A once “negligent” doctor just won a landmark case against the search giant — How long should a mistake follow you? On the internet, where an embarrassing old profile pic is always just a Google search away, the answer can feel like “forever.” This isn’t quite the case in the European Union, where citizens have the “right to be forgotten,” a component of the…

Half the children in the US get phones before they’re 12. We need better options. — My son is 22 months old, and his favorite toy is my iPhone X. I hide it everywhere: behind stuffed animals, between books, in potted plants. He finds it every time and toddles up to me, clutching it in his tiny fist and wailing, “Melmo. Melmo, pease. Melmo. Melmo, pease.”…

With his treacly new show ‘Derek,’ the typically bold comedian joins a toothless TV tradition of portraying the differently abled as angelic, sexless beings. He’s not doing anyone any favors, least of all, ‘Derek’ — In the Netflix comedy series Derek, writer-director Ricky Gervais stars in the title role, a middle-aged elderly-care worker whose intellect is dwarfed by his boundless capacity for good will. Derek’s likes include helping people, YouTube cat videos, and wearing a variety of cardigans that would make even Mr. Rogers viridescent…

After the Zimmerman verdict, Dick Wolf’s long-running series offers what real life apparently does not: justice — After the verdict of the Zimmerman trial was delivered, I, like the majority of my wired, twentysomething friends, spent the rest of the evening on Twitter. As I obsessively scrolled through my feed, I had two reactions. The first was the mélange of shock and frustration and sadness and fury…