How Elon Musk Won His No Good, Very Bad Year
What a weird time to be Elon Musk. This year opened with the businessman turned political operator throwing what appeared, to Nazis at least, to be a Sieg heil. This…
Politics Is Fandom; Fascism Is Fanfic
Zohran Mamdani never auditioned for Survivor, but one of his campaign’s final television ads placed him in the middle of the show’s infamous Tribal Council. For roughly 30 seconds, a…
Android might finally stop making you tap twice for Wi-Fi
Google might be about to undo one of its most debated Android interface changes, almost four years after it first showed up. When Google launched Android 12 in 2021, it…
Waymo’s robotaxis didn’t know what to do when a city’s traffic lights failed
Waymo’s robotaxis suffered a serious failure on Saturday when a power outage affecting a large part of San Francisco caused problems for its autonomous cars in the city. Some 130,000…
Waymo’s robotaxis didn’t know what to do when a city’s traffic lights failed
Waymo’s robotaxis suffered a serious failure on Saturday when a power outage affecting a large part of San Francisco caused problems for its autonomous cars in the city. Some 130,000…
Samsung may power Galaxy Z Flip 8 with its own Exynos 2600 chip
Samsung is once again leaning into its in-house silicon strategy, with fresh industry reports suggesting that the upcoming Galaxy Z Flip 8 could be powered by the company’s next-generation Exynos…
You Asked: OLED Sunlight, VHS on 4K TVs, and HDMI Control Issues
On today’s episode of You Asked: how to protect your OLED TV from sunlight, fixing HDMI connection issues, and how to play your old VHS tapes on a brand new…
Your next prebuilt PC might arrive with memory loss
Paradox Customs has introduced a rather radical option to its prebuilt PC configurator: the ability to order a system with no RAM installed. The boutique builder says the move is…
5 Best Monitors for the Mac Mini (2025), Tested and Reviewed
Just about any monitor can work with a Mac Mini. It doesn’t need to be made by Apple or have any official certification. There’s a case to be made for…
Research Reveals the Optimal Way to Optimize
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems off…