It isn’t hard to think that Jeff Bezos left his role as Amazon.com’s CEO to enjoy a slower life filled with yachting and celebrity parties. But he would most certainly object to that characterization.

But can technology describe something so personal? How are you feeling? I’m genuinely interested in the well-being of all my treasured Checkup readers, of course. But this week I’ve also been ...

Lisa Corinne Davis, "Convulsive Calculation" (2025), oil on canvas (all images courtesy the artist and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; image by JSP Art Photography) Five years ago, I reviewed ...

Lyrical Abstraction, a term coined by art critic Jean José Marchand in 1947, emerged in postwar Paris as a strain of total abstraction. The self-proclaimed inventor of this painting style was French ...

If you’ve recently visited a biennial or attended an art fair, museum, or gallery show, you’ve probably noticed that textiles are showing up everywhere amid a surge of interest in the medium. It has ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. In today’s digital world, mobile applications have become the glue that connects people with both information and just about every kind ...

Alfred L. Cralle optimized his invention for one-handed use by adding a thumb grip and a scraping tool that kept food from sticking to the scooper. Dania Maxwell / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images ...

"Which blockchain are you building on?" It's the question I hear at every tech conference, startup meetup, and investor pitch. As a technology journalist who's covered the blockchain space for over a ...

Crypto super app announces Solana blockchain integration and partnership to bring user-friendly features to the consumer chain. Plena crypto super app has integrated with the Solana blockchain, ...

In 2014, the critic Walter Robinson complained about abstraction as “zombie formalism” produced by art school soul-suckers and promoted by shameless flippers. But he was navel-gazing into a personal ...