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,…

The annals of evolutionary history are full of ill-fated unions. Many plants and animals can and do sometimes reproduce outside of their own species, but their offspring—if they come to be at all—may incur serious costs. Mules and hinnies, for instance, are almost always sterile; so, too, are…

A few quick thoughts about Apple’s latest financial results, which featured record third-quarter revenue (depicted here in chart form, of course) and a few interesting details in the post-results phone call with analysts. The ratchet effect On our YouTube reaction video, Dan suggested that this…

Content warning: rape, child rape Reminder: If you appreciate my work, including the following original transcript, please consider a paid subscription. Your support enables me to devote the necessary time to writing this newsletter. Thank you for reading. Nearly 70% of Americans now believe that…

As male social circles shrink, female partners say they have to meet more social and emotional needs. Listen to this article · 7:01 min Learn more Credit...Ohni Lisle By July 28, 2025Updated 11:41 a.m. ET Leer en español Justin Lioi is a licensed clinical social worker in Brooklyn who specializes in…

For many years, Apple’s annual operating-system cycle seemed to be all about the iPhone, with the occasional bone thrown to the Mac or iPad. But Apple’s latest operating-system releases (all synced up as version 26)—due this fall and available now as a public beta—are spreading the love around. Yes,…

Quoth Josh Wolfe, well-respected venture capitalist at Lux Capital: Ha ha ha. But What’s the fuss about? Apple has a new paper; it’s pretty devastating to LLMs, a powerful followup to one from many of the same authors last year. There’s actually an interesting weakness in the new argument—which I…

iPadOS 26, now available as a public beta, 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…

A research paper by Apple has taken the tech world by storm, all but eviscerating the popular notion that large language models (LLMs, and their newest variant, LRMs, large reasoning models) are able to reason reliably. Some are shocked by it, some are not. The well-known venture capitalist Josh…

It’s always nice being right. A few weeks before WWDC I wrote about the upcoming colourful and dimensional shift in interface design. That post ended up on the front page of Hacker News and was read 87,000 times. And then Apple announced Liquid Glass. People tend to push back on visual change. With…

On a Tuesday in March, I had spent most of my day working on my dissertation proposal and started to feel exhausted and hungry. It was the holy month of Ramadan, and I was fasting. Once finished, I quickly got ready to attend an iftar dinner, throwing on my hoodie, sweatpants, and a jersey…

Braces, rubber bands, even jaw surgery—millions endure them in pursuit of a straighter smile. But were misaligned smiles always this common? Research suggests that might not be the case. While malocclusions—crowded or misaligned teeth—have been found among our hunter-gatherer ancestors, they appear…

In late 2023, Digitimes reported that Apple was developing a low-cost MacBook, kicking off a lot of speculation about what that might mean and how the company might execute on such a product. Here’s what I wrote then: The modern Apple strategy is to re-use older technologies to create more…

With the announcement that macOS Tahoe will be the last Mac OS version to support Intel Macs, Apple’s preparing to close the books on the third chip transition in Mac history. It doesn’t get a lot of attention, but Apple is absolutely the best company in the world at picking up stakes and moving its…

Sometimes, when the sex is really good, the colors come. As Holly approaches orgasm, a pastel filter descends over her vision, lasting through her climax and into the afterglow. She tends to see just one or two hues in the form of blurry orbs: seafoam green, bright yellow, black and red, hot pink or…

A lot of people are getting jacked these days, and it’s not just who you would think. For men, muscles have always been a symbol of brute strength and power. In our current era, that’s manifesting in their desire to get as chiseled as possible with a strict regimen of lifting and proteinmaxxing. But…