On the afternoon of November 8, 2016, Kellyanne Conway settled into her glass office at Trump Tower. Right up until the last weeks of the race, the campaign headquarters had remained a listless place. All that seemed to distinguish it from a corporate back office were a few posters with right-wing…

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Some real headlines: “Tonya Harding Biopic Is the Movie We Need Right Now.” “‘Loving’ Is the Movie We Need Now.” “Why ‘Hidden Figures’ Is the Movie We Need Right Now.” “‘Bodied’ Gives a Middle Finger to ‘The Movie We Need Right Now.’” “‘Sorcerer’ Is the Movie We Need Right Now, Not ‘Star Wars.’”…

PBS NewsHour Logo: Home Full Episodes Podcasts Subscribe Live Jan 9, 2018 6:15 PM EDT By — PBS NewsHour Transcript Audio If your goal is to talk to another human being and hear the truth, Errol Morris says you're going to be disappointed. The filmmaker explains why he broke the rules of documentary…

Estimated reading time: 12 minutes. “It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they’ve been fooled.” — Unknown. I’m an expert on how technology hijacks our psychological vulnerabilities. That’s why I spent the last three years as a Design Ethicist at Google caring about how to design…

This is a two part post about my experience working as a Wholesale Account Manager for Mast Brothers Chocolate from 2014–2016. Part One addresses the negative press that began dogging this legendary wholesale brand beginning in late 2015, and explores the egos behind the brand to better understand…

Some spy stories will be forever confined to memory, locked safes, and invisible ink. But for others there’s a quarterly journal called Studies in Intelligence , published by the Central Intelligence Agency. “Every profession has its own literature,” Andres Vaart, the publication’s editor, said the…

Image via Getty Stephen Miller, an angry, obnoxious teen masquerading as an adult man, sat down for an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper Sunday afternoon. The interview did not go well, to put it mildly, and when Tapper pressed Miller on some of the depictions of the Trump administration in the new…

SEEN, READ 2017 Jan 05, 2018 All caps, bold: MOVIE All caps, bold, asterisk: SHORT* All caps: TV SERIES Italics: Book Quotation marks: "Play" Italics, quotation marks: "Short Story" 01/01 PASSENGERS , THE BIRTHDAY PARTY (’68), KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES 01/02 TheMistletoe Murders and Other Stories…

It’s Drift’s and it’s brilliant. Here’s why. Drift CEO David Cancel A few weeks ago, I met a CMO named Yvette in the office kitchen at OpenView Venture Partners. She was chewing on a bagel during a lunch break from the VC firm’s all-day speaker event, and she was clearly upset. “How in the world,”…

Ominous logos for an ominous development. Logo Credit: Natascha Eibl Those of you that follow me on Medium know that I preach a common-sense and logical approach to Cyber and Information Security that avoids promoting fear, shock or hyperbole. That’s because beating the “The World Is Falling Apart!”…

Let me start with three inconvenient observations, based on dozens of conversations around Washington over the past year: First, people who go into the White House to have a meeting with President Trump usually leave pleasantly surprised. They find that Trump is not the raving madman they expected…

Scripto was conceived in 2010, when Stephen Colbert and one of his writers, Rob Dubbin, right, an amateur coder, first discussed making a drafting program for the staff of “The Colbert Report.” Photograph by Scripto Two months ago, a group of reporters and comedy writers crowded into aconference…

Image via Getty A letter published in the newspaper Le Monde, signed by 100 French women, argues that the #MeToo movement has gotten out of hand. “Rape is a crime, but trying to seduce someone, even persistently or cack-handedly is not, nor is men being gentlemanly a macho attack,” the letter read,…

The Very Best Title Sequences of 2017, as chosen by Art of the Title For our fourth annual list of the year’s top 10 title sequences, Art of the Title’s editors chose from among film, television, video games, web series, and conferences. The Top 10 of 2017 were chosen based on criteria such as…

Lisa Romeo | Longreads | January 2018 | 11 minutes (2,767 words) My boyfriend said it with such confidence, such nonchalance. “Don’t worry. You’re safe in here, and I’ll be back in an hour.” He shut the bedroom door behind him as he left, and I heard his key in the padlock on the other side — the…

Wikimedia Commons The president should have known better. Michael Wolff does not mess around. President Donald Trump could have saved himself a lot of grief if he—or one of his people—had read Michael Wolff’s 2008 book, The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch , before…

I’ll never forget my first Uber. As cheesy as that sounds, I’m sure the feeling is shared by many of us of a certain age. Finding myself stuck on the sleepy streets of San Francisco’s Nob Hill after midnight, not a cab in sight, I hit a button on my phone, a car drove up a few minutes later, and I…

(Image: CNET/CBS Interactive) Sonos has confirmed that existing customers will not be given an option to opt out of its new privacy policy, leaving customers with sound systems that may eventually "cease to function". It comes as the home sound system maker prepares to begin collecting audio…

Image: Wesson Wang / Unsplash Open up a web browser or power up a smartphone—pretty much essential for modern-day living—and you’re walking straight into a privacy minefield. That much you know. Especially after the news earlier this week that Unroll.me, a popular service that lets you unsubscribe…

Last week, Facebook rolled out an update to the design of its News Feed. The design tweaks—near imperceptible pixel spacing and color enhancements—were meant to make Facebook’s infinitely updating cascade of stories even easier to consume and comment on. “Small changes, like a few extra pixels of…

“User-friendly” was coined in the late 1970s, when software developers were first designing interfaces that amateurs could use. In those early days, a friendly machine might mean one you could use without having to code. Forty years later, technology is hyper-optimized to increase the amount of time…

2017 was a year of reckoning for the design community. UX became a weapon , AI posed countless new challenges , and debate erupted over once rock-solid design paradigms . Even some of the industry’s leading lights admitted their revolutionary inventions have serious, unintended consequences . The…

Author and columnist Michael Wolff was given extraordinary access to the Trump administration and now details the feuds, the fights and the alarming chaos he witnessed while reporting what turned into a new book. Editor’s Note: Author and Hollywood Reporter columnist Michael Wolff’s new book, Fire…

She’s the MIT hacker and engineer who burst onto the DIY electronics scene when she founded open-source hardware company Adafruit in 2005. Meet Limor ‘Ladyada’ Fried. Best known for Adafruit Industries, the New York City-based open-source hardware company she founded in 2005, Limor Fried is the…

Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Three months ago, when Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey of The New York Times unloaded their first big report about Harvey Weinstein’s pattern of sexual aggressiveness and abuse, the depth of detail made the story unforgettable—and as it turned out, historic. Real women went on…

It’s the end of the year and I’ve been on holiday since before Christmas. With this much time on my hands, I tend not to think much about work; instead I’m watching a lot of movies and thinking a lot about film. This afternoon I did a quick survey of several “best film posters of the year” lists,…

Romans of the Decadence (1847), by Thomas Couture, as updated to parody Silicon Valley’s male-dominated sexual and sexist culture. Photo Illustration by Darrow. About once a month, on a Friday or Saturday night, the Silicon ValleyTechnorati gather for a drug-heavy, sex-heavy party. Sometimes the…

In “The Bird Revelation,” the first comedy special to focus on the #MeToo movement, Dave Chappelle, sitting on a stool at the Comedy Store in Los Angeles in November, pauses to give advice to some comedians in the back. “You have a responsibility to speak recklessly,” he says. In that special and a…

Lawmakers concerned about Trump's mental health invited a Yale psychiatry professor to brief them in December. The conversation about President Donald Trump’s fitness to serve is ongoing — and gaining steam after Trump’s tweet this week taunting the leader of North Korea with…

The Reader Center is one way we in the newsroom are trying to connect with you, by highlighting your perspectives and experiences and offering insight into how we work. Choire Sicha was hired in September as the new editor of The New York Times Styles section . Red carpets have always been a clash…

##Meet Nico, who has been a member of the program steering committee for 7 years. Nico currently works for Microsoft in Seattle. What’s the future of the Design Lead Program? The program differs from the other programs, especially because of the fact that you need a year of experience. It still has…

How female friends have turned sexting into an act of bonding and empowerment By Alana Levinson Illustration by Amanda S. Lanzone The first time I saw my best friend half-naked was late one night on the small lit up screen of my iPhone. “Do you like??” she texted, and attached a picture of herself…

Story A few years ago, at a private event, Google founder Larry Page told a rapt audience that the way he evaluates prospective companies and entrepreneurs is by a single metric — asking them if what they’re working on was something that could “change the world.” It’s both an inspired way to look at…

This was a bad year, and these gadgets made it worse. Some were epic disappointments. Others were just ill conceived from the very beginning. These are the worst. Google Pixel Buds Image: Adam Clark Estes/Gizmodo It’s no surprise that Google wanted to join the wireless headphones parade. It’s…