Guest Essay Elizabeth Warren and Tina Smith: We’ve Seen What Will Happen Next to America’s Women June 25, 2022 Credit... Michael McCoy/Reuters By Elizabeth Warren and Ms. Warren is a Democratic senato

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Though the iPad was a huge hit from the beginning based on its user-friendly interface and single-application focus, it had begun feeling a bit stale for those who hunger for more depth. Long one of t

Two and a half years and billions of estimated infections into this pandemic, SARS-CoV-2’s visit has clearly turned into a permanent stay. Experts knew from early on that, for almost everyone, infecti

The leap of a frog is a quintessential evolutionary feat. The critter’s girthy gams thrust from behind to springboard the body up and out; a pair of acrobatic arms stretch forward to seamlessly break

Melatonin poisoning in kids is on the rise, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention . From 2012 to 2021, there was a 530 percent increase in the annual number of children taking me

The 13-inch M2 MacBook Pro is coming soon , with preorders beginning Friday and models shipping June 24. It’s a notable product for a bunch of conflicting reasons. First and foremost, it’s the first M

To some residents of Southern California, the golf course is a detested symbol of social privilege and water profligacy — a lush playground for the wealthy that can drink more than 100 million gallons

“The idea is if we don’t look out the white race will be—will be utterly submerged. It’s all scientific stuff; it’s been proved.” These are not the words of the teenager who walked into a supermarket

At the entrance to my lab’s clean room, I catch a glimpse of myself in the mirror: I look like a clown. I’m drowning in a disposable coverall that hangs off of me in droopy folds, and my size 7½ feet

In mid-March, I began to notice a theme within my social circle in New York, where I live: COVID—it finally got me! At that point, I didn’t think much of it. Only a few of my friends seemed to be affe

The new M2 MacBook Air isn’t going to be on sale until next month, but I was fortunate enough to spend some time with several of them on Monday at Apple Park. Unlike the M1 MacBook Air , which was abo

Wishing doesn’t make it so. When Apple makes its announcements at the WWDC keynote on Monday—Dan and I will both be there, in person, to cover it!—it will be revealing stuff that’s been in the works f

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Up until recently, USB-C was more of a fluke in my household—a strange visitor from a possible future, in which we all used small, reversible plugs. Sure, my iMac had a couple of Thunderbolt ports tha

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Last summer 1Password maker AgileBits made the wrong kind of news , when it announced that it was killing its traditional Mac app and replacing it with a new one built with Electron, a development sys

How Technocrats Triumphed at Apple The man who helped give the world candy-colored computers eventually walked out the door. What does that mean for the company’s next big thing? Jony Ive, Apple’s des

In 1997, I was living in Cambodia, working for the U.S. government to help solidify the country’s fragile democracy. The air was hopeful: Civic groups were preparing to monitor upcoming elections, pol

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg began his first visit to Nigeria on Aug. 30—a country of 182 million people whose GDP quadrupled between 2005 and 2015 . But many Western headlines, including one by C

Rachel E. Gross Patricia Brennan never intended to become a champion of the vagina. Her journey, in fact, began with a penis. It was a late summer afternoon in 2000, and the 28-year-old Colombian biol

One of my very favorite game developers, Zach Gage, is back with a new one. Knotwords , by Gage and Jack Schlesinger, is a crossword-puzzle style game with a twist: instead of filling the puzzle via c

A controversial 19-mile bus corridor connecting the San Fernando and San Gabriel valleys got the go-ahead Thursday. The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority approved plans to move

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California’s attorney general has announced a first-of-its kind investigation into the fossil fuel and petrochemical industries for their alleged role in causing and exacerbating a global crisis in pl

They’re All Good Dogs, and It Has Nothing to Do With Their Breed Retrievers that don’t retrieve and Papillons that point are all possible because the genes that shape dog behavior predate modern breed

For almost two years, as the pandemic raged, the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority made its buses free. Ridership, for the most part, climbed steadily, and at a faster rate than

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Guest Essay Elizabeth Warren: Democrats Can Avoid Disaster in November April 18, 2022 By Ms. Warren is a U.S. senator from Massachusetts Democrats are the party of working people. Ahead of the 2020 el

Listening to last week’s Accidental Tech Podcast made me realize: that the original HomePod and the Apple Studio Display have a few things in common. Both products entered a category full of competiti

Hello from Oakland! Last night, you helped us unlock our third stretch goal: spare keyswitches shipped with every keyboard pledge. Kailh’s keyswitches have a good reputation for reliability, but havin

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Updated at 3:45 p.m. on April 13, 2022. The world’s biggest tech companies are getting serious about carbon removal, the still-nascent technology wherein humanity can pull heat-trapping carbon dioxide

particle physics Newly Measured Particle Seems Heavy Enough to Break Known Physics April 7, 2022 A new analysis of W bosons suggests these particles are significantly heavier than predicted by the Sta

Updated at 9:22 a.m. ET on April 5, 2022. I. One bright afternoon in early January, on a beach in Southern California, a young woman spread what looked like a very strange picnic across an orange polk

After two years of working from home, I don’t have one unified period of getting things done. I have several mini periods. Work isn’t a contiguous landmass of focus; it’s more like an archipelago of p

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