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I鈥檓 not a pilot, but I just flew a helicopter over California

October 30, 2021 at 6:00 a.m.

Some manufacturers say they will eventually remove the pilot from the cockpit, completely automating their aircraft while using many of the same techniques that underpin self-driving cars.

Google Pixel 6 review: Playing catch-up with the iPhone

October 30, 2021 at 6:00 a.m.

With the new Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro, which cost $600 and $900 and will be available on Thursday, Google believes it now has phones that level the playing...

Recipes: What to do with all those apples

October 26, 2021 at 11:17 a.m.

You could also make applesauce, apple butter or apple jelly. You could put them in muffins, crumbles and cakes. You could layer them in sandwiches.

Smartphones have been so successful that ...

Smartphones may be too good

October 23, 2021 at 6:00 a.m.

Technologists are now imagining what could be the next big thing. But there may never be anything else like the smartphone, the first and perhaps last mass market and globally...

Asumi Saito, co-founder of a nonprofit that runs one-day tech camps for middle and high school girls, in Tokyo, August 27, 2021. Japan is pushing to digitally modernize, but must address a severe shortage of technology workers and engineering students 鈥� a deficit made worse by the near absence of women. (Shiho Fukada/The New York Times)

Japan needs a lot more tech workers. Can it find a place for women?

October 23, 2021 at 6:00 a.m.

Instead, Matsumoto plans to become an engineer. Japan could use a lot more young women like her.

The global allure of crispy chicken

October 21, 2021 at 9:00 a.m.

This Middle Eastern version uses a cheater鈥檚 preserved lemon paste and plenty of fresh lemon to brighten it up.

Jonathan Toebbe (West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority via AP)

Couple in submarine spy case stewed over money and politics

October 19, 2021 at 7:03 p.m.

Starting last year, prosecutors say, the Toebbes took a fateful step: They tried to sell some of America鈥檚 most closely guarded nuclear submarine secrets to a foreign power for an...

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Threats, resignations and 100 new laws: Why public health is in crisis

October 18, 2021 at 6:00 a.m.

Already underfunded and neglected even before the pandemic, public health has been further undermined in ways that could resound for decades to come.

Melissa Brinkman, chief executive of Custom ...

In race for 5G, alarm and security services get stuck in the middle

October 16, 2021 at 6:00 a.m.

Past phase-outs of wireless technology, most recently 2G in 2017, went smoothly. But what is different this time, in addition to the pandemic disruptions, is the steadily increasing use of...

Upgrading? Here鈥檚 what you can do with an old mobile device.

October 16, 2021 at 6:00 a.m.

Trading in, donating or recycling retired gear are all popular options, as is passing on a serviceable phone to a family member sharing your wireless-carrier account. But you have countless...

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