It's been a year since we warned that Intel's Management Engine -- a separate computer within your own computer, intended to verify and supervise the main system -- presented a terrifying, unauditable security risk that could lead to devastating, unstoppable attacks. Guess what happened next? For…

NEW YORK (AP) — "This crew is good," declares Al Pacino's Los Angeles detective Vincent Hanna in Michael Mann's sprawling noir saga "Heat." Hanna is speaking of Neil McCauley's (Robert De Niro) criminal gang but the same could also be said of Mann and his production team. The sheer filmmaking rigor…

Two years ago, I was sick of nightlife. After starting my adult life as a promoter, it didn't take long before I started to despise this drug-addled world in which everything is superficial, in which men are in the driver's seat, only accepting women on flyers in underwear and where drugs are like…

Members of the US Congress are holding “private conversations” about whether Donald Trump should be removed from office, reports suggest. After a difficult first 100 days that have seen the US President mired in a string of scandals and mishaps, senators and congressmen are said to be considering…

Cubs reliever Pedro Strop leaving a Wrigley Field bullpen, which this year was moved beneath the bleachers. Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune CHICAGO — In 1969, when the Chicago Cubs found themselves in a pennant race for the first time in decades and the games at Wrigley Field suddenly began to…

Say this: It’s hard not to enjoy yet another opportunity to watch “Moonlight” win an award. When Ashton Sanders and Jharrel Jerome gleefully accepted the award for Best Kiss — speaking passionately about how “this is for the others, the misfits” — it was probably the most legitimately great moment…

Stockholm studio Snask's North Korea rebrand features a heart motif designed to create a "common feeling of belonging". The rebrand was created for Icon Magazine's ongoing Rethink feature , which invites design studios to reinterpret anything they choose – from cigarette packaging to the pope. Snask…

Valerie June’s songs linger on the textures of everyday life: coming and going, the possibilities of love and loss, the passage of time, the engine of ambition. PHOTOGRAPH BY MATTHEW TAMMARO FOR THE NEW YORKER I began listening to the singer and songwriter Valerie June last fall, at a time when the…

This article originally appeared on Noisey US. Can't Stop, Won't Stop is a new film about the genesis and legacy of famed hip-hop boutique label Bad Boy that follows Sean "Diddy" Combs a.k.a. Puff Daddy as he and former Bad Boy artists prepared for this past summer's two-week label reunion tour. At…

Reservations are now being taken at Amsterdam's Eenmaal ; a chic, stripped-back restaurant that serves only single diners. They claim to be the first of their kind; an eatery for the solitary. Cashing in on the lone eater is, clearly, big business. According to a study by the Hartman Group , nearly…

Design Thinking continues to be a hot topic (this article is one of many talking about it). Design Thinking has been hyped and even fetishized but there are also voices questioning its value, impact, and relevance. Design Thinking faces criticism for its lacking integration with business and…

From security cameras to traffic lights, an increasing amount of appliances we interact with on a daily basis are internet connected. A device can be considered IoT-enabled when the functionality offered by its Embedded System is exposed through an internet connected API. Internet-of-Things…

(Funomena) Video games don’t have a great record with relationships. Romance in games often feels shallow and puerile — and that’s been the best-case scenario. Robin Hunicke, the cofounder of Funomena, has some thoughts about that. Her studio’s latest endeavor, Luna , features animals instead of…

Apple The Internet of Shit is a column about all the shitty things we try to connect to the internet, and what can be done about it. It’s from the anonymous creator of the Internet of Shit Twitter account. If you want to start an absolutely thrilling dinner table conversation with friends, try…

Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images House Republicans have passed the American Health Care Act , a bill that would greatly reduce funding for Obamacare’s coverage programs, leaving millions fewer people with health insurance. The bill would dramatically remake the American health care system, changing…

House Republicans narrowly approved a controversial plan to dismantle the Affordable Care Act on Thursday, taking a significant first step toward fulfilling a seven-year promise to repeal and replace the 2010 law that served as a landmark overhaul of the US healthcare system. Republicans passed the…

The booming growth of machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), like most transformational technologies, is both exciting and scary. It’s exciting to consider all the ways our lives may improve, from managing our calendars to making medical diagnoses, but it’s scary to consider the social…

Written in collaboration with Ava Ex Machina . Last week a notable contributor to the Drupal community was ejected for what Drupal’s creators considered “unacceptable personal beliefs” that were in violation of the spirit of this collaborative community. The ejection was both immediate and harsh,…

One month ago I felt like an empty air balloon. There was equally as much potential for me to fly high, as there was for turning into an awkward artwork, titled “Things going down, 2017” . Today, things are looking brighter. After leaving my Digital Marketing job at adidas, I turned into a student…

Looking for news you can trust? Subscribe to our free newsletters. In 2006, when I was 14 and all tangled red hair and too much eyeliner and rampant insecurities, my ninth-grade health teacher, a sarcastic guy in his 40s, opened class one day with a single statement: “Ladies, everything can be…

PHOTOGRAPH BY BRANDON TABIOLO / GETTY Photo No. 1 Behold my mackerel. I have caught it for you and it is for you to eat. Love me, for I shall fill your dinner table with many fish such as this one in the days to come. During our time together, you will never go hungry or fear famine. You will never…

Photo Credit: Heisenberg Media How is it even possible that Elon Musk could build four multibillion companies by his mid-40s — in four separate fields (software, energy, transportation, and aerospace)? To explain Musk’s success, others have pointed to his heroic work ethic ( he regularly works…

Late night talk show host Stephen Colbert ’s controversial joke about President Trump drew the attention of the Federal Communications Commission. The agency received “a number” of complaints about Colbert’s commentary earlier in the week, according to the FCC’s chief. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai promised…

PARIS — On the eve of the most consequential French presidential election in decades, the staff of the centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron said late Friday that the campaign had been targeted by a “massive and coordinated” hacking operation, one with the potential to destabilize the nation’s…

If yesterday’s House vote on the American Health Care Act (or Trumpcare, as he reportedly hates to hear it called, so naturally that’s what we’ll call it) left you terrified, you aren’t alone. The new bill would be devastating to millions of Americans, in large part because it would allow states to…

Google Home and Amazon Echo Yay, we killed Skeuomorphism! Not too long ago humanity left behind its skeuomorphic interfaces. We became accustomed to the idea of buttons to tap on screens and swipes that moved content right or left. We learned that content could be out of view but within reach. We…

When I accepted my first full-time UX Designer position — while still completing my UX Design Bootcamp — I was flooded with emails and phone calls asking the same questions: How long has it been since your career switch? What types of questions were asked during your interview? What do you think was…

In short, yes. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a regular emoji user—but there’s a time and a place for posting them. Two weeks ago, Slack added a feature where you can set a status that would display an emoji next to your name as well as your carefully crafted 100 characters message hidden away in a…

The Doritos' Guardians of the Galaxy 2 chips sold with a MP3 player containing the movie's full soundtrack, a pair of retro headphones of the sort that airlines used to hand out for free, even in coach, and a USB charging cable. They're pretty cool -- the buttons silkscreened on the back actually…

(Jaya Nicely) “You’re looking well, though,” someone tells Ewan McGregor early on in T2 Trainspotting , a 20-years-later sequel to the 1996 cult classic that launched his career. “Aye,” he replies. “Everybody says that.” He looks fantastic, it’s true, as handsome and wiry and alluringly volatile as…

Expecting the oppressed to change the minds of their oppressors over a beer is preposterous and dangerous. I was recently about to deliver a talk on findings from my book on diversity and inclusion in the workplace, to a crowded room. Five minutes before I was due to take the stage, a middle-aged…

(Getty Images/Ringer illustration) As Facebook employees welcomed guests to F8, the company’s annual developers conference, on Tuesday, police scoured at least five states for a man who had used Facebook Live to pledge his intentions to kill someone. Shortly after sharing his plan, he had uploaded…

(Warner Bros/Touchstone/Walt Disney Pictures/Universal Pictures/Ringer illustration) "We’re gonna need a crew for this." Nothing in a movie amps me up more than when a character says that line, or something like it. That’s because it means we’re about to get a "Getting the Gang Together" montage,…

Smuggle in food, smuggle out video An amateur video smuggled from North Korea to China on June 10, 1997 shows a mother and child in a detention camp set up for the victims of starvation. (AP Photo/APTV) J apanese journalist Ishimaru Jiro paid his last official visit to North Korea in 1998. By then,…

by 5/3/2017 Police in Chechnya are reportedly telling parents to kill their gay children , or else they’ll murder them themselves. As news of anti-gay purges in the region spreads, including concentration camps for alleged homosexuals , reports from escapees paint a harrowing picture. One victim,…

Chechen police are reportedly urging parents to kill their gay children, according to survivor testimony from one man held in a “gay torture camp” in the region. Authorities have been telling parents of gay men to “sort it out” or the state will intervene, the victim, who has not been identified,…

Donald Trump. Photo: MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images An amendment in the GOP health-care-reform bill will allow states to deny coverage for preexisting conditions, including sexual assault. Pre-Obamacare rape survivors who sought treatment for their injuries could be denied health care later on. Under…

The News Building in London houses offices of The Sun and other publications in Rupert Murdoch’s media empire. Credit José Sarmento Matos for The New York Times By LONDON — Tony Gallagher, editor of The Sun , one of Britain’s most raucous and influential tabloids, looks down on the government,…

Lena Dunham, Jenni Konner, and America Ferrera talk directing and womanhood in the TV space. Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner have done a lot in the past year. They finished the sixth and final season of Girls , a season that has been universally lauded as the program's best. (It included a finale…