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…

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 armed agents who had spilled out of their black SUVs. The fury…

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…

The main reason I’m sticking with MacOS 15 Sequoia, refusing to install 26 Tahoe, is that there are so many severe UI regressions in Tahoe. The noisy, distracting, inconsistent icons prefixing menu item commands, ruining the Mac’s signature menu bar system. Indiscriminate transparency that renders…

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WhenWhen armies invade, hurricanes form, or governments fall, a Wikipedia editor will typically update the relevant articles seconds after the news breaks. So quick are editors to change “is” to “was” in cases of notable deaths that they are said to have the fastest past tense in the West. So it was…

Newsletter Jamelle Bouie Jan. 17, 2026 Credit...John Locher/Associated Press By Opinion Columnist You’re reading the Jamelle Bouie newsletter. Historical context for present-day events. Not since the British occupation of Boston on the eve of the Revolutionary War has an American city experienced…

Brave New World Dept. When you’re waiting for a flight, what’s the difference between out there and in here? November 24, 2025 The thing about lounging is that it’s impossible to lounge without worrying that someone, somewhere, is lounging better.Illustration by Tomi Um Airport lounges are about who…

Michelle Cottle Jan. 14, 2026 Credit...Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters Listen to this article · 6:24 min Learn more By Ms. Cottle writes about national politics for Opinion. Chuck Schumer, the Senate Democratic leader, has been on a rough ride for the past year. His team is out of power in Washington, its…

Let’s Just Get It Out of the Way and Talk About the New Icons First, but Let’s Also Use the Icons as a Proxy for Talking About the Broader Software Design Problems at Apple There’s a lot of hate for the new app icons of the entire Creator Studio suite, but while I think the icons are tragically…

Since an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed Renee Good on Jan. 7, Minneapolis has seen a sharp escalation in the agency’s brutal tactics. In my own neighborhood, ICE agents have tear-gassed schools and local businesses. They have physically assaulted people pumping gas and…

When CC Wei visited Cupertino last August, he had bad news for his largest client. Apple would need to acquiesce to the largest price rise in years, TSMC’s CEO told its executives. Tim Cook and his team took the news on the chin. Wei had been telegraphing hikes in earnings calls over the past few…

Last week, we talked about one huge question, “How the hell are you supposed to have a career in tech in 2026?” That’s pretty specific to this current moment, but there are some timeless, more perennial questions I've been sharing with friends for years that I wanted to give to all of you. They're a…

At Macworld Expo in January 2005, miniaturization was on Steve Jobs’s mind. Since the world was in the midst of iPod fever, most of the focus was on the tiny iPod Shuffle. But 21 years ago, Apple’s CEO also unveiled one of the most notable new Macs of all time. Yes, the Mac mini is now old enough to…

Norbert Heger, with a perfectly illustrated post, “The Struggle of Resizing Windows on macOS Tahoe”: Since upgrading to macOS Tahoe, I’ve noticed that quite often my attempts to resize a window are failing. This never happened to me before in almost 40 years of using computers. So why all of a…

Elizabeth Lopatto, writing at The Verge, “Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai Are Cowards”: Since X’s users started using Grok to undress women and children using deepfake images, I have been waiting for what I assumed would be inevitable: X getting booted from Apple’s and Google’s app stores. The fact that…

Left to right: iPhone Air, Field Notes and pen, iPhone Fold mock-up, iPhone 17 Pro. If many years-long rumors are true, 2026 will be the year when Apple’s long-gestating folding iPhone becomes a reality. But there are a lot of different approaches to folding phones out there, and there’s no…

Two ICE agents film the press using smartphones in the hallway outside the immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza in New York USA on July 11 2025. The Department of Homeland Security has been acquiring new tools to identify people and monitor them. Madison Swart/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images…

People look at you differently when you carry a Geiger counter. Or, at least, when you carry a Geiger counter and exclaim things like “Much less radiation here than you might expect!” But how else are you to know that the radiation in your food is at acceptable levels? They have government…

If someone had told me 12 months ago what was going to happen this past year, I wouldn’t have believed them. Skipping swiftly past all the political, economic and social turmoil, I come to the interface changes brought in macOS Tahoe with Liquid Glass. After three months of strong feedback during…

The number one question I get from my friends, acquaintances, and mentees in the technology industry these days is, by far, variations on the basic theme of, “what the hell are we supposed to do now?” There have been mass layoffs that leave more tech workers than ever looking for new roles in the…

Mayor Zohran Mamdani said New York City would intervene in the Pinnacle Group’s bankruptcy case. Tenants have long complained about living conditions in the company’s properties. Listen to this article · 6:42 min Learn more On his first day in office, Mayor Zohran Mamdani visited a Brooklyn building…

For those confused about the decision to strike Venezuela, capture Nicolás Maduro, and bring him to New York City: This is actually an important phase of Donald Trump’s immigration policy. Phase 1 (ongoing) has been to remove all law-abiding immigrants who have been living in the country waiting for…

For ecologists, the Covid-19 pandemic has presented a remarkable natural experiment in what can happen to wild animals when humans stay home. Dark-eyed juncos, normally forest-dwelling, have occupied Los Angeles for about 20 years.Credit...Alex Fu By Dec. 15, 2025 About two decades ago, the…

Fall in the Seattle area means lots of leaves in bike lanes. Slippery, soggy leaves can be dangerous on two wheels. Now, volunteers in Kirkland have a clever, new tool to clean bike lanes from the seat of a bike. When Charlie Liban rides his e-bike through Kirkland, he doesn't avoid the hazards of…

In the two decades I’ve been in this racket, I’ve never been angrier at myself for missing a story than I am about Apple’s announcement on Friday that the “more personalized Siri” features of Apple Intelligence, scheduled to appear between now and WWDC, would be delayed until “the coming year”. I…

50 States, 50 Fixes A collective of land trusts, conservancies and tribes is capturing birdsong with audio gear and A.I. for clues about habitat health. Credit... By Visuals by Meron Menghistab 50 States, 50 Fixes is a series about local solutions to environmental problems. A few more to come this…