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Mixed Débuts on Apple TV+ in “The Morning Show” and “Dickinson”

Jennifer Aniston and Steve Carell’s depiction of a #MeToo crisis is a pricey, glum misfire, while Emily Dickinson’s makeover is a sweet and original surprise.
On Television

“Dickinson,” from Apple TV+, Is Deeply Weird and Dazzles Gradually

The show imagines the young Emily Dickinson coming of age in antebellum Massachusetts, like a figure in some emo Brontë fever dream.
Shouts & Murmurs

New Apps from the Developers of Find My Friends

Point Out My Future Ex, Spot the Unencouraging Mom Text, and more.
Dept. of Design

For Better and Worse, We Live in Jony Ive’s World

The ultimate consequence of Ive’s designs for Apple has been the slow ransacking of the physical world.
The Political Scene Podcast

Will the Government Get Tough on Big Tech?

Sue Halpern on antitrust investigations, and why tech giants are now asking the government to regulate them.
Annals of Technology

Mark Zuckerberg, Elizabeth Warren, and the Case for Regulating Big Tech

The E.U.’s Commissioner for Competition and Senator Warren see Big Tech as a threat to competition, consumer choice, and fairness in the marketplace.
Cupertino Postcard

Tim Cook’s Big Apple Circus

With ambient music and themed pastries, the tech giant cheerily took Big Bird, Oprah, and the journalism business under its tent.
Double Take

Sunday Reading: The Birth of Tech

From The New Yorker’s archive, pieces from the early days of tech culture, when going online was a novelty.
Cultural Comment

What We’ve Learned from Dieter Rams, and What We’ve Ignored

The designer’s “less, but better” philosophy has been adopted by Silicon Valley—but as an aesthetic rather than as an ethic.
The New Yorker Radio Hour

Lisa Brennan-Jobs on the Shadow of Steve Jobs, and Rick Bass in the Wilderness

The tech mogul’s daughter discusses her new memoir, “Small Fry,” and, in Montana, a hiking trail pits nature lover against nature lover.
Shouts & Murmurs

Apple Emotional Support

It’s time for you to meet new people, so schedule an appointment at the Genius Bar. Every Genius is a great listener and will act interested in your problems for twelve to fifteen minutes!
Comment

Alex Jones, the First Amendment, and the Digital Public Square

How should we challenge hate-mongering in the age of social media?
Cultural Comment

The Woman Who Gave the Macintosh a Smile

Susan Kare designed the suite of icons that made the Macintosh revolutionary—a computer that you could communicate with in pictures.
Daily Cartoon

Daily Cartoon: Thursday, September 14th

“Now hold still while I steal your face data.”
Tech

The iPhone X and Apple’s Mundane Vision of the Future

Ten years ago, with the launch of the original iPhone, Steve Jobs proclaimed a revolution. So why wasn’t Tuesday’s event more exciting?