Slate executive editor Allison Benedikt recently wrote an essay about meeting her husband at work , when he was her boss and she was a 23-year-old entry-level fact-checker: “My boss would look down the gap at the waistband of my jeans when he walked past my desk… My career, at the time, was in his…

President Donald Trump is said to have mostly given up athletics since he left college. (JEFF J MITCHELL/GETTY IMAGES) President Trump reportedly eschews exercise because he believes it drains the body’s “finite” energy resources, but experts say this argument is flawed because the human body…

To exploit the bug the attackers would need to know the email address associated with the Apple ID of the homeowner and knowledge of how the system worked.Photograph: Image Source/Getty Images/Image Source Apple has been forced to fix a security hole within its HomeKit smart home system that could…

Updated | Roy Moore, the Alabama Senate candidate under fire for alleged sexual misconduct with teenage girls when he was in his 30s, apparently believes America was a better place at a time when slavery was still legal. At a campaign event earlier this year, an audience member asked Moore for his…

“Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with a General Reinforcement Learning Algorithm” David Silver , Thomas Hubert , Julian Schrittwieser , Ioannis Antonoglou , Matthew Lai , Arthur Guez , Marc Lanctot , Laurent Sifre , Dharshan Kumaran , Thore Graepel , Timothy Lillicrap , Karen Simonyan , Demis…

Chess changed forever today. And maybe the rest of the world did, too. A little more than a year after AlphaGo sensationally won against the top Go player, the artificial-intelligence program AlphaZero has obliterated the highest-rated chess engine . Stockfish , which for most top players is their…

Why it’s time to experiment with voice, and some technical tips on how to do it I’ve recently been working with friends at the Google Creative Lab on something I’ve been interested in awhile: how people and computers talk to each other. It’s a theme I’ve played with in previous projects I made, but…

Picasso with (left to right) Paloma, Maya, Claude and Paulo. Christmas at La Galloise, Vallauris 1953 Sixteen years ago, Marina Picasso, one of Pablo Picasso’s granddaughters, became the first family member to go public about how much her family had suffered under the artist’s narcissism. “No one in…

In real life, in the natural course of conversation, it is not uncommon to talk about a person you may know. You meet someone and say, “I’m from Sarasota,” and they say, “Oh, I have a grandparent in Sarasota,” and they tell you where they live and their name, and you may or may not recognize them.…

The Knick ’s second season debuts October 16 on Cinemax. Photo: Mary Cybulski/Courtesy of Cinemax The Binge Director Steven Soderbergh can make a whole season of The Knick almost as fast as you can watch it. Steven Soderbergh is in motion. It’s a warm day in Greenpoint, and the 52-year-old director,…

Before Keurig, it was the pizza company Papa John’s that, by its own doing, managed an identity-politics double screwup. Photograph by Dixie D. Vereen / The Washington Post via Getty On Sunday afternoon, a Twitter user with the display name Snoop Baileyposted what would have once been considered an…

The good news: you only have to nail one of two things The short answer: it depends on who you ask, but there are two schools of thought… 1st school of thought: BE FUCKING AWARE. God, it’s truly amazing how many people are off in la-la land while love-making. It’s enough to make a partner want to…

Lingerie campaigns are pretty predictable. A beautiful girl poses in lingerie. Sometimes she’s in something that can only be described as a “ boudoir ” and other times she stands in front of a nondescript backdrop . For the lingerie brand Playful Promises , which has bras up to a G cup, that’s been…

Still from Woody Allen’s Manhattan Roman Polanski, Woody Allen, Bill Cosby, William Burroughs, Richard Wagner, Sid Vicious, V. S. Naipaul, John Galliano, Norman Mailer, Ezra Pound, Caravaggio, Floyd Mayweather, though if we start listing athletes we’ll never stop. And what about the women? The list…

Director Denis Villeneuve Patrick James Miller/Redux When Arrival made the awards-season rounds last year, director Denis Villeneuve was already eyebrows-deep into making Blade Runner 2049, the Ryan Gosling -led sequel to Ridley Scott’s 1982 cult favorite, Blade Runner. “ Amy Adams, ” Villeneuve…

The first rule of interviewing David Fincher: Don’t talk about Fight Club . He directed that movie, along with Seven , Gone Girl , Zodiac , The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo , and The Social Network . He’s also an executive producer of House of Cards . One of the most meticulous creators in film and…

As Twitter tries to figure out how to lock down the parts of its platform that enable harassment, as well as the spread of misleading information and illicit content, there have been a number of moments that highlight how the service, and its levers of control, are far from perfect. One such moment…

There was once a time where Björk thought she might not ever release a solo album. She said as much to SPIN Magazine in 1993, on the eve of the release of her first solo record, the aptly titled Debut . In the late 80s and early 90s, she stood most recognizably at the helm of a buzzy alt-rock…

As a kid, I detested it when my behavior was compared to what my peers were doing. It was arguably the most maddening part of my upbringing, which consisted of me bouncing off walls trying to avoid the worst of my parents’ ire. There was this feeling of betrayal that came every time I was compared…

Chloe Caldwell | Longreads | December 2017 | 26 minutes (6,433 words) The first outburst was about my landlady; the outbursts are always about a woman. My landlady had sent me a text message with a couple of aggressive exclamation points and capitalizations referring to a misunderstanding over a…

Sergey Brin, co-founder of Google, with his Google Glass.Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images I t seems like only a few years ago that we began making wry jokes about the doofus minority of people who walked down the street while texting or otherwise manipulating their phone, bumping into lamp-posts…

Can someone please tell people that use Mario, Zelda, or Uncharted as an example of "games not needing microtransactions" that the microtransactions in those games are called a "$400 console investment plus the margins on each game for the platform you buy for perpituity". — Rami Ismail (@tha_rami)…

Source: Andrew Baker/Ikon Images/Getty B itcoin is an illusion, a mass hallucination, so one hears. It’s just numbers in cyberspace, a mirage, insubstantial as a soap bubble. Bitcoin is not backed by anything other than the faith of the fools who buy it and of the greater fools who buy it from these…

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,…