Microsoft's Build developer conference has a bit of an odd history, which I recounted in a 2016 Update : the conference was born in 2011 as a showcase for a...
This post contains spoilers for this week's episode of Succession , "Church and State." "Today is just about today," Kendall Roy insists early in "Church and State." He is trying...
Chris van Tulleken refuses to tell me what to have for breakfast. "Everyone thinks that I have a strong opinion about what they should eat," he tells me, as I...
As the Florida governor hopscotched the country preparing to run for president, a Michigan nonprofit paid the bills. It won't say where it got the money. Send any friend a...
Aaron Tilley and Yang Jie, reporting last week for The Wall Street Journal, " Apple Is Breaking Its Own Rules With a New Headset " ( News+ link ): Apple's...
As I arrived for the first day of the National Conservatism Conference in London, a protester outside shouted directions to me: "Up the stairs—turn far right." That description, unsurprisingly, would...
Every month, more than two hundred people from the media, academia, and other intellectual circles are invited to a private hangout in New York City, which is known as the...
This wasn't Supposed to happen. In 2020, in a house surrounded by fields in the Irish countryside, Liam, 19, sat at his laptop, an energy drink fizzing at his elbow....
Some things in tech are shocking, but not surprising — think of a CEO of a struggling company losing their job. Sure, the news is unexpected, but it makes sense...
Because Twitter is so big and open-ended, and because it is a product of the grandiose and impatient and deliriously shallow world of Silicon Valley, the ways in which it...
Maureen Dowd No Playing Ostrich With Trump May 13, 2023 Credit... In-camera multiple exposure photograph by Damon Winter/The New York Times Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you...
"We've heard over and over in meetings: 'No one supports this!' " said one housing advocate. "Which means the people you talk to don't support this." Craig Hudson for the...
The media studies building at Queens College is small and dark, with low ceilings and narrow corridors. It was built more than a century ago as a residential school for...
Lost. Photo: Meta A few years on, Silicon Valley's brief obsession with the metaverse has assumed the quality of a bad dream, half-remembered. Legless avatars beckoned us into barren digital...
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The HBO show " Barry " centers on a former marine, played by Bill Hader, who has transitioned his field killing skills into a career as a hit man for...
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When we talk about artificial intelligence, we rely on metaphor, as we always do when dealing with something new and unfamiliar. Metaphors are, by their nature, imperfect, but we still...
The text below is a very recent leaked document, which was shared by an anonymous individual on a public Discord server who has granted permission for its republication. It originates...
Before Clubhouse, Substack, and Elon Musk's Twitter 2.0 began floundering, they were supposed to revolutionize media. They also have something else in common: they were all backed by venture capital...
I met Geoffrey Hinton at his house on a pretty street in north London just four days before the bombshell announcement that he is quitting Google. Hinton is a pioneer...
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Maureen Dowd Requiem for the Newsroom April 29, 2023 New York Times editors at work during the electrical blackout of the Northeast on Nov. 10, 1965. Credit... Pat Burns/The New...