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Logical and precise, left-brain thinking gave us the Information Age. Now comes the Conceptual Age—ruled by artistry, empathy, and emotion.

The Gray Lady is embarking on an ambitious plan, inspired by the strategies of Netflix, Spotify, and HBO, to make a subscription to the Times indispensable.

He was a balding, middle-aged father of two posing as a strapping young marine. She was, 17, blond and looking for love online. Their digital deception was flirtatious—and fatal.

Although machines are now capable of moments of genius, humans have hardly lost the ability to generate their own.

Two decades after its inception, the World Wide Web has been eclipsed by Skype, Netflix, peer-to-peer, and a quarter-million other apps.

Tinder. Hinge. OkCupid. Match. A year ago, Shar Dubey became the CEO of a multibillion-dollar matchmaking empire. Then singles everywhere went into lockdown.

One couple thought they held the secret to building a new decentralized utopia. On the way, they plunged into a new kind of hell. A crypto-tragedy in three acts.

Nearly half of these ocean ecosystems have been wiped out since 1950. One man is on a mission to reverse that—by speed-growing coral in hyperefficient nurseries.

We're facing 25 years of prosperity, freedom, and a better environment for the whole world. You got a problem with that?

When it comes to tech and innovation, there's a flip side to farsightedness and a sense of clairvoyance: the blind spots that, in retrospect, seem glaringly obvious.