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…

iPadOS 26. Source: Apple. It’s a cool, sunny morning at Apple Park as I’m walking my way along the iconic glass ring to meet with Apple’s SVP of Software Engineering, Craig Federighi, for a conversation about the iPad. It’s the Wednesday after WWDC, and although there are still some developers and…

Is that a Mac? Nope, it’s iPadOS 26 running on a Studio Display. Some of us have spent an awful lot of time pondering the iPad’s use cases as a professional productivity device. As a heavy user of the iPad, I’ve frequently wanted to push it into areas where it wasn’t designed to go because if I…

the road to "mac-like" Apple’s Craig Federighi on the long road to the iPad’s Mac-like multitasking Federighi talks to Ars about why the iPad's Mac-style multitasking took so long. Andrew Cunningham – Jun 11, 2025 3:20 PM | 35 iPads! Running iOS 26! Credit: Apple iPads! Running iOS 26! Credit: Apple…

On June 13, 1863, a curious letter to the editor appeared in The Press, a then-fledgling New Zealand newspaper. Signed “Cellarius,” it warned of an encroaching “mechanical kingdom” that would soon bring humanity to its yoke. “The machines are gaining ground upon us,” the author ranted, distressed by…

In 1982, a peculiar commercial aired on televisions across Japan. An actress in a pink floral dress and an updo drops paint on her hand and futilely attempts to wipe it off with toilet paper. She looks into the camera and asks: “Everyone, if your hands get dirty, you wash them, right?” “It’s the…

It’s an exciting time to be a designer on iOS. My professional universe is trembling and rumbling with a deep sense of mystery. There’s a lot of rumors and whispers of a huge redesign coming to the iPhone’s operating system — one that is set to be 'the biggest in a long time'. There’s only been one…

Everyone should have the right to decide if and when they have children. Yet over the past 50 years, the United States has built an economy that increasingly works against fertility — demanding more years in school and longer hours at work for people, especially women, in the years when it is…

“I wanted some element of hope. I wanted to have something legitimately positive and forward. My own personal worldview, in the end, is really not that dark.” Photo: StillMoving.Net Considering how reflective, candid, and loquacious he is in conversation, it’s maybe not surprising that Andor creator…

Jamelle Bouie April 23, 2025 Credit...Daniele Volpe for The New York Times Listen to this article · 11:14 min Learn more By Opinion Columnist The American constitutional system is built on the theory that the self-interest of lawmakers can be as much of a defense against tyranny as any given law or…

Credit...Illustration by Karolis Strautniekas Feature Twenty years ago, India let Masood Azhar go. Now he and his jihadist group may be one of the greatest obstacles to resolving the crisis in Kashmir. Credit...Illustration by Karolis Strautniekas By Published March 19, 2020Updated March 21, 2020…

The Trump crackdown has reached the volcanic Island of Hawaii, where immigrants, some of them undocumented, are crucial to cultivating the rare coffee. Coffee crops in Kona, Hawaii, are picked by hand, primarily by immigrants from Latin America. The Trump crackdown has reached the volcanic Island of…

Moderna’s combined Covid and flu shot outperformed the existing standalone vaccines for both viruses, according to the results of a phase 3 clinical trial published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The vaccine uses the same messenger RNA technology as Moderna’s approved…

Guest Essay May 18, 2025 Credit...Nadine Redlich Listen to this article · 7:00 min Learn more By Mr. Richards lives in Edinburgh and is the author of the forthcoming “Overnight: Journeys, Conversations and Stories After Dark.” How civilized to catch a train, enjoy a meal on board and then go to bed…

Twenty-seven years ago this week, Steve Jobs took the stage at the Flint Center in Cupertino to unveil the first new product since his return to Apple: the original iMac. The Apple of today would be nearly unrecognizable to the people of 1998, but Apple still sells an iMac. It’s literally the only…

I recently purchased a Mazda Miata. This car is interesting because instead of running on electricity, it is powered by a combustible liquid called gasoline. The vehicle has an engine that mixes the gasoline with oxygen from the air, ignites the mixture, and uses the resulting combustion to push the…

Guest Essay April 25, 2025, 5:02 a.m. ET Credit...Photo illustration by The New York Times Listen to this article · 5:30 min Learn more By Edward J. MarkeyJim McGovern and Mr. Markey is the junior U.S. senator from Massachusetts. Mr. McGovern is the representative for Massachusetts’ Second…

And this is what we get when male fitness standards clash with female preferences. For context (if you’re a sane person and not extremely online), researcher William Costello recently did a simple, anonymous Twitter poll. Men and women were invited to rate pictures of British singer Olly Murs when…

April 28, 2025 Pro-housing advocates offer an analysis of class relations that is more sophisticated and has more explanatory power than the one held by many critics of the “abundance agenda.” Copy Link Facebook X (Twitter) Bluesky Pocket Email Construction continues on a mixed-use apartment complex…

A mock-up I made in 2021 of what a more Mac-like iPad would look like when hooked up to a 5K display. Two weeks ago, Mark Gurman of Bloomberg reported that some serious changes were in the works for iPadOS 19: I’m told that this year’s upgrade will focus on productivity, multitasking and app window…

David Hogg, a young liberal activist and now a vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, is leading an effort to unseat the party’s older lawmakers in primaries. Listen to this article · 7:25 min Learn more David Hogg, who survived the 2018 school shooting in Parkland, Fla., is also the…

A visit by federal agents to two elementary schools drew an angry, impassioned response from the superintendent, Alberto Carvalho, a Portuguese immigrant. Listen to this article · 6:05 min Learn more Alberto Carvalho, the superintendent of Los Angeles’s public schools, in 2022. Mr. Carvalho said he…

Kat Abughazaleh leans over her campaign manager’s shoulder as they review a video from her live appearance on CNN Max the night before. “I want to see if I rolled my eyes,” she says, eyes locked on the screen. “I feel like I did.” It’s late March, less than a week after Abughazaleh, 26, announced…

David Brooks April 17, 2025 Listen to this article · 7:40 min Learn more By Opinion Columnist In the beginning there was agony. Under the empires of old, the strong did what they willed and the weak suffered what they must. But over the centuries, people built the sinews of civilization:…