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The man who helped give the world candy-colored computers walked out the door as Tim Cook took charge. What does that mean for the company’s next big thing? Send any friend a story As a subscriber, yo

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

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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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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 Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you sh

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

This morning, Metro hosted a tour of the under construction Regional Connector subway, slated to open later this year. Local press toured the nearly finished Grand Avenue Arts/Bunker Hill Station, inc

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

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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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Last Friday, Lakshmi Ganapathi’s son turned 5, and finally became eligible for his first Pfizer COVID shot. Ganapathi’s family had been anticipating that moment for more than a year, yet as of late, s

Many Ukrainians are encountering a confounding and frustrating backlash from family members in Russia who have bought into the official Kremlin messaging. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you

Recycling is good. Just ask Apple. After the company was repeatedly called out by Greenpeace for poor performance on environmental issues, it began a process to detail all the ways it was being green,

The new iPad Air. The last time I wrote about the iPad Air in October 2020, I explained how its fourth-generation model intrigued me again. A year and a half later, here I am, once again fascinated by

About three weeks ago, COVID case rates in the United Kingdom made an abrupt about-face, spurred on by a more transmissible Omicron subvariant called BA.2. (So far, there is no reason to believe the n

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The United States is supporting Ukraine with aid and weapons and punishing Russian aggression with financial and economic sanctions. But the United States can do more to resolve the global crisis caus

The introduction of the Mac Studio this week got me thinking about how strange the final few years of the Intel-based 27-inch iMac were. When the 27-inch iMac was refreshed in 2020 we all knew it was

Teresa Leong had known for years that her kitchen scraps weren’t really trash. But at first, she wasn’t sure what to do with them. Sometimes she’d just toss a bell pepper into the bushes, figuring it

In the latter half of the 2010s, the Mac was having a bad time. The small cylindrical Mac Pro introduced in 2013 was a dead end. The butterfly-switch keyboards used throughout the entire MacBook lineu

The Mac Studio is the first entirely new entry in the Mac product line in a very long time. It’s a kind of Mac— the mid-range-desktop —that used to be common, but vanished shortly after Steve Jobs ret

Apple’s most popular devices come with their own displays. The iPhone, iPad, MacBook, and iMac can all be used right out of the box. In some ways, it’s the ultimate triumph of the original iMac’s “the

The iPad family has sort of settled in to a consistent lineup for a few years, with five models. Three of them are distinctive: iPad, no adjective: the low cost one ($330 starting price) iPad Mini: th