I thought it would have been a cold day in you know where before I’d switch away from Google Chrome. But I’ve been delightedly using Microsoft Edge as my main web browser for more than a year now. It’s fast like Chrome—it should be, since it leverages Chrome technology under the hood—but there are just a few bell
Last week, Darby Maloney posted a TikTok explaining her job as a product manager in the tech industry—and, in the process, accidentally triggered some dark, misogynistic corners of the internet. Maloney’s 92-seco
A cloaking device is a technology that makes your spaceship invisible to others. It’s a must-have for any modern sci-fi hero. But not even the Klingons or the Romulans had a two-way cloaking device. Many of us do—it’s our phone. When we feel that little “ZZZT!!” of a notification and pick it up, our sentient self becomes instantly invisible. Fascinatingly, the effect is two-way. The human world disappears to us at these moments. We can’t see anyone. W
Once upon a time, Apple’s business was centered around the Mac, and nobody expected the company to update its operating-system software more frequently than once every other year or so.
For example, the Mac’s OS X Tiger update arrived in April 2005–and its successor, OS X Leopard, didn’t show up until October 2007. (It
Mimi Winsberg is a Stanford-trained psychiatrist, and the co-founder and chief medical officer of Brightside, a national telemental health company. She previously served as the onsite psychiatrist at Facebook. She specializes in the field of digital health, devising algorithms to recognize mental illness though data.
Below, Winsberg shares five key insights from her new book, Speaking in Thumbs: A Psychiatrist Decodes Your Relationship Texts So You Don’t Have To.
Here is a common scene: A supervisor agrees to write your letter of recommendation with one condition—you draft it. Shocker. We, too, were surprised the first time this happened to us. We assumed these letters were blinded evaluations. But after deconstructing our initial unease with the secret handshake, wink-wink agreement, we found the rationale: Writing a good letter of rec
Though the COVID-19 pandemic may seem like a thing of the past to some, the world is still actually gripped by it. Recent waves of newer omicron sub-variants have swept through South Africa and
Justin E. H. Smith is professor of history and philosophy of science at the University of Paris. His books include Irrationality: A History of the Dark Side of Reason; The Philosopher: A History in Six Types; and Divine Machines: Leibniz and the Sciences of Life.
Below, Smith shares five key insights from his new book, The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning.
With E3 once again taking the year off, Summer Game Fest—hosted by Geoff Keighley, creator of the Game Awards—has emerged as the epicenter of video game announcements for 2022. And this year’s show certainly packed a lot in.
Over the course of two hours, Keighley unveiled and gave updates on more than 35 titles, priming the pump for gamers for the coming months. The games spanned all platforms a
Jurassic World: Dominion is hyperbolic Hollywood entertainment at its best, with an action-packed storyline that refuses to let reality get in the way of a good story. Yet just like its predecessors, it offers an underlying cautionary tale of technological hubris that’s very real.