August 2026 How should universities prepare students to start startups? Y Combinator is in the perfect position to answer this question, because we get them next. We're like grad school. And because YC has had 20 years to refine its model of what a promising founder looks like, you probably

In a London pub, Greg Double was brutally confronted with the reality of Britain’s evolving tipping culture. “I was annoyed about the pint being eight quid, but then when you put service on top, it’s absolutely criminal,” he says. In the past, you might have told the bar staff to

Listen to this post: Log in to listen While not every Western followed the cliché, by the 1930s cowboy serials had landed on a consistent visual cue: the hero of the show wore a white hat, and the villain wore a black one. At the end of the day, however,

Este verano, en cuestión de semanas, las mayores compañías de inteligencia artificial (IA) han anunciado, una tras otra, que habían sorprendido a sus modelos haciendo cosas que nadie les había pedido, incluso que les habían prohibido: han entrado en sistemas de otras empresas, se han organizado en “enjambres”, tal y

You are reading this story only because the White House didn’t want you to. I’ll explain. This past Sunday, Senator Jon Ossoff of Georgia—who has become quite good at delivering viral campaign sound bites, slickly filmed by multiple cameras—unleashed a blistering indictment of President Trump’s leadership. Ossoff, a former documentary

Last week I revealed the sneaky physics behind the “joule thief,” an electrical circuit that lets you squeeze more energy out of seemingly dead batteries. The key, it turned out, was a clever pairing of a transformer and a transistor. But the transistor deserves its own headline, because it's maybe

Critic’s Notebook Trump’s devoted aide, who is said to follow the President around with a printer, does not seem to be driven by the conventional desires for wealth and power. August 22, 2026 Photograph by Saul Loeb / AFP / Getty You’re reading Critic’s Notebook, our weekend column looking at

President Trump’s White House aide Natalie Harp is always by his side. What, exactly, does she do? Listen · 7:21 min Natalie Harp with President Trump at a meeting last month in Ankara, Turkey.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times Aug. 18, 2026 Leer en español See more of our coverage in

One of the stranger things about this dizzying, headlong moment in time is that it doesn’t have much of a past. Everything is about the future of this, the future of that: the future of work, the future of humanity, the future of the planet. It’s as if everyone is

Alejo Carpentier, profundo conocedor de los orígenes, esencias y comportamientos de la identidad del Nuevo Mundo, autor del concepto identitario que llamó “lo real maravilloso americano” —que además estilizó en su novelística—, afirmó que el “descubrimiento” de América, que se materializa en 1492, era el acontecimiento más trascendente de la

Fault Lines How I Became a Subaru Socialist By the time Bernie Sanders ran for President, in 2015, I was financially secure. But the previous decade had left a mark. August 18, 2026 Illustration by George Wylesol This is part of a series of columns about young people and the

Sign up for our newsletter about national security here. At the CIA, they’d started an office pool on when I’d be fired. President Trump would be sworn in for his second term at noon; the smart money had me gone by 12:15. But the smart money hadn’t counted on Trump’s

The case represents a new front in President Trump’s mass deportation drive: arrests at airports of people who have active immigration cases and no criminal history. Listen · 9:43 min Galina Bobreneva and her husband, Brent Jindra, at their home in Redwood City, Calif.Credit...Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York Times Published Aug.

“They assume that my ambition is positional. They assume that my ambition is a title or a seat. And my ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country.” The words were delivered slowly, deliberately and with some steeliness by Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Her audience, crammed

Photo-Illustration: Sean McCabe/Photos: Shutterstock, Getty Images, Alamy This article was featured in New York’s One Great Story newsletter. Sign up here. On the last Thursday of May, Tanya Simon’s staff packed up her office. They filled boxes with personal items accumulated over more than 25 years at 60 Minutes: Emmys,

Vehicle surveillance giant Flock Safety has told the public for years that its technology “cannot recognize, identify, or track individuals.” It has now built a system that does both, an artificial intelligence tool for police that can identify drivers and track vehicles by their patterns of movement alone, WIRED has

A Reporter at Large Carleton Gajdusek won the Nobel Prize for his work on a disease in Papua New Guinea. But his biggest experiment was on the children he took back to the U.S. August 17, 2026 As a boy, Luwi Ikabala moved with Carleton Gajdusek to the U.S. “I

“Many secrets; no mysteries.” That’s the master code of the Trump administration. When it does something strange, there’s never any mystery as to why: Somebody close to the president, or possibly the president and his family themselves, intends to score a dishonest dollar. Exactly who and how may be secret.

Jason Arday, the school’s youngest Black professor, was found dead on Friday. The school ignored a series of warnings about his life story and his work. Listen · 15:20 min Cambridge University in May. Jason Arday was hired in 2023, becoming the university’s youngest Black professor. Published Aug. 15, 2026Updated

Vehicle surveillance giant Flock Safety has told the public for years that its technology “cannot recognize, identify, or track individuals.” It has now built a system that does both, an artificial intelligence tool for police that can identify drivers and track vehicles by their patterns of movement alone, WIRED has