(c.o. CNN) By the time you read this sentence, if not by the time I have finished writing it, you have likely seen the images. Polo shirt clad white men wielding flickering tiki torches, marching through Charlottesville, Virginia, shouting “white lives matter” and “we will not be replaced”. You will…

‘We’ve been 5 years from male contraception for 50 years’ Reliable male birth control is, at its core, a math problem. Women have one egg that emerges, on average, once a month. Men, on the other hand, produce millions of sperm in every batch of ejaculate, each of them hell-bent on cracking that…

Let’s discard the fiction that President Trump wasn’t placating white supremacists by responding so weakly to the neo-Nazi violence that killed Heather Heyer, a 32-year-old counterdemonstrator in Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday. The neo-Nazis heard his message loud and clear. “He didn’t attack…

Documenting Hate Tracking Hate Crimes and Bias Incidents CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — There was nothing haphazard about the violence that erupted today in this bucolic town in Virginia’s heartland. At about 10 a.m. today, at one of countless such confrontations, an angry mob of white supremacists formed a…

Donald J. Trump is president-elect of the United States. Now there’s a sentence I never thought I’d write. Against all odds and against all forms of the establishment, he prevailed. He won, legitimately, including in many states that were thought to be safely blue. The pundits and the polls were…

Members of a white supremacist militia stand at the rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.Photograph: Justin Ide/Reuters T he memoirs of Union general William Tecumseh Sherman make uncomfortable reading. In among the battle orders and the racist depiction of freed slaves, he switches occasionally to…

image via Getty. The doxxing of white supremacists who rallied to protect a statue of a loser general continues , to their shock. In turn, some of them are beginning to see consequences. Twitter account @YesYoureRacist has been circulating photos of rally attendees who boldly eschewed the tradition…

Photo: Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images Finally, a solid reason to do the very European double-header of The Trip to Spain and Dunkirk without worrying about how much money you’ll have to ration for popcorn. MoviePass , the subscription-based service from Netflix co-founder Mitch Lowe that prides…

Enlarge Hundreds of Internet-connected locks became inoperable last week after a faulty software update caused them to experience a fatal system error, manufacturer LockState said. The incident is the latest reminder that the so-called Internet of Things—in which locks, thermostats, and other…

Imagine seeing your retirement account balloon to $1.3 million and then crash to $140,000. That’s essentially what’s happened to thousands of New York City taxi drivers. Each NYC yellow taxi needs a medallion, which is like a license, in order to operate legally. Drivers can lease or buy them. New…

The entertainment industry can be brutal, and that often goes double for women. It’s tough to break into a system that’s been designed to keep them relegated to the sidelines and the struggle for representation in front of and behind the camera rages on, with occasional small victories fueling this…

Daily Tedium Catch The Sun Amid recent (depressing) revelations that some cheap calculators have fake solar cells on them, a short history of real solar cells on calculators. Featured 09 Aug 2017 calculators, solar calculators, solar energy, solar cells, fake, lying

On October 5, 1999, Steve Jobs introduced the iMac DV and a new application called iMovie, declaring: We think this is going to be the next big thing. Desktop video…which we think is going to be as big as desktop publishing was. The problem is that “the next big thing” had already arrived: four…

On the afternoon that Donald Trump threatened North Korea with “fire and fury” and the world busied itself with imagining what exactly a 21st-century nuclear war would entail, a man in Bridgewater, New Jersey, sidled up to the bar at Maggiano’s and ordered a glass of red wine. The restaurant is hard…

Publicly, Pence has shown nothing but unconditional—at times even obsequious and worshipful—support for Trump. His private actions, however, suggest a more calculating and realistic mind-set. Photograph by Mark Peterson / Redux Two weeks ago, when I spoke to Anthony Scaramucci, the former WhiteHouse…

Illustration by Risko. What is your idea of perfect happiness? Playing with a dog. And we’re both drunk. What is your favorite journey? I like flying to New York from London. It’s like a day off for me. No phone or e-mails. Food, wine, iPod, movies, snoozing. And then New York! What do you consider…

Kendrick Lamar has a lot going on right now, but you’d never know it. Backstage in Duluth, Georgia, a few hours before his latest sold-out arena show, he’s radiating unearthly levels of clear-eyed serenity from his perch on a dressing-room couch. He’s wearing a peach sweatsuit and white Nikes, and…

Late last autumn, a Russian mathematician and programmer named Alex decided he’d had enough of running his eight-year-old business. Though his St. Petersburg firm was thriving, he’d grown weary of dealing with payroll, hiring, and management headaches. He pined for the days when he could devote…

Adult Swim's animated hit Rick and Morty has returned for its third season with one major change to its writers room: female voices. Creators Dan Harmon and Justin Roiland, who debuted the sci-fi cartoon in 2013 on the overnight cable network, decided to shake up their show's dynamic by adding four…

Creating a classic gaming machine is one of the best things you can do with a Raspberry Pi, and there’s no better way to do it than to install RetroPie . RetroPie is one of the single most popular platforms for the Pi, but the people behind it are “just a few blokes,” developer Herb Fargus told us.…

Behold! 10 of our “favorites.” We’re using quote marks, because these are so infuriatingly accurate. "Discharge. Not periods, just everyday discharge. Sometimes there's hardly any, but sometimes there's that big glob that appears at the most inopportune time." — @PotterCat "That periods aren't just…

Brian Rea When my best friend since childhood wound up back on the oncology unit for her third relapse, I decided it was time to start online dating. I knew from Nance’s prior hospitalizations that talking about lymphoma and PET scans was not her idea of fun. A far better entertainment would be for…

The reporter Penelope Green takes a metal bat to a television at the Wrecking Club in the garment district of Manhattan. She found it difficult to destroy. Dina Litovsky for The New York Times Smashing things may not seem at first blush to be a winning idea to wrap a business around. Since March,…

R. Kikuo Johnson Updated on December 28, 2017 “You are entitled to your own opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts.” — Daniel Patrick Moynihan — “We risk being the first people in history to have been able to make their illusions so vivid, so persuasive, so ‘realistic’ that they can…

Paul Manafort, former campaign chairman for President Donald Trump, is under investigation for possible violations of lobbying and money-laundering laws, according to people familiar with the matter. Photo: rick wilking/Reuters WASHINGTON—Federal agents working with Special Counsel Robert Mueller…

Madeline Rawlings A love letter & call to action. T he arts and humanities are more intertwined in technology than ever before, and will only continue to become more essential in building truly great products and companies. “I believe art and design are poised to transform our economy in the 21st…

A tough young girl loves fly fishing in the river near her home. She also likes boys. But boys don’t like girls who fish. Morgan can't seem to reconcile her two interests. Will she have to choose one and abandon the other? Interview with Writer/Director Holly Brace-Lavoie Congratulations! Why did…

It’s been almost three weeks since I graduated from my coding bootcamp, and time has been flying. I’ve been polishing my projects, teaching myself how to deploy a Node.js App to Digital Ocean, how to connect my Droplet to my personal domain and how to use Flexbox. Although there was a lot of work to…

In their house in downtown Toronto, Kenny Hotz and Spencer Rice were fighting each other in a heated match for supremacy. Armed with methane-detection devices and an assortment of beans, cabbages and peppers, Kenny and Spenny pushed their bowels to the limit in the "Who Could Blow the Biggest Fart?"…

When Apple did their first interview-style video on a white background, everyone copied that approach. What will these new films inspire? Cover image via Apple. As filmmakers, I know we all saw an increase in white backdrops following Apple’s video. I know for a fact that I even pushed to shoot on…

I am disappointed but unsurprised by the news that an anti-diversity, sexist, manifesto is making the rounds at Google . This is not entirely new behavior. Google has seen hints of this in the past, with employees sharing blog posts about their racist beliefs and the occasional internal mailing list…