Social music platform Hangout, a “virtual listening community,” has opened its digital doors with access to over 100 million tracks, including from Sony Music, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and licensing partner Merlin, the company said on Wednesday. The service from Turntable Labs is…

In the 1980s, there were a series of writers who challenged the way people thought of the then-growing popularity of colour television and news media. I have written before about Neil Postman, and his fear of our world becoming a ‘trivial society’ and Marshall McLuhan, who warned us that ‘the medium…

Walking your dog is good—both for you and your dog. Walking your dog positively impacts physical and mental health by helping keep off extra weight, lower blood pressure, and provide a healthy dose of fresh air. But are you walking your dog enough? Determining how often to walk a dog depends on…

May 19th, 2025 by the VS Code team We believe that the future of code editors should be open and powered by AI. For the last decade, VS Code has been one of the most successful OSS projects on GitHub. We are grateful for our vibrant community of contributors and users who choose VS Code because it…

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My iMac G3, running Warp. The world’s first screen saver was not like a dream at all. It was a blank screen. It was called SCRNSAVE, and when it was released in 1983 it was very exciting to a niche audience. It was like John Cage’s 4’33″ but for computers—a score for meted-out doses of silence.…

TLDR; Though it feels like a fool’s errand, founders should hypothesize and model their first two rounds of milestones when raising initial capital. Despite what we may want to believe, if one were to re-simulate a company's path and lifecycle from year 0 to year 4, that path 6-8 out of 10 times…

La Segunda is a family business rich in heart. Four generations, the bakery and cafe has been lovingly passed down. From humble beginnings in Ybor City, La Segunda has grown into four locations and one of the leading producers of Cuban bread in the United States. Over the past century, La Segunda…

The interface I want and the performance I'll have to wait for... Table of contents Codex: How it works Codex is currently a chat-first experience. You gain access by being invited or by paying for the Pro ($200/per month) subscription. Once you've got access, you start by enabling multi-factor…

Before we dive into the topic, let me introduce you my new friend catsay, a simple Go program which eats stdin and speaks like a cat: Cute! ... but it's not what I want to talk about. What makes this screenshot very exciting is, it's a Linux lightweight virtual machine running on Starina operating…

On a wintry day in Bordeaux, France, I took refuge from the rain inside a cosy bookshop stacked to the ceiling with books. Place Gambetta, Bordeaux’s iconic square framed with majestic 18th-century limestone façades, was under construction. ‘It’s always like this,’ the owner told me with a…

“Man* is by Nature a migratory animal,” the elderly Frederick Douglass reflected in an 1887 speech about his global travels. “It does not appear that he was intended to dwell forever in any one locality. He is a born traveler.” A generation after him, Maya Angelou observed that “you only are free…

It is a slow, myocardial rhythm. Like a heartbeat or the glowing pulse of a traffic light at midnight, it’s a hypnotic beat that’s all too familiar. From Microsoft Word to Google Docs, the blinking cursor is a companion that compels us throughout text documents and text messages and naughty Google…

Copilot Code Review now supports all programming languages in public preview. This has been one of the most common requests from users. Previously limited to select languages, Copilot now provides AI-powered feedback on any programming language used in a pull request. This helps teams streamline…

Canon has won what is being dubbed the “highest honor” at the 2025 Red Dot Design Award with the Canon EOS R1. Beyond the technology and performance of the camera, the new cross pattern grip on the camera received a special mention. As with all Canon 1-series cameras, the ergonomics are second to…

Today we are announcing an alpha version of Pyrefly, an open source Python type checker and IDE extension crafted in Rust. Pyrefly is a static typechecker that analyzes Python code to ensure type consistency and help you catch errors throughout your codebase before your code runs. It also supports…

Typically today’s tech unicorns would employ thousands of staff across sprawling corporate campuses in order to power a global comms juggernaut, however one messaging platform stands in stark contrast. Telegram, the encrypted messaging service founded by the Durov brothers, has achieved what many…

I recently saw a tweet[1] about how people should go about starting startups/businesses, and it caused me to formalize my intuitions around two distinct types of tech businesses I am familiar with. I’ll call them $O(n)$ startups and $O(n^{2})$ startups. Throughout this essay, let n represent the…

The US has signed two landmark agreements with the United Arab Emirates and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) that that will noticeably shift the balance of power. The deals have economic, geopolitical, and national security implications and taken together we believe these bilateral deals reinforce…

Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers 25 minutes ago Thomas Germain@thomasgermain Grant Hindsley/ BBC (Credit: Grant Hindsley/ BBC) CTRL+ALT+DEL, but make it forever. As technology marches on, some people get trapped using decades-old software and…

Backlog getting you down? Drowning in technical debt? Delegate issues to Copilot so you can focus on the creative, complex, and high-impact work that matters most. Copilot coding agent makes this possible. Simply assign an issue (or multiple issues) to Copilot just as you would another developer.…

In 1862, Japanese travelers arrived in Europe for the first time in 240 years. Their nation, isolated from the rest of the world for so long, was reluctantly opening to the outside world. Imagine being a member of this group — 40 men, many of them samurai, venturing out into a world full of…

The European Investment Bank (EIB) will invest €70 billion into Europe's technology sector by 2027, aiming to close the innovation gap with the United States. This initiative seeks to strengthen Europe's position in emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and military drones and to draw…

Threads Bluesky Mail to Print page Submit a letter: Email us letters@nybooks.com Reviewed: The Annotated Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, edited by James L.W. West III, with an introduction by Amor Towles Library of America, 238 pp., $35.00 Reviewing The Notebooks of F. Scott Fitzgerald in these…

Republicans in Congress, taking their marching orders from Donald Trump, are on track to enact a hugely regressive budget — big tax giveaways to the wealthy combined with cruel cuts in programs that serve lower-income Americans. True, the legislation suffered a setback last week, initially failing…

(CNN screengrab) A note from Aaron: Today’s newsletter was all edited and ready for publication yesterday afternoon when the sad news broke that Joe Biden has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer. As someone who has a great deal of admiration for Biden’s accomplishments, values,…

as i waited to meet with Jay Graber, the CEO of Bluesky, on the 25th floor of an office building in downtown Seattle, I stared out at the city’s waterfront and thought: God fucking damn it. Stretching in every direction was a wall of dense, gray, tragically boring fog. And here I was about to…

The Trump administration conceded this weekend what economists, CEOs and consumers already knew: Americans pay for tariffs. Why it matters: Nearly a decade of Trump trade arguments held that foreign countries, not Americans, paid the ultimate cost of a trade war. But the president and his economic…

Western Societies Are Growing More Equal, Not Less Daniel Waldenstrom May 19, 2025 Shoppers in New York City, December 2022 Eduardo Munoz / Reuters DANIEL WALDENSTROM is Professor of Economics at IFN Stockholm and the author of Richer and More Equal: A New History of Wealth in the West. Subscribe to…

Today we’re very excited to announce the open-source release of the Windows Subsystem for Linux. This is the result of a multiyear effort to prepare for this, and a great closure to the first ever issue raised on the Microsoft/WSL repo: Will this be Open Source? · Issue #1 · microsoft/WSL. That…

Canon EOS R5 Mark II review Key specs Type: Mirrorless Sensor: 45MP full-frame back-illuminated stacked CMOS sensor Lens mount: RF/RF-S ISO range: 100-51200 Viewfinder resolution: 5.76m dot OLED Video capability: 8K up to 60 FPS, 4K up to 120 FPS,2K up to 240 FPS, FHD up to 240 FPS Weight: 1.64 lbs…

In the spring of 1991, when I was a junior at Princeton, I took John McPhee’s seminar on nonfiction writing. Back then, I was an English major who hoped to become a novelist, and I focused primarily on writing short stories. I had no real interest in nonfiction. I hadn’t published a single word in…