As Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock once noted (via Lyn Collins sample ), “It takes two to make it outtasight.” And as with romantic relationships, so too with rap. There is a special magic that happens when two seasoned MCs go back and forth, simultaneously competing with and complementing one another. Each…

The last outpost of moderate opinion on the subject of the Russian ratfcking during the 2016 presidential election seems to be that, yes, there was mischief done and steps should be taken both to reveal its extent and to prevent it from happening again in the future, but that the ratfcking, thank…

A quarter of the members of the National Infrastructure Advisory Council, whose purview includes national cybersecurity, have resigned. In a group resignation letter, they cited both specific shortfalls in the administration’s approach to cybersecurity, and broader concerns that Trump and his…

When Penelope Gazin and Kate Dwyer decided to start their own online marketplace for weird art, they didn’t expect it to be easy. After all, the L.A.-based duo of artists were bootstrapping the project with a few thousand dollars of their own money and minimal tech skills. But it wasn’t just a tight…

Televangelist Jim Bakker is predicting that Christians would begin a second civil war in the U.S. if President Trump were impeached. "If it happens, there will be a civil war in the United States of America. The Christians will finally come out of the shadows, because we are going to be shut up…

In June, Google told stock photography website Shutterstock that its researchers had found a weakness that could destroy the site’s entire business. Google’s researchers had built an AI-powered tool that could easily remove the watermarks Shutterstock uses to protect all of its images across the…

At Whole Foods, it’s Day One — of Amazon ownership. The e-commerce giant celebrated the close of its Whole Foods acquisition with an Amazon Echo display inside the high-end grocery stores and price cuts on produce of as much as 43 percent. Code Commerce is coming to New York on September 13-14 —…

SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea carried out one of its most provocative missile tests in recent years early Tuesday morning, hurling a ballistic missile directly over Japan that prompted the government in Tokyo to warn residents in its path to take cover. The missile flew over the northern island…

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Long term, it worked, but not how they intended Logging a big load in 1880s Michigan. (Detroit Publishing Co./Library of Congress) E uropean settlers expected paradise — plump fruits, lush grasses, and clean, crisp waters. It seemed obvious the New World would come with all the riches of Eden,…

From Brigham Young to Jimmy Hoffa, how POTUS can set convicts free Jimmy Hoffa, presidentially pardoned union leader. (AP) M ost presidential powers come with restrictions, thanks to the checks and balances of the Constitution—though not all presidents appreciate those limitations. However, there is…

The dark tower: Two months after the fatal Grenfell fire, London is still struggling to understand what happened. Reuters Grenfell Was No Ordinary Accident Henry Wismayer Aug 17, 2017 The catastrophic fire that killed at least 80 in London was the inevitable byproduct of an ideology that vilified…

Richard Florida , one of the most influential thinkers about cities in postwar America, wants you to know that he got almost everything about cities wrong. If you live in an urban center in North America, the United Kingdom, or Australia, you are living in Richard Florida’s world. Fifteen years ago,…

“You treat me like a baby! Am I like a baby to you? I sit there like a little baby and watch TV and you talk to me?” — Donald Trump to Paul Manafort in “Devil’s Bargain,” by Joshua Green. Why does Mr. Trump’s team treat him like a kid ? He is the president of the United States and, as he says, “…

For the August issue of Jacobin Magazine , Sam Wetherell analyzes urban theorist Richard Florida’s apparent about-face on the benefits of luring members of the “creative class” to depressed cities in need of revitalization. Governmental leaders in major cities around the world have used Florida’s…

The greatest musicians are masters of evoking emotion—whether conveying happiness through song or making trauma and pain palpable. The Roots accomplished the latter with “It Ain’t Fair,” an impassioned Bilal-featuring single created to score the period piece drama, Detroit . The Motown-channelling…

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James Brightman Editor, North America Wednesday 23rd August 2017 Share this article Recommend Last week, Steam Spy's Sergey Galyonkin posted an interesting analysis on the state of game pricing among indie developers. The data shows that, on average, indies charge a little under $9 per title on…

President Trump signed a presidential memo Friday instructing the Defense Department to stop accepting transgender people who want to enlist in the military. The memo details Trump's previous Twitter announcement last month that he would reinstate a ban on transgender people serving in the U.S.…

Getty Images/Ringer illustration When an extremely muscular Jeff Bezos strutted out of a tech conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, and onto our Twitter timelines in July, the internet had a lot of questions. Why was bookish little Bezos suddenly so swole? My theory: He’s preparing for his inevitable…

At a number of political rallies over the past year, a character calling himself “Michael the Black Man” has appeared in the crowd directly behind Donald Trump, impossible to miss and prompting widespread fascination. He holds signs that scream “BLACKS FOR TRUMP” and wears a T-shirt proclaiming with…

Up in smoke … charred remains of the £1m burned by the KLF in 1994.Photograph: Murdo MacLeod for the Guardian S o why exactly did the KLF set £1m on fire? It’s been a burning question for 23 years, as pop’s greatest provocateurs chose to let rumour, conjecture and myth around the publicity stunt –…

Sweet Ice Cream Photography When you leave emotional abuse, they don’t tell you what to expect. They tell you to stand firm, build a support system and find a safe place. Mend your internal wounds. They don’t tell you how much it will hurt. It hurts. Not because you want to stay in the brokenness…

The Portsmouth High Patriots, like almost every high school baseball team, kept a trick play in their pocket. Theirs was called the "phantom pickoff throw": The pitcher would spin as if making a pickoff attempt but keep the ball tucked in his glove. His fielders would act as if the throw had gone…

Anxiety: We worry. A gallery of contributors count the ways. If you live in America in the 21st century you’ve probably had to listen to a lot of people tell you how busy they are. It’s become the default response when you ask anyone how they’re doing: “Busy!” “ So busy.” “ Crazy busy.” It is,…

Yager Development/2K Games Walt Williams has worked in the AAA gaming industry for over a decade. The following is an excerpt from his book Significant Zero . After this excerpt was published, the author shared some context about the piece in a thread on Twitter. With permission, we’ve included it…

During every project, there’s a moment when it can either become a ton of work, or a little bit of work. That’s the moment I live for—it’s the part where you choose whether to sacrifice some of your time to practice your craft, or just bang something out. (More on this at IDEO’s blog .) For IDEO…

In the future, Donald Trump’s advisers, including John Kelly, the chief of staff, will likely have a lot to say about the President’s time in office. Photograph by Drew Angerer / Getty Someday, when all that’s been happening has receded into thesemi-distant past, historians may be able to answer a…

There are a lot of nightmarish things about KFC, including but not limited to mutant chickens and a sandwich where the bread is chicken filets. Now KFC is owning the darker, crispier parts of its brand with a new VR horror game that’s become a “bizarre initiation rite” for new employees, according…

In December 2010, Sheryl Sandberg gave a talk about women’s leadership in which she mentioned “sitting at the table.” Women, she said, have to pull up a chair and sit at the conference-room table rather than clinging to the edges of the room, “because no one gets to the corner office by sitting on…

A few days ago, in front of an audience of over three thousand people, the leader of the Imperium—the largest coalition in EVE Online and perhaps the largest player alliance in any video game—announced that it would go to war. Over the next 24 hours, Imperium pilots deployed over 1200 capital class…

Political pundits and critics are raising questions about the future of a billion dollar fund sitting in the City of Burnaby's financial reserves. The third largest city in B.C. has accumulated more than $1 billion in reserve funding after years of investments, land sales and by cashing in on the…

A new competition heralds what is likely to become the future of cybersecurity and cyberwarfare, with offensive and defensive AI algorithms doing battle. The contest , which will play out over the next five months, is run by Kaggle , a platform for data science competitions. It will pit researchers’…

Trying to buy an NES Classic last year was a nightmare, something that even Nintendo seemed to realize when it announced the SNES classic earlier this year, eventually releasing a statement that, in corporate speak, was the closest you're going to get to a genuine apology for all the time and effort…

A Woman Who Says She Had Underage Sex With R. Kelly Is Finally Telling Her Story Jerhonda Pace was just 15 when she met her musical idol, R. Kelly, outside his child pornography trial. The alleged underage sexual relationship with him that followed and subsequent payouts mirror decades of…