Few would argue Michael Wolff’s explosive new book about Donald Trump and his administration, Fire and Fury, is a no-holds-barred, knife-filled fire-tornado wreaking havoc on the entire political institution as we know it. (Read an excerpt for yourself, here .) But, interestingly, there’s one topic…

For our grandparents, having a job and a family, putting food on the table and not dying in a war was normally enough. But we’re looking for something more: we need to know we're not just another Jake or Sarah floating around in the millennial milieu – we need meaning in our lives and to know we…

Over the weekend, actor, writer and director Aziz Ansari was accused of sexual assault by an anonymous woman in an article published by the online publication Babe. The headline read: “ I went on a date with Aziz Ansari. It turned into the worst night of my life .” The story of Ansari’s date with…

This is the headline you will read all day and probably tomorrow. That, after leaving Janet Jackson for dead after the Super Bowl in 2004, Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson actually “made peace”. Those aren’t the words that come of out his mouth though. Those are the words that Zane Lowe put in…

Timberlake and Biel photographed during the album release party for Man of the Woods . By Kevin Mazur/Getty Images. Justin Timberlake’s highly anticipated new album is called Man of the Woods, and, at his listening party—the American Express x Justin Timberlake Man Of The Woods Listening…

I don’t know if you’ve heard but Justin Timberlake has a new aesthetic. He’s been super subtle about it so you probably had no idea that JT is now a very outdoorsy manly man of the woods who wears flannel. For all of the people who missed Timberlake’s vague tracklist featuring song titles like…

There’s a joke in the creative industry that “everyone is a designer”, making light of how infuriating it is to have someone (without a visual background) tell a designer how things should look. It’s a huge and common problem, caused by a “client is always right” attitude — something we’ve all…

Who are you? Tell us about your background. I have a long history with Hyper Island. I joined in 2009 to help out with marketing and recruitment and quickly became invested in the relationships between brands, technology and people. I wanted to explore how all these connect and interact with each…

In 1998, the professional moral scold William Bennett published a book titled “The Death of Outrage: Bill Clinton and the Assault on American Ideals.” In it, Bennett described blasé attitudes toward presidential adultery as corrosive. Clinton’s promiscuity, he argued, implicated his fitness for…

Mark was a sophomore at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, when he began mining cryptocurrencies more or less by accident. In November 2016, he stumbled on NiceHash, an online marketplace for individuals to mine cryptocurrency for willing buyers. His desktop computer, boosted with a graphics card, was…

It was true that everything did seem okay to me, so when I heard that it was not the case for her, I was surprised and concerned. I took her words to heart and responded privately after taking the time to process what she had said. I continue to support the movement that is happening in our culture.…

Perhaps the aphorism should be changed to “In Google, veritas.” Where do people go with their most intimate worries, thoughts, and fears? Not the nearest water cooler or humblebrag app. More likely, they’ll seek comfort in the relative privacy of a search box. Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, a former data…

“So now that we’re finally listening to women,” Samantha Bee says in the wake of the #MeToo movement and revelations around Harvey Weinstein and others. “Some people are asking an important question: Should we stop listening to women?” On her show Wednesday, Bee tackled the backlash to the movement,…

Earlier today, I wrote that Justin Timberlake must be actively trying to piss off anyone paying attention . It has to be intentional, right? He can't be THIS much of an oblivious, self-serving, egotistical vulture, right? Except that he is. There is no other explanation for his new music video.…

GREENWICH MEAN TIME The Weinstein Company headquarters, in New York City’s Tribeca. Photo Illustration by Sean McCabe; Photograph by Angela Weiss/AFP/Getty Images. On Monday, October 2, 2017, Harvey Weinstein arrived at work earlier than usual. As was his custom, he barked orders and moved from room…

CW: This article discusses incidents of police violence as well as depictions of queerphobia, violence, and murder. When Ken Williams, the chief executive of Sierra On-Line, brought the company's newest game designer to the office, some staff stayed home. Better to get in trouble with management…

Aziz Ansari at the Golden Globes. AFP/Getty Images A woman publicly known as Grace went on a date with actor and comedian Aziz Ansari in September. What happened between them is at the center of the latest debate around consent, sexual assault, and the #MeToo moment . In an account published…

Edward Cullen. Chuck Bass. Lloyd Dobler. Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer . That guy from Love Actually with the sign. The lead singers of emo bands with their brooding lyrics. Many of the romantic heroes that made me swoon in my youth followed a pattern and, like a Magic Eye picture, only with a…

The woman in the photo seems familiar. She looks like Jennifer Aniston, the “Friends” actress, or Selena Gomez, the child star turned pop singer. But not exactly. She appears to be a celebrity, one of the beautiful people photographed outside a movie premiere or an awards show. And yet, you cannot…

Stephen Lam / Reuters Mark Zuckerberg moved fast and broke shit, lots of shit. He broke journalism , by radically deflating the value of the digital advertising on which the livelihood of media now depends; he broke the reading habits of his users, the lab rats in his grand experiment, by constantly…

A pencil is a little wonder-wand: a stick of wood that traces the tiniest motions of your hand as it moves across a surface. I am using one now, making weird little loops and slashes to write these words. As a tool, it is admirably sensitive. The lines it makes can be fat or thin, screams or…

James Franco. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times) James Franco. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times) It should have been a pure moment of triumph for James Franco. He collected one of Hollywood’s top prizes at the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday, validating an untraditional career in which he’s…

In a series update, we catch up with a group of New Yorkers over age 90: warm, cranky, funny and three years older than when we first met them. By John Leland Jonas Mekas turned 95 this year and won a lifetime achievement award in Frankfurt, Germany. Ping Wong, 92…

At the 75th Golden Globe Awards, not one male award winner used their platform to mention the biggest story of the night. James Franco and Dave Franco pose after the former wins the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Motion Picture: Drama for 'The Disaster Artist' Jordan Strauss / Invision / AP Most…

OSLO — It was already past midnight on Friday when the news arrived in Norway: A day after meeting with Norway’s prime minister in Washington, President Trump told members of Congress that the United States needed more immigrants from places like Norway and fewer immigrants from countries like…

Nov. 28, 2017 Update: Dec. 3, 2018. This week, President Donald Trump and North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, have been taunting each other about the size and proximity of their “nuclear buttons,” raising the threat of war. This fall, we went to North Korea on a quest to understand whether war is…

Welcome to the future, where you can face search for a live sex webcam performer and be served real-life humans to your telescreen who vaguely resemble the object of your desire within, well, hours depending on how busy the site’s servers are. (The rush of tech reporters trying to satisfy their…

Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds has become the game that offers loot crates that most feels like gambling, with the ability for some players to make real-world money by lucking their way into rare items. The developer itself, not to mention Steam, is also going to profit handsomely from the system.…

Aurich Lawson / Thinkstock Three years ago, security consultant Dragos Ruiu was in his lab when he noticed something highly unusual: his MacBook Air, on which he had just installed a fresh copy of OS X, spontaneously updated the firmware that helps it boot. Stranger still, when Ruiu then tried to…

Taking full advantage of the law of supply and demand, the Coca-Cola Company has quietly begun testing a vending machine that can automatically raise prices for its drinks in hot weather. ''This technology is something the Coca-Cola Company has been looking at for more than a year,'' said Rob…

What was President Obama thinking in the moments just before he handed off power to Donald Trump? It’s a question that millions must have wondered about last January. Now they have an answer. In Obama’s first major interview as a private citizen, he told Prince Harry of Wales, the British royal,…

Illustration by Jim Cooke/GMG Leila has two identities, but Facebook is only supposed to know about one of them. Leila is a sex worker. She goes to great lengths to keep separate identities for ordinary life and for sex work, to avoid stigma, arrest, professional blowback, or clients who might be…

An adult webcam site claims to be the first ever to use facial recognition technology to help users find "sex doppelgängers" of people they know. Individuals can upload photographs of anyone's face — it could be a stranger, a celebrity, or an acquaintance — and MegaCams.me will use facial…

1939, back when ads used to be safe. Flickr user: Lulu vision Privacy advocates are warning federal authorities of a new threat that uses inaudible, high-frequency sounds to surreptitiously track a person's online behavior across a range of devices, including phones, TVs, tablets, and computers. The…

Justin Sullivan / Getty Images Related On Orbitz, Mac Users Steered to Pricier Hotels The Wall Street Journal Follow @TIMEBusiness Imagine going for an oil change and finding out that the auto shop charged you a higher price just because you had a luxury car, so they figured you could afford it.…

This week on That Startup Show we are examining the ins-and-outs of body tech. Inventors and entrepreneurs are creating technology that will change our relationship with our own bodies, building brilliant businesses in the process. Broadcom co-founder Henry Nicholas was arrested in Las Vegas on…

Claire*, like so many fourteen-year-old girls, loved going to the mall. One day, a vaguely handsome older man approached her there. “You’re beautiful. Such defined cheekbones. You could be a model, did you know that?” he said, with a disarming smile. “I’m Scratch. I’m a fashion photographer. Why…

It’s worse than you think. | Illustration by Sean McCabe When President Donald Trump sat down for dinner on September 18 in New York with leaders of four Latin American countries on the sidelines of the annual United Nations General Assembly, anxieties were already running high. There was the matter…