3+ hour, 19+ min ago   (9+ words) The Mini Crossword: Friday, January 16, 2026The New Yorker...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (562+ words) In 2014, Koum and Acton sold the app to Meta (then Facebook), and WhatsApp has kept growing. I caught up with Knight to discuss why the app has surpassed other messaging and social-media platforms'and where it might be going next. This…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (333+ words) The first WhatsApp I sent to my wife, Polly, was a picture of some hills in Devon, in the southwest of England, taken from a graveyard outside a church. It was late June, 2014. I forwarded the image from a friend,…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (9+ words) The Mini Crossword: Thursday, January 8, 2026The New Yorker...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (1397+ words) The app might wreak havoc on users" mental health, but there was a satisfying frankness at the gathering about the fact that everything in life is now fodder for content. My trepidation about TikTok, it seemed, had some grounding in…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (567+ words) The average human receives two hundred and seventy text messages a day. Sounds crazy, right? I hope so, because I made that number up. But here's a fact: it's impossible to answer every text that you receive immediately. Life is…...

2+ mon, 5+ day ago   (235+ words) Chatbots can pass the Turing test'but they can't yet handle an office worker's inbox. The deepest layer is made up of messages that are quick to read but which require significant thought. Consider this hypothetical e-mail: "Hi Cal! I'm John…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (566+ words) As social media has become older, more manipulable, and more automated by artificial intelligence, flouting online popularity has gained a new cachet, Kyle Chayka writes. As it's become harder to trust a high number of followers, the opposite'a conspicuously modest…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1039+ words) Now Sir Tim has written a memoir, "This Is for Everyone," with the journalist Stephen Witt. It might have been a victory lap, but for the web's dire situation'viral misinformation, addictive algorithms, the escalating disruptions of A.I. In such times, Berners-Lee…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (318+ words) You are walking in the woods. You are having a heart-to-heart conversation. Your daughter is in the middle of a bitter divorce, and she has no one to turn to but you and the strangers in your elevator. Sure, you…...