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Can Marissa Mayer, Yahoo’s Former CEO, Help Fix A.I.’s Gender Problem?Β 

26 October 2026 at 17:01
She made her name as a pioneer at Google, then as chief executive at Yahoo. Now Mayer is entering the crowded marketplace for A.I. assistants β€” and hoping to draw in more women with a product that tackles the mental load.

Β© Kelsey McClellan for The New York Times

Marissa Mayer has reinvented herself as a start-up founder, with a team of 10 engineers β€” a fraction of the armies of programmers she once commanded at Yahoo and Google.

Everything old is new again with the Fitbit Edge

26 October 2026 at 17:00
Close up of the Fitbit Edge on a person’s wrist with the new metal links bracelet and a watchface that shows noticeable black bezels around the edge.
The bezels aren’t that noticeable with other watchfaces, but some things don’t change.

Last week, I sank into my living room couch and watched a bedraggled, nihilistic Matthew McConaughey take a drag of a cigarette in season 1 of True Detective. "You know, someone once told me time is a flat circle. Everything we've done, or will do, we're gonna do over and over and over again." I assume most people aren't thinking about fitness trackers or gadgets while watching that scene. But in that moment, I couldn't help but think about the Fitbit Edge on my wrist.

The $179.99 Edge is a modernized version of the 2014-to-2020 era of fitness bands - your Charges, your Altas, your Inspires. If you've ever owned one, you already know the va …

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Why Some People Are Using Apps to Make Friends

26 October 2026 at 16:56
Apps that match personalities β€” for a price β€” have surged in popularity amid a loneliness epidemic.

Β© Katie Orlinsky for The New York Times

Strangers matched by the social app 222 spend a day together in New York’s Hudson Valley.

The Sony WH-1000XM4C bring back a beloved headphone design

26 October 2026 at 16:45
The Sony XM4C headphones on a wooden table in front of their case and a MacBook.
With only minor changes, the XM4C is more of a re-release than a refresh of the XM4.

When Sony announced the WH-1000XM4C headphones, I was perplexed. A product revamp usually includes at least one or two significant improvements. Or if it's a nostalgia play, it's from a decades-old product and not one that came out in 2020. Beyond a few minor tweaks, though, the XM4C are remarkably similar to their six-year-old namesake, the beloved WH-1000XM4. They even use the same processor for active noise cancellation (ANC).

And while I went into this review questioning the XM4C's existence, after spending some time with them, I get it. The Sony XM4C aren't the cutting edge of headphone technology, but they are great headphones that I …

Read the full story at The Verge.

Trump Administration Unlawfully Fired Maurene Comey, Judge Rules

26 October 2026 at 16:42
Ms. Comey, the daughter of James B. Comey, was a trial lawyer for the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan, handling the prosecutions of Jeffrey Epstein and Sean Combs.

Β© Jefferson Siegel for The New York Times

Maurene Comey was an assistant U.S. attorney in Manhattan when the Trump administration fired her in July 2025.
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