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Technology TikTok ban: How to download your videos and data

TikTok ban: How to download your videos and data

Vidcon   Jan 18, 2025  0

The Supreme Court has upheld a ban on TikTok. Before the app goes dark on Sunday, you’re probably wondering how to back up the doz...

Technology Perplexity acquires Read.cv, a social media platform for professionals

Perplexity acquires Read.cv, a social media platfo...

Vidcon   Jan 18, 2025  0

Read.cv, a social media platform for professionals that competed with LinkedIn, has been acquired by AI-powered search engine Perp...

Technology Netradyne snags $90M at $1.35B valuation to expand smart dashcams for commercial fleets

Netradyne snags $90M at $1.35B valuation to expand...

Vidcon   Jan 18, 2025  0

Distracted driving is one of the leading causes of car accidents and a major reason why auto insurance premiums are expected to in...

Technology ChatGPT’s head of product will testify in the US government’s case against Google

ChatGPT’s head of product will testify in the US g...

Vidcon   Jan 18, 2025  0

The U.S. government has picked Nick Turley, ChatGPT's head of product, to testify in its antitrust case against Google. © 2024 Tec...

Technology Amazon suspends US drone deliveries following crash at testing facility

Amazon suspends US drone deliveries following cras...

Vidcon   Jan 18, 2025  0

Amazon has paused testing of its delivery drones following a crash involving two of its models, according to Bloomberg. It’s the l...

Technology EV startup Canoo files for bankruptcy and ceases operations

EV startup Canoo files for bankruptcy and ceases o...

Vidcon   Jan 18, 2025  0

Seven-year-old electric vehicle startup Canoo has filed for bankruptcy and will “cease operations immediately.” The company is liq...

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Beyond Doomscrolling

Vidcon   Jan 17, 2025  0

The internet we have, and the one we want

Latest Is Moderate Drinking Okay?

Is Moderate Drinking Okay?

Vidcon   Jan 17, 2025  0

“Every drink takes five minutes off your life.” Maybe the thought scares you. Personally, I find comfort in it.

Latest A Sweeping January 6 Pardon Is an Attack on the Judiciary

A Sweeping January 6 Pardon Is an Attack on the Ju...

Vidcon   Jan 17, 2025  0

The federal judges who stewarded these cases deserve more respect than that.

Latest The Forgotten Woman Who Transformed Forensics

The Forgotten Woman Who Transformed Forensics

Vidcon   Jan 17, 2025  0

In the 1970s, Martha Goddard invented the rape kit. So why did she die in relative obscurity?

Latest Israel Never Defined Its Goals

Israel Never Defined Its Goals

Vidcon   Jan 17, 2025  0

When I talked with Israeli national-security officials last year, the most realistic of them spoke of Gaza’s future as resembling ...

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January 6 and the Case for Oblivion

Vidcon   Jan 17, 2025  0

The difference between forgetting the past and choosing not to remember it

Latest Milk Has Divided Americans for More Than 150 Years

Milk Has Divided Americans for More Than 150 Years

Vidcon   Jan 17, 2025  0

The raw-milk debate is but one flash point in the nation’s ongoing dairy drama.

Latest A Gaza Deal Closed, but No Closure

A Gaza Deal Closed, but No Closure

Vidcon   Jan 17, 2025  0

The cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas is no guarantee of peace.

Latest The Right Way to Look for a New Job

The Right Way to Look for a New Job

Vidcon   Jan 17, 2025  0

Being miserable at work is definitely a good reason for change. But how you go about it really matters for a happy outcome.

Latest The Place Where I Grew Up Is Gone

The Place Where I Grew Up Is Gone

Vidcon   Jan 17, 2025  0

And so is the man who made it magical

Latest Elon Musk Imagined a Cover-Up

Elon Musk Imagined a Cover-Up

Vidcon   Jan 17, 2025  0

The world’s wealthiest man revived an argument that the right already won.

Latest Brace for Foreign-Policy Chaos

Brace for Foreign-Policy Chaos

Vidcon   Jan 17, 2025  0

The only certainty is more uncertainty.

Latest The Internet Is TikTok Now

The Internet Is TikTok Now

Vidcon   Jan 17, 2025  0

Even LinkedIn copied it.

Latest ‘I Won’t Touch Instagram’

‘I Won’t Touch Instagram’

Vidcon   Jan 17, 2025  0

TikTok users are searching for a new home. Are there any good ones left?

Latest The End of the DEI Era

The End of the DEI Era

Vidcon   Jan 17, 2025  0

As Donald Trump returns to the White House, a newly emboldened anti-DEI bloc has gained powerful allies.

Latest MAGA’s Demon-Haunted World

MAGA’s Demon-Haunted World

Vidcon   Jan 16, 2025  0

Peter Thiel is the latest pro-Trump luminary to take a conspiracist turn.

Latest Justin Trudeau’s Performative Self-Regard

Justin Trudeau’s Performative Self-Regard

Vidcon   Jan 16, 2025  0

The Canadian leader made progressivism his brand—and ended up looking like a hypocrite.

Latest A New Kind of Immigrant Novel

A New Kind of Immigrant Novel

Vidcon   Jan 16, 2025  0

Aria Aber’s debut about an Afghan German party girl in Berlin shows that there are plenty of ways to tell an outsider’s story.

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No More Mr. Tough Guy on China

Vidcon   Jan 16, 2025  0

Trump’s relations with corporate titans seem to have softened his hard line.

Latest The Hipster Grifter Peaked Too Soon

The Hipster Grifter Peaked Too Soon

Vidcon   Jan 16, 2025  0

Kari Ferrell’s memoir is a zippy, intimate account of low-level trickery before the era of scams fully erupted.

Latest What Happens When a Plastic City Burns

What Happens When a Plastic City Burns

Vidcon   Jan 16, 2025  0

Most modern couches are basically blocks of gasoline.

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Aspiring Parents Have a New DNA Test to Obsess Ove...

Vidcon   Jan 16, 2025  0

An emerging field of genetics promises to let parents choose the “healthiest” baby.

Latest Life in Another Light, 2024 Infrared-Photography-Contest Winners

Life in Another Light, 2024 Infrared-Photography-C...

Vidcon   Jan 16, 2025  0

Some of the top and honored images from this year’s infrared-photography competition

Latest Trump Made the Gaza Cease-Fire Happen

Trump Made the Gaza Cease-Fire Happen

Vidcon   Jan 16, 2025  0

But not for the reasons he or Biden’s critics say

Latest My Favorite Trails Are Destroyed

My Favorite Trails Are Destroyed

Vidcon   Jan 16, 2025  0

Easy access to nature is what makes my hometown special. Now some of its signature hikes are burning.

Latest The One Trump Pick Democrats Actually Like

The One Trump Pick Democrats Actually Like

Vidcon   Jan 16, 2025  0

Does Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s nomination for labor secretary signal a shift in the GOP’s stance toward unions?

Latest No One Will Remember Jack Smith’s Report

No One Will Remember Jack Smith’s Report

Vidcon   Jan 16, 2025  0

But indifference to truth and honor and the rule of law has a way of catching up with a country.

Latest How Worried to Be About Bird Flu

How Worried to Be About Bird Flu

Vidcon   Jan 16, 2025  0

A conversation with Katherine J. Wu about the spread of the virus so far

Latest How Netanyahu Misread His Relationship with Trump

How Netanyahu Misread His Relationship with Trump

Vidcon   Jan 16, 2025  0

The cease-fire in Gaza reflects another triumph for Donald Trump and shows Benjamin Netanyahu who’s boss.

Latest America Just Kinda, Sorta Banned Cigarettes

America Just Kinda, Sorta Banned Cigarettes

Vidcon   Jan 16, 2025  0

A new rule by the FDA could change smoking as we know it.

Latest A Holocaust Novel Confronts Fiction’s Limits

A Holocaust Novel Confronts Fiction’s Limits

Vidcon   Jan 15, 2025  0

Lily Tuck’s attempt to bring to life a victim of the atrocity turns her into a prosecutor, not a novelist.

Latest The Scientist vs. the Machine

The Scientist vs. the Machine

Vidcon   Jan 15, 2025  0

What happened when AI took over these researchers’ jobs?

Latest Harvard Didn’t Break America

Harvard Didn’t Break America

Vidcon   Jan 15, 2025  0

Readers respond to our December 2024 cover story and more.

Latest Where Han Kang’s Nightmares Come From

Where Han Kang’s Nightmares Come From

Vidcon   Jan 15, 2025  0

In her novels, the South Korean Nobel laureate returns again and again to her country’s bloody past.

Latest Iran’s Return to Pragmatism

Iran’s Return to Pragmatism

Vidcon   Jan 15, 2025  0

The events of 2024 shifted the balance of power in the Middle East—and inside Iran.

Latest They Stole Yogi Berra’s World Series Rings. Then They Did Something Really Crazy.

They Stole Yogi Berra’s World Series Rings. Then T...

Vidcon   Jan 15, 2025  0

The childhood friends behind the most audacious string of sports-memorabilia heists in American history

Latest <em>The Atlantic</em> Hires Caity Weaver as Staff Writer; Jonathan Lemire and Alex Reisner to Join as Contributing Writers

<em>The Atlantic</em> Hires Caity Weaver as Staff ...

Vidcon   Jan 15, 2025  0

Today The Atlantic is announcing the hire of Caity Weaver as a staff writer, who joins from The New York Times Magazine, and two n...

Latest No One Cares That the Chimpanzee Is Singing

No One Cares That the Chimpanzee Is Singing

Vidcon   Jan 15, 2025  0

The musical biopic Better Man is so much more than its curious gimmick.

Latest Why Didn’t Jack Smith Charge Trump With Insurrection?

Why Didn’t Jack Smith Charge Trump With Insurrecti...

Vidcon   Jan 15, 2025  0

The law simply wasn’t prepared for a sitting president who would attempt to steal an election.

Latest Jack Smith Gives Up

Jack Smith Gives Up

Vidcon   Jan 15, 2025  0

The January 6 crime paid off for Trump.

Latest I Have a Huge Crush on a Writer

I Have a Huge Crush on a Writer

Vidcon   Jan 15, 2025  0

Should I reach out to her?

Latest A Secret Way to Fight Off Stomach Bugs

A Secret Way to Fight Off Stomach Bugs

Vidcon   Jan 15, 2025  0

It isn’t hand sanitizer.

Latest How Los Angeles Must Rebuild

How Los Angeles Must Rebuild

Vidcon   Jan 15, 2025  0

“Almost everything you can do to avoid the worst outcomes must take place long before that first spark.”

Latest Pete Hegseth Declines to Answer

Pete Hegseth Declines to Answer

Vidcon   Jan 15, 2025  0

At today’s confirmation hearing, the defense-secretary nominee looked like a man who understood that the fix was in.

Latest The GOP Is No Longer the Party of National Security

The GOP Is No Longer the Party of National Securit...

Vidcon   Jan 15, 2025  0

America’s allies and enemies watched as Trump’s pick for defense secretary failed to quell concerns about his character and qualif...

Latest Maybe It Was Never About the Factory Jobs

Maybe It Was Never About the Factory Jobs

Vidcon   Jan 14, 2025  0

The theory that populist economic policies can win back the working class for Democrats has been tried, and it has failed.

Latest Should You Be Prepping for Trump?

Should You Be Prepping for Trump?

Vidcon   Jan 14, 2025  0

Some liberals are stocking up on and freeze-drying food—and say that others should be too.

Latest Not Just Sober-Curious, but Neo-Temperate

Not Just Sober-Curious, but Neo-Temperate

Vidcon   Jan 14, 2025  0

How sobriety went from a radical social movement to a tool of self-optimization

Latest A Palestinian Story Unlike Any Other

A Palestinian Story Unlike Any Other

Vidcon   Jan 14, 2025  0

In her debut novel, Too Soon, Betty Shamieh isn’t trying to educate or enlighten.

Latest A Novel That Performs an Incomplete Resurrection

A Novel That Performs an Incomplete Resurrection

Vidcon   Jan 14, 2025  0

Lily Tuck’s attempt to bring to life a victim of the Holocaust turns her into a prosecutor, not a novelist.

Latest A Wider War Has Already Started in Europe

A Wider War Has Already Started in Europe

Vidcon   Jan 14, 2025  0

Putin’s not-so-quiet sabotage campaign against European democracies

Latest The Case for Brain Rot

The Case for Brain Rot

Vidcon   Jan 14, 2025  0

The new language of the internet is both mind-numbing and irresistible.

Latest Time for Senate Republicans to Decide

Time for Senate Republicans to Decide

Vidcon   Jan 14, 2025  0

The confirmation of all of Trump’s Cabinet choices isn’t a foregone conclusion.

Latest Eight Perfect Episodes of TV

Eight Perfect Episodes of TV

Vidcon   Jan 13, 2025  0

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