I suspect we may eventually look back at Google's latest quantum computing breakthrough in a similar way. On October 15, 2026 ...

Hadden traveled through Germany and Austria independently during part of a longer European trip and came away with lessons that previous solo adventures had not already supplied. I appreciate that ...

Taylor Swift has released a 13-second preview of her “Patient Zero” music video. Thirteen seconds. I have spent longer deciding whether to skip an ad for something I was never going to buy. Yet here I ...

I used to think the phrase “above the law” was reserved for billionaires, multinational corporations, international fugitives, and anyone wealthy enough to have a legal team whose annual catering ...

I thought we were building better software. Apparently, somewhere between autocomplete and artificial general intelligence, Silicon Valley decided it needed to reinvent theology. That is roughly where ...

For most of my life, I assumed human language developed for sensible reasons. You know, survival. “Tiger behind you.” “Food over there.” “Stop eating those berries. Kevin ate them yesterday and now ...

Whenever a government attaches the word “mega” to something, my natural instinct is to reach for the fine print. Maybe that makes me cynical. Maybe I’ve simply spent too many years watching ordinary ...

The internet is dead. Please remain calm. You may continue scrolling. Its digital corpse is still producing listicles, recommending products, starting political arguments, and sending you ...

There are certain childhood wounds that time simply cannot heal. You can grow up. You can get a mortgage. You can develop opinions about interest rates, cholesterol, lawn care and whether $19 for a ...

I have a particularly soft spot for any company that looks at a complicated hobby and asks whether people might enjoy it more without an entrance exam. Photography could certainly use that ...

I used to think of fall as the season when the garden started shutting down. Tomatoes slowed down. Summer flowers faded. The sun disappeared earlier every evening, and gardening gradually turned into ...

I have learned to approach corporate partnership announcements with the same cautious optimism I reserve for restaurant menus containing the phrase “market price.” The language is always polished, the ...