How Russia Recruited Elite Hackers for Its Cyberwar An internet security firm in Moscow. While much about Russia’s cyberwarfare program is shrouded in secrecy, details of the government’s effort to re
Drivers at a rest area between Zhengzhou and Shanghai. Unmarked trucks carry loads of iPhones destined for other parts of China. Credit... Gilles Sabrié for The New York Times China Rules How China Bu
Steve Huffman, the thirty-three-year-old co-founder and C.E.O. of Reddit, which is valued at six hundred million dollars, was nearsighted until November, 2015, when he arranged to have laser eye surge
I recently found myself in a conversation with some friends (thanks again to Dan M. (@OhMDee) , @zcichy , and Eric (@mobile_reach) I made on Twitter (yes, you can make friends on Twitter). Our convers
“People don’t quit bad jobs, they quit bad bosses,” according to an old saw. Our research suggests there’s truth behind this saying: bosses matter far more for employee job satisfaction than any other
Illustration Credit Published in Oh•M•Dee · 12 min read · Jan 19, 2017 -- Last year marked the fifth year of Tim Cook’s reign, and year 3 of “ Tim Cook’s Apple ”. With recent technological shifts, App
Biden in Washington on Dec. 14. Credit... Erik Madigan Heck for The New York Times Feature Joe Biden: ‘I Wish to Hell I’d Just Kept Saying the Exact Same Thing’ The vice president looks back — and for
It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia has been on the air since 2005, and somehow, a show about five terrible idiots who hatch insane schemes and treat each other with unabashed disdain is probably going
On June 3, 1980, at about two-thirty in the morning, computers at the National Military Command Center, beneath the Pentagon, at the headquarters of the North American Air Defense Command ( NORAD ), d
I was sitting in a large meditation hall in a converted novitiate in central Massachusetts when I reached into my pocket for my iPhone. A woman in the front of the room gamely held a basket in front o
You Know Who was back on Twitter Thursday morning, and for the second day running he addressed the Republican effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act—a venture that is already threatening to turn int
O n a recent evening in San Francisco, Tristan Harris, a former product philosopher at Google, took a name tag from a man in pajamas called “Honey Bear” and wrote down his pseudonym for the night: “Pr
I first heard about Marsbot in January, at Social Computing Symposium , a small conference run by Microsoft Research and held at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. ITP is kind of an art-sch
Credit... Illustration by Pablo Delcan Feature The Great A.I. Awakening How Google used artificial intelligence to transform Google Translate, one of its more popular services — and how machine learni
"Even before we get to Day One, we’ve got two years’ worth of material already lined up," Rep. Jason Chaffetz said last week. | AP Photo By 11/02/2016 05:06 AM EDT In a rare instance of self
Once upon a time, Apple was known for designing easy-to-use, easy-to-understand products. It was a champion of the graphical user interface, where it is always possible to discover what actions are po
Photo by Stephen Lam/Getty Images Apple did something extraordinarily unusual today and talked extensively about a product that it’s not ready to ship . In response to long-simmering discontent with t
7.2 On Donald Glover’s latest project as Childish Gambino, he ditches rap for lovingly produced funk worship, resulting in his most enjoyable project yet. By now, the world knows who Donald Glover is.
When Barack Obama meets this week with Xi Jinping during the Chinese president’s first state visit to America, one item probably won’t be on their agenda: the possibility that the United States and Ch
In a presidential campaign that was less about hope and change and more about resignation and horror, there was, thankfully, one candidate who provided a dose of inspiration and emotional uplift. Bern
M y final interview with President Obama in the White House had been scheduled for the day after the presidential election. I had hoped to look back on what he had achieved over eight years and the is
The morning after Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, Barack Obama summoned staff members to the Oval Office. Some were fairly junior and had never been in the room before. They w
Christian Okoye could see pixels dancing in his eyes. It was a look the retired Chiefs running back had seen before, one he’d become accustomed to encountering. "Man," the approaching fan said, "you w
Based on what most of us would have thought possible a year or two ago, the election of Donald Trump was one of the most shocking events in American political history. But it shouldn’t have been that
Our new issue on the 20th anniversary of the Iraq War is out now. Subscribe today for just $20 to get it in print! Silvio Berlusconi Was the Iconic Political Figure of Our Times David Broder When Sina
Anyone who claims to be philosophical and detached after yesterday is either lying or has something very wrong with him (or her, but I doubt many women are in that camp.) It’s a disaster on multiple l
First of all — this is not my writing. It's a Facebook post by someone I don’t even know, a man named Michael Arnovitz in Portland OR. But as a Facebook post it passes the fair use test and I’m quite
Some time ago, Hillary Clinton and her advisers decided that the best course of action was to apologize for having used a personal email address to conduct government business while serving as secreta
Fresh off the launch of the Google Pixel , the new Google Hardware division is back with its second product: Google Home, a voice command appliance and Google Cast-enabled speaker. There is basically
Photo credit: '' “Me and you, Yo momma and yo cousin, too ….” ''__ — “Elevators (Me & You)” __ A supernatural happening occurred last month. On a warm day in late September, Atlanta honored two of its native sons — one with a morning christening, the other with a mournful candlelight vigil.…
Gathering good reading material from around the internet is hard. You can’t trust your friends on Facebook. Twitter is too noisy. And even if you’re a master of RSS, you probably spend too much time s
It’s been getting harder for me to read things on my phone and my laptop. I’ve caught myself squinting and holding the screen closer to my face. I’ve worried that my eyesight is starting to go. These
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