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Cupertino, California Apple took the unusual step of unveiling three flagship phones today at its press event at its new campus. For the last few years, the company has had two new main top-of-the-line phones—a regular and a Plus-size model—that it sold each year. But this year, it introduced three new phones at once. The […]

United Nations, New York, NY As hundreds of thousands of Rohingya flee the ongoing violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine region, the United Nations is scrambling to respond to a crisis its own officials have described as “textbook ethnic cleansing.” The UN Security Council (UNSC) will convene a meeting tomorrow (Sept. 13) to discuss the chaos in […]

From the Steve Jobs Theater on its brand new campus, Apple unveiled a host of new gadgets on Tuesday (Sept. 12.), all of which will go on sale later this year. Here’s a quick rundown of everything Apple showed off today: iPhone X The iPhone X. (Apple) Apple’s newest flagship phone has a massive 5.8-inch […]Read More

Press were invited to an iPhone unveiling on Apple’s new campus Tuesday, marking the first day that anyone—construction workers and select employees notwithstanding—has spent time at the 175-acre enclave in Cupertino, California. The grounds of Apple’s new headquarters are still being landscaped, and today was also the first time any event was held in Apple’s […]Read More

Hurricane Irma is a storm Americans will be talking about for generations. After tearing through the Caribbean as a category 5 hurricane, Irma hit southern Florida over the weekend, where residents had been bracing for the storm’s arrival for over a week. At one point, Irma’s reach extended from South Florida to Jacksonville, its girth […]

We now know that a Russian organization spent two years trying to influence American voters using Facebook. In a blog post published on the evening of Sept. 6, Alex Stamos, Facebook’s chief security officer, wrote that the company has discovered about 3,000 political ads that ran between June 2015 and May 2017, paid for through […]

It’s bad enough Equifax’s security breach left the financial data of 143 million Americans potentially exposed. Making matters worse was the credit bureau’s clumsy and confusing response. After waiting 40 days to alert the public to the possibility their data could be compromised, the company initially asked users to wait another five days to find […]Read More

As Irma continued its destructive path across the southeastern US on Monday (Sept. 11.), it seemed increasingly likely that damages will reach into the many billions of dollars. The storm, which started out as the largest recorded hurricane in the Atlantic, turned out to be less brutal than expected once it made landfall Sunday. But […]

Millions of people are currently without power across Florida after Hurricane Irma swept through the state. The US Environmental Protection Agency sent a letter to all power plants in the state of Florida on Sunday (Sept. 10) granting them permission to temporarily ignore all limits on pollution while they try to fix that. The agency […]

The powerful winds and waters of Hurricane Irma transformed the landscape of Florida over the weekend and on Monday, as the storm continued its northward trajectory. In its wake, millions remain without power. Damage from Irma is a reminder of the indiscriminate and random destruction that hurricanes bring: amusement-park waterslides splayed out in the street, […]

1. Irma, Harvey, and you There’s a modern question that emerges when a massive storm makes its way towards a highly populated area: Is this the right moment to talk about climate change? Let’s settle that debate with a simple answer: Yes. It’s the right time to discuss climate change and how we’re going to […]Read More

Ready for round three, America? Harvey and Irma may be winding down, but another hurricane brewing in the Atlantic has the potential to impact the East Coast next week. As of 5pm eastern time on Sept. 11, estimates from the National Hurricane Center pegged Jose as a category 2 hurricane. Barbuda and Antigua, which were […]