In honor of Mother’s Day, senior TV editor Erik Adams asks: What’s the best movie your mom introduced to you? Of course, I ask this question with the understanding that not everyone has or had this ...

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THE PROMISE at the heart of the artificial-intelligence (AI) boom is that programming a computer is no longer an arcane skill: a chatbot or large language model (LLM) can be instructed in simple ...

In our earlier article about Macintosh project creator Jef Raskin, we looked at his quest for the humane computer, one that was efficient, consistent, useful, and above all else, respectful and ...

There's plenty of things to know before buying your first Raspberry Pi, between what model to buy and the equipment you need to actually run it. A Raspberry Pi can do some amazing things, and it's ...

I was entering the miseries of seventh grade in the fall of 1980 when a friend dragged me into a dimly lit second-floor room. The school had recently installed a newfangled Commodore PET computer, a ...

In 1979, an article by Blake Fleetwood in the Times Magazine reported a surprising phenomenon: young people were moving to big cities like New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. This was news because ...

Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: artisteer / Getty. A belief seems to pervade American media that whatever the merits of Britain’s ability to produce the odd figure of worth—Hitchens, Evelyn ...

Ridley Scott isn't the first filmmaker to tackle the story of Moses, and he certainly won't be the last. There's drama in the prophet's confrontations with the rulers of Egypt, there's spectacle in ...