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…

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…

The world is heading into an era of energy oversupply, with US-backed LNG and China-backed solar competing for the hearts — and wallets — of emerging markets. Beijing and Washington are betting on opposite energy futures. The International Energy Agency’s latest World Energy Outlook shows each…

This display can only be used by its included Mac. I’ve been thinking about Apple’s relationship with computer displays lately. Maybe it was the report that the iMac Pro might somehow return, combined with John Voorhees of MacStories detailing how he gave up the Studio Display for an ASUS monitor?…

The organization, which began as a nonprofit, charges hospitals for access to its donor registry.Credit...Dave Sanders for The New York Times The National Kidney Registry has matched thousands of kidney donors with recipients. It has also paid millions of dollars to a company owned by its founder.…

On December 24, 1865, just eight months after the Civil War ended, former Confederate soldiers founded the KKK. This week the UK Guardian reported that neo-Nazis are seeing a resurgence and revival, especially as the FBI backs off in combatting white supremacy terrorism. To understand why our nation…

The words “pollination” and “flower” may seem inseparable, but plants began courting insects millions of years before they evolved flashy petals. Now we know how they may have done it: not with dazzling color but with radiant heat. A study published today in Science reveals that cycads, tropical…

Last month, journalist Karen Hao posted a Twitter thread in which she acknowledged that there was a substantial error in her blockbuster book Empire of AI. Hao had written that a proposed Google data center in a town near Santiago, Chile, could require “more than one thousand times the amount of…

How life begins remains an unsolved question. One key component might be RNA, a molecular cousin of DNA found in every form of life on Earth, and now scientists say they have shown how it could have formed on our planet eons ago. But not everyone is convinced, and RNA is possibly just one of many…

One evening last September, Pitambar Panda, a 24-year-old product designer in the Indian city of Pune, mounted his pearly white electric Ola scooter. He accelerated noiselessly through the city’s busy avenues on his way home from work. Learn more 0:00/37:28 When he was shopping for a scooter a few…

Technology reporter Karen Hao started reporting on artificial intelligence in 2018, before ChatGPT was introduced, and is one of the few journalists to gain access to the inner world of the chatbot’s creator, OpenAI. In her book Empire of AI, Hao outlines the rise of the controversial company. In…

No other series has managed to capture isolation and discovery like Metroid Prime. The solitude in being stranded on an alien planet, tucking yourself into a Morph Ball to satisfyingly weave through tight spaces, or the compulsive urge to scan anything and everything around you to discover hidden…

Two particular phases in your nightly routine seem to play outsize roles in cognitive health. Listen to this article · 6:25 min Learn more Credit...Georgette Smith By April 25, 2025 Leer en español A good night’s sleep isn’t just about the number of hours you log. Getting quality sleep — the kind…

All hope is lost for the Lamorn. By the time Samus Aran is transported to Viewros, a distant planet far from home, the race of psychic aliens seems to be all but extinct. There are no traces of life, and any attempts to save themselves from a species-threatening calamity seem to have failed. They…

NBC News, back in March 2018: Speaking at a town hall event hosted by MSNBC’s Chris Hayes and Recode’s Kara Swisher, Cook said Facebook put profits above all else when it allegedly allowed user data to be taken through connected apps. [...] When asked what he would do if he were in Zuckerberg’s…

When Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is good, it’s good. The latest in Nintendo’s sci-fi exploration franchise, and the first since Metroid Dread in 2021, Beyond captures the moody sense of isolation and discovery that has been so core to Metroid since it debuted in 1986. Those quiet moments truly make you…

With little being done to clean the skies over New Delhi, the huge city struggles with its toxic air. Listen to this article · 6:20 min Learn more India Is a Rising Power, but Its Capital Is a Lethal Gas Chamber - The New York Times Visuals by Anindito Mukherjee The reporters spent a day on the…

Last month, some House members publicly acknowledged that Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza. It’s a judgment that Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch unequivocally proclaimed a year ago. Israeli human-rights organizations have reached the same conclusion. But such clarity is…

Trilobites In a small study, pet cats greeted male owners with more vocalizations than they did female caregivers. Listen to this article · 4:12 min Learn more Credit...Aleksei Poprotskii/Alamy By Nov. 27, 2025 Leer en español As he lectured on animal behavior, Kaan Kerman, an instructor in the…

Voters in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District voted on Tuesday, Dec. 2, to fill a vacancy left by Republican representative Mark Green, who resigned from Congress in July 2025. The election for this rural seat went for Republican candidate Matt Van Epps over Democratic candidate Aftyn Behn, with…

The late 1980s and early to mid 1990s were Apple’s weirdest and wildest era. Wedged between the triumph of the original Macintosh and the return of Steve Jobs were a sort of Wilderness Years where the company flailed all over the place, ultimately flaming out and requiring the now-famous rescue by…

In my post earlier today on the then-breaking news that Alan Dye has left Apple to join Meta as chief design officer (a new title at the company1), I wrote: It sounds like Dye chose to jump ship, and wasn’t squeezed out (as it seems with former AI chief John Giannandrea earlier this week).…

I learned a long time ago not to make it personal when it comes to criticizing Apple. As someone on the outside looking in, I can (and do) judge what Apple does, but it’s hard to ever know the inner workings of a company if you’re not on the inside. You could blame one executive for a misstep, only…

We all know people with very different levels of motivation. Some will go the extra mile in any endeavour. Others just can’t be bothered to put the effort in. We might think of them as lazy – happiest on the sofa, rather than planning their latest project. What’s behind this variation? Most of us…

“Developing superintelligence is now in sight,” says Mark Zuckerberg, heralding the “creation and discovery of new things that aren’t imaginable today.” Powerful AI “may come as soon as 2026 [and will be] smarter than a Nobel Prize winner across most relevant fields,” says Dario Amodei, offering the…

Acquiring solar panels at home can be an expensive hassle for people in the US. But small, simple, plug-in solar panels for use on balconies are soon to become available for millions of Americans, with advocates hoping the technology will quickly go mainstream. Earlier this year, Utah became the…

Cats have been on quite a journey from wild animal to undisputed ruler of millions of couches worldwide. A pair of new studies published on Thursday show that the road to cat domestication was far more complex than scientists first suspected. One of the new papers, published in Science, centers on…

In July 2024, Magdalena Robinson was laid off from her job as a vice president of talent acquisition at a media agency. The news came as a shock — by all accounts she was doing well — but she saw a silver lining: Maybe it was finally time for a career break. She took the rest of the year off,…

A group of liberal senators is quietly challenging the minority leader over his approach to the midterms and President Trump, in a sign of the party’s deep frustration. Listen to this article · 9:04 min Learn more Democrats have increasingly broken ranks in recent months to criticize Senator Chuck…

Coffee beans and chocolate; coffee fruit on the plant; bags of roasted coffee; a mug of coffee with a pile of roasted beans f you are a consumer of coffee or of chocolate, I have a question for you: Could you easily find the identity of the farmer or farm cooperative and the country of origin of the…

News Analysis Election defeats earlier this month and the approach of 2026 have G.O.P. lawmakers cautiously asserting themselves. Credit...Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times News Analysis Election defeats earlier this month and the approach of 2026 have G.O.P. lawmakers cautiously asserting…

Apple’s been making interesting tweaks to its operating systems after the release of the 26.0 versions in September. Back in October, the 26.1 beta cycle brought Slide Over back to iPadOS, a feature that’s now released for everyone. We’re now three betas into the 26.2 beta cycle, and this week…

For humans, kissing holds major cultural cachet, accompanying confessions of romantic love, religious rituals of reverence and even betrayals, à la The Godfather Part II’s “kiss of death.” New research suggests that kissing probably predates humanity and evolved between 16.9 million and 21.5 million…

As many as 70 million people in the U.S. have problems with sleep, and many are increasingly turning to melatonin supplements to help them fall asleep. People generally perceive these over-the-counter gummies, liquids and tablets as harmless. But recent research has raised new questions about…