(AP Images/Ringer illustration) Since Amazon was a tiny startup selling paperbacks, Jeff Bezos has been focused on the long game. In his first letter to shareholders in 1997, he advised investors to strap in for a bumpy financial ride that could include short-term quarterly losses and risky…

(Getty Images) There’s a new Tupac Shakur biopic, All Eyez on Me , in theaters on Friday. There are two high-profile 2Pac documentaries in the works, one a six-part A&E Biography series, Who Killed Tupac? , premiering June 29, plus a feature, directed by Steve McQueen. Unsurprisingly, this wave of…

Bill Maher, Ice Cube, and Michael Eric Dyson on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” after Maher drew criticism for saying the N-word. PHOTOGRAPH BY JANET VAN HAM / HBO Celebrity apologies—increasingly frequent in our era of Internet-driven accountability—are always an awkward ritual. But the most…

The June 15th Rolling Stone cover story took an in-depth look at Radiohead‘s OK Computer in honor of the album’s 20th anniversary. The band let us hang backstage over the course of two days at the Berkeley Greek Theater as they shared memories from that tumultuous and wildly innovative time in their…

Can Uber be saved? Not if the performance of board member David Bonderman today is any indication. At an all-hands meeting for employees about a devastating report that, in part, said that the car-hailing company suffers from rampant sexism, the high-profile TPG Capital head did the worst possible…

Meet The People Who Battle To Be The Top Reply To A Trump Tweet The area below the president’s tweets is the most valuable real estate on the internet. Adam Best is always ready for a new tweet from President Trump. The Austin-based entrepreneur — and founder of the site FanSided — has set his phone…

Alone in the White House in recent days, President Trump — frustrated and defiant — has been spoiling for a fight, according to his confidants and associates. Glued even more than usual to the cable news shows that blare from the televisions in his private living quarters, or from the 60-inch flat…

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Advertisement Movies After our chief film critics named their top 25 movies of the 21st century (so far) , we asked some notable filmmakers for their favorite movies since 2000. In phone interviews and emails, they spoke about what touched them as fans or taught them as directors. Here are edited…

Before he was a major music force, The Abstract started out as a makeshift producer in his bedroom The recent resurgence of A Tribe Called Quest was one of the great unexpected surprises of 2016. After losing Phife Dawg in March, the group released their Billboard chart-topping We Got It from Here……

During their heated ‘Real Time’ confrontation, Ice Cube got to the heart of the outspoken comedian’s racial transgressions. Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast In the long history of Bill Maher on TV there has never been a more real time moment on Real Time than last Friday’s…

Linux.MulDrop.14 is a Linux worm that seeks out networked Raspberry Pi systems with default root passwords; after taking them over and ZMap and sshpass, it begins mining an unspecified cryptocurrency, creating riches for the malware's author and handing you the power-bill. Experts say the initial…

(CNN) Leave it to Donald Trump to reinvent the Cabinet meeting. The public portion of these gatherings of all of the president's top advisers are usually staid affairs. Photographers are let in to take pictures. The president makes a very brief statement. A reporter shouts a question, unanswered.…

Apple’s latest operating system for iPhones and iPads is set to roll out on September 19th, bringing with it a number of new features and tweaks that are designed to make your phone safer to use and more customizable. iOS 11 was actually announced at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in June ,…

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Max Hawkins' randomizer app sent him to the Czech Point Restaurant and Pub in Clutier, Iowa, among the many places he may never have found on his own. Courtesy of Max Hawkins This week, the podcast and show Invisibilia examines the nature of reality, with a Silicon Valley techie who created apps to…

There’s a lot of talk about virtual reality as the future of entertainment. And with big companies like Facebook , Google , Microsoft , Samsung , and Apple pouring money into the technology’s development , VR might seem like an inevitable medium to transform the way we spend our free time. But how…

When product designers Koen Bok and Jorn van Dijk were working at Facebook in 2013, they often found themselves pitching new app ideas with traditional presentation slides. Trying to convey their responsive, interactive designs to board members through static imagery was counterintuitive and…

Picking the best movies of any year is hard, but picking the best movies of an entire century is harder. IndieWire critics Eric Kohn and David Ehrlich made their own top 10 picks for the 21st century last summer, with Leos Carax’s “Holy Motors” and Sofia Coppola ’s “Lost in Translation” taking the…

Street Fighter 2 is one of the only games that truly deserve to be called "genre-defining" -- today, 25 years after SF2 's release, we can see that practically every fighting game out there has adopted its core game design principles as industry-standard gospel, with only a few tweaks here and there…

The Internet Phone The Internet Phone Overview What if you could experience the internet by using a screen-less and physical interface? The Internet Phone makes the intangible processes of the internet tangible. You can access websites with the nostalgic interface of a rotary phone. Look up the IP…

At long last, U.S. President Donald Trump endorsed NATO’s bedrock collective defense clause, Article 5, in a press conference Friday. “Absolutely, I’d be committed to Article 5,” he said Friday in response to a question from a journalist, speaking beside Romanian President Klaus Iohannis at the…

In March, the price of an Ether cryptocurrency token rose to an all-time high of around $25. This was good news for investors in Ethereum—the blockchain-based distributed computing platform that uses Ether as its currency—who had watched the cryptocurrency's price stagnate at under $10 since its…

Flatpacking... Pasta? MIT might go IKEA on your macaroni and cheese By - Jun 06, 2017 2 Comments Did anybody else love those dinosaur sponge pills, but wonder what would happen if you swallowed one? You can deliver on that slightly menacing magic with this new shapeshifting pasta invented by MIT's…

Hello, friends. Leah is on vacation, so I, Adrianne Jeffries, am writing this week’s Letter. Thesis: The New York Times crossword is very old and very white, which is bad and also makes for a boring puzzle. Adrianne, then why do you continue to do the puzzle night after night , you ask. For years…

Binky is an app that does everything an app is expected to do. It’s got posts. It’s got likes. It’s got comments. It’s got the infinitely scrolling timeline found in all social apps, from Facebook to Twitter, Instagram to Snapchat. I open it and start scrolling. Images of people, foods, and objects…

This article originally appeared on Noisey US Ten minutes ago, a guy called Quinn—mid 30s, from Wisconsin—was standing near the main stage at Governors Ball, trying to explain his love for Chance the Rapper to me between draws from his electronic cigarette. He was making a point about nuance and…

Information architect, usability engineer, interaction designer, ui designer, ux designer, motion designer, prototyper … these are just some of the job titles that us designers have taken on in recent years. Each one was supposed to clarify a particular part of the design process. Each one…

Unfortunately, ‘Boontling’ is nearly extinct today Bahl hornin! Northern California farmers developed a localized term for “cheers” in the late 1800s. (Underwood Archives/Getty Images) In 1979, Johnny Carson told millions of television viewers he wanted to have sex. But only about a hundred people…

Joy Buolamwini gives her TED talk on the bias of algorithmsPhotograph: TED Joy Buolamwini is a graduate researcher at the MIT Media Lab and founder of the Algorithmic Justice League – an organisation that aims to challenge the biases in decision-making software. She grew up in Mississippi, gained a…

After Donald Trump’s surprise election victory, many people on the right and even in the center tried to make the case that he wouldn’t really be that bad. Every time he showed a hint of self-restraint — even if it amounted to nothing more than reading his lines without ad-libbing and laying off…

T here’s a fundamental assumption a lot of us make about sex that often causes a lot of skewed perceptions about why we’re not getting the sex/love we want. Men have a tendency to make the assumption that sex itself is a need, regardless of who (or what) it comes from. Women have a tendency to…

R oberto Escobar is a short, hunched man. He’s old now and nearly blind and deaf from a letter bomb blowing up in his face years ago. His eye sockets sink into his skull leaving two golf-ball-sized craters in his face. His gaze is lifeless. It passes through you, as if you were some sort of…

Give a man a gadget, and you feed his tech needs for a day. Teach him to make gadgets, and he can feed himself--and a few savvy venture capitalists--for life. Such is the thinking of Neil Gershenfeld (pictured above), a 48-year-old physicist and MIT professor and the inventor of what he calls the…

Retailers are increasingly using customers' personal data to decide how much to charge for products This article titled “Surge pricing comes to the supermarket” was written by Tim Adams, for The Observer on Sunday 4th June 2017 06.00 UTC In 1861 a shopkeeper in Philadelphia revolutionised the retail…