I don’t generally lead with benchmarks or pricing, but here’s a thought about the new iPad Mini, which comes equipped with a version of the same A15 chip as the new iPhone 13 and 13 Pro models: For $5

When Delta swept across the United States last year, the extremely transmissible and deadlier variant threw us into pandemic limbo . The virus remained a danger mostly to unvaccinated people, but they

If you’re trapped in COVID isolation right now, you’re making muffins. If that’s literally true, good for you, and I can recommend these . But I’m talking metaphorically. Right now, the infection you’

Zeynep Tufekci The C.D.C. Is Hoping You’ll Figure Covid Out on Your Own Jan. 5, 2022 Credit... Katherine Lam By Opinion Columnist I have some good news and some bad news, and they’re both the same. Se

It’s a new year! Let’s start with the good news! There are now seven independent lab studies showing that Omicron is less infective in the lower lungs. Here’s a compilation from Eric Topol ( who is on

Walter Barker has, since the fall of 2020, had five doses of COVID-19 vaccine. He’s already starting to ponder when he might need a sixth. Barker, a 38-year-old office worker in New York, received his

The first thing I noticed is that it’s thicker than the MacBook Pros of the preceding few years. It feels thicker. It looks thicker. But look at the specs . Last year’s 13-inch M1 MacBook Pro: 0.61 in

After such a momentous 2020 for the Mac , it was hard for 2021 to measure up . But with the Apple silicon transition well underway, the question remains: What does the Mac’s 2022 have in store? Good n

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The Interior Department gave the green light Tuesday to two huge solar farms in the California desert — a reminder that the Biden administration still has tools to combat climate change even if it can

Updated at 12:00 p.m. on December 16, 2021 America was not prepared for COVID-19 when it arrived . It was not prepared for last winter’s surge. It was not prepared for Delta’s arrival in the summer or

And there it is, the first trickle of data to confirm it. In the eyes of vaccinated immune systems, Omicron looks like a big old weirdo—but also, a kind of familiar one. That’s the verdict served up b

Trash never dies. Sometimes it’s not even trash. That’s the notion behind a state law that on Jan. 1 will require Californians to separate organic material from their other garbage. It’s a landmark re

The day before I got my COVID booster shot, news of the variant we’re now calling Omicron erupted around the world. Mere hours earlier, I’d been on the fence about boosting, as I had been for months.

At a White House press briefing yesterday, NPR’s national political correspondent Mara Liasson asked Press Secretary Jen Psaki a question that’s been on many people’s minds: “There are still a lot of

A new dichotomy has begun dogging the pandemic discourse. With the rise of the über-transmissible Delta variant, experts are saying you’re either going to get vaccinated , or going to get the coronavi

A lot is still unknown around Omicron, but a worrying trend has become clear: This variant sure is spreading fast. In South Africa , the U.K. , and Denmark —countries with the best variant surveillanc

No one knows exactly what endemic COVID will look like, but whatever it looks like, this— gestures at the current situation —ain’t it. COVID is not yet endemic. There is little doubt that the coronavi

It’s still wait-and-see time for many key characteristics of the Omicron variant. I think the fact that it’s going to cause more breakthroughs in vaccinated people, and re-infections in people with pr

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — In an industrial area of this seaside city, a little-known biotech company is entering a pivotal phase of making Africa’s first coronavirus vaccine by attempting to replicate

1 of 15 | Nazima Shaikh, mother of Arbaz Mullah weeps as she speaks to the Associated Press at her home in Belagavi, India, Oct. 6, 2021. Arbaz Mullah was a Muslim man in love with a Hindu woman. But

Travelers at the airport in Johannesburg, South Africa, on November 27, 2021, after several countries imposed new travel restrictions in response to the omicron Covid-19 variant. Phill Magakoe/AFP via

As fall dips into winter in the Northern Hemisphere, the coronavirus has served up the holiday gift that no one, absolutely no one, asked for: a new variant of concern , dubbed Omicron by the World He

A man peeked into the construction site of a large Central African cultural center funded by the Chinese government in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. Race to the Future How the U.S. Lost Grou

Zeynep Tufekci Omicron Is Coming. The U.S. Must Act Now. Nov. 28, 2021 Credit... Pete Kiehart for The New York Times By Opinion Columnist Leer en español There’s very little we know for sure about Omi

We have a new variant in town, Omicron. I was hoping to avoid learning the Greek alphabet, but here we are. I’ve written a piece about it at the New York Times , calling for early, precautionary actio

The City of Boston is poised to give final approval to a law that would divest city funds from the fossil fuel industry, a symbolic but forceful message supporting green energy investment as Massachus

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The fear of breakthrough COVID-19 infections spoiled the summer. In the early days of vaccine bliss, many Americans had thought that the shots were a ticket to normalcy—and at least for a while, that’

One of Apple’s best qualities is the time and energy it spends on pushing the envelope of technology. In recent years, it’s debuted impressive camera features, world-class tablets, amazing processors,

A line of takeout orders sat near the kitchen Monday afternoon at Langer’s Deli. Customers and food delivery drivers streamed in and out an hour before closing, grabbing bags in a rush. Some may not h

W e are now more than a year and a half into the coronavirus pandemic, and we are once again hand-wringing about “hygiene theater,” the various public displays of sanitation and cleanliness that criti

The one thing the climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, made clear is that human society remains in business-as-usual mode, with no meaningful curb on fossil fuel use. The soft pledges made at COP26 mi

Overeducated people are ruining political discourse by embracing “woke” language. If you pay attention to modern fights about language and social justice, you’ve probably heard some version of this co

India Eased Its Covid-19 Disaster. Fears of Complacency Remain. The success represents a major victory for Narendra Modi’s government, but a recent slowdown in new vaccinations has sparked worries. A

I n the fall of 2019 , Facebook launched a massive effort to combat the use of its platforms for human trafficking. Working around the clock, its employees searched Facebook and its subsidiary Instagr

The new 14- and 16-inch MacBook Pro models usher in a new era in Apple laptops. These are the first high-end Macs to be powered by Apple-designed processors, and that’s a big deal—but they also reject

Today’s Apple Mac keynote has been very eventful, with the company announcing a new line-up of MacBook Pro devices, powered by two different new SoCs in Apple’s Silicon line-up: the new M1 Pro and the

Catherine Garland, an astrophysicist, started seeing the problem in 2017. She was teaching an engineering course, and her students were using simulation software to model turbines for jet engines. She