The company moved most of its manufacturing to Vietnam from China to avoid tariffs. But the unpredictability of President Trump’s plans have thrown Nintendo for a loop. Listen to this article · 6:48 min Learn more People played the Nintendo Switch 2 video game console last week at an event in New…

A new crop of Democrats are announcing runs for office — sometimes against incumbents — in an expression of frustration with the establishment. Listen to this article · 7:04 min Learn more George Hornedo, 34, announced on Wednesday that he would challenge Representative André Carson of Indiana, 50,…

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Teslas that have been sold or traded in during the backlash against the company’s chief executive have become bargains on lots. Listen to this article · 6:17 min Learn more Used Teslas at Hayward Honda in Hayward, Calif. Many owners began selling their Teslas as a form of protest or because they no…

My Mac mini server, as seen remotely through Screens. Last year, while listening to the Connected podcast, I was struck by something Stephen Hackett said: The opportunities are endless with an always-on Mac. Yes, this. This exactly. I’ve had a Mac running as a server in my house for more than 20…

The redesigned map of the New York City system, the first to be introduced in nearly half a century, is reminiscent of a version from the 1970s that was reviled by many traditionalists. Listen to this article · 5:41 min Learn more The new map, right, is a diagrammatic, brightly colored variation on…

Just to be clear: Today is, in many ways, the best time in American history to be single. In the 18th century, bachelors paid higher taxes and faced harsher punishments for crimes than their betrothed counterparts. (“A Man without a Wife,” Benjamin Franklin said, “is but half a Man.”) Single…

The value proposition of the Nintendo Switch 2 may seem pretty clear, but it’s much more obvious when you use one. Nintendo’s new console is the Switch but slightly bigger and slightly better, and that has been apparent since the device was first revealed in January in a mostly detail-free…

That same fallacy is taking root among AI’s biggest backers. AI can never fail, it can only be failed. Failed by you and me, the smooth-brained Luddites who just don’t get it.

The world found out shortly before 2 p.m. eastern time on March 15 that the United States was bombing Houthi targets across Yemen. I, however, knew two hours before the first bombs exploded that the attack might be coming. The reason I knew this is that Pete Hegseth, the secretary of defense, had…

Zeynep Tufekci March 16, 2025 Listen to this article · 11:06 min Learn more By Opinion Columnist Leer en español Since scientists began playing around with dangerous pathogens in laboratories, the world has experienced four or five pandemics, depending on how you count. One of them, the 1977 Russian…

Scientists are using machine learning to find new treatments among thousands of old medicines. Joseph Coates, left, owes his life to an A.I. model developed by Dr. David Fajgenbaum and the rest of his team.Credit...Hannah Yoon for The New York Times Scientists are using machine learning to find new…

There is a long-standing divergence in how Americans view criminal justice. While everyone agrees that those who commit crimes should be punished, there is disagreement on cases in which guilt is less certain. Is it preferable to cast a wide net, ensuring that criminals face sanction even if some…

Just when we thought the M3 was in the ground and Apple had rapidly moved every single Mac model over to the fresh and new M4 processor, in rolls the high-end Mac Studio, equipped with the impossible-to-predict, never-before-seen M3 Ultra processor. That’s right—in March 2025, a full 16 months after…

Apple’s new top tier Mac Studio, powered by the M3 Ultra chip, contains so much computing horsepower that it’s never going to be on the radar of most tech enthusiasts — let alone your average consumer. It starts at $3,999, but if you upgrade every spec to the best on offer (including an astonishing…

The new Mac Studio is an interesting product because it’s got a surprising wrinkle: its high-end configuration, which starts at $3999 and escalates rapidly from there, is powered not by an M4 chip but by a new and unusual M3 chip, the M3 Ultra, which offers the performance of two M3 Max chips but…

Ben Lovejoy, writing at 9to5Mac: Our editor-in-chief Chance Miller wryly commented that a radical new look would serve as a great way to distract from the ever-slowing progress on the new Siri. But in truth, I think many more Apple users will be wowed by a new look than would ever care about Siri.…

“Flow,” a dialogue-free animated Latvian film made with open-source software, is keeping our domesticated friends riveted. Listen to this article · 5:18 min Learn more In “Flow,” a motley crew of industrious animals, led by a black cat, band together to survive rising sea…

It’s been nearly two years since the Mac Studio was updated to M2, but on Wednesday Apple announced the next step in its evolution. And if you’re ready to write off the Mac Studio as having skipped the M3 generation entirely… maybe don’t do that? That’s because Apple’s announcing two models of Mac…

Jennie Bromberg was somehow still exuberant last weekend about her future career in public health. In January, she interviewed for a competitive Ph.D. program in epidemiology at the University of Washington, one of several to which she has applied. “I loved them. It was amazing,” she told me by…

Posted on February 27, 2025 Posted by John Scalzi Author Gourav Mohanty is here today not only to tell you about his newest novel, but also to let you in on some of India’s most interesting mythology. Take a look at the Big Idea for Dance of Shadows, and see what these forgotten legends are all…

On a bright, hot day in mid-September 2011, Marine biologist named Christine Pergent-Martini was hunkered down inside the cabin of a small research vessel, a 97-foot-long catamaran, cruising through the Mediterranean Sea about 12 miles off the coast of Corsica. Outside the ship’s windows, the sun…

Tails are a common feature across the animal kingdom. Nearly every class of vertebrate has them. Reptiles use them for self-defense and attacking prey. Tails help with balance and communication in dogs and cats and aid navigation in birds. Humans’ primate ancestors had them, too. Our forebears used…

Evolution is a master recycler. It often uses old structures (or ancient genes) for new jobs. The mammalian ear is a perfect example. Over the eons, the jawbones of our fish ancestors became three separate small bones that transmit sound waves from the eardrum to the inner ear. Now a new study shows…

To be human is to sleep. You spend roughly a third of your life in slumber—but your body doesn’t simply flip an “off” switch for all these hours. Your brain, in particular, carries out a long housekeeping list when the lights go out. One of these tasks is known as “brainwashing,” in which your…

Update January 24, 2022: After an initial launch in China and the United States, Beats Fit Pro are now expanding to new countries. These new countries include Belgium, the UK, Germany, Spain, South Korea, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, France, and more. You can check the Apple Online Store in your…

I like to tell my undergraduates that hormones predispose organisms, including people, to shift their energy among different life goals. When we become parents, hormones help redirect energy from mating to parenting. That being said, most male mammals don’t get involved in parenting, but there are…

Culture / February 10, 2025 The Philadelphia Eagles and Kendrick Lamar’s collective of geniuses made this the Super Bowl we needed. Copy Link Facebook X (Twitter) Bluesky Pocket Email Kendrick Lamar performs during halftime of Super Bowl LIX between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia…

Deep inside Cobra Cave, in the remote mountains of northeastern Laos, the beam from Eric Suzzoni’s headlamp bounced across barren rock until it flashed on something unusual: dozens of bones and teeth protruding from a layer of sediment and rock. Suzzoni, a tall, 50-year-old caving specialist with a…

Black-owned brands got a foot in the door through accelerator programs at big retailers like Target and Amazon. Now they worry the door might be closing. Listen to this article · 9:58 min Learn more Pernell Cezar, who sells his coffee in 1,500 Target locations, said he was disappointed by the…

Subscriber-only Newsletter The Ethicist The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on self-pleasuring secrets and the pressures of living up to one’s sexual orientation. Credit...Illustration by Tomi Um By Feb. 7, 2025, 6:50 a.m. ET This is the fifth and last installment in a series for this column,…

When I was unexpectedly diagnosed with ADHD last year, it turned my entire identity upside down. At 37, I’d tamed my restlessness and fiery temper, my obsessive reorganization of my mental to-do list, and my tendency to write and rewrite the same sentence for hours. Being this way was exhausting,…

Posted on February 2, 2025 Posted by John Scalzi First, here’s the cover to the Korean edition of Starter Villain, and I have to say, I like it a lot. I’ve been impressed at how many of my overseas publishers have done their own take on the US version’s now-iconic cover, and how good most of them…

First word of the Trump administration’s since-rescinded order to freeze spending on federal loans and grants came not from a major news organization, but from a woman working alone in her Brooklyn apartment. Marisa Kabas’ scoop this past week was a key moment for a growing cadre of journalists who…

In a radical break with tradition, the National Science Foundation (NSF) this week began to search through billions of dollars of grants the agency has already awarded for anything touching on topics that President Donald Trump has criticized. And NSF has blocked grantees and trainees from accessing…

Kitt Peak National Observatory in Tucson, Ariz., is managed by a consortium of universities and the National Science Foundation. VisionsofAmerica/Joe Sohm/Getty Images/Photodisc Julia Van Etten suddenly cannot pay her bills this week. The biologist at Rutgers University won a postdoctoral research…

Existing in my weird in-between status as a tech journalist and an author, I was intrigued by the announcement this week from Bookshop.org that it would now be selling ebooks. I like Bookshop.org; while I haven’t worked with them directly, most of my books are available through them, and I’ve…

Two office views from 2014. Left: My final docked work setup at IDG. Right: My first setup in my garage. When I started Six Colors more than a decade ago, I maintained continuity with my corporate job in a bunch of ways. I had been using a MacBook Air as my primary computer, taking it back and forth…

Should America just get rid of health insurers? Americans don’t seem to like insurance companies much, even if they’re happy with their health coverage itself. Several Democratic health-care proposals would end private health insurance entirely, an idea that some Americans seem to applaud, until you…