Cormac McCarthy

The One Place on Social Media That Still Feels Human

Earlier this year, I was thumbing through Facebook Marketplace when I came across a “fire piano” for sale. I clicked the listing expecting...

The Company Testing Wall Street’s Appetite for A.I. Computing Power

In 2016, three New York commodities traders — Michael Intrator, Brian Venturo and Brannin McBee — fell in love with cryptocurrencies. They were...

Elon Musk’s Starlink Expands Across White House Complex

Starlink, the satellite internet service operated by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, is now accessible across the White House campus. It is the latest installation...

Telegram’s Pavel Durov, Charged With Range of Crimes, Is Allowed to Leave France

Pavel Durov, the founder of the messaging app Telegram who was charged in France last year with a range of crimes related to...

Digital Therapists Get Stressed Too, Study Finds

Even chatbots get the blues. According to a new study, OpenAI’s artificial intelligence tool ChatGPT shows signs of anxiety when its users share...

Can Trump and Musk Convince More Conservatives to Buy Teslas?

After climbing into a Tesla Model S last week, President Trump pledged to buy one. The next day, the Fox News host Sean...

Elon Musk Shared, Then Deleted X Post Absolving Hitler, Stalin and Mao of Genocide

Early on Friday, Elon Musk shared a post written by an X user about the actions of three 20th century dictators — then...

Carl Lundstrom, Who Backed the File-Sharing Site Pirate Bay, Dies in Plane Crash

Carl Lundstrom, the heir to a Swedish crisp bread fortune who financed the Pirate Bay, a notorious file-sharing service that was popular in...

Overlooked No More: Beulah Henry, Inventor With an Endless Imagination

This article is part of Overlooked, a series of obituaries about remarkable people whose deaths, beginning in 1851, went unreported in The Times.From...

Powerful A.I. Is Coming. We’re Not Ready.

Here are some things I believe about artificial intelligence:I believe that over the past several years, A.I. systems have started surpassing humans in...

Apple’s Siri-ous Problem + How Starlink Took Over the World + Is A.I. Making Us Dumb?

Listen to and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTube | iHeartRadioThis week, as the long-promised new Siri faces increasing delays,...

Mercedes’s Most Affordable Sedan Will Be Electric

Mercedes-Benz said on Thursday that the latest version of its least expensive sedan would be available first as an all-electric car and then...

UK Watchdog Slams Apple & Google for Stifling Mobile Browser Innovation

The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority has found that Apple is restricting competition in the country by limiting the use of rival browsers...

How Generative A.I. Complements the MAGA Style

A man who looks like Musk, only 20 years younger and better rested, eats hummus before another cut to belly dancers with large...

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