President Trump chose to ride in a golf cart while his foreign counterparts took a walk through Taormina, Sicily, on Saturday during the Group of Seven summit. The Times of London reported the six other world leaders — from Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan — walked 700 yards to take…

Donald Trump has two false beliefs about energy, one personal, one political. And the latter may send the world on a path to disaster. On the personal side, Trump reportedly disdains exercise of any kind except golf. He believes that raising a sweat depletes the finite reserves of precious bodily…

When news first broke on Wednesday that former FBI Director Robert Mueller had been appointed special counsel to investigate Russian meddling in the 2016 election, President Donald Trump at first put on a brave face. “A thorough investigation will confirm what we already know — there was no…

Netflix/Ringer illustration "We must break free from the petty politics of the past. America is a nation of believers that is being led by a group of censors, critics, and cynics." These are the first words we hear in Get Me Roger Stone , a Netflix-produced documentary about the titular agent…

Sofia Coppola, director of the remake “The Beguiled.” Julien Warnand/European Pressphoto Agency CANNES, France — The movie “The Square” — a slick, diverting social commentary from Sweden that delivers a spanking to the bourgeoisie — was the surprise winner of the 70th Cannes Film Festival . Directed…

Blows on behalf of fair labor treatment don't always have to come from factory workers. Sometimes they're delivered by unionized professors or even multimillionaire ballplayers. On Dec. 28, 1973, or 42 years ago Monday, one was delivered by three U.S. astronauts orbiting the globe in NASA's Skylab…

Steven Yang quit his job at Google in the summer of 2011 to build the products he felt the world needed: a line of reasonably priced accessories that would be better than the ones you could buy from Apple and other big-name brands. These accessories — batteries, cables, chargers — would solve our…

A couple of years ago, it seemed as if everyone I knew was on the verge of divorce. “He’s not the man I married,” one friend told me. “She didn’t change, and I did,” said another. And then there was the no-fault version: “We grew apart.” Emotional and physical abuse are clear-cut grounds for…

Angela Merkel has suggested Germany and Europe can no longer rely on the US under Donald Trump. Speaking at a campaign event held in a Bavarian beer tent, the German Chancellor emphasised the need for friendly relations with the US, Britain and Russia, but added: “We Europeans must really take our…

“You’re like a cartoon character,” he said. “Always wearing the same thing every day.” He meant it as an intimate observation, the kind you can make only after spending a lot of time getting to know each other. You flip your hair to the right. You only eat ice cream out of mugs. You always wear a…

Do you like your job? We all go through times when we feel restless in our careers. Many people fantasize about going back to school, living off the land or doing something completely different. But how do you actually make the switch ? I talked to 10 people who changed careers to see how it’s done……

Hell-tinged iTunes “It’s like giving somebody a glass of hell in ice water.” Okay, so the quote above isn’t actually a quote. Well, I said it on Twitter , but it’s not a famous quote. Nor does it technically make sense. But it is, of course, a play on a famous quote.¹ A decade ago, on stage at the…

Dig it… Ten records I’m feeling at the moment (new or old)…Most of it can be found on you-tube if you should feel compelled to investigate further… Ame Son – Catalyse LP (1970) Only stumbled onto this one within the past year, and it’s become one of my favorite albums to throw on and listen to all…

Presidential trips are hard to assess. George H.W. Bush threw up on the Japanese prime minister; he was sick. Bill Clinton went to China without going to Japan, a big no-no. Someone threw a shoe at George W Bush; he ducked. President Barack Obama failed to meet with human-rights activists in China.…

Jared Kushner and Russia’s ambassador to Washington discussed the possibility of setting up a secret and secure communications channel between Trump’s transition team and the Kremlin, using Russian diplomatic facilities in an apparent move to shield their pre-inauguration discussions from…

It’s time to talk about treason. We now know , according to U.S. officials briefed on intelligence reports cited by the Washington Post , that in early December 2016 Jared Kushner and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak “discussed the possibility of setting up a secret and secure communications…

AP While the top goons of the Trump administration—including Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner and daughter Ivanka —traveled around the world acting like some self-entitled royal family, a bombshell was developing back home that could bring them all down. And isn’t it fitting that the one whose actions…

Work skills for the future: Curiosity The passionately curious Einstein I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. — Albert Einstein Curiosity is the most superficial of all the affections; it changes its objects perpetually; it has an appetite which is sharp, but very easily…

BOZEMAN, Mont. — Greg Gianforte, a wealthy Montana Republican who was charged with assaulting a reporter on Wednesday, nonetheless won the state’s lone seat in the House of Representatives on Thursday, according to The Associated Press, in a special election held up as a test of the country’s…

Except for the pain in his eyes, he looked good: tan and wiry with wild blue eyes and an all-in smile. It was weird to see him not wearing his white shirt, tie and black name tag, but it was just as weird for me not to be wearing mine. We had just finished two years of missionary service in northern…

Leaving Michael’s apartment one Tuesday morning, I smiled and said, “Have a good class today.” That may not sound like much, but I was trying to leave a hint: I was interested in more than our one-night-a-week thing. Understandably, he didn’t catch on. So a little later, I texted, “Could you send me…

(AP Photo/David Goldman) SAN FRANCISCO — Google has begun using billions of credit-card transaction records to prove that its online ads are prompting people to make purchases – even when they happen offline in brick-and-mortar stores, the company said Tuesday. The advance allows Google to determine…

(Walt Disney Pictures/Paramount Pictures/MGM/United Artists/Ringer illustration) It starts with one push-up, or maybe a light jog. Then the music starts to build: an electric guitar wails over swelling strings, and the person who just seconds ago looked pitiful — the down-and-out boxer, the guy who…

Every major smartphone works the same way. You’ll find apps, web browsers, clean typography, and similar, intuitive iconography across them all. Eventually, you’ll land at a social app like Facebook, Instagram, WeChat, or Snapchat–and you’ll land there again and again, dozens of more times a day.…

China has announced that the largest floating photovoltaic (PV) facility on earth has finally been completed and connected to the local power grid. Long reviled for its carbon emission record, this is the Chinese government’s latest achievement in its ongoing effort to lead the world in renewable…

Wearable computing will fundamentally change the user experience. Future wearable apps will become more anticipatory and less user initiated. Rather than requiring input from users, these wearable apps will be aware of situations and states, presenting contextually useful and timely piece of…

(Giant Sparrow) Few stories set a scene as efficiently as What Remains of Edith Finch , the second game built by Giant Sparrow and the company’s creative director, Ian Dallas. In the seconds before we learn whose head we’re inhabiting, we size up our surroundings. There’s the white wake of a ferry,…

Brad Pitt is making matcha green tea on a cool morning in his old Craftsman in the Hollywood Hills, where he's lived since 1994. There have been other properties in other places—including a château in France and homes in New Orleans and New York City—but this has always been his kids' “childhood…

Dallas through the Looking Glass: Post-Truth and Kennedy Assassination Moviesby Chris Evangelista Here’s an alarming statistic: a recent CBS News poll revealed 74% of Republican voters believe the conspiracy theory that the offices of Donald Trump were wiretapped during the 2016 presidential…

Machine learning is going to radically change product design. But what is the future of machine learning? Is it the singularity, flying cars, voiceless commands, or an Alexa that can actually understand you? Before we can even get to that part–the grand futurism part–I want to offer a provocation:…

Snet cables intermingle with phone and electrical lines Photos by Brian Crecente/Polygon, collage by Emily Haasch The last rule of the Street Network is that you don't talk about the Street Network. But that wasn't always the case. For several years the clandestine Havana network of illegal Wi-Fi…

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — LAST June, in an interview with Adam Bryant of The Times, Laszlo Bock, the senior vice president of people operations for Google — i.e., the guy in charge of hiring for one of the world’s most successful companies — noted that Google had determined that “G.P.A.’s are…

A man holds copies of the Captain America comic book at a store in New York March 7, 2007. Shannon Stapleton / Reuters Marvel Comics has been having a rough time lately. Readers and critics met last year’s Civil War 2— a blockbuster crossover event (and a spiritual tie-in to the year’s big Marvel…

Outside of recreational use, magic mushrooms have been shown in clinical trials to treat severe depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder.Photograph: Farmer Images/Getty Images/Moment Open Mushrooms are the safest of all the drugs people take recreationally, according to this year’s…

These babes (including Sylvester Stallone’s mom) ruled the ring Members of the GLOW Girls pose in the ring on May 4, 1988. Jacqueline Stallone (second from right) manages the all-female wrestling team. (Laura Luongo/Liaison) R emember wrestling? No, not the 15,000-year-old, naked dude, Olympic games…

You’ve been seeing each other for a while, and it’s going great! You’ve hooked up several times a week for several months; you like him and he likes you back. But you might be starting to wonder: Are you just friends, or are you in a relationship? Here’s how to know if you guys are a “thing,” or…