Apparently, an increasing number of men are cooking meals at home. That's right. Men. In kitchens. Preparing food. Using ...

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 ...

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 have always assumed that when I send money to the federal government, it disappears into the vast digestive system of American bureaucracy, where it is eventually transformed into aircraft carriers, ...

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 ...

I read the phrase “Claude-shaped science” and immediately pictured a laboratory being remodeled around a chatbot’s preferences. The benches would be rearranged, the microscopes would receive ...

He was 86 years old. And apparently this is the part where everybody is supposed to lower their voice, rearrange their face into something appropriately solemn, and begin discussing his “complicated ...

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 ...