You may have heard by now since I am super late writing this blog post, and it is in fact true: SpyParty is coming to Steam Early Access on April 12th, 2018 . That’s next week at the time I’m calmly typing this with absolutely no stress or anxiety and with my todo list completely finished. HA! And…

Photo: Sam Rutherford (Gizmodo) When the Vive and the Oculus Rift came out in the spring of 2016, they did something incredible: they made VR actually worth caring about. Previously, the closest thing people had come to virtual reality were weird sci-fi movies or half-baked products like the Virtual…

At a party a few years back, I did The Thing. What is The Thing for you? Is it the moment you do something that you realize you shouldn’t have done and should never do again? Yes. It’s that moment of, “Oh, this should be my drunkest mistake ever,” and then you should learn from said mistake and…

At a time when millions are losing trust in the the web’s biggest sites, it’s worth revisiting the idea that the web was supposed to be made out of countless little sites. Here’s a look at the neglected technologies that were supposed to make it possible. Though the world wide web has been around…

Facebook has been in the news this week, in no small part because one of its executives took to Twitter to give his opinion about how using ads on the platform did not swing the election: His tweet caught the attention of the President, and has been the subject of much discussion in the news. What…

Steven Spielberg is going to die. Hopefully not today or tomorrow or anytime soon, but at some point in the near-ish future — after more than five decades of projecting his soul directly onto movie screens — the bearded architect who built so much of the modern world’s collective imagination will…

From left, Nell Benjamin, Casey Nicholaw, Tina Fey and Jeff Richmond on the set of “Mean Girls” on Broadway at the August Wilson Theater. Dolly Faibyshev for The New York Times There are nights lately at the August Wilson Theater when the audience feels, to the creators of the musical comedy “Mean…

It’s been a tough year for Facebook. The social networking juggernaut found itself engulfed by controversies over fake news, electoral interference, privacy violations, and a broad backlash to smartphone addiction. Wall Street has noticed: The company has lost almost $100 billion in market value in…

SAN FRANCISCO — Worried about someone hacking the next election? Bothered by the way Facebook and Equifax coughed up your personal information? The technology industry has an answer called the blockchain — even for the problems the industry helped to create. The first blockchain was created in 2009…

Run The Jewels’ EL-P and Killer Mike speak so vividly about vinyl it’s evident why the two were chosen as this year’s Record Store Day Ambassadors -- an honor previously bestowed upon Jack White, St. Vincent, Chuck D among others as part of a symbolic tradition dating back to 2009, a year after the…

PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Trump decamped to his oceanfront estate here on Friday after a head-spinning series of presidential decisions on national security , trade and the budget that left the capital reeling and his advisers nervous about what comes next. The decisions attested to a president…

Seldom in life does someone cackle in front of you like a James Bond villain, explaining how they will deliver your demise. When game designer Chris Hecker did this to me in San Francisco recently, I knew I had him. See, Chris Hecker thought he was clever. And the truth is that Chris Hecker is…

Before you upgrade your next iPhone, you may want to consider a $29 battery instead. Not only will the choice save you money, it could help save the planet. A new study from researchers at McMaster University published in the Journal of Cleaner Production analyzed the carbon impact of the whole…

The creatives behind ‘Annihilation’ can explain why two characters were cast as white women. But the time for excusing Hollywood’s continued erasure of Asians must end. Paramount Pictures Last year, actor Ed Skrein exited the upcoming Hellboy reboot after it came to light that the character he was…

"We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life." -- C-3PO, Star Wars (1977) Ready Player One , Steven Spielberg's prestige panoply of fanboy lore, represents the final suck of a two-decades-old everlasting gobstopper for author Ernest Cline, who turned his life as an Amblin-and-Atari-bred…

You can love Wes Anderson’s work and still condemn the way his animated epic regards the people and culture of Japan. Courtesy of Fox Searchlight Pictures Up until very recently (as in up until a day ago), I felt like I was being subjected to a strange form of film criticism gaslighting. At the…

(Welcome to The Soapbox , the space where we get loud, feisty, political, and opinionated about anything and everything. In this edition: a writer grapples with her love of Wes Anderson and the question of Isle of Dogs ‘ cultural appropriation.) “I wish somebody spoke his language.” Those droll…

When the Beastie Boys’ career came to a tragic halt in 2012 after the death of Adam “MCA” Yauch, the remaining band members, Adam Horovitz and Mike Diamond (known as Ad-Rock and Mike D respectively), were faced with the difficult task of creating futures for themselves that weren’t mired in the…

Rarely in my lifetime have I seen the type of civic engagement schoolchildren and their supporters demonstrated in Washington and other major cities throughout the country this past Saturday. These demonstrations demand our respect. They reveal the broad public support for legislation to minimize…

DVD Review DVD Review A- DVD Review A- A- As a stand-up comic in the late ’70s and early ’80s, Garry Shandling specialized in jokes about his vanity and his luckless love life, cut with a bit—just a bit —of a self-conscious wink. His jokes were reasonably funny, but as with fellow stand-up David…

R Kelly performing in 2016.Photograph: Prince Williams/WireImage The R&B singer R Kelly has been accused of sexually abusing a girl since she was 14 years old. The allegation – the latest in a string of allegations of the sexual abuse of young women by Kelly – was made, referring to another woman,…

WHEN the Berlin Wall fell, Europe began repairing its sundered east-west transport networks. A revived Paris-Moscow train heralded the new era. Berlin’s cathedral-like main station, opened in 2006, became the continent’s new hub. But old north-south bottlenecks are back in the spotlight. Of the nine…

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‘There’s enough to worry about today without having to wonder if your toaster is plotting against you.’Illustration: Jason Ford O n the internet, the adage goes, nobody knows you’re a dog. That joke is only 15 years old, but seems as if it is from an entirely different era. Once upon a time the…

Mark Zuckerberg Drew Angerer/Getty Images Future Tense is a partnership of Slate , New America , and Arizona State University that examines emerging technologies, public policy, and society. On the same day that the state of Illinois sued Facebook over its alleged misuse of data that allowed…

In the world of fashion retailing, where shopping is fast moving online and stores try to keep inventories closely matched to sales, even a small stack of unsold clothes can be a bad sign. What about a $4.3 billion pile of shirts, dresses and accessories? That is the problem facing H&M, the Swedish…

Earlier this year, an old story about Matthew Broderick went viral. In 2009, Alex Cabana was on vacation with his family in Montauk. He and his daughter were waiting in line at a pharmacy, when he struck up a conversation with a man he thought he recognized. In the way that reality warps when…

Hoboken’s Yo La Tengo, one of the longest-running and most rewarding indie-rock bands since the genre had a name, are up there with Tom Waits in the pantheon of artists who’ve never done anything except what they want. And like Tom Waits, fans are often rewarded regardless. They’ve got great records…

Elizabeth Cotten was never famous, and almost slipped into total obscurity Elizabeth Cotten playing guitar in 1960. (John Chen/Smithsonian Institution) “ D omestic, 71, Sings Songs of Own Composition in ‘Village,’” ran a New York Times headline in November of 1965. The piece, about a woman with…

Finding the perfect ‘Mentor’ seems to be the new Tinder for Professionals. But maybe your other half is closer than you think. I myself have a Patchwork Mentor. We have known each other for 31 years, worked together in around 10 different jobs and my mentor never stops to inspire me. ‘We don’t…

For as long as cinema has looked to literature for inspiration, there’s been someone around to study the results and helpfully remind all of us that “the book was better.” Usually, they’re right: Moving a story from page to screen doesn’t tend to improve it, if for no other reason than the things…

Last week, Wikipedia received an unusual prompt. For one thing, it dealt with sensitive subject matter. And it didn’t come from a person — it came from YouTube, the largest video site on the internet. During an interview at South by Southwest in Austin, Tex., YouTube’s chief executive, Susan…