Brave New World Dept. When you’re waiting for a flight, what’s the difference between out there and in here? November 24, 2025 The thing about lounging is that it’s impossible to lounge without worrying that someone, somewhere, is lounging better.Illustration by Tomi Um Airport lounges are about who…

Michelle Cottle Jan. 14, 2026 Credit...Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters Listen to this article · 6:24 min Learn more By Ms. Cottle writes about national politics for Opinion. Chuck Schumer, the Senate Democratic leader, has been on a rough ride for the past year. His team is out of power in Washington, its…

Let’s Just Get It Out of the Way and Talk About the New Icons First, but Let’s Also Use the Icons as a Proxy for Talking About the Broader Software Design Problems at Apple There’s a lot of hate for the new app icons of the entire Creator Studio suite, but while I think the icons are tragically…

Since an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed Renee Good on Jan. 7, Minneapolis has seen a sharp escalation in the agency’s brutal tactics. In my own neighborhood, ICE agents have tear-gassed schools and local businesses. They have physically assaulted people pumping gas and…

When CC Wei visited Cupertino last August, he had bad news for his largest client. Apple would need to acquiesce to the largest price rise in years, TSMC’s CEO told its executives. Tim Cook and his team took the news on the chin. Wei had been telegraphing hikes in earnings calls over the past few…

Last week, we talked about one huge question, “How the hell are you supposed to have a career in tech in 2026?” That’s pretty specific to this current moment, but there are some timeless, more perennial questions I've been sharing with friends for years that I wanted to give to all of you. They're a…

At Macworld Expo in January 2005, miniaturization was on Steve Jobs’s mind. Since the world was in the midst of iPod fever, most of the focus was on the tiny iPod Shuffle. But 21 years ago, Apple’s CEO also unveiled one of the most notable new Macs of all time. Yes, the Mac mini is now old enough to…

Norbert Heger, with a perfectly illustrated post, “The Struggle of Resizing Windows on macOS Tahoe”: Since upgrading to macOS Tahoe, I’ve noticed that quite often my attempts to resize a window are failing. This never happened to me before in almost 40 years of using computers. So why all of a…

Elizabeth Lopatto, writing at The Verge, “Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai Are Cowards”: Since X’s users started using Grok to undress women and children using deepfake images, I have been waiting for what I assumed would be inevitable: X getting booted from Apple’s and Google’s app stores. The fact that…

Left to right: iPhone Air, Field Notes and pen, iPhone Fold mock-up, iPhone 17 Pro. If many years-long rumors are true, 2026 will be the year when Apple’s long-gestating folding iPhone becomes a reality. But there are a lot of different approaches to folding phones out there, and there’s no…

Two ICE agents film the press using smartphones in the hallway outside the immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza in New York USA on July 11 2025. The Department of Homeland Security has been acquiring new tools to identify people and monitor them. Madison Swart/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images…

People look at you differently when you carry a Geiger counter. Or, at least, when you carry a Geiger counter and exclaim things like “Much less radiation here than you might expect!” But how else are you to know that the radiation in your food is at acceptable levels? They have government…

If someone had told me 12 months ago what was going to happen this past year, I wouldn’t have believed them. Skipping swiftly past all the political, economic and social turmoil, I come to the interface changes brought in macOS Tahoe with Liquid Glass. After three months of strong feedback during…

The number one question I get from my friends, acquaintances, and mentees in the technology industry these days is, by far, variations on the basic theme of, “what the hell are we supposed to do now?” There have been mass layoffs that leave more tech workers than ever looking for new roles in the…

Mayor Zohran Mamdani said New York City would intervene in the Pinnacle Group’s bankruptcy case. Tenants have long complained about living conditions in the company’s properties. Listen to this article · 6:42 min Learn more On his first day in office, Mayor Zohran Mamdani visited a Brooklyn building…

For those confused about the decision to strike Venezuela, capture Nicolás Maduro, and bring him to New York City: This is actually an important phase of Donald Trump’s immigration policy. Phase 1 (ongoing) has been to remove all law-abiding immigrants who have been living in the country waiting for…

For ecologists, the Covid-19 pandemic has presented a remarkable natural experiment in what can happen to wild animals when humans stay home. Dark-eyed juncos, normally forest-dwelling, have occupied Los Angeles for about 20 years.Credit...Alex Fu By Dec. 15, 2025 About two decades ago, the…

Fall in the Seattle area means lots of leaves in bike lanes. Slippery, soggy leaves can be dangerous on two wheels. Now, volunteers in Kirkland have a clever, new tool to clean bike lanes from the seat of a bike. When Charlie Liban rides his e-bike through Kirkland, he doesn't avoid the hazards of…

In the two decades I’ve been in this racket, I’ve never been angrier at myself for missing a story than I am about Apple’s announcement on Friday that the “more personalized Siri” features of Apple Intelligence, scheduled to appear between now and WWDC, would be delayed until “the coming year”. I…

50 States, 50 Fixes A collective of land trusts, conservancies and tribes is capturing birdsong with audio gear and A.I. for clues about habitat health. Credit... By Visuals by Meron Menghistab 50 States, 50 Fixes is a series about local solutions to environmental problems. A few more to come this…

The world is heading into an era of energy oversupply, with US-backed LNG and China-backed solar competing for the hearts — and wallets — of emerging markets. Beijing and Washington are betting on opposite energy futures. The International Energy Agency’s latest World Energy Outlook shows each…

This display can only be used by its included Mac. I’ve been thinking about Apple’s relationship with computer displays lately. Maybe it was the report that the iMac Pro might somehow return, combined with John Voorhees of MacStories detailing how he gave up the Studio Display for an ASUS monitor?…

The organization, which began as a nonprofit, charges hospitals for access to its donor registry.Credit...Dave Sanders for The New York Times The National Kidney Registry has matched thousands of kidney donors with recipients. It has also paid millions of dollars to a company owned by its founder.…

On December 24, 1865, just eight months after the Civil War ended, former Confederate soldiers founded the KKK. This week the UK Guardian reported that neo-Nazis are seeing a resurgence and revival, especially as the FBI backs off in combatting white supremacy terrorism. To understand why our nation…

The words “pollination” and “flower” may seem inseparable, but plants began courting insects millions of years before they evolved flashy petals. Now we know how they may have done it: not with dazzling color but with radiant heat. A study published today in Science reveals that cycads, tropical…

Last month, journalist Karen Hao posted a Twitter thread in which she acknowledged that there was a substantial error in her blockbuster book Empire of AI. Hao had written that a proposed Google data center in a town near Santiago, Chile, could require “more than one thousand times the amount of…

How life begins remains an unsolved question. One key component might be RNA, a molecular cousin of DNA found in every form of life on Earth, and now scientists say they have shown how it could have formed on our planet eons ago. But not everyone is convinced, and RNA is possibly just one of many…

One evening last September, Pitambar Panda, a 24-year-old product designer in the Indian city of Pune, mounted his pearly white electric Ola scooter. He accelerated noiselessly through the city’s busy avenues on his way home from work. Learn more 0:00/37:28 When he was shopping for a scooter a few…

Technology reporter Karen Hao started reporting on artificial intelligence in 2018, before ChatGPT was introduced, and is one of the few journalists to gain access to the inner world of the chatbot’s creator, OpenAI. In her book Empire of AI, Hao outlines the rise of the controversial company. In…

No other series has managed to capture isolation and discovery like Metroid Prime. The solitude in being stranded on an alien planet, tucking yourself into a Morph Ball to satisfyingly weave through tight spaces, or the compulsive urge to scan anything and everything around you to discover hidden…

Two particular phases in your nightly routine seem to play outsize roles in cognitive health. Listen to this article · 6:25 min Learn more Credit...Georgette Smith By April 25, 2025 Leer en español A good night’s sleep isn’t just about the number of hours you log. Getting quality sleep — the kind…

All hope is lost for the Lamorn. By the time Samus Aran is transported to Viewros, a distant planet far from home, the race of psychic aliens seems to be all but extinct. There are no traces of life, and any attempts to save themselves from a species-threatening calamity seem to have failed. They…

NBC News, back in March 2018: Speaking at a town hall event hosted by MSNBC’s Chris Hayes and Recode’s Kara Swisher, Cook said Facebook put profits above all else when it allegedly allowed user data to be taken through connected apps. [...] When asked what he would do if he were in Zuckerberg’s…

When Metroid Prime 4: Beyond is good, it’s good. The latest in Nintendo’s sci-fi exploration franchise, and the first since Metroid Dread in 2021, Beyond captures the moody sense of isolation and discovery that has been so core to Metroid since it debuted in 1986. Those quiet moments truly make you…

With little being done to clean the skies over New Delhi, the huge city struggles with its toxic air. Listen to this article · 6:20 min Learn more India Is a Rising Power, but Its Capital Is a Lethal Gas Chamber - The New York Times Visuals by Anindito Mukherjee The reporters spent a day on the…

Last month, some House members publicly acknowledged that Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza. It’s a judgment that Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch unequivocally proclaimed a year ago. Israeli human-rights organizations have reached the same conclusion. But such clarity is…

Trilobites In a small study, pet cats greeted male owners with more vocalizations than they did female caregivers. Listen to this article · 4:12 min Learn more Credit...Aleksei Poprotskii/Alamy By Nov. 27, 2025 Leer en español As he lectured on animal behavior, Kaan Kerman, an instructor in the…

Voters in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District voted on Tuesday, Dec. 2, to fill a vacancy left by Republican representative Mark Green, who resigned from Congress in July 2025. The election for this rural seat went for Republican candidate Matt Van Epps over Democratic candidate Aftyn Behn, with…

The late 1980s and early to mid 1990s were Apple’s weirdest and wildest era. Wedged between the triumph of the original Macintosh and the return of Steve Jobs were a sort of Wilderness Years where the company flailed all over the place, ultimately flaming out and requiring the now-famous rescue by…