BEVERLY HILLS, CA - JULY 27: Charlie Brooker the creator of Netflix’s ‘Black Mirror’ poses for a portrait during the 2016 Television Critics Association Summer Tour at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on July 27, 2016 in Beverly Hills, California.(Photo by Maarten de Boer/Contour by Getty Images) Photo:…

At some point in 2006, or possibly late 2005, Noah Glass walked into our office all excited about something. That in itself isn’t news because Noah was always excited about something. Dude had an energy. Noah worked across the hall from us on the sixth floor of a old broke-ass building in South…

Interview and question techniques for UX researchers So it seems I have a thing for documentarians. If I ever have a celebrity crush, it’s on a geeky dude bumbling around the world talking to people on camera. I’m talking John Safran, Adam Richman, Louis Theroux. Sure, part of it is that I think…

I have had plenty of Harvey Weinsteins of my own over the years, enough to feel a sickening shock of recognition. Photograph by The LIFE Picture Collection / Getty The tale of Harvey Weinstein is now a thread that has tangled its waythrough Hollywood, connecting women, mostly actresses, in a…

In mid-August, Ronan Farrow, an NBC News contributor, had secured an interview with a woman who was willing to appear on camera, in silhouette, her identity concealed, and say Harvey Weinstein had raped her, according to four people with close knowledge of the reporting. It was a pivotal moment in a…

If you’re a user-centered designer, your resume should be too! Hiring designers is fun. I like seeing people’s work, and hearing them speak passionately about the cool stuff they’ve done. I like meeting other designers from Sydney. I like the “hire a designer” process — probably a lot more than I…

Meet the Camera Button, new in Luna Display Post update: RIP Camera Button Apple has never been afraid to take design risks. Earlier this year, Apple made headlines when it revealed a new iPhone design that left out the iconic Home button. Now, I’m all for simplification. But for the design…

WASHINGTON — Senator Bob Corker, the Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, charged in an interview on Sunday that President Trump was treating his office like “a reality show,” with reckless threats toward other countries that could set the nation “on the path to World War…

Donald Trump in the Diplomatic Room at the White House, October 2, 2017. By Joshua Roberts/Reuters. At first it sounded like hyperbole, the escalation of a Twitter war. But now it’s clear that Bob Corker’s remarkable New York Times interview —in which the Republican senator described the White House…

flickr/ Thomas Hawk The Hollywood mogul’s ostensible mea culpa is a perfectly written example of things not to do when you are apologizing. F or decades, Harvey Weinstein has served as the real-life inspiration for every tyrannical, foul-mouthed, hot-headed fictional movie studio executive. For…

Socialight is designed to fix this problem. The device–designed by SVA Products of Design student Kevin Cook–was inspired by the old phone stacking game, and functions similarly: The light only turns on when its hidden magnetometer detects a phone’s electromagnetic field. “[The] consequence for…

Donald Trump’s speech at the United Nations left behind an ambiguity about his plans for using nuclear weapons. Photograph by Mark Peterson / Redux A day or so after a nuclear weapon was used during wartime, onHiroshima, a Herald Tribune editorialist considered the “still hardlycredible fact” that a…

SOFIA, Bulgaria — While the embassies of most countries promote the interests of companies back home, North Korea’s are in business for themselves. A series of tough sanctions by the United Nations and an executive order recently signed by President Trump have sought to economically isolate the…

I am often asked if I am married. Sometimes I lie and say that I am. Sometimes I lie and say that I am not. Neither answer feels entirely truthful to me. If I say I am not married, the true answer, people occasionally try to set me up with their offspring. They seem to think I would be a great…

Detonation of Ivy Mike, the world’s first thermonuclear weapon (National Nuclear Security Administration, 1952) When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Maybe this is why so many Americans wonder why they can’t just nuke a country posing a risk to their security. With an arsenal of some…

‘They were made from the gut’ … Valley of the Gods, Utah, 1977, by Wim Wenders.Photograph: © Wim Wenders/Courtesy Deutsches Filminstitut Frankfurt Wim Wenders reckons he took more than 12,000 Polaroids between 1973 and 1983, when his career as a film-maker really took off, but only 3,500 remain.…

One day, when I was 19 years old, I was in the middle of a photo shoot for a Miramax film when I was suddenly told it was time to leave. I was wearing a little black dress, showing a lot of cleavage, lying seductively on my side and looking slyly at the camera. The part I had played in the movie,…

The Clash were principled. They wrote real songs. They were goofy. They went to the edge and beyond. And they did what they did, made the world come to them, and felt guilty about it. They recorded the equivalent of nine records in six years, including two or three of the greatest rock-and-roll…

The forerunner of the bicycle - the laufmaschine or running machine - bears only a passing resemblance to the pedal-bikes we know today. Invented in 1817, it had no chain and was powered by the rider pushing his feet along the ground in a walking or running motion. Even more unusually, its frame was…

Last week we published our hotly debated list of the 25 Best Rapper Producers of All Time . It was great to get the feedback, from the positive— “ The write up on Quik was spot on. The most underrated. So muthafukkin hated. Anything he did in music was never celebrated ” —to the negative— “ Where…

The US has announced it will withdraw from the United Nations Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), accusing the body of "anti-Israel bias". Heather Nauert, US state department spokesperson, said on Thursday the US would establish an "observer mission" to replace its representation at the…

With the release of her new sex-, love-, and utopia-fueled album, Björk takes a moment to reflect on her past—and dream about her future . good morning sooo i’m all sleepy but happy here, just having sent the last files to mastering, album ready...!and then got asked to write questions to…

Lena Dunham said she'd no longer allow her images to be photoshopped after her Vogue photo shoot (above) was retouched. Credit: Vogue Marketers are fond of saying they favor authenticity in advertising, but starting next week, France's ad industry won't have any choice in the matter. A new law that…

UPDATED : Rose McGowan ’s Twitter account has been suspended for violating Twitter’s rules, McGowan said in an Instagram post. “Twitter has suspended me,” she wrote. “There are powerful forces at work. Be my voice.” The actress has been vocal on the platform in recent days regarding the recent…

billy woods is a superlatively talented rapper and writer who, in the last half-decade, has reemerged from obscurity to become a darling of the avant-garde. History Will Absolve Me , his first solo record in eight years, was released in 2012 to rave reviews; he followed it with three more solo LPs…

The prominent white supremacist Richard B. Spencer was a featured speaker at a rally on Saturday in Charlottesville, Va., where demonstrators reprised their chant of “You will not replace us!” and asserted that the South would “rise again.” The gathering, which occurred eight weeks after a “Unite…

Austin Rogers. Photo: Jeopardy! ​I was beginning to think I was falling out of love with Jeopardy! Earlier this year, for the third time, I auditioned for the show. And, for the third time, they didn’t take me. They never confirm you’re not wanted — they just never call. Gutting. Still, I couldn’t…

In a touching Medium post a few days ago, the writer and programmer Paul Ford shared what he thinks is the secret to his politeness. In conversations with new acquaintances, Ford asks plenty of questions and lets the other person do the talking. He tries not to ask what they do for a living, but if…

On Sunday, Vice President Mike Pence made a big show of leaving an NFL game early. He declared himself upset that some players knelt during the singing of the Star Spangled Banner. “I will not dignify any event that disrespects our soldiers, our flag, or our national anthem," he declared, as if…

The third season of Rick and Morty began with a convoluted story in which series villain Rick breaks out of prison before breaking up his daughter’s marriage. There’s also a huge battle that includes many Ricks from other dimensions as the story folds back over itself and past seasons, and the whole…

Yesterday, Google announced a new addition to its home-assistant product line: the $49 Google Home Mini. The device–which lets you access information and services from your computer or phone using just your voice–looks like a smooth, fabric-wrapped river rock. It was designed to make the advanced…

A July 2017 study revealed that Tinder users are excessively willing to disclose information without realising it.Photograph: Alamy A t 9.24pm (and one second) on the night of Wednesday 18 December 2013, from the second arrondissement of Paris, I wrote “Hello!” to my first ever Tinder match. Since…

Monday night was a sad night for all rap fans. Miley Cyrus performed a rendition of Cardi B’s beloved “ Bodak Yellow ” on The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon . As part of the show’s Random Genre Generator prompt, Miley sang a bluegrass version of R. Kelly’s “Ignition” and then went on to give us a…

Harvey Weinstein is sorry. Harvey Weinstein is also suing The New York Times for their story published yesterday, detailing “ decades of sexual harassment accusations ” against him. Can you truly take responsibility while beginning litigation against the newspaper that exposed your misconduct? Six…