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After watching this year’s WWDC keynote in June, my initial impression of the watchOS 9 announcement was that Apple had prepared one of the largest Apple Watch updates in years. While writing my watchOS 9 overview later that day though, it felt like the scope of the changes were less than I originally thought. I

Silicon Valley is the latest player in a history of Western appropriation of Buddhism

Apple has handed out the Release Candidate builds of iOS 15.6, iPadOS 15.6, tvOS 15.6, and watchOS 8.7 to its developer testers.

Twitter Inc sued Elon Musk on Tuesday for violating his $44 billion deal to buy the social media platform and asked a Delaware court to order the world's richest person to complete the merger at the agreed $54.20 per Twitter share.

Alt-form storytelling, a key magazine-and-newspaper design trend, and hasn’t truly flourished on the modern internet. Axios could go way further than it does.

Have you heard of TiddlyWiki? It's a portable wiki that you can use on your desktop or put on to a flash drive or mobile device and carry...

Why I started a style blog.

This is my introduction to dying. It is a good place to die — in a Changi Women’s Prison cell.

Caution! Poison Snake On Premises! So read a handwritten sign posted at the entrance of our house. Our house was in the outskirts of Tokyo, in a town called Ōizumi in a district called Nerima. The …

“We needed to move from saying what we were thinking to saying what we were doing.” —Mike Angiulo (MikeAng), CVP Windows Planning and Ecosystem

Since the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision depriving people of the right to abortion leaked last month, some have advised deleting period tracking apps to prevent that data from being used to target people seeking abortion care. But it’s useful to distinguish between the security and privacy threats that abortion seekers are actively experiencing now versus threats that may come in the future.

While Microsoft announced earlier this year that it would block VBA macros on downloaded documents by default, Redmond said on Thursday that it will roll back this change based on "feedback" until further notice.

This deal was always headed to court. What happens next?

In this essay from Protean's third print issue, now online, Kimberly Bain reflects on grief and memory: on the still-resonating echoes of Emmett Till's death and his mother's cry, on Nina Simone, on Black mourning across historical time.

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Musk now has nine known children, after we learned about twins he had last year with Shivon Zilis.

Land of the Giants explores the social media juggernaut in a moment of transformation.

How police can find out where you’ve been, and what you can do about it.

I only popped one tire, which seems like a win

Get a shiny WebGL look without actually using WebGL. In this article we take a look at how CSS blend modes unleash the potential of cool compositing effects without the need for JavaScript

We are long past the “raising awareness” stage of this fight

Real Life is a magazine about living with technology. The emphasis is more on living. We publish one piece a day—essays, features, uncategorizable—four or five days a week. We launched with funding from Snapchat, but we operate with editorial independence and without ads.

Here are the albums, mixes and EPs we were feeling in June.

When I spitballed [a lexicon for Stage Manager][], I hadn’t yet actually played with the feature. One would think not having actually used a feature would prevent someone from giving feedback…

I am [still not in love][] with the name “Stage Manager” because it mixes metaphors and is easily confused with “[Center Stage][]”. My opinion is evidenced by the many [gaff…

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I’m Todd L. Burns, and welcome to Music Journalism Insider, a newsletter about music journalism. Click here to subscribe! Arielle Lana LeJarde is a Brooklyn-...

To win back abortion rights, Democrats need to learn how to fight the moral battle being waged by anti-abortion theocrats—something clinic escorts do every day.