The more I think about the iPhone Air, the more I think back to the introduction of the MacBook Air back in 2008. I used the word “compromise” ten times in my review of that first lightweight Mac laptop. If the story of the MacBook Air is a story about compromise, the decision about whether the…

Hundreds of people gathered Saturday morning at downtown Los Angeles’ 6th Street Bridge to protest the Trump administration’s immigration policies that have left many migrant communities shaken. More than a dozen local unions, immigration rights organizations and elected officials gathered for the…

I sent this to Apple CEO Tim Cook today. I’ve tried to remain calm and measured in terms of language, but if I’m honest, Apple’s action in removing ICEBlock from the App Store has left me seething with rage. We are in a very dark place right now in our country, and we need leaders who act with…

Slide Over lets you hide apps off the side of the iPad screen. Again. Monday’s second beta for iPadOS 26.1 includes two highly requested changes from iPad users (including us) that were absent in this summer’s iPadOS 26 beta cycle: a return of Slide Over and the addition of USB microphone gain…

After a long summer of discontent, Apple released its latest operating system updates earlier this month, and the result has been RAGE! PANIC! RIOTING IN THE STREETS! Wait, sorry, just checked, apparently that’s… Portland? That can’t be right. The frustration over Liquid Glass has now reportedly…

A brief, throat-clearing caveat: while I had written most of this pre-launch, I was unable to complete it by the time Apple shipped its annual round of operating system updates. Real life, and all that. I have avoided reading reviews; aside from the excerpt I quoted from Dan Moren’s, I have seen…

This could’ve easily been 12 blog posts, but I opted for one that comprehensively captures how I feel about design on Apple platforms right now. There was immediate criticism of iOS 7’s visual design. Concerns mounted pretty quickly about both style and accessibility. Some people remarked, “It’s…

Interview Feisty and Furious: Nida Manzoor on her genre-breaking debut feature Polite Society Ella Kemp Aspiring stuntwoman Ria Khan (Priya Kansara) prepares to literally fight tradition in Polite Society. Polite Society filmmaker Nida Manzoor celebrates the fury of being a teenage girl and talks us…

Essay For those who felt denigrated by his rhetoric, the bipartisan tributes to him as a champion of free speech augured something dangerous: the mainstreaming of formerly extremist views. At the White House, a U.S. flag flew at half-staff in honor of Charlie Kirk this month.Credit...Daniel…

iPadOS 26 is one of the biggest updates in iPad history. There’s a new design that changes the look and feel of the whole interface, yes, but also the introduction of a whole raft of productivity features that lift the iPad closer to the Mac—for those who want to use it that way. It’s like a weight…

Once considered rarefied and exotic in the United States, sushi has become something entirely different in the last five years: convenience food. In the past, sushi was a niche of the seafood market. Today, it is the fastest growing segment.Credit...Photo Illustration by Shawn Michael Jones for The…

Mexico City Dispatch Hernán Cortés toppled the Aztecs, winning Mexico for Spain. His trash-strewn resting place reflects how the conquest is still fueling quarrels and testing ties with Spain. A service at the mostly empty Church of Jesus the Nazarene, which houses the tomb of Hernán Cortés, in…

LIVE See more updates from this storySept. 24, 2025, 4:10 p.m. ET14m ago The company fired Karen Attiah this month for her social media posts related to Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Listen to this article · 2:11 min Learn more Karen Attiah in 2018. By Sept. 24, 2025, 9:00 a.m. ET Karen Attiah, a…

It was a man called Reginald Brabazon, Earl of Meath, who in 1903, two years after the death of Queen Victoria, suggested that her birthday, May 24, should be renamed Empire Day and become a day for patriotic celebration. His idea began to take off the following year and slowly spread in popularity.…

The Trump administration had halted construction on the $6.2 billion Revolution Wind project, prompting its developer to sue. Listen to this article · 5:21 min Learn more Rotor blades for the Revolution Wind offshore wind farm at the State Pier in New London, Conn., last November.Credit...CJ…

50 States, 50 Fixes Offshore turbines let Block Island shut down soot-spewing, earsplitting diesel generators. There were other benefits, too. 50 States, 50 Fixes Offshore turbines let Block Island shut down soot-spewing, earsplitting diesel generators. There were other benefits, too. Credit...…

macOS 26 Tahoe is two things at once: It’s the broadest and most productivity-focused update for macOS in years, while also taking collateral damage from Apple’s broader design ambitions on its other platforms. It features the biggest update to Spotlight ever, including direct access to app actions…

For most of her life, Disneyland was Stephanie Cuevas’s happy place. But the news on Wednesday, September 17, about Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show being suspended “indefinitely” was her breaking point with Disney. The next day, Cuevas made an announcement: She is going to dump the mouse. Her…

iOS 26! It feels like just last year we were here discussing iOS 18. How time flies. After a year that saw the debut of Apple Intelligence and the subsequent controversy over the features that it didn’t manage to ship, Apple seems to have taken a different tack with iOS 26. In addition to the…

Sushila Karki, a former chief justice, was the choice of the student protesters whose mass rallies led to violent clashes and toppled the government. Listen to this article · 5:07 min Learn more Sushila Karki, a former chief justice, was sworn in at a ceremony in Kathmandu, Nepal, on…

Last year, Robb Knight figured out how Perplexity, an artificial intelligence search engine, was evading instructions not to crawl particular sites. Knight learned that Perplexity’s engine would use an unlisted user agent to scrape summaries of pages on websites where Perplexity was blocked. In my…

Charlie Kirk debates with students at The Cambridge Union in May 2025Nordin Catic/The Cambridge Union/Getty Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Tragedy is a powerful shaper of narratives. In the aftermath of the horrific…

Middle-class Indians have been plowing their savings into the stock market, making it far less vulnerable to the shocks of a trade war. Listen to this article · 5:15 min Learn more A screen displaying market results outside the Bombay Stock Exchange this year. The two main stock indexes in Mumbai,…

There’s a tech industry habit of second-guessing “what would Steve Jobs have done" ever since he passed away, and most of the things people attribute to him seem like guesses about a guy who was very hard to predict and often inconsistent. But recently, we have one of those very rare cases where we…

A strike on the London Underground began Sunday over pay and conditions, threatening to upend commuter journeys for most of the week. Listen to this article · 2:23 min Learn more An information board at Victoria Station in London on Sunday warned commuters about subway disruptions. By Reporting from…

OpinionEzra Klein Credit...Will Matsuda for The New York Times OpinionEzra Klein Credit...Will Matsuda for The New York Times By Opinion Columnist Sept. 7, 2025 If Democrats Have a Better Plan, I’d Like to Hear It In a few weeks the government’s funding will run out. If Democrats vote for a new…

Credit...Fabio-Consoli Neurologists are exploring medications that would help the brain recover after a stroke or traumatic injury. Credit...Fabio-Consoli Listen to this article · 10:59 min Learn more By Sept. 4, 2025 The first thing Debra McVean did when she woke up at the hospital in March 2024…

Guest Essay Sept. 3, 2025 Credit...Photo illustration by Maria Mavropoulou for The New York Times Listen to this article · 8:28 min Learn more By Mr. Marcus is a founder of two A.I. companies and the author of six books on natural and artificial intelligence. GPT-5, OpenAI’s latest artificial…

President Trump’s repeated claims about having “solved” the India-Pakistan war infuriated Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India. And that was only the beginning.

August 14th marks Pakistan’s Independence Day. As an American citizen and immigrant from Pakistan, this day is both joyous, and bittersweet. Joyous because it celebrates Pakistan’s independence from colonial British rule. Bittersweet because that independence also ignited a domino effect that has…

Tejasri Gururaj a month ago America's power grid is in for a shock and a trillion-dollar upgrade to keep the lights on. IE/Getty Images In February 2021, Texas came within four minutes and 37 seconds of a complete statewide blackout. A winter storm knocked out 40 percent of the state’s grid capacity…

Keep up with LAist. If you're enjoying this article, you'll love our daily newsletter, The LA Report. Each weekday, catch up on the 5 most pressing stories to start your morning in 3 minutes or less. In 2003, Carlos Figueroa got a job slinging lattes at a kiosk in the Fox Plaza mall. Back then, it…

Apple’s product lines follow a very specific pattern: start small, and then grow into something bigger and more complex. There was originally one Mac, one iPhone, one iPad, one Apple Watch. Over time, the product lines got more complicated. Sometimes too complicated, as anyone who remembers Steve…

My colleague Grace Huckins has a great story on OpenAI’s release of GPT-5, its long-awaited new flagship model. One of the takeaways, however, is that while GPT-5 may make for a better experience than the previous versions, it isn’t something revolutionary. “GPT-5 is, above all else,” Grace…

news analysis As the president pursues his goals on Russia and trade, America’s relationship with an important partner in Asia could end up as collateral damage. Listen to this article · 6:37 min Learn more Assembling printed circuit boards at factory in Bengaluru, India, in June.Credit...Saumya…

Goodbye to the age of consumer websites and mobile apps. Artificial intelligence has ushered in an era of what insiders in the nation’s innovation capital call “hard tech.” Credit...Illustration by Petra Péterffy Goodbye to the age of consumer websites and mobile apps. Artificial intelligence has…

Apple’s 26 Public Betas are now out, marking another major milestone on the road to their release this fall. While all the social-media discourse has been about Apple’s new “Liquid Glass” design, that talk obscures some of Apple’s other interesting choices in this year’s operating system cycle.…

A Responsibility to the Industry Firstly, I maintain that it makes absolutely no sense that Alan Dye has the power he has, because he simply has no taste. But what’s worse is that he wields that power so clumsily, so carelessly. And because it goes unchallenged, unchecked by someone higher than him,…