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…

In the heat of the Presidential campaign, news that Donald Trump, Jr., had communicated with WikiLeaks would have been a bombshell. Photograph by Jabin Botsford / The Washington Post via Getty In foreign-policy circles, people sometimes talk about “boiling thefrog”: when an enormously consequential…

Backbone Campaign Nothing good — but we can keep fighting for it. I’m getting a lot of fatigue around net neutrality. This fucker keeps coming up, over, and over again as politicians repeatedly try to overturn it and the public keeps fighting it. And, that alone, should give you pause — why do…

You may not remember bullet-time shooter My Friend Pedro . It was an over-the-top shooter with silly gunfights, backflips and a banana (it’s still free on Adult Swim if you want a peep). But the developer has not forgotten. It’s being remade as My Friend Pedro: Blood Bullets Bananas and now features…

There is New York the city, a geographical reality – a place you can fly to if you have the means, a place with TripAdvisor reviews to lead you to brunch spots and bars, a place with astronomical rent and dodgy illegal AirBnB hostels; and then there is New York, the idea. I’ve never been to New…

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — In 2007, Anne Wojcicki, then 33, lassoed the moon. She was getting her new company, 23andMe, a mail-order genetics testing firm, off the ground with her “Party ’til you spit” celebrity get-togethers. She married Sergey Brin, the cute co-founder of Google, also 33 and already…

Hargrove estimates that two thousand serial killers are at large in the U.S. Illustration by Harry Campbell Audio: Listen to this story. To hear more feature stories, download the Audm app for your iPhone. Thomas Hargrove is a homicide archivist. For the past seven years, he has been collecting…

Photo by RawPixel on Unsplash Make Your iPhone Last Again I really didn’t want my phone to die, because if it did, so might I. At least it was a sunny day. I was standing atop Yellow Rock in the middle of nowhere, Utah, looking out at the vast, beautiful, savannah-like landscape and…totally lost.…

Florida at night. (Image: NASA/JSC) To reduce energy consumption, many jurisdictions around the world are transitioning to outdoor LED lighting. But as new research shows, this solid-state solution hasn’t yielded the expected energy savings, and potentially worse, it’s resulted in more light…

BRUSSELS — The European Union has long had to deal with the challenge of being led by a dominant Germany. But suddenly it finds itself facing a different realization — the only thing worse than a strong Germany may be a weak one. Germany is hardly collapsing, but the failure of Chancellor Angela…

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Twenty-four years ago today, the Wu-Tang Clan brought the muthafuckin’ ruckus and taught us all about Shaolin shadow boxing and their own special sword style. The release of Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) transformed the rap landscape, as kung fu flick samples, dirty basement beats and raw free…

Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge Last month, the world was introduced to Amazon Key , a new service from the online shopping juggernaut that allows couriers to unlock your front door to deliver packages. One of the main concerns of the service is the central question of whether Prime customers…

IN THE LOOP PHOTOGRAPHY: MARK MAHANEY INTERVIEW: NICK COMPTON The glass fins provide shade from the Californian sun. Foster + Partners and Apple’s design team considered fabric and fibreglass fins before settling on the final design Anticipation was higher than usual – and it always runs to feverish…

The collapse of coalition talks in Germany is not simply a political problem for the Germans; it portends a period of serious uncertainty for all Europe and the West. In a Europe shaken by Brexit, the election of Donald Trump, democratic backsliding in Poland and Hungary, Russian meddling and much…