flickr/ barockschloss The world will view you as an object — but you cannot be broken. P ornography will change your life. There is no way to fully convey to you the absoluteness of this. The magnitude with which this is true. This is not the kind of job that recedes softly into the rearview after…

President Trump revealed highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in a White House meeting last week, according to current and former U.S. officials, who said Trump’s disclosures jeopardized a critical source of intelligence on the Islamic State. The information…

Photo: Getty MP3, the digital audio coding format, changed the way we listen to music and drove the adoption of countless new devices over the last couple of decades. And now, it’s dead. The developer of the format announced this week that it has officially terminated its licensing program. Early…

Trump would rather raise the possibility that he had an improper conversation with James Comey than leave the impression that he couldn’t instruct others to do anything he desired. COURTESY NBC NEWS / YOUTUBE President Trump is a selfish liar, and a vain one. Those traits, together, can cause chaos,…

The following is the second of two excerpts from The Way to Design , a guide to becoming a designer founder and to building design-centric businesses. It was adapted and reprinted with the author’s permission. Read the first one, on the case against empathy, here. Design thinking is one of the most…

LONDON — How did a pineapple become a postmodern masterpiece? The aesthetic merits of tropical fruit inadvertently entered Britain’s national cultural conversation after two students jokingly placed a store-bought pineapple on an empty table at an art exhibition this month at Robert Gordon…

Trump’s dismissal of the F.B.I. director, James Comey, amounts to a premeditated and terrifying assault on our system of government. PHOTOGRAPHS BY MARK PETERSON / REDUX FOR THE NEW YORKER At a time like this, it is important to express things plainly. On Tuesday evening, Donald Trump acted like a…

Friday saw what looked like the most dangerous ransomware infection to date . The infection known as WannaCry was closing down vital hospital IT systems across the UK canceling major operations and putting lives at risk. Spread Halted? It spread further around the world and almost became a global…

Happy 15th Anniversary to El-P’s Fantastic Damage , originally released May 14, 2002. El-P is a visionary. As a rapper/producer/label executive, he helped create a unique hip-hop scene and movement. It might not have been a scene and movement that was universally accessible, but it was one that he…

El-P (Photo: Prince Williams/Getty) Today marks the 15th anniversary of El-P’s debut record Fantastic Damage , a bombed-out, paranoid masterpiece of underground hip-hop. If that’s got you feeling nostalgic, like you want to go and listen to it right now, sorry: The record has somehow been eaten by…

James Comey has agreed to testify in a public Senate hearing regarding the investigation into alleged ties between Russia and Donald Trump’s campaign team. Mr Comey had initially declined to testify in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee in a closed-door hearing. The announcement comes the…

Even in trendy Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Valerie June stands out: star-studded sunglasses, a sparkly silver blouse and a plume of thick dreadlocks that sprout in all directions. At her favorite neighborhood bistro, she attracts the attention of a bald customer who approaches her table to hand her his…

Yesterday, Square-Enix announced that it was parting ways with Hitman developers IO Interactive . So why don’t we take some time to appreciate one of the best crafted stealth series around? Hitman is an action-stealth series that forged a unique identity in the early days of the genre. While games…

Bojana Ostojic was working on Microsoft’s experimental mixed reality headset, HoloLens , when she realized that she was seeing the future of design at the company. “I have to say, coming into that space really challenged me as a designer to really rethink a lot,” she remembers of her two years…

When David Bienenstock says, “I’ve been smoking weed professionally for fifteen years,” he is referring to his two stints as an editor at High Times and the intervening years as a frequent contributor to Vice , where, among other things, he co-produced the pot-cooking show “Bong Appétit” and once…

Chris Pratt and Zoe Saldana return to the galaxy in James Gunn’s new movie. Illustration by Diego Patiño Near the end of “ Guardians of the Galaxy ” (2014), the hero, Peter Quill (Chris Pratt), distracted the villain, who had evil designs upon all of creation, by dancing at him. This was a moment to…

Navy officials were “blindsided” on Thursday, a spokesman told me, by President Donald Trump’s suggestion that he has convinced the Navy to abandon a long-planned digital launching system in favor of steam on its newest aircraft carrier. In a wide-ranging interview with Time magazine, Trump…

Designers love eggs. Often used as a visual metaphor to illustrate concepts like “hatching ideas,” “growing potential,” or “new beginnings,” the humble chicken egg appears on book jackets, album covers, Twitter avatars , bank advertisements . The egg has also inspired several designer chairs and a…

WASHINGTON — What is it about Sergey V. Lavrov that always makes high-ranking American officials look hapless? In 2006, Mr. Lavrov, the foreign minister of Russia, put Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in an awkward position when technicians did not turn off the microphones at a lunch in Moscow.…

In the ’80s, the Italian journalist and author Tiziano Terzani, after many years of reporting across Asia, holed himself up in a cabin in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. “For a month I had no one to talk to except my dog Baoli,” he wrote in his travelogue A Fortune Teller Told Me . Terzani passed the…

WASHINGTON — President Trump’s abrupt dismissal of the F.B.I. director roiled Washington on Wednesday and deepened the sense of crisis swirling around the White House. Republican leaders came to the president’s defense, and Mr. Trump lashed out at Democrats and other critics, calling them…

In the months following Trump’s inauguration, I regularly called my representative to express my concerns about his voting record. I left voice messages and spoke directly with his staffers, but still nothing seemed to get through. Simply calling my representative was not enough, so I had to take…

We have the tin-pot leader whose vanity knows no bounds. We have the rapacious family feathering their nests without regard for the law or common decency. We have utter disregard for values at home and abroad, the disdain for democracy, the hunger for constraining a free press, the admiration for…

BEIJING — South Korea wants to discuss unease about an American antimissile system on its soil. Taiwan is eager to buy weapons. The Philippines hopes to find out whether the United States plans to challenge China in the South China Sea. Leaders across Asia are looking to Washington for guidance on a…

Many fans were happy to hear about Kaldaien’s “ FAR mod ,” a patch that fixes Nier: Automata’s technical issues on PC. Some people who downloaded the mod were surprised to find that it checks whether or not you’ve pirated the game, and the modder’s decision to include such a feature has proven…

Former FBI Director James Comey will not testify Thursday before the US Senate Intelligence Committee — despite still being listed among the witnesses slated to appear, according to a report. Comey, who was axed by President Trump late Tuesday , still appeared on the committee’s website as of 11…

This article was originally published on July 2, 2013. It was revised on July 25, 2017 to include updated recommendations. Guerrilla usability testing is a powerful technique. Designer Martin Belam describes it as “the art of pouncing on lone people in cafes and public spaces, [then] quickly filming…

Profits or people? Businesses will increasingly have to choose. I write a lot about optimizing manufacturing, supply chains, and even employees using sensors and data analytics. While we are nowhere near an ultra-efficient society where every business process or even road trip is optimized, that is…

Lady Comstock in Bioshock Infinite is the typical video game mother: benign, caring and dead before the action startsPhotograph: 2K Games I ’ve never had a baby. I once had one of those dolls that you could feed and it periodically pissed itself, but I gather this represents only a fraction of the…

[Album Review] Bad Hoo- Two Tin Cans and a Lollipop 2017-05-09 4.0 Rating Reader Rating: ( 12 Votes) Release Date: March 8, 2017 Label: Independent Bad Hoo’s basic schtick is not hard to figure out. Take a bunch of competent musicians with a punk slant and have them do raucous, DIY garage surf. And…

Also in this series: ‘BC in the Balance’: The Tyee’s 2017 Election Reporting NDP to Raise Concerns with Elections BC about ‘Mishandled’ Ballots Liberal or NDP Government? We Should Know By Wednesday It’s Official: Liberals 43, NDP 41, Greens 3 So what happens now? Announcements, Events & more from…

(Marvel Studios) There’s a fun mass murder in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 that I have to tell you about. It’s pretty funny and not at all incongruous. Murder is bad, but as anyone who saw the movie’s 2014 predecessor knows, this is a franchise in which bad guys — confirmed murderers and thieves —…