Cormac McCarthy

A Shape-Shifting Plastic With a Flexible Future

With restrictions on space and weight, what would you bring if you were going to Mars? An ideal option might be a single...

We Tried the Apple Vision Pro + Can Congress Protect Kids Online? + Cruise’s Crash

Listen and follow ‘Hard Fork’Apple | Spotify | Amazon | YouTubeApple’s Vision Pro headset is now for sale in stores. Will it live...

A Practical Guide to Quitting Your Smartphone

Last May, Fabuwood, a kitchen cabinet manufacturer in Newark, instituted a new company policy: No phones allowed during meetings.To enforce it, the company...

Meta Reports Profits More Than Tripled and Issues Its First Dividend

Meta on Thursday reported a 25 percent increase in quarterly revenue while profit more than tripled, a rise fueled by its ads business...

Apple Sees First Quarterly Revenue Increase in a Year

Apple has had plenty of challenges to start the year. The Apple Watch has been altered by patent lawsuits, the App Store has...

Amazon Enters Chatbot Fray With Shopping Tool

Amazon entered the consumer chatbot fray on Thursday, announcing a new artificial intelligence personal shopping assistant as the company races to catch up...

TikTok Just Lost a Huge Catalog of Music. What Happened?

Universal’s concerns are real, and reflect some of the most urgent challenges in the music business today: artists’ need to make a decent...

Silicon Valley Battles States Over New Online Safety Laws for Children

Last summer, Ohio enacted a social media statute that would require Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok and YouTube to get a parent’s consent before permitting...

Apple Has a New Plan for Its App Store. Many Developers Hate It.

After 15 years of dictating how apps are distributed on iPhones, Apple has been forced to take marching orders from European regulators. A...

Elon Musk’s $50 Billion Tesla Pay Was Struck Down. What Happens Next?

A Delaware judge’s decision to void the pay package that helped make Elon Musk the world’s richest person leaves Tesla’s board with some...

Have We Reached the End of TikTok’s Infinite Scroll?

It all underscores a fundamental TikTok issue that remains unsolved: There hasn’t yet been an evolution in optimal content form. The narrative styles...

Will Lawmakers Really Act to Protect Children Online? Some Say Yes.

In the final minutes of a congressional hearing on Wednesday in which tech chief executives were berated for not protecting children online, Senator...

A.I. Fuels a New Era of Product Placement

Product placement, one of the oldest tricks in advertisers’ toolbox, is getting an A.I. makeover.New technology has made it easier to insert digital,...

Can This A.I.-Powered Search Engine Replace Google? It Has for Me.

For my entire adult life, whenever I’ve had a question about the world or needed to track down something online, I’ve gone to...

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