If Donald Trump defies the odds and wins a second term, the next four years will likely be more disruptive to U.S. foreign policy and world affairs than the past four have been. Think of his reelectio

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In Donald Trump’s interview with Laura Ingraham last week , he talked about the “shadow people” he believes lurk behind Joe Biden: INGRAHAM: Who do you think is pulling Biden’s strings? Is it former O

The Only Music Critic Who Matters (if You’re Under 25) Anthony Fantano reviews albums and songs on his YouTube channel, The Needle Drop, bringing an old art to a new medium — and perhaps ensuring it h

The thing we know for certain about bullshit is that, no matter how hard we try, it is virtually impossible to be countered, eradicated, minimized, or undone. Harry Frankfurt described this phenomenon

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It seems appropriate that the first ruling in Epic v. Apple was a split decision: Fortnite remains out of the App Store, 1 but Epic may continue to use Apple’s developer tools in order to support Unre

In 2016, Donald Trump’s campaign ran on a shoestring, and won. He planned a different 2020: It would be the biggest, richest, most expensive presidential campaign ever. But with just two months to go

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Seven years ago, two teams from England’s North West went down to Wembley Stadium to play out one of football’s great David-and-Goliath stories. In the final moments of the FA Cup Final, Ben Watson’s

Across the country, parents are using Facebook to form “pandemic pods,” hiring tutors or out-of-work teachers to educate their kids as school district after school district announces that it will go p

The pandemic has given birth to many personal essays about the devices keeping people sane this year. The New York Times declared the iPad the “ gadget of the pandemic .” I’ve read myriad love letters

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Circuit Judge Consuelo M. Callahan, in last week’s decision by the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, reversing the District Court’s ruling that Qualcomm was guilty of antitrust violations, opene

M ichael Mina is a professor of epidemiology at Harvard, where he studies the diagnostic testing of infectious diseases. He has watched, with disgust and disbelief, as the United States has struggled

Google has built a complete monopoly on search. Amazon uses the sales data of its resellers to continuously expand and solidify market dominance. Facebook copies the competitors that they can’t bully

Image by Epic Games Apple has always had a complicated relationship with the game industry, but this month that relationship slid into a bitter and very public legal and regulatory war that could shap

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– February 10, 2011 – In 2011, Donald Trump stoked false claims that Barack Obama had lied about his education. During a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference, Trump said, “Our curren

Note : This story has not been updated since 2020. So here we are, at the end of OS X. Two decades ago Apple parked the sixteen-year-old Classic Mac OS and leaped to version 10.0, but four years ago t

Machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) now permeate nearly every feature on the iPhone, but Apple hasn't been touting these technologies like some of its competitors have. I wanted to

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In 2012, Pentagram designers Jesse Reed and Hamish Smyth, along with their coworker at the time, Niko Skourtis, were in the basement of the firm’s New York office looking for a tarp when something bri

N orthwest of Beijing’s Forbidden City, outside the Third Ring Road, the Chinese Academy of Sciences has spent seven decades building a campus of national laboratories. Near its center is the Institut

Killer Mike didn't want to go to the press conference but felt like he had to. It had been a long day already. He woke up thinking about how a Black man named George Floyd had been lynched in Minneapo

Dec. 9, 2018 On Dec. 8, 2018, Atlanta United won MLS Cup. On Dec. 9, beloved manager Tata Martino departed Atlanta, heading south to take over the Mexican National Team. “El Tata” had lead the Five St

I returned to Paris with my family three months after President Emmanuel Macron had ordered one of the world’s most aggressive national quarantines, and one month after France had begun to ease itself

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Images: Run The Jewels | Illustration by Alex Castro Alongside the two antiheroes of Run The Jewels is a third, ever-present visual staple: the pistol and fist. This simple image has graced the cover

On episode 384 of the Accidental Tech Podcast Marco Arment , developer of the excellent podcast player Overcast , suggested that some UI changes might be on the horizon for the app. He alluded to the

For the second year in a row, Apple held a developers conference that should frighten its competitors. Relying on a nearly maniacal obsession with the user experience, Apple is removing oxygen from ev

It’s finally here. The thing I have been advocating for through my work, writing, videos and talks for years . A swing of the pendulum. A reemergence of fun in visual design. I have been waiting 7 yea

Although I didn’t realize it at the time, my email workflow was ripe for disruption. A quick smattering of my email behaviors includes, but is not limited to: Marking emails I’ve read as unread to act

Almost exactly two years ago, I warned that Google was on track to replace God of us all. Last month, The Verge 's Dieter Bohn reported that Google plans to begin accounting for “page experience” in i