Los Angeles is a city where the closure of a one-mile stretch of freeway triggers a state of emergency. It’s true that the 10 isn’t just any freeway. It’s one of the busiest corridors in the country, and the primary route between east and west Los Angeles. The section of the 10 Freeway damaged…

After nearly two and a half years, the iMac has finally gotten its update. The venerable desktop Mac was a late addition to the first generation M1 processor, but now it’s in the vanguard of Apple’s M

Like the M2 MacBook Pro released earlier this year , the new M3 MacBook Pro doesn’t look particularly new. It’s the third iteration of the excellent MacBook Pro redesign from 2021 , featuring flat sid

Updated at 1:45 p.m. ET on May 17, 2023 In March, the World Health Organization issued a dire warning that was also completely obvious: Nearly everyone on the planet consumes too much salt. And not ju

For the first time in the Apple silicon era, Apple isn’t using its lowest-end chip to usher in a new generation of processors. On Monday, Apple announced not just the M3 chip but its beefier siblings,

From the land of Magical Thinking comes the windowless Apple car! This from a company that can’t even keep its pencils straight. And how did Tim Cook look at the iPad lineup over the last year and say

Guest Essay Source: Berkeley Earth Land/Ocean Temperature Record By Zeke Hausfather Dr. Hausfather is the climate research lead at the payments company Stripe and a research scientist at Berkeley Earth, an independent organization that analyzes environmental data. Staggering. Unnerving.…

Every time any of us packs a bag, we are making some very specific tech-focused decisions. It starts with what devices we need (or can live without) and cascades into charging bricks and cords and any

Guest Essay By Nicholas Bloom Mr. Bloom is a professor of economics at Stanford University. Working from home is here to stay. I can prove it with data — lots and lots of data showing that returning to the office (R.T.O.) is D.O.A. A telling data point is the number tracking how many Americans…

It’s an entirely innocuous announcement that says so much. Tuesday’s reveal of a new Apple Pencil that’s got a USB-C port and lacks numerous features of both the first- and second-generation Apple Pen

This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic , Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here. When Megan Nolan pu

Binyamin Appelbaum By Binyamin Appelbaum Mr. Appelbaum is a member of the editorial board. The autoworkers picketing factories across America aren’t just seeking higher pay. They are also, audaciously, demanding the end of the standard 40-hour workweek. They want a full week’s pay for working 32…

Evan Greer is a transgender activist, musician and writer based in Boston. She’s the director of the digital rights non-profit Fight For The Future . Senator Marsha Blackburn was recently caught on ca

iPhone designs change at a glacial pace. It’s rare that a new iPhone looks completely unlike the previous model. They’ve all looked more or less the same since the iPhone X ditched the home button bac

The new visual appearance and functionality of watchOS 10 is a welcome change. There was clearly a lot of design and engineering effort put into this new interface and the improvements are tangible fo

macOS Sonoma is an update that feels small—but in all the best ways. Upgrading it won’t change how you look at your Mac, at least not at first. This means that if you’re desperate for change to longst

Even though x is one of the least-used letters in the English alphabet, it appears throughout American culture – from Stan Lee’s X-Men superheroes to “The X-Files” TV series. The letter x often symbol

Among the oft-quoted Alan Kay’s numerous aphorisms is “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” A sort-of corollary to that, which I believe, is that the best way to appreciate new technol

Was Tuesday’s “Wonderlust” event mostly predictable? Yes. Does that mean it was boring? For some people, yes. But for most people, it was the biggest tech news event of the year, just like Apple’s iPh

It’s a shame they don’t show movies in the Steve Jobs Theater, or at least not ones that I’ve ever been invited to. It’s a fantastic venue with a staggeringly bright digital projection system, but the

India’s homegrown instant payment system has remade commerce and pulled millions into the formal economy. By Mujib Mashal and Hari Kumar Reporting from New Delhi, Mumbai and Kerala in India The little QR code is ubiquitous across India’s vastness. You find it pasted on a tree next to a roadside…

News Analysis Can India Challenge China for Leadership of the ‘Global South’? A rising India has moved aggressively to champion developing nations, pursuing compromise in polarized times and promising

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This article originally appeared in Knowable Magazine . On an overcast spring morning in 2012, Federica Bertocchini was tending to her honeybees close to where she lived in Santander, on Spain’s pictu

U.S. World Business Arts Lifestyle Opinion Audio Games Cooking Wirecutter The Athletic Three years into the pandemic, the short- and long-term risks are becoming more clear. By Sept. 7, 2023 Leer en e

Getty Images Jenny Singer is a freelance writer and MFA nonfiction writing candidate at the University of Iowa. Previously on staff at Glamour and the Forward, she has written about unions for Teen Vo

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I n October 2022, New York City officials unveiled a new bike lane on Schermerhorn street, one of the most dangerous and heavily trafficked streets in downtown Brooklyn and somewhere I had always avoi

Image: Samar Haddad / The Verge The original iMac entered a computing world that was in desperate need of a shake-up. After the wild early days of the personal computer revolution, things had become s

Today there are 2 new papers published on the 2-year follow up of over 100,000 people with Covid and millions of uninfected controls. In this edition of Ground Truths, I’ll review the salient findings

This summer, I, like so many other Americans, have forgotten what it means to be dry. The heat has grown so punishing, and the humidity so intense, that every movement sends my body into revolt. When

In the final, darkest days of the deadliest year in U.S. history, the world received ominous news of a mutation in the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Scientists in the U.K. had identified a form of the virus

Spencer Platt/Getty Images Rachel DuRose is a Future Perfect fellow, covering climate change, housing, mental health, and more. Rachel previously wrote about the workplace, hiring, and executive leade

The new Lock Screen lets you view Live Activities and Widgets These days, many new iPadOS features have spent a year incubating on the iPhone. (Or, to put it less charitably, Apple builds for the iPho

Bear 2 doesn’t look that different – but it’s a completely new app. Image: Shiny Frog Bear 2, the new note-taking app from developer Shiny Frog, is launching today on iOS, iPadOS, and Mac. It comes wi

macOS Sonoma, out in public beta now and due to be released this fall, is an update that feels small in all the best ways. Even in early development, I’ve managed to use it on my main Mac without any

Eiji Aonuma (left) and Hidemaro Fujibayashi, the producer and game director, respectively, of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom . Illustration: William Joel/Polygon | Source images: Nintendo T

Enlarge Adrienne Bresnahan | Getty Images With Ethernet turning 50 this year, Ars is resurfacing this feature on the development and evolution of Ethernet that was originally published in 2011. Althou

The whole universe is humming. Actually, the whole universe is Mongolian throat singing. Every star, every planet, every continent, every building, every person is vibrating along to the slow cosmic b

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