Dating is the worst, but the best thing about it are the stories—and the best stories are simple. With that in mind, we asked friends and co-workers to sum up the worst dates they've ever been on in six words. Here's one: "Hardcore begged to see my NuvaRing." Like so many bad dates, many more follow…

Above: Square Enix wants to offload its Hitman studio. Image Credit: Square Enix The people who make hit movies or top-40 songs often have a gift for predicting what new types of experiences audiences are looking. Video games face a similar challenge, but game publishers also have to struggle to…

The Svalbard ‘doomsday’ seed vault was built to protect millions of food crops from climate change, wars and natural disasters.Photograph: John Mcconnico/AP It was designed as an impregnable deep-freeze to protect the world’s most precious seeds from any global disaster and ensure humanity’s food…

On the Internet today you will find thousands, perhaps even millions, of people gloating about the death of elephantine Fox News founder Roger Ailes. The happy face emojis are getting a workout on Twitter, which is also bursting with biting one-liners. What did Roger Ailes die of, aside from perfect…

On Wednesday, Paul Ryan held a press conference just after the revelation that Donald Trump had pushed James Comey to kill the investigation into Michael Flynn — you know, the guy Trump appointed as national security adviser even though his team knew that Flynn’s highly suspicious foreign ties were…

My friend Nathan and I were walking to a picnic when we passed a woman named Xenia. I stopped to say hello, and she kissed me on the cheek so intimately that I couldn’t stop thinking about it. She had asked to hook up before, and as the sun set and Nathan and I packed up our hammocks, I texted her…

WASHINGTON — When House Democratic leaders hastily called a news conference Wednesday to demonstrate their outrage at President Trump’s latest dramatics, they took great pains to show they were not seeking to railroad him out of the White House. “No one ought to, in my view, rush to embrace the most…

After ten years away, the controversial former Prime Minister is back with a plan to save Britain from Brexit. ILLUSTRATION BY NICOLAS ORTEGA; SOURCE PHOTOGRAPH BY LUKE MACGREGOR / BLOOMBERG VIA GETTY As Britain enters the jingoistic, ill-tempered final phase of its forty-four-year membership in the…

flickr/ Nannydaddy When we apply matters of morality to matters of taste, the most marginalized people get thrown under the bus. I t’s never been easy talking to my mom about my career in porn, so I’m always on the hunt for ways to help her relate to my ideas about, and experience in, sex work.…

Share A few days before Christmas, I had the most tense journey to an airport of my life. I was in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where I had been reporting on the end of President Joseph Kabila’s term (he had refused to step down, despite being constitutionally limited…

After an astonishing week of revelations, Donald Trump’s presidency appears to be on the verge of collapse. Consider what has happened just in the last 10 days: a string of damaging stories about a president unprecedented since at least the Nixon administration. On May 8, former Acting Attorney…

Hospitals in Britain, several companies in Spain and 11 other countries have confirmed attacks to their systems. Patient information does not appear to have been stolen or compromised, according to the National Health Service of Britain. Ben Stansall/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Right Now:…

Careful what you wish for. In the wake of the firing of FBI Director James Comey, many are demanding a special prosecutor into the Trump-Russia connection. It’s not appreciated enough that such an appointment could well turn into a shield for wrongdoing. A special prosecutor could wrap the…

The following is an excerpt from The Way to Design , a guide to becoming a designer founder and to building design-centric businesses . It was a dapted and reprinted with the author’s permission. [Cover Image: Foundation Capital] I’ve had my fill of empathy. Or to be more specific, all the talk of…

Uberization, Noun. A process where a high-tech middleman replaces past intermediaries. It was in 2009 that an upstart, a small company called Uber, disrupted the taxi ride business. By leveraging technology to reach a wide swath of consumers and stretching the definition of employees, Uber was able…

Hello. It’s my first day back covering technology for The Atlantic . It also marks roughly 10 years that I’ve been covering science and technology, so I’ve been thinking back to my early days at Wired in the pre-crash days of 2007. The internet was then, as it is now, something we gave a kind of…

WASHINGTON — The bad-news stories slammed into the White House in pitiless succession on Tuesday, leaving President Trump’s battle-scarred West Wing aides staring at their flat screens in glassy-eyed shock. The disclosure that Mr. Trump divulged classified intelligence to Russian officials that had…

Given Donald Trump’s long record of deception, James Comey’s memos are far more likely to bury the President than to exonerate him. PHOTOGRAPH BY MARK PETERSON / REDUX Donald Trump, who may well have attempted to obstruct justice within just a few weeks of taking his oath of office, came to the…

The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of, and should not be attributed to, Polygon as an organization. More on how Polygon writes opinion pieces. The drive to be on the bleeding edge of technology powers the PC gaming community. We…

President Trump’s opponents have spent his administration’s first months engaged in an unusual but important debate: Is Trump a problem because he is incompetent or because he harbors autocratic designs that threaten American democracy itself? At the end of his first 100 days, the debate was tilting…

By Latonya Pennington In a recent interview , X-Men: Apocalypse actress Olivia Munn caused a stir when she claimed that she did all her own stunts for the upcoming film. This didn’t sit well with the stunt community, since it is their job to physically test a stunt for safety reasons before allowing…

They didn’t meet until they were both in their mid-thirties, when they were introduced to each other by a mutual friend - an executive at Cartoon Network. At that time, both were gearing up to make their latest solo records. El-P, a rapper and producer from Brooklyn who was one-third of the hugely…

When the developer Erik Kemp designed the first metadata system for MP3s in 1996, he provided only three options for attaching text to the music. Every audio file could be labeled with only an artist, song name, and album title. Kemp’s system has since been augmented and improved upon, but never…

THE MORNING PLUM: A few Republican senators heroically ventured on to the Sunday shows to profess deep concern about President Trump’s abrupt firing of the man overseeing the investigation into the small matter of whether his campaign colluded with a foreign power to undermine our democracy.…

When people behave as if they have something to hide, it is often because they do. For me, this is a basic law of human behavior. That’s why President Trump’s baffling, outrageous, unfathomable and just plain bizarre behavior last week strengthened my already strong suspicions that there is…

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…