The opening title sequence of Andrew Niccol’s 2005 film Lord of War , starring Nicolas Cage as arms dealer Yuri Orlov, is a tale of birth and death. The life of a bullet. The death of a child. The title sequence, conceptualized by Niccol and shepherded by Visual Effects Supervisor Yann Blondel with…

The hard truth What’s important when picking out a font? It’s one of the most common questions I get when I consult in accessibility . People expect me to start lecturing on the importance of fonts for people with dyslexia or other reading impairments. How different typefaces and kerning really can…

The image that hacker Jason Hughes found hidden in Tesla's latest Model S firmware. Jason Hughes It seems Tesla is set to bump the battery capacity of its Model S sedan up to a hefty 100kWh some time in the near future. We know this thanks to the work of a white-hat hacker and Tesla P85D owner named…

Owners of Tesla Model S cars, such as the one above, received updates that enabled them to flee Hurricane Irma. (Paul Sakuma/AP) As Florida residents fled Hurricane Irma over the weekend, some Tesla owners got a little surprise from the automaker to help them get out of the danger zone. On Saturday,…

Between the “adpocalypse” that drained advertising money from YouTube, and highly-publicized fiascos involving popular content creators , YouTube’s had a rocky 2017. Now, many who make a living off the website are dreading the fallout from the latest Pewdiepie debacle. The question many are…

Illustration: Anna Parini What is this midlife crisis among the 30-year-olds I know? Millennial women — at least those who reside in professional bubbles — seem to have it all. They are better educated, more prosperous, less encumbered by cultural expectations than any previous generation of women.…

Comedy has taken Nathan Fielder to some pretty strange places, but nothing quite compares to the time he found himself walking a high wire between two seven-story buildings in downtown L.A. It was the finale of the third season of Nathan for You , the hit Comedy Central series in which Fielder…

Photo: Getty The future is not completely unpredictable. Many of the most powerful economic and political trends in this country can be found inside an Amazon warehouse. And what happens to the workers there will say a lot about our collective future. Our nation—as it often has throughout modern…

Wesley Yin-Poole Deputy Editor @wyp100 Ubisoft's comedy RPG South Park: The Fractured but Whole features various levels of difficulty, from easy to very difficult, much like most games. What's different though is the difficulty affects the colour of your character's skin. During the character…

For Lego, it's time to break down the blocks and start again. After building up sales aggressively since a near bankruptcy in 2004 through new ventures like films and new toy lines, the company seems to have hit a peak. Its sales are now falling for the first time in 13 years and it says it needs to…

This Thursday, September 7, the first Goldie Awards will go down in New York City at Brooklyn Steel . Created by A-Trak, the co-founder of Fool’s Gold Records, the event will feature DJ and beat battles judged by panel of experts including Mannie Fresh, Just Blaze, Diplo, Craze and Mija. Hosted by…

These two giants seek to disrupt much more than the digital content space. The bidding war for the theatrical rights to the next James Bond film just got a whole lot more interesting. The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that both Apple and Amazon have joined the fray to acquire the theatrical rights…

Instrumental hip-hop can be a very bad idea. Taking the human voice away from a genre that's largely dependent upon it can result in the most banal café soundtrack music, like instrumental metal. (Just kidding about instrumental metal. Don't @ me.) So it takes an artist of particular verve to make…

We catch up with Maartje of Fashion Studio M.E.N, based at Makerversity Amsterdam M.E.N have been selected for the Fashion Makes Sense Award , an award for young, conscious new generation designers with innovative ideas for sustainability. The award is awarded during the Dutch Earth Week (October…

Eric Andre has become an established player in the comedy scene in recent years, bringing his uniquely weird energy to shows like “Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23” and “Man Seeking Woman.” But to really understand who he is, you need to watch “ The Eric Andre Show .” READ MORE: ‘Firefly’ Fan…

For years, Eric Andre , now 33, struggled as just another twentysomething stand-up in New York and L.A. He describes his life at the time as “full of depression and anxiety,” and says that things took a turn after he discovered Transcendental Meditation, which he practices twice daily, and filmed…

Chicago's Mayor has declared the city a "Trump-free zone", after the US president ended protection for the children of undocumented immigrants known as "dreamers". Introduced by former president Barack Obama, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) immigration policy prevented nearly…

I found the old matchbook lying on a desk. It was buried under some papers, beside a thick, water-logged book frozen solid in the January chill. I ran my fingers down its spine and read the title: "How to Run A Successful Golf Course." The owner of the Penn Hills Resort in the Poconos probably…

Polaroid for many years now has been created a poor excuse for Instant Film in the form of Zink paper and prints with options borders, but a recent update from the company is teasing the return to their roots as an analog instant film based company. The Impossible Project has been working for years…

You've worked for months to get your prototype functioning. It's time to take that ugly (but functional!) works-like prototype and create a real consumer product. Right now, you may be focused on the general shape, smoothing out the curves and accommodating the awkward PCB shape (darn those…

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Milo Yiannopoulos arrives at a rally in Cleveland.Photograph: Timothy Fadek/Redux/Eyevine T his is a story about how trolls took the wheel of the clown car of modern politics. It’s a story about the insider traders of the attention economy. It’s a story about fear and loathing and Donald Trump and…

Before I even announced that the great Epicurious Kettle chip taste test was underway, editors began trickling into the conference room for a bite. Who knows, maybe they were innocently thinking about new ways for breading weeknight chicken . But as I began assembling ranking sheets and organizing…

Picking the right tools for a better design workflow The purpose of this article is to bring to light the lesser known (well, at least some are less known) gems that exist that makes the design process easier. We all know the design process is messy and very convoluted, but there are tools that can…

A collage I made showing off anti-design and text repetition. So, Taylor Swift’s artwork for her new album Reputation is out. What is the most striking about the artwork is how it strives to replicate the newspaper aesthetic and how it’s seemingly a comment on Taylor Swift’s treatment in the media.…

Senior White House aides met Sunday afternoon to discuss how to roll out the controversial move affecting hundreds of thousands of Dreamers. Serafina Ha (right) of Chicago embraces Becky Belcore of the National Korean American Service and Education Consortium during a demonstration in favor of…

Once again, Trump has made a fool of himself—but this time it could get a lot worse than that. The generals can stop him, and they have to. Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast There was a palpable sigh of relief when General John Kelly was selected as White House chief of staff and when National…

Advertising is dead and we killed it. We are the Four Horsemen of the Adpocalypse® and that thunderous noise you hear is the sound of our stallions trampling on the status quo. In the time that it takes you to read this sentence, we’ve come up with the next big thing, and guess what? It just got…

Today’s college students desperately want to change the world, but too many think that living a meaningful life requires doing something extraordinary and attention-grabbing like becoming an Instagram celebrity, starting a wildly successful company or ending a humanitarian crisis. Having idealistic…

Illustration by Derek Brahney Last month, the right-wing media personality Mike Cernovich announced that he was conducting a ‘‘big pivot’’ away from the fringes of the news ecosystem. The move was unexpected, as Cernovich had carved out a comfortable niche for himself — railing against coastal…

Why is it that some people seem to be hugely successful and do so much, while the vast majority of us struggle to tread water? The answer is complicated and likely multifaceted. One aspect is mindset—specifically, the difference between amateurs and professionals. Most of us are just amateurs.…

A Chance Encounter with the Creator Behind LOT2046 Text: Kyle Chayka Photography: Eric Chakeen You know how you see strange things floating around on banner ads and one day you finally click them, just to see what they’re actually about? That’s how it happened. These all-black clothes were popping…

Eleven million Amazon Echoes sit on kitchen counters today. Most people who own one–or any other smart home speaker–probably don’t spend a lot of time questioning the fact that this always-listening device records data about them and then ferrets it away in a server, where it is used in ways they…

Now they’re the breed we fear most Pete the Pup reached stardom at a time when the pitbul breed was widely beloved. (General Photographic Agency/Getty Images) In 1921, director and film producer Hal Roach was staring absent-mindedly out of his office window, when he noticed a group of children…

Jennifer Scheurle opened up a can of game-design whoopass on Thursday. Scheurle, a designer with Opaque Space (whose current project is the virtual reality game Earthlight ) tossed out an open question on Twitter that will make you question what really is underneath the hood of your favorite game.…

In January of 2009, I stood waiting in Wilmington, Delaware, for a train carrying the first African American elected president of the United States. I was there to join him as vice president on the way to a historic Inauguration. It was a moment of extraordinary hope for our nation—but I couldn’t…

WASHINGTON — President Trump on Friday pardoned Joe Arpaio, the former Arizona sheriff whose aggressive efforts to hunt down and detain undocumented immigrants made him a national symbol of the divisive politics of immigration and earned him a criminal contempt conviction . In a two-paragraph…