Gen Z Is Pioneering a New Understanding of Truth

The first generation to truly grow up online, Generation Z and their cohort live in a social media ecosystem that blends facts and feelings. It’s significantly shifting how they understand what’s true.

Why Soccer Still Defies Statistical Analysis

Sarah Rudd, who once ran analytics for Arsenal, made her name applying the tenets of probability theory to movements on the pitch. Even she admits not everything can be solved with data.

What Happens When You Try to Treat OCD With Psilocybin

Colloquially, OCD is known as the doubting disorder. In his new book How to Not Know, Simone Stolzoff explores whether treating that uncertainty with magic mushrooms can help people through it.

The iPhone That Never Was

In 1990, three former Apple employees launched a company that epitomized the Silicon Valley dream. What they invented looked like an iPhone—more than a decade earlier. The device never came to be.

The Gamblers Behind One of the Weirdest Cheating Mysteries in Chess Have Been Unmasked

In July 1993, a disguised player entered the World Open chess tournament in Philadelphia using the name of a mathematician who died in 1957. His real identity remained unknown—until now.

How the Vision Pro Rollout Inflamed Tensions at Apple

Even before the headset’s release, the workforce at Apple Stores was under duress. Trying to get customers interested in the Vision Pro made it worse.

Your Body Is Betraying Your Right to Privacy

Attachment to smart devices and biometric surveillance leaves Americans more vulnerable to police searches than ever. Left unchecked it will only get worse.

Meet the Gods of AI Warfare

In its early days, the AI initiative known as Project Maven had its fair share of skeptics at the Pentagon. Today, many of them are true believers.

The Untold Story of the Birth of the iPhone

Apple turns 50 on April 1. In his new book, Apple: The First 50 Years, David Pogue chronicles the secrecy-laden environment in which Steve Jobs willed the first iPhone into existence.

AI Will Never Be Conscious

In his new book, A World Appears, Michael Pollan argues that artificial intelligence can do many things—it just can’t be a person.