While leading a Q&A prior to the 20th anniversary screening of the political satire Wag the Dog on Monday night, HBO host John Oliver brought up the recent allegations of sexual harassment made against actor Dustin Hoffman to a panel comprising Robert De Niro, producer Jane Rosenthal, director Barry…

This article originally appeared on Noisey Denmark It’s 2017. A lack of musical talent should never keep you from recording a completely terrible song. And it sholdn’t stop you from then buying 10,000 streams of that song for the #clout. That’s our way of saying that here at Noisey Denmark, we’ve…

The recent unrest in Charlottesville, Virginia, after a white-supremacist rally has stoked some Americans’ fears of a new civil war. Photograph by Glenna Gordon for The New Yorker A day after the brawling and racist brutality and deaths in Virginia,Governor Terry McAuliffe asked, “How did we get to…

- Nov. 29th 2017 5:25 am ET @FredericLambert The buzz around bitcoin is bigger than ever as the value of the cryptocurrency surged to $10,000 – making the entire value of the market worth over $170 billion. Now the bitcoin world is even encroaching in the Tesla world as a Model S owner built a…

Silicon Valley’s usual solution to designing an inoffensive, eager-to-please technology has been to make it a woman. But why use gender at all? ILLUSTRATION BY MARINA MUUN In February, I took a job designing the personality of a chatbot called Kai. I ghostwrite the lines it says, and I have thought,…

Dana Lewis is a good name to remember the next time you hear somebody say Alabama's mostly good for football and barbecue. Lewis, a University of Alabama graduate who grew up in Huntsville, used social media, computer skills and mail-order parts to invent an artificial pancreas for people with…

Harrods has a reputation to uphold. It's why the shop's staff dress code demands that men look "debonair", a word not used once since doctors were still recommending cigarettes to pregnant women. It's why they're " spending a fortune " on a massive new room to sell expensive wine in. It's why, in…

GTA Online is home to a community of people who dress up as animals and commit virtual crimes together. The Furry Army , which boasts a roster of nearly 200 members, is led by a red fox-cheetah hybrid, Vik Nightfox. Like anyone else, these players want to have fun in the wild streets of Los Santos,…

Today in Tedium: Recently, I had a big problem really put a damper on my retro-gaming experience. After modding my Super NES Classic, I proceeded to play one of my all-time favorite games, The Legend of the Mystical Ninja . I got all the way up to level 5, but when I ran into that level’s boss,…

Making Connections We recently sent one of our members to Shenzhen as part of our maker exchange with Chaihuo in Shenzhen. Here Joris gives us a roundup of his trip! Recently I was granted the opportunity to take my work from London to Shenzhen to continue the Making Connections programme and…

Consider the UK. From welling up en masse about an old clock not chiming for a bit, to a grassroots campaign backing a politician whose beliefs lost all relevancy around the time the Queen took the throne, it's fair to say we're a country that likes to look backwards. We still turn people into…

Once upon a time, long before I began selling my face by the acre for features on VICE dot com, I worked other jobs. There was one in particular that really had an impact on me: writing fake reviews on TripAdvisor. Restaurant owners would pay me £10 and I'd write a positive review of their place,…

The Power of RAW on iPhone, Part 1: Shooting RAW I take a lot of photos. Usually I pack either a Sony A7R2 or a Leica M—two cameras with massive sensors and brilliant lenses. But lately, I’ve been shooting exclusively with the iPhone X, and have found it absolutely excellent. I usually shoot on my…

Pilots have stopped 222 deportations of asylum seekers from Germany by refusing to take off with them on board. Many of the pilots refused to take control of flights taking people back to Afghanistan, where violence is still rife following years of war and occupation by Western forces. One of the…

Instructions for carrying heavy equipment at the Columbia University Computer Music Centre. Between projects at Fluxx , and editing a book , I learned several learnings. In Silicon Valley, startups that result in a successful exit have an average founding age of 47 years.[ Joshua Gans ] Traders in…

I asked a whole bunch of designers what books, which weren’t specifically about digital or graphic design, inspired them. And, wow I got a ton of great responses. Here are twelve of the most popular recommendations: 1. The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs The classic book about…

A lot of people tell me I am creative and innovative. In general, marketers are supposed to be seen that way, appearing to conjure ideas out of thin air. Perhaps the creative directors I have worked with in agencies do that, but definitely not me. We have all been seduced by the notion of…

Photograph by Justin Sullivan / Getty You are walking through a rail yard when you notice a runaway trolley careening your way. Directly in its path are five people, bound and lying across the tracks. They will die if nothing is done. There is a lever nearby. Pulling it will divert the trolley onto…

Marshall Allman attempted to 'finish' Eyes Wide Shut . He discovered more than he bargained for. It is a common pastime among film fans to play the 'what-if' game when it comes to favorite films. It's also a favorite pastime of directors: witness the multiple cuts of Blade Runner we've seen over the…

The Washington Post / Contributor / Getty Images currency manipulation By on Dec 5, 2017 Share If you’re like me, you’ve probably been ignoring the bitcoin phenomenon for years — because it seemed too complex, far-fetched, or maybe even too libertarian. But if you have any interest in a future where…

In a striking and raw demonstration of the angst that has accumulated over Hollywood’s sexual harassment scandals, HBO host John Oliver sparred with Dustin Hoffman during an awkward 45-minute Q&A intended as a prologue to a 20th-anniversary screening of the film Wag the Dog . (Check out the video of…

Image via Getty . During the Q&A section of a special Wag the Dog screening at the 92nd St. Y Monday night, John Oliver surprised guest Dustin Hoffman —and the audience—by bringing up the harassment allegations made against him this year by Anna Graham Hunter . Per Deadline, Oliver “brought up the…

Perhaps “Nathan for You” is ultimately about our unfettered capacity for credulity—not just the suspension of disbelief but the acceptance of the preposterous. Photograph Courtesy Comedy Central Yet often the pretender begins to love truly after all, and oftenbecomes what he has feigned to be.…

In recent months, I have grown obsessed with a seemingly simple question: Does the American political system have a remedy if we elect the wrong person to be president? There are clear answers if we elect a criminal, or if the president falls into a coma. But what if we just make a hiring mistake,…

Going bankrupt, falling asleep, and falling in love can all happen at first gradually, then suddenly. Success can happen the same way — or at least that’s how it did for Anderson .Paak . The Oxnard, California, native, born Brandon Paak Anderson, has been a career musician for the better part of the…

A bar of gold. A disk of iron. A chain of beads. A card of plastic. A slip of cotton-linen paper. These things are worthless. One cannot eat them, or drink them, or use them as a blanket. But they are valuable, too. Their value comes from the simplest thing. People believe they are money, and so…

The year is 1972. On May 7, Tony Orlando & Dawn is in the middle of a four-week ride atop the Billboard Hot 100 with “Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree,” and Edmund Kemper is indicted on eight counts of murder in Santa Cruz, Calif. Welcome to the world of David Fincher’s Mindhunter , a…

Remember that we knew them. The people who survived the Second World War were grandparents or great-grandparents who we saw slip into old age, and whose occasional stories gave us very small, personal glimpses of one of the most important and terrible events in history. Many of them eventually heard…

This essay has been updated to reflect news developments. Michael Flynn’s plea on Friday to a single count of lying to the F.B.I. is a seismic event in the special counsel investigation. For starters, it portends the likelihood of impeachable charges being brought against the president of the United…

Kool G. Rap is not just an influential figure in the art of MCing. Nor is he simply just a pioneer of rap music. Although he doesn’t always get the credit he deserves, G Rap is quite literally a pillar of this culture we call hip hop. He makes up part of the very foundation of this thing of ours.…

In 1986, Maddie Corman was a 16-year-old actress performing Off Broadway as her mother lay dying in a hospital bed, hours after having a stroke. Backstage, Ms. Corman was consoled by Israel Horovitz, the show’s 47-year-old playwright and her mentor. As she prepared to go on, he pressed her against a…

Image: NEJM/University of Miami When an unresponsive patient arrived at a Florida hospital ER, the medical staff was taken aback upon discovering the words “DO NOT RESUSCITATE” tattooed onto the man’s chest—with the word “NOT” underlined and with his signature beneath it. Confused and alarmed, the…

Original Image via Allan Amato It’s been more than 20 years since Chuck Palahniuk first unleashed Fight Club on the world and simultaneously inspired legions of impressionable young men and appalled their parents. But the themes Palahniuk explored in that book — the emasculation of late-capitalism…

“We want to limit the length of a review in the product to 140 characters, because we may want to use SMS at some stage. That’s a small change, right?” Wrong. There are no small changes when you’re committed to delivering quality software. Let’s look at the above case. A naïve programmer may well…

Sharing a quick story I found on Intercom’s blog about how there’s no such thing as a small change in a product. At some point Intercom’s team decided to limit the number of characters of their reviews to 140. “We want to limit the length of a review in the product to 140 characters, because we may…

Almost half the women who get tech jobs eventually leave the field, more than double the percentage of men who do so. Illustration by Anna Parini Audio: Listen to this story. To hear more feature stories, download the Audm app for your iPhone. One day in 2013, AJ Vandermeyden drove to Tesla’s…