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…

(Originally published in Contemporary Keyboard, January 1980. The original pages and a slideshow of great original images follow the text.) The scenario sounds as if it were lifted from The Andromeda Strain : Several Specialists are contacted by the Mission Director. Each is asked to leave home and…

Fredric Fortier wears an Ethereum sweater along with Mathieu Baril wearing a Bitcoin sweater at the San Francisco Bitcoin Meetup Holiday Party at the Runway Incubator in December. Jason Henry for The New York Times SAN FRANCISCO — Recently the founder of something called Ripple briefly became richer…

With sales of Diet Coke in a prolonged rut, Coca-Cola announced last Wednesday that it is tweaking the design of its most famous zero-calorie soft-drink can to be more slender and colorful. It is also launching several new flavors of Diet Coke, including “Feisty Cherry,” “Twisted Mango,” and “Zesty…

Machine learning systems are very capable, but they aren’t exactly smart . They lack common sense. Taking advantage of that fact, researchers have created a wonderful attack on image recognition systems that uses specially printed stickers that are so interesting to the AI that it completely fails…

layer innocent nothing argue pottery winner cotton menu task slim merge maid T he sequence of words is meaningless: a random array strung together by an algorithm let loose in an English dictionary. What makes them valuable is that they’ve been generated exclusively for me, by a software tool called…

O n a soundstage deep in the hills of Los Angeles one morning last August, RuPaul Charles and several drag queens made their way to a set that had been transformed into a simulacrum of the reality-TV show “The Bachelor.” Lacy strands of lights dripped down plastic boxwood hedges, and a row of white…

Ikon Images / Alamy Stock Photo The world is disturbingly comfortable with the fact that women sometimes leave a sexual encounter in tears. When Babe.net published a pseudonymous woman's account of a difficult encounter with Aziz Ansari that made her cry, the internet exploded with "takes" arguing…

It can feel a little bit like deja vu. Despite a relatively diverse roster of nominees , and a couple of performances which nodded towards the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements, one of the major takeaways from the 2018 Grammy Awards was that, ultimately, it let women down. Before the ceremony, potential…

WASHINGTON — President Trump ordered the firing last June of Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel overseeing the Russia investigation, according to four people told of the matter, but ultimately backed down after the White House counsel threatened to resign rather than carry out the directive.…

As Facebook undergoes a renovation focused on improving its users’ well-being, the company could take inspiration from an app it already owns. By Kevin Roose For the past several years, Facebook has been conducting what amounts to an A/B test on human society…

This post is SFW-ish (somewhat Safe For Work, depending on your workplace) Pierre Corbinais has a long history of making short poignant games about relationships and intimacy. (Before I had played this game, my personal favorite had been Tiny Soccer Manager Stories .) His choice of tool, Adventure…

Early in my career, I worked for Paul Manafort. He was strategic, canny, demanding and, it will surprise no one to learn after his 12-count indictment this week, played by his own rules, in an industry where you usually got away with it. I was young, wanted to do right by the world, and my boss…

Getty Images/Ringer illustration At last year’s CES, I was introduced to Snoo , a bassinet that rocks to lull a crying baby back to sleep. The product was featured in the Baby Tech showroom, a space littered with smart baby monitors and high-tech breast pumps. This year I didn’t see Snoo, but I saw…