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Pope Francis wearing a long, white puffer jacket inspired by Balenciaga. Francis rocking aviators and revving a motorcycle down a busy street. Francis turning the tables in a dim nightclub. Francis in...

SAN FRANCISCO — On Wednesday, the newsletter service Substack announced that it had built a Twitter competitor. On Thursday, Twitter prevented Substack writers from sharing tweets in their newsletters. And on Friday,...

What would you be willing to give for an ultraexclusive T-shirt? Hundreds of dollars? Hours spent waiting in line?How about blood?A white graphic T-shirt featuring the “Peanuts” character Snoopy has become an...

What would you be willing to give for an ultraexclusive T-shirt? Hundreds of dollars? Hours spent waiting in line?How about blood?A white graphic T-shirt featuring the “Peanuts” character Snoopy has become an...

In March, two Google employees, whose jobs are to review the company’s artificial intelligence products, tried to stop Google from launching an A.I. chatbot. They believed it generated inaccurate and dangerous statements.Ten...

At a cotton gin in the San Joaquin Valley, in California, a boxy machine helps to spray a fine mist containing billions of molecules of DNA onto freshly cleaned Pima cotton.That DNA...

It was a full house at the AMC Town Center in Las Vegas in September when Ben Affleck slipped into the darkened theater. He wanted to see how his new film, “Air,”...

Elon Musk has declared he wants to transform Twitter into an all-inclusive app that people can use for payments, news and food orders.“Buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything...

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I was at Nubar, an elegant cafe near Harvard Square, to meet David, with whom I had been corresponding online. He sounded like the perfect man: a recently retired professor, early 70s,...