This article is a collaboration between WIRED and Epic Magazine . Photographs by Cait Oppermann Love in the Time of Robots Hiroshi Ishi­guro builds androids. Beautiful, realistic, uncannily convincing human replicas. Academically, he is using them to understand the mechanics of person-to-person…

I was 37, single, unemployed and depressed because in a couple of months I was going to be moving out of my studio apartment on East 23rd Street in Manhattan and in with my mother in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. Since taking a buyout at my Wall Street firm, I had devoted myself to two activities:…

They didn’t pay me, I swear The subtle design choices that nobody talks about People love their messaging apps like their hometown sports teams. You’ll find die hard fans of iMessage, Whatsapp, and Facebook’s Messenger defending their platforms with a ferocity found more in sports bars than on…

Fake designs yield real results Twenty years ago, when I started my design career, I made a lot of fake stuff. I can still clearly remember when I designed my own CD covers for albums by famous bands, created a fake e-commerce site with my friends, recreated famous logos in Corel Draw, redesigned a…

Brie Code Monday 6th November 2017 Share this article Recommend Where are we headed? I'm concerned that most of the stories we are telling ourselves, especially within the games industry, are dystopian. Dystopia, no matter how beautifully rendered, is a resignation to a view of humanity or to our…

Credit Erik Madigan Heck for The New York Times. Stylist: Kathryn Typaldos. G reta Gerwig once peed her pants during a math test. She was in seventh grade, it was a new school, the test was a placement exam and she didn’t know the rules. Was she allowed to get up? Was it O.K. to raise her hand?…

[touches earpiece] I'm getting word that all of them are bad — Anna Merlan (@annamerlan) October 12, 2017 There’s an old saying: “men are bad.” It’s become, in the past few years, a very popular “joke” on Twitter because most of the bad things — wars, capitalism, mass shootings — are perpetrated and…

Google Daydream VR Headset (2017), Olivetti Divisumma 18 calculator (1973) Once upon a time, we had products that were colorful, in shapes that were quirky, whimsical, and expressive. Interesting! And then, almost every tech product became white, silver, gray, black, flat, square, round, and…

Over the past week, millions of people have used the hashtag #MeToo to share their experiences of sexual abuse and harassment. The Times Colonist is exploring the issue, and sharing the stories of people in our community. ( You can read some of them here .) Warning: Some of these stories contain…

Rick and Morty is in crisis, and we’re not just talking about the few intense fans who make the show look bad. The show, as a whole, already seems to be running out of steam. (Spoilers ahead!) (Get the MP3 here.) No wonder, then, that the latest season ended with the promise of a more streamlined…

PARIS — It’s hard to imagine a country where butter is taken more seriously than it is in France. It’s a staple of sauces and baking, alike. Without it, the croissant would be a leaden mass of flour, and the jambon-beurre sandwich missing a certain something. The Rouen Cathedral is said to have been…

Felling a man of Harvey Weinstein’s stature was undoubtedly going to create aftershocks. It must help that the actresses coming forward with accusations against him are famous, people we recognize, people we believe we love even if we don’t actually know them. It helps us to care about them and, as…

A week ago, reporters and editors in the combined newsroom of DNAinfo and Gothamist , two of New York City’s leading digital purveyors of local news, celebrated victory in their vote to join a union . On Thursday, they lost their jobs, as Joe Ricketts, the billionaire founder of TD Ameritrade who…

Michael Fallon leaving 10 Downing Street last week. He stepped down as defense secretary on Wednesday. Alberto Pezzali/NurPhoto, via Getty Images It is the butterfly-effect theory of politics made instantly visible. Dogged reporters uncover a story of Hollywood sexual assault, and across the globe…

Former Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Donna Brazile has published an excerpt from her forthcoming book , confessing that the scandal-haunted, disgraced former DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz "let Clinton's headquarters in Brooklyn [manage the Democratic Party] it desired so she…

I open Snapchat and my friend is naked on the toilet, a beer in the background. She sent a selfie with the caption, "pooping," and I'm delighted she thought of me. "Happy for u," I type back. A few weeks later, I'm traipsing about a hotel room, wearing a robe that costs more than the retail value of…

LONDON — The publicist for Kevin Spacey has announced that the Oscar-winning actor is seeking treatment, as reports emerged that the London theater where he was the longtime artistic director turned a blind eye to allegations of sexual misconduct. More men have come forward accusing Mr. Spacey of…

Laurie Penny | Longreads | October 2017 | 13 minutes (3,709 words) We’re through the looking glass now. As women all over the world come forward to talk about their experiences of sexual violence, all our old certainties about what was and was not normal are peeling away like dead skin. It’s not…

Four female lawmakers allege harassment in Congress. Photo: Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images In the wake of sexual-harassment allegations against numerous powerful men , four female lawmakers have now come forward about the abuse they say they endured by their colleagues in Congress. Speaking with the…

Picture this: it’s 2017, a reality TV star/alleged sexual predator is President of the United States. On a daily basis, women are fighting against losing their right to safe, affordable healthcare. I know it sounds like the opening to a post-apocalyptic horror film but the sad fact is, it’s our…

What Are the Jobs of Tomorrow? There’s this debate. “The robots are going to take our jobs!”, the cry arises. It’s true, but only in a tiny way. There’s a truer truth of the economy, more fundamental and more vital. The robots aren’t going to take your job. You are. What do I mean? Let’s consider…

Joseph Flaherty Contributor Joe Flaherty is director of Content & Community at Founder Collective . More posts by this contributor Why the ‘end of the startup era’ could be great for entrepreneurs There’s no shame in a $100M startup Three prominent tech thinkers recently declared the end of the…

For decades, the actress Annabella Sciorra was silent about her alleged rape by Harvey Weinstein. Photograph by Isabel Magowan for The New Yorker In March, Annabella Sciorra, who received an Emmy nomination for herrole in “The Sopranos,” agreed to talk with me for a story I wasreporting about Harvey…

You can’t “thing” your way to people trusting you Brands think of content as another product to create, but content isn’t a thing. Content is a relationship. This statement has the whiff of woo woo, but allow me a moment to convince you of its simple truth. Because once you’re convinced, you’ll be…

US President Donald Trump speaks alongside his daughter, Ivanka Trump (L) and her husband, Senior White House Adviser Jared Kushner (R) during a Cabinet Meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, DC, October 16, 2017. By SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images. Until now, Robert Mueller has…

WASHINGTON — The federal government on Friday released more than 600 additional secret documents related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy after national security agencies moved to finally open up their remaining files on one of the most dramatic and debated events in modern American…

At the age of 43, I had never had a relationship last more than a year. My colleagues in comedy suggested that it was par for the course in our business, and that paired with my psychiatric issues, I might never be eligible for lifelong commitment. But strangely, it was when I was hospitalized in a…

GO LONDON newsletter Joey Bada$$ is due onstage in less than half an hour and I’ve been squeezed in haphazardly for a quick interview right before the show. The New York-rapper, just 22 years old, is one of the brightest hip-hop talents to emerge from the US in recent years and has been the subject…

“If they drop the bomb, you got 20 minutes to get here,” says André 3000. “We’re gonna need a whole lotta water to make it for two weeks.” We’re in the third-floor sub-basement of André Benjamin’s apartment building in downtown New York. André tells me that to survive a nuclear event, you have to be…

Last year, Danny Brown premiered a documentary about his triumphant return to performing in his hometown of Detroit after years of not touching the stage there. The movie, called Live at the Majestic and helmed by Emmy-winning director Andrew Cohn, captures Brown onstage at Motown's historic…

Play Video 1:11 Miss Peru contestants subvert tradition to highlight violence against women – video It was that moment in the beauty pageant where the contestants come forward, introduce themselves and then announce their bust, waist and hip measurements. But in the opening segment of Sunday night’s…

J ustin Rosenstein had tweaked his laptop’s operating system to block Reddit, banned himself from Snapchat, which he compares to heroin, and imposed limits on his use of Facebook . But even that wasn’t enough. In August, the 34-year-old tech executive took a more radical step to restrict his use of…

Brit Marling describes the way economics complicate the notion of consent. Regis Duvignau / Reuters When the Harvey Weinstein story broke, I thought of something my mother told me when I was a little girl. She said: To be a free woman, you have to be a financially independent woman. She wasn’t…

This article was originally published in Domus 964 / December 2012 Four years ago, while visiting the Brooklyn studioof Jason Miller, something about his set-up struckme as being peculiar and unique within a designoffice. He had reels of bubble wrap, an inventoryof cardboard boxes of all shapes and…

O n June 14, 2014, the State Council of China published an ominous-sounding document called "Planning Outline for the Construction of a Social Credit System". In the way of Chinese policy documents, it was a lengthy and rather dry affair, but it contained a radical idea. What if there was a national…

Wikipedia, one of the last remaining pillars of the open and decentralized web, is in existential crisis. This has nothing to do with money. A couple of years ago, the site launched a panicky fundraising campaign, but ironically thanks to Donald Trump, Wikipedia has never been as wealthy or…

Saudi Arabia has officially recognised a humanoid robot as a citizen, marking the first time in history that an AI device has been awarded such status. Sophia , an intelligent humanoid robot created by Hanson Robotics , announced the citizenship herself during a panel discussion at the Future…

Super Mario Odyssey is a game that’s reluctant to punish the player, and that’s one of the best things about its design. It’s also the reason the game feels so welcoming and warm, two things that are often in short supply in our pop culture. You can fail at Super Mario Odyssey , and some of the…