Culture
Nokia CEO Hotard compares AI surge to 1990s internet boom, but plays down bubble fears
Hotard’s remarks come amid growing debate over whether the surge in AI investment is sustainable [ESPOO, Finland] Nokia’s CEO Justin…
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Culture
Internet services cut for hours by Amazon cloud outage
Crypto exchange Coinbase, as well as games Fortnite and Roblox, were among those affected MANY popular Internet services, from streaming…
Fashion
The Internet Is Obsessed With Tarte's CC Undereye Corrector—I Was Skeptical, so I Tried It
As someone who's a true night owl at heart, I constantly have to force myself to get to bed at a reasonable hour every night. If I had no…
Fashion
Internet Personality Tefi Pessoa Shares Her Most-Anticipated 2026 Trend From the Burberry Show
It's the morning of the Burberry show and somewhere in a central London hotel room, a speaker is blasting Britney Spears. In it, Tefi…
Fashion
The Essence of an Internet Boyfriend: An Analysis of the Beauty Staples that Would (Probably) Spill Out of Our Fave A-List Actors' Bags
What is the essence of an internet boyfriend? That's the question I found myself asking on an average Tuesday after a conversation with…
World
Social Media Is Navigating Its Sectarian Phase
On September 1st, the author and statistician Nate Silver wrote a post on X diagnosing a new condition: “Blueskyism,” so named for the…
Style
Is Ghosting Inevitable?
Any new technology created for the purpose of human connection also creates an opportunity for novel forms of missed connection: the…
World
The High Femme Dystopia of Star Amerasu
If the recent embrace of seemingly—and only seemingly—autonomous machines is any indication, something much less chic than the future…
Culture
Baidu ranks as China’s cheapest Internet stock amid AI concerns
Sharp stock underperformance for Baidu on concerns over its outlook have left it trading at the cheapest valuation among China’s major…
Beauty
Why Are We Obsessed With Asking the Internet How Old We Look?
“I'm just trying to give them what they want, if they want to be mad,” Flowers tells Vogue. “If I notice a trend that seems like a little…
Style
Nobody Wins on “Surrounded”
A couple of weeks ago, a clip from a YouTube video titled “1 Progressive vs 20 Far-Right Conservatives” started circulating on social…
World
The Internet Wants to Check Your I.D.
The app Tea is a kind of digital whisper network for women. No men are allowed to join. Those who wish to be members must submit evidence,…
Business
Video shows Kenya protests, not mass runaways from Cambodia's internet sweatshops
Cambodian authorities arrested thousands in raids on internet scam compounds in July, but a video showing people running along a highway…
Style
“Cloud” Is a Cautionary Tale of E-Commerce—and the Summer’s Best Action Movie
Ryosuke Yoshii (Masaki Suda), the thirtysomething protagonist of the mesmerizing Japanese thriller “Cloud,” is never more content than…
Style
What’s Happening to Reading?
What do you read, and why? A few decades ago, these weren’t urgent questions. Reading was an unremarkable activity, essentially unchanged…
Fashion
The Internet Talks, and We Test: 9 Editors Try This Viral $48 Cream Blush
Welcome to Internet Famous, a monthly series in which we ask our Instagram followers to vote on a viral beauty product that's taken social…
World
Colum McCann’s Limp Novel of Digital Life
Have novels left anything unsaid about the internet of the past fifteen years? It feels as though they’ve exhausted the terrain, but…
World
My Brain Finally Broke
I feel a troubling kind of opacity in my brain lately—as if reality were becoming illegible, as if language were a vessel with holes in…
Fashion
Kate Middleton Wore This Flirty Summer Dress Years Before the Internet Caught Up
The year was 2006. On a sun-drenched August afternoon in Richmond, a 24-year-old Kate Middleton arrived at a polo match and unwittingly…
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World
How the Internet Left 4chan Behind
4chan was where I learned that the internet could be bad. I first encountered the site during high school, not long after its founding, in…
News
Amazon to Launch First Project Kuiper Internet Satellites: What to Know
The battle of billionaires in space between Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk is ready to enter a new arena: satellite internet. Amazon, the…
Culture
Google’s AI previews erode the internet, US edtech company says in lawsuit
ALPHABET’S Google internet search engine is eroding demand for original content and undermining publishers’ ability to compete with its…
Culture
Musk’s Starlink races with Chinese rivals to dominate satellite internet
SPACE is about to get more crowded for Elon Musk. The billionaire’s Starlink communications network is facing increasingly stiff…
Lifestyle
Woman loses "soulmate" dog, internet in bits at what husband does next
To many people, dogs are much more than just pets; they are treated like family and considered both a man's and a woman's best friend. So…