Written By: Ami John 03/02/2025 Anime’s presence is undeniable. From Tokyo to New York to London, the genre has swept across the globe, especially in the wake of the pandemic. Comic Cons around the world are seeing bigger crowds each year, a clear sign of anime’s rising popularity and cultural…

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present and surface delightful treasures. Sign up here. In 1933, the author Isadore Luce Smith made a bold declaration in The Atlantic: “A new type of parent has evolved.” These parents, Smith…

Back when the EOS R7 was announced in 2022, there were immediate rumors about a Canon EOS R7 C. We’re confident that such a camera was on the roadmap but was cancelled before it ever came to market. Products do get cancelled. We expect to see a Canon EOS R7 Mark II in the second half of 2025. No…

If you’re anything like me, it’s aperture priority, manual mode or the highway. And to that end, I’ve completely ignored Canon's Fv mode, which debuted on the manufacturer’s first full-frame mirrorless camera, the Canon EOS R. But despite being the first creative zone shooting mode in over four…

Remember when we OWNED things? I’m not talking about houses and cars being affordable, I’m talking about a time before the tyranny of subscription fees. You didn’t pay monthly fees for the right to see a movie – you owned a disc with the movie on it and it belonged to you for your entire life. Your…

Careers December 26, 2019 Caspar Benson/Getty Images Summary. Many people with high-pressure jobs find themselves unhappy with their careers, despite working hard their whole lives to get to their current position. Hating your job is one thing – but what happens if you identify so closely with your…

Search Books The X-Man How Elon Musk became a superhero and then a supervillain. September 11, 2023 Day by day, Musk’s companies control more of the Internet, the power grid, the transportation system, objects in orbit, the nation’s security infrastructure, and its energy supply.Photograph by Mark…

As we may think Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction WikiTok cures boredom in spare moments with wholesome swipe-up Wikipedia article discovery. Benj Edwards – Feb 7, 2025 4:10 pm | 14 Credit: Amr Bo Shanab / rudall30 / Benj Edwards Credit: Amr Bo Shanab / rudall30 /…

Composition X, Kandinsky Recently, I’ve come to the realization that much of what we do in modern software development is not true software engineering. We spend the majority of our days trying to configure OpenSprocket 2.3.1 to work with NeoGidgetPro5, both of which were developed by two different…

Ben Stiller took his entire production crew hours out of the way to return to a small, Hudson Valley diner. He says the trip was "totally worth it". Don't feel bad if you haven't been to Ben Stiller's favorite Hudson Valley diner. If you're not a local, it's likely you haven't even heard about it,…

Share Published Feb. 08, 2025 • 8:30am Around 300 people gathered in the pews of the Internet Archive auditorium Friday in San Francisco to witness Pablo Peniche, head of growth for the startup Aqua Voice, unveil a marble bust of Aaron Swartz, the legendary programmer, activist, and open-access…

Last night I noted news which has spread like wildfire through the American scientific and medical research communities. The NIH released a seemingly down-in-the-weeds new directive which has the effect of drastically reducing the federal funds that go to institutions doing basic medical research.…

The Dream A fine suit made just for me. From the best fabrics. By the best tailor. Paired with the best bespoke shoes. A suit that would make me feel at ease, while declaring to others, “Here is a man who feels at ease.” A suit that would be appreciated by the world’s most heartless maître d’. A…

In the Trenches: What it Means to be an Engineering Manager This post is a collection of personal reflections from my time working as an EM and similar roles. It’s not meant to be a comprehensive guide but rather a snapshot of the lessons I’ve learned and the challenges I’ve faced. For those looking…

At the end of his internship at Nvidia in 2023, Zizheng Pan, a young artificial-intelligence researcher from China, faced a pivotal decision: stay in Silicon Valley with the world’s leading chip designers or return home to join DeepSeek, then a little-known startup in eastern China. Pan chose…

Often, parents tell me the world is more dangerous than it used to be. Others tell me we’re restricting our children too much and don’t let them run free. I guess I’m the worst of both worlds in that I think we should give our children more independence, but am too terrified to do so. I sometimes…

The systems administrator in the cube a few feet away from me is fidgeting more than usual. Finally he has to share his excitement. Right now, right this second, he's compiling the Linux 2.4 kernel. He grabbed the source code off the Net, and now he's building it, the first step in constructing a…

In this article AMZN Amazon CEO Andy Jassy speaks during a keynote address at AWS re:Invent 2024, a conference hosted by Amazon Web Services, at The Venetian Las Vegas on December 3, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Noah Berger | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images Amazon said Thursday it plans to…

All known human languages display a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in a language is twice as frequent as the second most frequent, three times as frequent as the third, and so on. This is known as Zipf’s law. Researchers have hunted for evidence of this pattern in communication among…

Everyone has heard of Franz Kafka, the writer of such masterpieces such as Metamorphosis and The Trial. His troubled relationship with his father, his love life and his eventual early death from tuberculosis are all well documented. What is less well known is his work for Die…

Image Credits:Google DeepMind AI DeepMind claims its AI performs better than International Mathematical Olympiad gold medalists Kyle Wiggers 10:56 AM PST · February 7, 2025 An AI system developed by Google DeepMind, Google’s leading AI research lab, appears to have surpassed the average gold…

It feels like no one should have to say this, and yet we are in a situation where it needs to be said, very loudly and clearly, before it’s too late to do anything about it: The United States is not a startup. If you run it like one, it will break. The onslaught of news about Elon Musk’s takeover of…

If you have tips about the remaking of the federal government, you can contact Charlie and Ian on Signal at @cwarzel.92 and @ibogost.47. Elon Musk’s unceasing attempts to access the data and information systems of the federal government range so widely, and are so unprecedented and unpredictable,…

Charles Chen - 2025-02-07 AI's increasing competency at complex tasks like coding creates a boon for teams that want to harness AI to boost productivity. However, many teams haven't stopped to rethink their technical candidate screening and qualification process to account for these rapid changes.…

There is so much debate online about the usefulness of LLMs. While some people see giant leaps in productivity, others don’t see what the fuss is about. Every relevant HackerNews post now comes with a long thread of folks arguing back and forth. I call it the new Great Divide. I have a theory about…

This is an edited transcript of an episode of “The Ezra Klein Show.” Last week I spoke with Yuval Levin. Levin is the director of social, cultural and constitutional studies at the American Enterprise Institute and the author of the book “American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation —…

DeepSeek has recently released DeepSeek v3, which is currently state-of-the-art in benchmark performance among open-weight models, alongside a technical report describing in some detail the training of the model. Impressively, they’ve achieved this SOTA performance by only using 2.8 million H800…

risc-v business Framework Laptop’s RISC-V board for open source diehards is available for $199 With soldered RAM and eMMC storage, this is not "a consumer-ready experience." Andrew Cunningham – Feb 4, 2025 3:31 pm | 4 Framework and DeepComputing have collaborated to create a RISC-V motherboard that…

Last updated on November 3rd, 2022 at 09:11 pm The Gilded Age is a period of time defined by quick economic growth, materialism, living in excess, and obvious political corruption in America. It lasted from around the 1870s until the early 1900s and was a time of great wealth disparity between the…