If innovations in housework helped free women to enter the labor force in the 1960s and 1970s, could innovations in leisure — like League of Legends — be taking men out of the labor force today? That’s the logic behind a new working paper released on Monday by the National Bureau of Economic…

Ansel Elgort, Jamie Foxx, Eiza González, and Jon Hamm in a scene from Edgar Wright’s film “Baby Driver.” Photograph from Everett What musicals are is obvious—movies in which people sing and dance—butfrom the advent of talking pictures, there has been the special genre ofthe virtualmusical ,in which…

Motherboard staff is exploring the cultural, political, and social influence of the iPhone for the 10th anniversary of its release. In the coming years, you will be hard-pressed to find a teenager who can remember a time before the iPhone, but that doesn't necessarily mean they like it. The children…

Modest Ernie Shore took a place in the Hall of Fame as a no-hit, no-run, no-man-reached-first base pitcher in the curtain-raider of the twin bill with the Griffmen at Fenway Park yesterday. It was the best pitching seen in this city since 1904 when Cy Young put over a similar feat, the only…

Last month, my family and I had the opportunity to go to Cuba. We traveled under the rules issued by the Obama administration as part of the renewal of diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Cuban governments. These guidelines allow for individual U.S. citizens to arrange their own visits to the…

Ninety-nine dollars isn’t enough to buy a month’s worth of rides on the New York City subway system. But it can get you a plane ticket across the Atlantic on Scandinavian carrier Norwegian Air —and that’s causing more than a little turbulence in the airline industry. The low-cost airline, which has…

Getty Images CANNES, France—Before Publicis CEO Arthur Sadoun rattled the ad industry by putting a one-year ban on his staff entering award shows, one of the world’s most iconic agencies considered doing the same thing. But when Wieden + Kennedy was considering the move 18 months ago, the…

So, I lasted until the end of February. Up until then, I'd been really focused on the three "goals" of the Year of Enough, which are: I've had enough - I want to contribute to positive change in our world. I have enough - I need to learn to be mindful with how I spend my money and in my consumption…

When Gwyneth Paltrow first launched Goop in 2008, it was a great place to find out where to eat the best tapas in Barcelona. It was straight-up celebrity-lifestyle voyeurism, and Paltrow, with her long blonde hair and aura of complete self-satisfaction, was irresistible. There’s the expression…

[Image: Topiclessbar ] When visiting South Korea, there are the traditional museums and sites to see. The country is soaked in history and culture, so there is much to do. Then, there are the more peculiar sites. You know, places like this sculpture garden dedicated to screwing. Note: This article…

Above: Rami Ismail of Vlambeer condemns harassment that shut down a women's gaming meetup in Barcelona. Image Credit: Dean Takahashi A group called Gaming Ladies scheduled a women’s gaming event in Barcelona, Spain, but the event’s sponsor, King, the maker of Candy Crush Saga, decided to shut down…

Getty Images/Ringer illustration The ever-busy Judd Apatow finished up Crashing for HBO last spring, and the latest film he produced, Kumail Nanjiani’s The Big Sick , will get a wide release in July. Like so much of Hollywood, Apatow has worked more and more for streaming services or subscription…

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski arrive for the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner in Washington in 2015. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) President Trump launched personal attacks against us Thursday, but our concerns about his unmoored behavior go far beyond the personal.…

One of the biggest upgrades in iOS 10 goes to Messages. The native app now comes with stacks of extra features including stickers, instant reactions, and even its own app store. Most of the new functions work best inside conversations. Here’s how to make the most of the app on your iPhone or iPad.…

Image: fakephonetext.com As a person who has only ever used an Android phone, I never had a clue about my “green bubble” status until someone I was dating brought it up in the middle of a conversation. It’s the strangest text message I think I’ve ever received. It was from a girl I really liked, who…

Motherboard staff is exploring the cultural, political, and social influence of the iPhone for the 10th anniversary of its release. Dating these days kind of sucks. There's ghosting, negging, juggling five different apps. It's a hard life. But this isn't about those things, exactly. It's about the…

Jay-Z’s new album, “4:44,” is the introspective and often lyrically dazzling work of a veteran who seems freshly energized. Photograph by Doug Mills / New York Times / Redux In 2011, it was only Kanye West who could draw Jay-Z out of hismiddle-aged slumber to rap with any kind of urgency, as he did…

Their stories came out slowly, even hesitantly, at first. Then in a rush. One female entrepreneur recounted how she had been propositioned by a Silicon Valley venture capitalist while seeking a job with him, which she did not land after rebuffing him. Another showed the increasingly suggestive…

Young Finnish professionals are attracted to major European capitals. They move to Stockholm, Berlin and Amsterdam, as well as farther away. The sun shines in Dubai; the world’s top organisations and institutes are in New York and Washington. The occupations of these migrants are manifold: bankers,…

Anita Sarkeesian Steve Mack / Getty Images A phone camera is trained on Anita Sarkeesian as she prepares to speak on a panel. In footage later posted online, the camera wobbles slightly. Its setting is on high zoom. It follows her every move. After so many public appearances, Sarkeesian has grown…

An employee of Amazon PrimeNow preparing bags to fill with orders at a distribution hub in New York. Bebeto Matthews/Associated Press President Trump may not have meant to, but on Wednesday he seemed to endorse a longer reach for the tax collector. In an angry tweet directed at Jeff Bezos , the…

She is naked beneath the sheet, lying face down. I feel a little bit powerful, because she cannot see me. With no eyes on me, I am invisible. As my hands move down on her back, I look over at the family photographs on the bedroom bureau. They are black and white, almost sepia, and in ornate silver…

You could describe “ Baby Driver ” as a car-chase movie set to rock and roll. Or, conversely, you could think of it as a playlist that happens to have a crime film attached. That’s because vehicular mayhem and music compete for top billing in Edgar Wright ’s action-comedy-romance, with the whole…

There’s a paradox in technology. For something new to become widespread, familiar, and mass-market, it must create enough novelty and curiosity to draw people’s attention. But novelty alone is not enough to reach saturation. To permeate life, a technology must elicit more than novelty and curiosity…

In 2005, the late writer David Foster Wallace delivered a now-famous commencement address . It starts with the story of the fish in water, who spend their lives not even knowing what water is. They are naively unaware of the ocean that permits their existence, and the currents that carry them. The…

This article originally appeared on VICE Australia I know what you're thinking. If you're from London, or England and you're reading an article by an Australian about how London is the worst city on Earth, you're probably thinking 'LEAVE THEN.' If the roles were reversed, I'd probably think that as…

Like many Americans, I’m having politics fatigue. Or, to be more specific, arguing-about-politics fatigue. I haven’t run out of salient points or evidence for my political perspective, but there is a particular stumbling block I keep running into when trying to reach across the proverbial aisle and…

via Get On Down Hip-hop may be at the forefront of pop culture, and be embedded into the DNA of contemporary American life, but looking backward hasn’t always been its strength. Other genres — rock and jazz especially — tend to fetishize their history, something reflected in the intensity with which…

Brian Rea At the San Francisco Office of Vital Records, I paid $10 for a copy of the death certificate of a woman I had never met. It was September 2005. A few weeks before, I had broken up with my boyfriend of more than a year. My roommates and I had been hosting a party; we were moving out of our…

Last night, I caught a very special screening of Edgar Wright's Baby Driver at the Alamo Drafthouse. Of course every new Edgar Wright film is a reason to celebrate, but this particular screening was extra festive: wildly-talented DJ (and, as it turns out, total sweetheart) Kid Koala was on-hand to…

Eye-Fi makes clever wifi hotspots in the shape of SD cards; your camera sees them as SD cards but you can mount them on your network and automatically feed the images captured by your camera to a nearby laptop. But to make all this work with some models, you need an account on "Eye-Fi Center," a…

At Wednesday’s Los Angeles premiere of Spider-Man: Homecoming , comedian Hannibal Buress hired an impostor to walk the red carpet in his place. Read: Watch Your Favorite Movie Characters Play 'Super Hero Soccer' Buress, who plays Coach Wilson in the superhero flick, paid a stand-in $500 to hit the…

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13 Reasons Why Hardware Startups Fail (and How to Make Sure Yours Doesn’t) This article was originally published on Predictable Designs (a company that helps entrepreneurs and makers develop new electronic hardware products). Download their free cheat sheet 15 Steps to Develop Your New Electronic…