Somewhere between Golmud and Donhuang, Western China. Rule #1: when you’re hurtling through the desert trying to make up for lost time, stick to the road. Rule #2: if you do decide to go off-road maintain some kind of awareness where the road heading. Rule #3: don’t take photos of anything unless…

There was a moment when e-books felt a little bit magical. A single device that stores hundreds of books, fits in a tote, and doesn’t give paper cuts? Clearly, this was an upgrade to the tattered paper books we'd been reading for hundreds of years. Then, some years and a few generations of Kindle…

A Yelp Eat24 delivery robot. Pedestrians have complained about sharing the sidewalk with machines in San Francisco.Photograph: Courtesy of Marble I n something of a reversal for San Francisco, a city that has served as a petri dish for disruptive innovations in recent years, lawmakers this week…

The past few years have seen a dramatic shift in the national conversation about sex and consent, with "no means no" giving way to "yes means yes," and affirmative consent legislation taking statehouses by storm. But even as affirmative consent becomes the law of the land, there's still a lot of…

by TOM HOY, Stripe Partners Jan Chipchase has done something few of us would dare: write down his trade secrets and give them away in a book. In The Field Study Handbook he shares hard-earned lessons from running ethnographic research projects across the world. At face value the Handbook delivers on…

Wu-Tang rapper U-God reflects on the business decisions that fractured the Clan in this exclusive excerpt from RAW: My Journey Into the Wu-Tang , the rapper’s new memoir. In the excerpt, U-God breaks down how the group’s “all for one” mentality disintegrated when “the days of gold and platinum…

Car was autonomous with driver behind wheel KNXV 8:44 AM, Mar 19, 2018 2:36 PM, Mar 19, 2018 Share Article Tempe police are investigating a crash involving a self-driving Uber vehicle overnight. SAN FRANCISCO, CA - JUNE 12: A sticker with the Uber logo is displayed in the window of a car on June 12,…

Hans Block and Moritz Riesewieck's doc reveals the moral quandary of internet content moderation. Facebook, Twitter, and Google wish it didn’t. The internet is a massive tapestry of humanity. It is an endless repository of information, a tool that can be used to any end—however democratic,…

Inspired by In No Particular Order , the design exhibition by Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie that’s currently on at Dutch Design Week, we got know some of the participants a little better. First up: Amy Suo Wu , a multi-disciplinary creative whose clever work we’d love to describe for…

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Chad Batka for The New York Times Opinion Harvey Weinstein Is My Monster Too By SALMA HAYEK Dec. 12, 2017 Leer en español Harvey Weinstein was a passionate cinephile, a risk taker, a patron of talent in film, a loving father and a monster. For years, he was my monster. This fall, I was approached by…

In October, I created a Google spreadsheet called “Shitty Media Men” that collected a range of rumors and allegations of sexual misconduct, much of it violent, by men in magazines and publishing. The anonymous, crowdsourced document was a first attempt at solving what has seemed like an intractable…

This year’s electronics expo promised a ‘better life’ and ‘better world.’ It instead offered a folding machine that can’t fold sweatshirts. Steve Marcus/Reuters There’s a woman in Sweden named Simone Giertz who makes a living building shitty robots. Her well-intentioned creations fail comically at…

Photo: LegalFling Dutch blockchain company LegalThings announced in a press release on Wednesday that it is developing an app, LegalFling , which in theory could allow about-to-bone partners to log what they are and are not okay with before they bone. The company notes that you can mark your do’s…

In 2007, a small team of Amazon employees had been working for a few years on a new ebook reader project they'd eventually call the Kindle . Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos was eager to finish and sell the thing; he was certain Apple or Google was working on something similar, and didn't want them to beat…

You’ve heard the adage “It’s all 1s and 0s”, but that’s not a figure of speech: the transistor, the fundamental building block of computers, is simply a switch that is either on (“1”) or off (“0”). It turns out, though, as Chris Dixon chronicled in a wonderful essay entitled How Aristotle Created…

One incident involved a pedestrian crossing the street and striking the autonomous vehicle ‘with his entire body’.Photograph: Bloomberg via Getty Images The great promise of self-driving cars is that they will save innumerable lives by removing the most fallible and unpredictable element from…

Photo by Ahmet Sali on Unsplash Mental fog is often described as a “cloudy-headed” feeling. Common conditions of brain fog include poor memory, difficulty focusing or concentrating, and struggling with articulation. Imagine if you could concentrate your brain power into one bright beam and focus it…

Students and teachers around the nation walked out of class to raise awareness about gun violence in schools in honor of the 17 victims of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre on Feb. 14. Julio Cortez / AP James Ferris High School students in Jersey City, NJ What You Need To Know:…

In my previous article , I shared what I learned by talking to 25 Process Designers. Since publishing, I’ve continued having conversations, and every time I had a discussion with someone, I got the question: “What is Process Design?” Many still don’t know what Process Design is, and don’t understand…

Illustration By John Cochran Limited-edition restaurants, elite chef “residencies,” and other one-night-only dining experiences have become the fastest-moving craze in food. Writer Ryan Bradley investigates why. Why Pop-ups Are Popping Off Recently I was explaining pop-ups to my 96-year-old…

“ Mute ” closes with a dedication to director Duncan Jones ’ childhood nanny, and to his father, David Jones, aka David Bowie. Even before that blatant acknowledgement, “Mute” has obvious personal ramifications for the director by communing with Bowie’s legacy, with a Ziggy Stardust remix of…

SZA After four years of hard work, SZA’s debut album brought her worldwide acclaim. She thinks she can do better. Fashion by Shibon Kennedy Photographer Cara Stricker THE BLONDS jacket, MARYAM NASSIR ZADEH tank, ALTUZARRA shoes; JENNIFER FISHER earrings. Buy a print copy of the SZA issue of The…

Google CEO Sundar Pichai delivers the keynote address at the Google I/O 2017 Conference. Photo: Justin Sullivan ( Getty ) Loretta Lee, a software engineer who worked at Google for seven years before being fired in February 2016, is suing Google for sexual harassment, discrimination, retaliation, and…

Mohan Srivastava, a geological statistician living in Toronto, was working in his office in June 2003, waiting for some files to download onto his computer, when he discovered a couple of old lottery tickets buried under some paper on his desk. The tickets were cheap scratchers—a gag gift from his…

Director Terry Gilliam is speaking out against the #MeToo movement, saying that in Hollywood, “mob rule takes over; the mob is out there, they are carrying their torches and they are going to burn down Frankenstein’s castle.” In a an interview with AFP on Friday, the filmmaker, a member of the…

By the spring of 2016, Missi Brandt had emerged from a rough few years with a new sense of solidity. At 45, she was three years sober and on the leeward side of a stormy divorce. She was living with her preteen daughters in the suburbs of St. Paul, Minnesota, and working as a flight attendant. Missi…

My list is incredibly short. But it’s also incredibly non-negotiable. Too many people — especially women my age — harbor ridiculous “check lists” of demands in a partner that don’t matter. Tall. High-income. Nice car. Nice apartment — and good decor. Attractive. Smart. Nice. Not crazy. Good family.…

Looking for news you can trust? Subscribe to our free newsletters. This is the first of two excerpts adapted from Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump (Twelve Books), by Michael Isikoff, chief investigative correspondent for Yahoo News , and…

‘Greek tragedy for the new millennium’ … Michael B Jordan, Tray Chaney, Larry Gilliard Jr and JD Williams in season one of The Wire.Photograph: HBO W hen, in 2001, the actor Frankie Faison accepted the role of deputy commissioner Ervin Burrell in a new HBO drama called The Wire , he thought he was…

We’re having a conversation about violence in video games because politicians want a distraction, not because there’s any causal link between games and real-world shooting. But that contextual link between the two topics is enough to make some of us feel like we need to tread lightly with our…

Screenshot: WWE (YouTube) On Monday night, during this week’s edition of Monday Night Raw , WWE made an announcement that was half expected and half a surprise. The part that everyone expected was the news that WWE’s female talent would be getting their own counterpart to the annual Andre The Giant…

President Trump prepares to board Marine One as he heads to the Conservative Political Action Conference on Feb. 23. (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post) Inside the White House, aides over the past week have described an air of anxiety and volatility — with an uncontrollable commander in chief at its…

Two new books about “The Bachelor” examine the reality-TV mainstay’s significance. Photograph by Paul Hebert / ABC In the summer of 1999, the young television producer Mike Fleiss hadalready achieved some early success making tacky compilation realityshows such as “Shocking Behavior Caught on Tape”…

Illustration by Tom Bachtell Minute by minute, the wheels are coming off the clown car that is the Trump Administration. The circus animals are deserting, wriggling through every available window and door. Last week, it was the chief economic adviser, Gary Cohn, who had countenanced the President’s…