When Donald Trump was granted a coat of arms for his Scottish golf courses in 2012 (after a lengthy court battle, of course), he chose as its motto “ Numquam concedere ”: Never concede. He has not, ev

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Last month, President-elect Joe Biden said he would demonstra

The Supreme Court slammed the door on President Donald Trump’s preposterous lawsuits. State legislators ignored his pressure to countermand the voters. The Electoral College cast a majority of its vot

Nine years ago today, Steve Jobs passed away. I don’t know about you, but I still feel the void he left behind. If you’ve been following me for a while, you already know I’ve always preferred the way

We knew this to be true: Computers could run fast and hot, or slow and cool. For laptops in particular, the best you could hope for is a middle ground: fast enough and cool enough. But if you wanted a

American history is driven by periodic moments of moral convulsion. The late Harvard political scientist Samuel P. Huntington noticed that these convulsions seem to hit the United States every 60 year

Enlarge / The default wallpaper for macOS 11 Big Sur. Apple The era of Mac OS X is over. Kind of. For the first time in almost two decades , Apple has decided to bump up the version number of the Mac’

TL;DR: Firefox used to have a great extension mechanism based on the XUL and XPCOM. This mechanism served us well for a long time. However, it came at an ever-growing cost in terms of maintenance for

Here’s one all-too-plausible way that Election Night 2020 might play out. It’s just after 11 p.m., when Fox News cuts live to President Trump’s reelection party. Millions of mail-in ballots remain to

One way to understand how the Internet is different is to not only examine what business models work, but also the history of how those business models came to be. Start with text and images, long the

E ach year, 600 coders gather to talk shop at a conference in New York called PyGotham. The organizers know how male and white the tech industry is, so they make a special effort to recruit a diverse

When Fox News called Arizona for Democrat Joe Biden shortly after the polls closed there on Election Night, right-wing social media erupted in fury. Fox is the most conservative of the nation’s major

Andy Stanley’s evangelical megachurch was empty on Election Night, with only a few cars in the Disney World–style parking lot out front. North Point Community Church and its nine satellites in the Atl

Illustration: Adam Maida On October 23, eleven days before the presidential election, Manohla Dargis, one of the movie critics at the New York Times, popped in to the #newsroom-feedback channel on the

Illustrated | iStock by December 3, 2020 Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via Email If you've been following the news lately, it's hard to avoid the feeling that we're watching the slow-motion

Barack Obama was describing to me the manner in which the Mongol emperor and war-crimes innovator Genghis Khan would besiege a town. “They gave you two choices,” he said. “‘If you open the gates, we’l

By John Voorhees Big Sur is a big deal. The OS picks up where Catalina left off, further rationalizing Apple’s product lineup through design, new ways to bring apps to the Mac, and updates to existing

If you hopped inside a telephone booth and traveled back through the space-time continuum to your first encounter with Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure , you might be surprised to discover that its ea

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. This article, the first in a series on global climate migrati

Joe Biden often describes himself as a bridge between the Democratic Party’s past and future generation of leaders. But the 2020 election results signal that he may play an even more indispensable rol

Apple took the covers off of the 2nd-generation HomePod back in October. However, rather than a genuine sequel to the 2018 HomePod some were expecting, the Cupertino company actually revealed the Home

I f Joe Biden prevails, his basement will rest alongside William McKinley’s front porch in the annals. In his subterranean retreat, Biden not only sat still while his opponent spectacularly self-destr

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It’s more common than ever for teammates to communicate and collaborate across countries. More teams are allowing remote and distributed work – a designer in Paris, can collaborate with a web develope

Ever since we imagined the technological sophistication to send ourselves hurtling at escape velocity away from the Earth and toward some unknown pinprick of light in the unending vacuum of open space

Hello from Glacier National Park! I’ve been exploring this area, based out of our Airstream, testing the camera of the new iPhone 12 Pro in all kinds of conditions from bright and sunny to dark and sn

There’s an odd tension in only being able to review half of the new iPhone lineup. Though this review is focused on breaking down the iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro, we all know that the iPhone 12 mini a

If loving the iPhone 12 and 12 Pro is wrong, then I really don’t want to be right. My favorite thing about the iPhone 12 and 12 Pro is that there is no one feature that outshines any other. Apple may

If Donald Trump defies the odds and wins a second term, the next four years will likely be more disruptive to U.S. foreign policy and world affairs than the past four have been. Think of his reelectio

After five losses in a row, Republicans were desperate to regain the White House following the 1948 election, when Harry Truman surged in the polls at the eleventh hour to defeat GOP standard bearer T

The more intuitive a task is for humans, generally, the harder it is for artificial intelligence . Think of when Alexa can’t hear your commands, or when your spam filter traps an important email. A co

In Donald Trump’s interview with Laura Ingraham last week , he talked about the “shadow people” he believes lurk behind Joe Biden: INGRAHAM: Who do you think is pulling Biden’s strings? Is it former O

The Only Music Critic Who Matters (if You’re Under 25) Anthony Fantano reviews albums and songs on his YouTube channel, The Needle Drop, bringing an old art to a new medium — and perhaps ensuring it h

The thing we know for certain about bullshit is that, no matter how hard we try, it is virtually impossible to be countered, eradicated, minimized, or undone. Harry Frankfurt described this phenomenon

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It seems appropriate that the first ruling in Epic v. Apple was a split decision: Fortnite remains out of the App Store, 1 but Epic may continue to use Apple’s developer tools in order to support Unre