Within 2 weeks after a preprint was posted to arXiv on 31 March, outrage erupted on Twitter and multiple co-authors requested their names be removed. The issue wasn’t the science, which focused on the

Updated at 9:45 p.m. ET on June 23, 2023 The lab-leak theory of COVID’s origin has always been a little squirrelly. If SARS-CoV-2 really did begin infecting humans in a research setting, the evidence

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I got to spend about 30 minutes Monday afternoon using a Vision Pro and VisionOS at Apple Park, in a temporary “field house” building Apple constructed specifically for this experience. This was a one

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Yes, I’ve worn it. One of the advantages of being present at Apple Park for WWDC 2023 was that I got to experience—after having my face measured and my eyeglasses scanned—the Apple Vision Pro in a con

Apple’s Monday keynote at WWDC was jam-packed as usual, but even at two hours there’s never enough time to cover everything that the company is rolling out in its latest platform updates—especially wh

It’s almost time. Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) is just days away. Come Monday morning, both Dan Moren and I will be somewhere on the Apple Campus, watching Apple unveil whatever it c

O ver the past few years, a fascinating narrative about forests and fungi has captured the public imagination. It holds that the roots of neighboring trees can be connected by fungal filaments, formin

This fall, millions of Americans might be lining up for yet another kind of COVID vaccine: their first-ever dose that lacks the strain that ignited the pandemic more than three and a half years ago. U

Hey, it’s our antepenultimate week talking about the Apple headset speculatively! New apps are a-shipping and generative AI asks “How many fingers am I holding up?” The answer may surprise you. Will t

Senator Dianne Feinstein, 89, whose recent bout with shingles included contracting encephalitis, is frailer than ever. But she remains unwilling to entertain discussions about leaving the Senate. Sena

Photo: Gary Hershorn/Getty Images New York City’s public-transit system, perennially facing a fiscal crisis, is now teetering on the brink of something more existential . Three years into the pandemic

More than a decade ago, on the heels of the iPad’s announcement, I took to the pages of Macworld–then still available as a physical object shipped to your home–to describe it as not just a third devic

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Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube There’s something magical about the first time you dive from the Sky to the Surface in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom . That one moment feels like a co

At the G20 Summit in February, Indian prime minister Narendra Modi made a case for the global adoption of India’s state-backed digital payments platform: the unified payments interface (UPI). “We woul

Back in November 2015, Apple released the first iPad Pro, and I was hooked . But in the intervening seven and a half years, it’s felt that the iPad’s hardware has constantly been let down by its softw

On a February morning in 2021, a water treatment plant operator in Oldsmar, Fla., noticed something unusual: An unidentified user had remotely accessed the plant’s computer system and was moving the m

NASA engineers have come up with a power-saving strategy to eke more time—and more science—out of the Voyager probes, humanity’s longest-running spacecraft , as they continue venturing into unexplored

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By now you’ve heard that Apple will soon open its first store in India at Mumbai’s Jio World Drive, a shopping mall in the Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC). You’ve probably also heard that this won’t be jus

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Automakers have made plenty of promises about electric vehicles. General Motors, Ford, and Volvo—some of the more ambitious—have pledged to sell only zero-emission cars by at least 2035. That’s quite

I love my electric car. I really do. I love how I never have to buy gas. I love how it glides quietly up the street. I love that it has so much pickup that I can easily blow past gas-powered muscle ca

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C hinese factory laborers call jobs like Hunter’s “working the screws.” Until recently, the 34-year-old worked on the iPhone 14 Pro assembly line at a Foxconn factory in the central Chinese city of Zh

India has a young, vast work force that is expanding as China’s ages and shrinks. But the country’s immense size also lays bare its enormous challenges. An auto rickshaw factory in Aurangabad, India,

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In October, when the FDA first announced a shortage of Adderall in America, the agency expected it to resolve quickly . But five months in, the effects of the shortage are still making life tough for

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When Apple announced the Apple Watch Ultra, I was especially interested in its introduction of an Action Button, an additional bit of hardware that could be set to trigger just about anything on watch