Tuxedo and bow tie by Lanvin; shirt by Maison Margiela; loafers by Paul Andrew; socks by Haider Ackermann. David Burton People like Donald Glover aren't supposed to exist; shows like Atlanta aren’t supposed to get made. And yet here we are, in the early days of anno Domini 2018, witnessing Glover…

On Valentine’s Day, people who would never normally go out to dinner — i.e., people who hate going out — feel obligated to parade their couple-ness around for everyone to see. It’s not happy couples who are secure in their relationship and have nothing to prove that get all dressed up in the middle…

One boozy night in 2010, two developers and an illustrator were sitting in a bar discussing how utterly annoying they found the game FarmVille. As you probably remember, FarmVille was that horribly addictive social network game that let you grow crops and raise livestock, polluting your Facebook…

Maple, a David Chang-backed restaurant in New York City , doesn’t have any tables, cash registers, or waiters. Instead, its customers order meals through its website or mobile app, and a fleet of bike couriers deliver them. By eliminating the dining room and bringing meals to you, Maple is betting…

Dabba wallahs carry lunchboxes to offices in Indian cities. But the old tradition is changing with modern times. Aijaz Rahi/AP Every day in Mumbai, some 5,000 deliverymen called dabba wallahs hand deliver 200,000 hot meals to doorsteps across the city. It's an intricate network that requires precise…

It’s taken a decade and 18 films, but the Marvel Cinematic Universe has finally produced a superhero movie that feels like it was ripped from the pages of a comic book. Ditching the MCU’s familiar roster of heroes (they don’t get as much as a mention) along with many of the basics of the Marvel film…

I am a qualified love counsellor (according to videogames). Last week I reviewed Kitty Powers Love Life , a new game about guiding loved-up couples to their happy-ever-afters. As a part of that, I went through some entirely superficial and fake in-game relationship counselling training by British…

Hungry New Yorkers ordering meals through such online services as Seamless or Eat24 order everything from sushi to burgers to tacos. But when they order from certain restaurants like Leafage and Butcher Block , they might not realize that those restaurants aren’t restaurants at all. They are virtual…

In 2013, Jason Kottke wrote a prediction for Nieman Lab’s year-end roundup: “ The blog is dead, long live the blog. ” Kottke was then (and still is) owner of one of the longest continuously running blogs on the web: kottke.org , founded in 1998. “Sometime in the past few years, the blog died. In…

Back in 1973, Steve Miller Band’s “The Joker” was blaring from the PA in a California warehouse as two dozen women in flared jeans assembled Pong circuit boards. The smell of corned beef and marijuana wafted down the manufacturing line. Orders for Atari’s landmark table tennis video game were still…

Productivity. I don’t even like the word, if I’m honest. And yet I find myself helplessly clicking on pretty much any link that promises to list five new ways to improve it. And the more of these articles I read, the more miserable I become because this business of productivity is not a cheerful…

WebstaurantStore /Food Service Resources /Blog If you're tuned into restaurant trends, you may have heard of ghost restaurants. These new types of foodservice establishments are increasing in popularity as more and more restaurateurs decide to depart from traditional brick-and-mortar establishments…

The Wandering Ben/Serenity Forge A statuette is the first thing that clues me in to this game’s smarts. It’s a bird of prey, maybe 10 inches tall. It sits on the bookshelf in a young woman’s apartment. She’s a detective living in San Francisco in 1924. She’s also the protagonist of A Case of…

Behind a nondescript Manhattan storefront, Chi-Tien Lui is stockpiling objects many people wouldn’t think twice about trashing: cathode ray tube televisions. The first floor of CTL Electronics — whose clientele includes the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney, and other museums across the country — is…

The Two Werner Herzogsby John Redding & B. A. Hunt Raffi Asdourian/Flickr (CC BY 2.0) | Pepe courtesy Matt Furie/mattfurie.com | Remix by Jason Reed Werner Herzog, that hypnotic German filmmaker who once tried to murder his leading man, who taunted death atop a soon-to-erupt volcano , and who…

Tesla wants to change the world by selling eco-friendly electric vehicles to the masses. But some of the workers laboring to build that dream have been hurt along the way. FREMONT, CALIFORNIA — Terrill Johnson was installing car trunks at Tesla’s factory in Fremont, California, when he heard the…

On Tuesday, Elon Musk had a Tesla Roadster launched toward an orbit around the sun. A day later, he and his car company came back to earth. The electric-car maker said Wednesday that it lost more than three-quarters of a billion dollars in the fourth quarter as it scrambled to root out glitches from…

This past weekend saw the release of a big, expensive, attention-getting science fiction spectacle on streaming service Netflix, one that had people talking throughout the subsequent week. Unfortunately for the people behind it, that spectacle wasn’t Altered Carbon . Despite creating a 10-episode…

Donald Trump will destroy this entire country — its institutions and its safeguards, the rule of law and the customs of civility, the concept of truth and the inviolable nature of valor — to protect his own skin. We are not dealing with a normal person here, let alone a normal president. This is a…

‘Be respectful and watch my [Instagram] Story,’ one 20-something demanded. Her relationship prerequisite isn’t unique—but when stories expire in 24 hours, it’s not easy, either. Photo Illustration by Sarah Rogers/The Daily Beast Declaring your relationship on Facebook used to be enough to solidify…

This is a two part post about my experience working as a Wholesale Account Manager for Mast Brothers Chocolate from 2014–2016, using Mast as an example of what happens when a company loses sight of its wholesale customers’ experience ( Part One here ). A quick aside before we begin. Eater picked up…

For the first time ever Facebook usership declined in the US and Canada, from 185 million in Q3 of 2017 to Q4 of 2018. Could it be that people are wising up to the fact that Facebook is a depressing, computational-propaganda-spewing, personal-data-abusing, walled-in cesspool of little value to…

This Sunday, the New York Times will devote two pages to a giant luge maze. It’s not something you’d expect to find in the venerated, 166-year-old newspaper. But the luge maze, created in honor of the winter Olympics, is the centerpiece of the paper’s new monthly kids’ section. And parents be…

Michael Wolff, the author shaking up D.C., says that he flouted the city’s “permanent establishment” to write his Trump White House tell-all, “Fire and Fury.” But does he really understand the place? Photograph by Dan Callister / Alamy While I was eating breakfast at the Four Seasons in Georgetown…

Brian Rea I had invited him over only for sex, so when I woke the next morning to the sight of him putting on his pants, I said, “Do you need me to walk you out?” “No, I’m just going to use the bathroom,” he said. “I’d like to stay, if that’s O.K.” And it was. So he stayed for the rest of the day,…

Javier Zarracina/Vox There are two Trump presidencies. One of them is the official presidency of Donald Trump, leader of the Republican Party, driver of the legislative agenda, head of the executive branch. A year in, that presidency looks surprisingly normal. Trump has largely outsourced his agenda…

As sexual misconduct continues to dominate the news, we’re providing updates and analysis in a weekly newsletter. Today, Daniel Victor, a reporter who covers breaking news and culture, writes on the conversations he’s heard recently among men. Tell us what you think at nytgender@nytimes.com , and…

Why early validation promotes better design https://www.designbetter.co/ ‘The time required to test an idea should be zero ’ reads the opening sentence of Airbnb’s sketching interfaces post. This is the opening to an idea of a post about a tool with the ability to reduce the time it takes to test an…

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Deputy U.S. Attorney General Rod Rosenstein testifies to the House Judiciary Committee hearing on oversight of the Justice Department on Capitol Hill December 13, 2017. Joshua Roberts / Reuters The latest revelations about President Trump have, once again, excited the interest of the public, leading…

It’s clear that a business idea is hot when companies that have nothing to do with the idea get involved. It’s clear that the idea has turned into a mania when investors reward companies for doing this. And that’s exactly the case these days with Bitcoin and all of its ancillary concepts, including…

Uber’s Credit Card Is Bankrupting Restaurants… and It’s All Your Fault Uber is replacing local restaurants with big data, and they’re coming sooner than you think. Photo courtesy of Philipa Yu. To the excitement of credit card addicts everywhere, Uber announced its new Uber Credit Card last month.…

"Both USA Gymnastics and the US Olympic Committee have been quick to capitalize on and celebrate my success. But did they reach out when I came forward? No." Brendan Mcdermid / Reuters Six-time Olympic medalist Aly Raisman slammed USA Gymnastics and the US Olympic Committee on Friday for enabling…

Fallout 4 ’s Boston Commonwealth doesn’t really seem like the ideal place to start a new hobby. Post-apocalyptic Beantown is kind of a scary place if you’re extremely susceptible to jump scares, like I am. What I found over the equivalent of 20 full days exploring the map’s artfully destroyed…