CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—Decades ago, the business of launching stuff beyond Earth’s orbit fell solely under the purview of governments. When the stuff being sent wasn’t robotic hardware or scientific instruments, the people who chose what it would be approached the decision-making with a certain amount…

Every year, BarSK in Melbourne holds a special event. It’s a game jam that runs for over half a day, from the morning to just past midnight. And when the clock hits 12.30am, something special happens. Everything that everyone has worked on, images, assets, source code: it all gets deleted, never to…

You may not know me or even my company, LivePerson, but you’ve certainly used my invention. In 1995, I came up with the technology for those chat windows that pop up on websites. Today, more than 18,000 companies around the world, including big-name brands like T-Mobile, American Express, Citibank…

On the surface, Facebook is one of the most successful commercial propositions in the history of business. Its market capitalisation is today over half a trillion dollars. Shares are six times more valuable today than five years ago. Though they trade at a lower price to its forward earnings…

Three days before she died, Michelle McNamara typed some notes in a cryptic to-do list on her laptop. Among the looming tasks: “Find out from Debbi D about flashlight.” “Find out from Ken exactly what he meant about the husband or the guy in the clown suit walking down the street.” The list…

Loading View on Instagram A word on swimsuits. I do not love them. Or, rather, I hope every yearto find one that I love, and pretty much every year I fail. It is as ifall the useful knowledge of the human body and its many variations insize and shape that lingerie designers regularly employ in their…

Air cleaning fabric, sensory technology, plant-based paint, 3D printed concrete housing and evolutionary materials. These are some of the game changing designs to come out of this year’s Milan Design Week. Designers, architects, scientists and tech professionals are pushing the boundaries of what is…

Photo by Kevin Grieve on Unsplash A few years ago I took the leap and finally started my freelance business. Like most new freelancers, I thought the whole sales process was going to be easy as I had more than enough experience and had valuable skills that could help any business… So I started off…

Look Catalog Even if you’ve never heard of ‘deep work’ before, you’re immediately familiar with the concept. It’s that place of intense concentration and cognitive focus where real progress is made—on whatever it is that we happen to do , be it writing or thinking or designing or creating. Producing…

I used to want to leave you. I loved you. But I couldn’t stay. I wanted to live in a city, with access to hiking trails, and coffee shops and bookstores that I could walk to. Not our Florida suburb full of palm trees and shopping plazas, a place I had never wanted, but settled in because you were…

1. Media isn’t really real In the last couple of years, fakery seems to have accelerated. The term “fake news” appeared out of next-to-nowhere in November 2016. Source: Google Trends The press has published myths, falsehoods, and exaggerations for about as long as there has been a press, and even…

I spent months on the notorious dating site talking to bachelors about why they’re so obsessed with married women My journey into the underbelly of infidelity starts when a friend of mine — let’s call her “Kelly” — split from her husband. She decided after 20 years of being in “prison” that she…

On a warm Phoenix night five years ago, Aaron Cashatt walked down the red-carpeted hall of the second floor of a Marriott hotel, trying to move casually despite the adrenaline and methamphetamine surging through his bloodstream. Six feet tall with blond, close-cropped hair, he wore a black sports…

J ohn Meehan bragged frequently about his supposed ties to organized crime, and claimed to trace his bloodline to the prolific East Coast hit man who had run Murder Inc. itself. It had the ring of empty boasting from a man who lived by lies. What is believable is that he approved of the mob’s way of…

T he private investigator told Debra Newell how to make herself a difficult target. Change hotels every few nights. Study the crowd before she entered a room. Ditch her stylish clothes for bland ones. Get a wig to cover her conspicuous blond hair. Blend in. She dreaded that she would meet the fate…

T his couple is all wrong, the lawyer thought. There sat the husband, John Meehan, glowering wrathfully as he plotted legal mayhem on his enemies. There sat the wife, Debra Newell, soft-voiced and love-struck and helplessly in his grip. As he gazed across a conference-room table at his newest…

H e had lavished her with compliments, and now he savaged her looks. He had entered the marriage broke, and now he demanded half her wealth. He had been gentleness itself, and now he threatened her with “long-lost relatives” in the mob. “Enough,” Debra Newell texted him. “You are evil.” “Divide up…

A fter church one Sunday, Debra Newell walked into the living room with her husband to find a woman she did not recognize. The stranger sat trance-like before the big window that overlooked Newport Harbor, a thin, weathered woman in her late 30s or early 40s. She had just used the shower; her curly…

The Pulitzer Prizes startled a lot of people this year with an award that’s usually greeted as an afterthought: the music prize , which went to Kendrick Lamar’s album “DAMN.” It was not only the first time a music Pulitzer was given to a hip-hop album, but also to any work outside the more rarefied…

In the U.S. alone, some 550,000 people experience homelessness on any given night, according to government numbers . Also in the U.S.: People on the internet have crowdfunded almost $2,800 to buy billionaire Elon Musk, who owns at least five mansions, a new couch. More than 200 people donated money,…

This article is the subject of legal complaints on behalf of Cambridge Analytica LLC and SCL Elections Limited. “The connectivity that is the heart of globalisation can be exploited by states with hostile intent to further their aims.[…] The risks at stake are profound and represent a fundamental…

WASHINGTON — For days, top Republicans in Congress demanded the release of James B. Comey’s memos about President Trump, threatening Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, with a subpoena if he failed to share the highly anticipated documents written by the former F.B.I. director. But if…

I. The Bumper The trip to Delaware was only supposed to last a day. David Pokora, a bespectacled University of Toronto senior with scraggly blond hair down to his shoulders, needed to travel south to fetch a bumper that he’d bought for his souped-up Volks­wagen Golf R. The American seller had balked…

T heir first date was at Houston’s, a restaurant in Irvine, where he opened the door for her and put her napkin on her lap. Candles flickered along the polished-mahogany bar; jazz drifted from speakers; conversation purred. Debra Newell had taken pains to look good. Her cornsilk-blond hair fell in…

There is a heartbreaking scene in the middle of Blade Runner 2049 (2017). The hero of the movie, a replicant called K, lives a drab existence in a dystopian, future Los Angeles. The one bright spot in his life is his patient and sympathetic partner, Joi. They share many affectionate moments on…

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What do you do after you've made yet another beautiful film in a career defined — some might say stymied — by an obsessive devotion to beauty? If you're Wes Anderson, the writer-director behind such meticulously crafted art-house miniatures as "Moonrise Kingdom" and "The Grand Budapest Hotel," maybe…

Isle of Dogs type Movie genre Animated release date 03/23/18 performer Edward Norton, Scarlett Johansson, Bryan Cranston, Greta Gerwig, Jeff Goldblum, Bill Murray director Wes Anderson mpaa PG-13 To read more about Isle of Dogs , pick up the new issue of Entertainment Weekly on stands Friday, or buy…

I used to hate that I wasn’t a “real” writer. The definition of a “real” writer, of course, was a deeply elusive one, a goalpost that I constantly moved for myself depending on how insecure I wanted to feel on any given day. And it was all ridiculous—by the most crudely tangible definition, I was…

For upwards of 20 years, El-P, the indie-rap innovator and one half of Run The Jewels, has been making clanking, sputtering, avant-garde rap beats that sounded like the score to some imaginary dystopic sci-fi movie. And now El-P is getting to score an actual movie, though not a dystopic sci-fi one.…

To say that the Wes Anderson film dehumanizes the Japanese is to assume the primacy of an English-speaking audience. Photograph by Fox Searchlight Pictures / Everett A week ago, I saw Wes Anderson’s “ Isle of Dogs ,” or “Inu-ga-shima.” I saw it as someone who, upon hearing that name, is forcibly…

This foldable skyscraper concept was designed by Polish architects to offer relief in remote disaster zones, and has been named the winner of this year's eVolo Skyscraper Competition . The collapsable tower named Skyshelter.zip was designed by Damian Granosik, Jakub Kulisa, and Piotr Pańczyk to be…

Until the mid-2000’s most web design imitated traditional print layouts, as the success of a website mainly depended on the structure of its visual organization. Yet, since contemporary web is able to employ more advanced methods of animation and interactivity, we can use them to create new forms of…

PARIS — Ahead of his state visit to Washington this week, French President Emmanuel Macron has attracted international praise for being the only European — perhaps even the only Western — head of state willing to confront head-on the rise of anti-democratic regimes. “I do not want to belong to a…

It’s almost January 1st, 2010 and we’ve been mulling over our favorites of 2009 – and the previous decade. Here we present another installment of our “TenYears” list. We already did the biggest losers in the tech industry but why not talk about the biggest product flops? Here are a few of the…

It was supposed to be the laptop that saved the world. In late 2005, tech visionary and MIT Media Lab founder Nicholas Negroponte pulled the cloth cover off a small green computer with a bright yellow crank. The device was the first working prototype for Negroponte’s new nonprofit One Laptop Per…

A textile factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Credit Daniel Rodrigues for The New York Times Text by Cláudia Brandão Leer en español Mosammot Bulbuli is among the millions of people who work in Bangladesh’s factories that supply clothing to the rest of the world. Image Mosammot Bulbuli, center, takes the…

Ringer illustration Quick, which one of these is your favorite? The Polka King ; 6 Balloons ; Amateur ; Love Per Square Foot ; Game Over, Man! ; The Outsider ; Come Sunday ; Mute ; Irreplaceable You ; Happy Anniversary ; Roxanne Roxanne ; Dude ; First Blush ; Seeing Allred ; The Open House ; I Am…

Luis Mazón Let’s at least agree that the single best line in any Adam Sandler movie remains, “If peeing your pants is cool, consider me Miles Davis.” Do you even want context? Does it help at all to know that these words are delivered, totally straight, by a random elderly woman in the midst of…

VENICE, Calif. — Travis VanderZanden, the chief executive of electric scooter company Bird Rides , surveyed the new indoor park at his office one morning this week. While the space is still under construction, it will eventually have a winding path and a park scene, with benches and trees, he said.…