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The Supreme Court handed down a landmark ruling this week that effectively upheld bans on some medical treatments for transgender youth in nearly half of the United States. Azeen Ghorayshi explains the scientific debate over the care, and why the court’s decision leaves fami...

With a little know-how, you can save yourself thousands of dollars on an electric bike. Let us walk (or cycle!) you through it.

These rumbly motor-powered sex toys—for all bodies and genders—promise good vibes for all.

President Trump is furious over a new poll from Fox News, and understandably so. It finds his approval upside down, with 54 percent disapproving. His standing is deeply underwater on many major issues, and remarkably, that includes immigration. So he erupted o...

A journey shows that success isn't a straight path. Embrace resilience, self-reflection, and the courage to reinvent yourself in a changing tech world.

Why the No Kings protests were such a positive step for the pro-democracy movement - and what we have to do next. When you ask someone else to join you, it really is easier than you think. Especially with some new poll numbers showing that half the country is with us...And what's going on in the Middle East? Why Joe thinks this will not end well. How's that "two week" deadline going, Putin? That and more on this week's That Trippi Show.
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Julian Chokkattu, writing for Wired: You can’t mount a cinema camera on a Formula One race car. These nimble vehicles are built to precise specs, and capturing racing footage from the driver’s point of view isn’t as simple as slapping a GoPro on and calling it a day. Tha...

Cynthia Littleton, in a long profile for Variety: When pressed about what Apple’s investments in movies and TV shows have meant for the company as a whole, Cook explains that Apple is at heart “a toolmaker,” delivering computers and other devices that enable creativity i...

We often talk about design systems as singular entities. “The design system saves time and increases quality.” “Oh, the design system provides that.” “Update to the latest version of the design system.” The reality is that a design system is a multi-faceted layer cake, and also operates as part of other layered systems within an organization.

This week, it’s a conversation on the democracy question and the embattled fate of our own, beset as it is from within. Philosopher-historian Danielle Allen is our guest examiner of the cranky American condition. It ...

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At Apple's annual marketing conference, the Safari team announced a sizeable set of features that will be available in a few months. Substantially all of them are already shipped in leading-edge browsers. Here's the list, prefixed by the year that these features shipped to stable in Chromium.

Apple recently published a paper asking large reasoning models (LRMs) to solve some simple but lengthy algorithmic challenges, such as

The post Chasing AI Autonomy Misses Near-Term Agentic Returns appeared first on The New Stack.

I got access to Alexa+ today. Not sure what to do with it. Amazon has an advantage because so many people have these devices in a couple rooms of their house, but there’s not a lot of data to work with. Don’t want to give Alexa my email.

My biggest takeaway from WWDC 2025 is that Apple seemingly took some lessons to heart from its unfulfilled promises of a year ago. This year’s WWDC wasn’t merely focused on what Apple is confident it can ship in the next 12 months, but on what they can ship *this fall*.

We've all been there. Your buddy and former editor-in-chief Megan Greenwell has an acclaimed new book about the predatory industry that wrecked your previous workplace and is eating away at American life everywhere you look, and she's got an hour to spare on her book tour to talk to you on your podcast. So far, so relatable. But! Your co-host is out of town, and also if it was just you and Megan there's a chance the podcast would be like 40 minutes of questions about Jed Lowrie and Brett Anderson and 20 minutes of answers amounting to "will you please stop asking me about Brett Anderson." Not to belabor the point, but this is one of The Classic Scenarios. And yet, this week, it happened to me.

The Rust programming language is moving into new areas, including enterprise data pipelines. While most of the industry relies on

The post Rust Eats Python’s, Java’s Lunch in Data Engineering appeared first on The New Stack.

With the growing popularity of artificial intelligence technology over the past year, critics have begun to highlight its numerous shortcomings.

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