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…

An anti-diversity document written by a Google worker has reignited debate about Silicon Valley hiring practices.Photograph: JasonDoiy/Getty Images G oogle has spent much of the past 72 hours insisting its commitment to diversity is “unequivocal” after the internal publication and subsequent leak of…

Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life. By Ruth Franklin. Liveright; 607 pages; $35 and £25. NEARLY 70 years after it was first published, Shirley Jackson’s short story, “The Lottery”, is still chilling. It begins benignly: on an otherwise “clear and sunny” day, every household in an unnamed village…

J-Zone with Pablo Martin, The Du-Rites. If you’ve followed MC/producer J-Zone over the past few years, you’re not going to be surprised by the mind-rattling instrumental funk of his new album, J-Zone & Pablo Martin are The Du-Rites . Before he was a hip-hop producer, lyricist, and a scholar with an…

Peanut Butter Wolf performs on stage during the 2009 All Points West Music & Arts Festival at Liberty State Park on July 31, 2009 in Jersey City, New Jersey. (Photo by Bryan Bedder/Getty Images) Walk up the stairs and into the headquarters of Stones Throw Records, and you’ll find yourself in a…

Photo: eBay eBay is introducing two new features for its mobile apps that use image matching to help customers search for products they might not be able to describe. The Image Search feature lets users shop by uploading a photo onto the app’s search bar. The Find It On eBay feature allows shoppers…

No. Really. It was awful. source Have you ever screwed up something so badly that it becomes perversely kind of impressive? That’s me and my career, I guess. I was doing pretty well as an Administrative Assistant at the local University. I was good at it. I got enough praise and prizes to satisfy my…

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They are called ‘bumsters’ in Gambia, ‘Rastitutes’ or ‘beach boys’ in the Caribbean and ‘sanky pankies’ in the Dominican Republic. These are the men who, in increasing numbers, are providing sex in return for money or goods to women who want a holiday ‘romance’. The men are invariably from…

Dream Daddy is the latest unlikely hit rocketing up the Steam charts, a dating sim where you romance a neighborhood block of improbably hot dads. I spoke to creators Leighton Gray and Vernon Shaw to find out more about how they struck a balance between humor and sincerity, criticism the game has…

Mistral is rampantly misused, outdated, and tacky. It’s also due for a resurgence. A sk people to name a font they hate, and whether they’re a type sophisticate or a card-carrying member of the Helvetica hoi polloi, they’ll name Comic Sans or Papyrus. These two typefaces bear an oversize portion of…

The cops had no idea what to do with the notorious Boy Jones Detail from Angelo Inganni’s “The Chimney Sweep,” 1843. (DeAgostini/Getty Images) O ne of the earliest celebrity stalkers in recorded history lived in the walls of Buckingham Palace by day and stole Queen Victoria’s panties by night.…

The filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow in Detroit. Brittany Greeson for The New York Times DETROIT — They crept through this city clutching their rifles, an army of jittery cops and National Guardsmen surrounded by an armored battalion that seemed more suitable for a Vietnam jungle than a Middle American…

Mueller. Photo: Alex Wong/Getty Images Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference into the 2016 presidential election has taken a step forward with the impaneling of a grand jury in Washington, according to multiple reports. Calling this “a sign that his inquiry is…

Just as the cocktail renaissance has brought renewed fame to classics like the martini, the manhattan and the Negroni, it has heaped fresh infamy on a rogues’ gallery of less classy concoctions, most of which emerged during the final decades of the last century. Now a backlash of sorts has begun, as…