Lydia Polgreen Kamala Harris Could Win This Election. Let Her. June 28, 2024 Credit...Rebecca Noble/Reuters By Opinion Columnist Like many Americans who watched the presidential debate on Thursday nig

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I’ve got perhaps five outlines of articles I want to write after what was easily one of the most feature-packed, developer-oriented WWDC keynotes last Monday. As we digest all the changes and cool dow

Ibram X. Kendi, the founding director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research.Credit...Wayne Lawrence for The New York Times In 2020, the author of “How to Be an Antiracist” galvanized

Across the Country A federal plan to remove feral cats from a historic site in Puerto Rico’s capital has upset some residents, who are also feeling pushed out as housing costs soar. Cats outside Save

Modi Will Feel the Heat in a Third Term. And Not Just Politically. Farmers have repeatedly protested over grievances tied to global warming, a major political and economic test given the importance of

The United States, which prides itself as a global leader on human rights and international law, was conspicuously silent Friday after the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to comply with

The strawberry is a treasured treat whose large red fruit and sweet flavor make mouthwatering jams, stand-alone afternoon snacks, or toppings to nearly any dessert. However, strawberries are more than

The union representing 48,000 academic workers across the University of California said Friday that its members at UC Santa Cruz will go on strike Monday over alleged worker rights and free speech vio

(Students rally in support of Gaza at an encampment on Columbia University’s campus on April 29. Photo by Steve Sanchez/Sipa USA.) When I was a freshman at Barnard College, two months into college lif

If you squint a little, the iPad Pro is almost a MacBook. The new iPad Pro is a genuine achievement in tablet design. It’s the closest thing I’ve ever seen to the vision that a tablet should feel not

A growing number of researchers in the field are using their expertise to fight the climate crisis. Penny Sackett, former director of the Australian National University’s Mount Stromlo Observatory, ju

Let me cut to the chase: sadly, I don’t have a new iPad Pro to review today on MacStories. I was able to try one in London last week, and, as I wrote, I came away impressed with the hardware. However,

Apple’s hardware and chip teams are really at the top of their game. The new M4 iPad Pro is a sleek slab of concentrated computing power, tucked behind a spectacular OLED display. It arrives with a bu

The UCLA Muslim student wears sunglasses, a kaffiyeh scarf and face mask to avoid recognition on campus. She’s asked to move her classes online to prevent others from knowing her route and following h

As violence began to flare at the barricades of the pro-Palestinian encampment at UCLA last week, Sean Tabibian trained his camera on the police. “Shut this down,” implored the 52-year-old lawyer, who

Ever since Steve Jobs’s famous two-by-two grid of Apple devices, Apple aficionados have tried to cram the company’s product lines into neat little boxes. 1 In recent years, the iPad line has seemed ex

Apple declared Tuesday as the biggest date in iPad history since the launch of the product in 2010. I’m not sure I’d go that far. It was a major event, to be sure, but so was the original iPad Pro and

iPad Pro and keyboard, circa its October 2018 announcement. It’s hard to believe that it was more than five and a half years ago that I flew home from a New York Apple event, my mind spinning with the

It began with ear-piercing screams of wailing babies loudly emitting from speakers. Counter-protesters tearing down the barricades. Laser pointers flashing into the encampment. People in masks waving

Seventeen years ago, just as the periodic cicadas were getting ready to arrive in droves in the eastern United States, Google announced Gmail, an exciting new email service. It had three key features:

Bill Maher on his HBO talk show this week said that pro-Palestinian student protests on college campuses are what happens when “activism merges with narcissism.” The Atlantic columnist David Frum refe

As protests of the war in Gaza have erupted on university campuses over the past few weeks, we see once again the idealism, dedication and energy that young people bring to the causes they care about.

Updated at 2 pm ET on April 26, 2024. Last October, Indian authorities revived legal proceedings against the novelist and activist Arundhati Roy. In a case first registered against her in 2010, Roy st

Bruce thought he’d landed his dream job. The young American engineer had been eager for a stable, high-paying job in the semiconductor industry. Then, in late 2020, he received a LinkedIn message from

Less than two weeks after Apple changed its rules on emulators, Riley Testut’s Delta game emulator climbed to the number one spot in the U.S. App Store within twelve hours of its launch. If Testut’s n

Students who camped in tents to protest the war in Gaza, including the daughter of Representative Ilhan Omar, may be barred from finishing the semester. Isra Hirsi is a Barnard College junior and the

Intro An end to privacy On March 13, 2022, 34-year-old English teacher Yulia Zhivtsova left her Moscow apartment to meet her friends at the mall. Bundled up against the freezing cold, she entered the

In October 2022 a bird with the code name B6 set a new world record that few people outside the field of ornithology noticed. Over the course of 11 days, B6, a young Bar-tailed Godwit, flew from its h

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. This winter, I attended a livestock auction on California’s remote northern coast. Ranchers sat on plywood ble

Her contribution to the campaign arm of House Democrats is a symbolic moment in the New York lawmaker’s own evolution inside the Democratic Party. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York d

When Steve Edsel was a boy, his adoptive parents kept a scrapbook of newspaper clippings in their bedroom closet. He would ask for it sometimes, poring over the headlines about his birth. Headlines li

Apple’s had a rough start to 2024 but it’s not like everything’s peachy for either its competitors or the thorns in its side. M-vy Turn your mind back to the heady days of 2008: Barack Obama was runni

When Emily Kara was 34 weeks pregnant, she received an additional COVID vaccine. She did not technically qualify for one. She had received her latest dose merely five months earlier, and her midwife e

Firefighters hold a special place in American culture. Rushing bravely into danger, leading Memorial Day parades, saving stuck cats, and—lately—doing their best to stop American cities from enacting p

We commonly think of life on Earth as an unbroken chain of biological success, beginning shortly after our planet’s formation and continuing, unchallenged, for all the time since. Part of that story i

Seven years ago, on 27 March 2017, Apple introduced one of the most fundamental changes in its operating systems since Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah was released 16 years earlier. On that day, those who updat

Where in the unholy heck did all these bees come from?! After almost two decades of relentless colony collapse coverage and years of grieving suspiciously clean windshields, we were stunned to run the

In 2014, WIRED asked me to write a few lines about my most-used app as part of an internship application. I wrote about WhatsApp because it was a no-brainer. I was an international student from India,