’s a particular kind of sci-fi nerd who equates fusion tech with utopia. If we could only harness the engine of the stars, it would uncork near limitless energy and neatly sweep away a whole mess of humanity’s problems. But how would that work exactly? What would the transition look like? You…

“And yet with the dreaded danger upon us, I could hardly believe the evidence of my own eyes.” Before the Lusitania departed New York City, bound for Liverpool, on May 1, 1915, the German embassy posted notices in the city’s papers warning travelers not to cross the Atlantic aboard vessels flying…

Stacey Abrams, the former Georgia gubernatorial candidate, will announce on Thursday that the campaign she launched last year to fight authoritarianism in the US has attracted dozens of new partners, representing millions of voters, to form a coalition. Abrams, a Yale-trained lawyer and former…

A federal judge in Minnesota ruled last Saturday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents violated the Fourth Amendment after they forcibly entered a Minnesota man’s home without a judicial warrant. The conduct of the agents closely mirrors a previously undisclosed ICE directive that…

If you don’t like what’s been happening in America over the last year, but haven’t spoken up for whatever reason, I would say that now is a good time to reconsider. I’ve heard people with a lot of reach and influence say that the best way to handle Trump’s second term is to just wait him out. I’ve…