President Trump making a statement about the bombing in Syria at the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fl Doug Mills/The New York Times The agony of Donald Trump — well, one of the many agonies — is that there are times when he will actually do the right thing, or at least a defensible thing, and we’ll…

CNN host Fareed Zakaria speaks about President Donald Trump’s missile strikes on Syria during an ‘Anderson Cooper 360°’ segment. (Screengrab / CNN) It shouldn’t be surprising, but it is to me nonetheless: Plenty of liberals who’ve long criticized Donald Trump as unfit to be president are praising…

Auto-play videos lurking in unopened tabs. Pop-ups that won’t go away. Photos that won’t load. Text that’s invaded by ads. It’s hard to complain about the internet without feeling like a mom struggling to post on Facebook, but going online has started to feel like an assault on the senses. The…

Twenty-three years ago, Ken Lunde stood onstage at the Unicode conference–a gathering of people concerned with how every language is presented across the internet, from Swahili to Bengali. Amid a room full of fellow typographical scholars, he outlined a problem faced by a fifth of the world’s…

On Thursday night, virtually all national advertisers abandoned The O’Reilly Factor, the nation’s top-rated cable news show. The program included just seven advertisements and was, without warning or explanation, cut 15 minutes short. More than 50 advertisers have announced they will stop airing ads…

Update April 11, 2017: G2A have responded to comments made to us by Vlambeer co-founder Rami Ismail last week, saying keys that are scammed by email are classed as legitimate because they come from developers. “As you can see on the example of Rami Ismail, keys are legitimate, because they come from…

In his first major interview in over a year, Molyneux opens up about his legacy, his empathy for the 'No Man's Sky' team, and redefining himself W hen Peter Molyneux – the charismatic designer of Fable , Populous , and Black & White , among other seminal video games – announced a couple of years ago…

(Getty Images/Ringer illustration) Alec Baldwin’s best movie is It’s Complicated . Can we agree on this? Should we start off our thorough appraisal of his career and evolving public persona by discussing this? OK. Consider his last scene in the movie, a tender and melancholy porch-swing conversation…

D onald Trump, the man who just over a month ago wanted to bar entry of all Syrian refugees into the United States, now wants us to think that he cares deeply about Syrian children. I don’t believe it. What I do believe is that our president is a bad actor. He was a bad actor on his old television…

Some of President Trump’s most ardent campaign supporters were among his most vocal opponents on Thursday after he ordered the missile strike against Syria, charging him with breaking his promise to keep the United States out of another conflict in the Middle East. Prominent writers and bloggers on…

Don Rickles , the acidic stand-up comic who became world-famous not by telling jokes but by insulting his audience, died on Thursday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 90. The cause was kidney failure, said a spokesman, Paul Shefrin. For more than half a century, on nightclub stages, in concert…

Psst! Hey…You know there’s a simple way to get engineers to build what you want, and as a bonus you can call it “agile”…Shh! Try to keep this technique quiet. You see it’s all about user stories. All you have to do is write something like this: The format is simple: As a user, I want so that .…

The secretive ride-hailing giant Uber rarely discusses internal matters in public. But in March, facing crises on multiple fronts, top officials convened a call for reporters to insist that Uber was changing its culture and would no longer tolerate “brilliant jerks.” Notably, the company also…

Credit: Jirsak/Shutterstock Hiring today looks very different than it did just a decade or two ago. The days of handing out resumes are all but over. The process of collecting and analyzing job applications have moved in a completely digital direction – and it provides richer insights into…

BEIRUT, Lebanon — The diplomatic situation had been looking bright for President Bashar al-Assad of Syria. With the help of Russia, he had consolidated his power, the rebels were on their heels and the United States had just declared that ousting him was not a priority . So why would Mr. Assad risk…

Craig Ruttle / AP By now, the idea that gut bacteria affect a person’s health is not revolutionary. Many people know that these microbes influence digestion, allergies, and metabolism. The trend has become almost commonplace: New books appear regularly detailing precisely which diet will lead to…

Even admen have souls, and some of them are enduring dark nights. Jeff Goodby is co-chairman of Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, a San Francisco advertising agency responsible for some of the most famous campaigns of the 1990s, including ones for Nike and Budweiser. On his return from this year’s…

Nicholas Laborde Monday 3rd April 2017 Share this article Recommend My name is Nicholas Laborde, and I believe that games can change the world. I'm an indie "business guy" in Lafayette, Louisiana, the heart of Cajun culture. Here, we look at the world a little differently; whereas much of American…

Most of the world's great companies have a good creation myth. Nike was started from the trunk of Phil Knight's car. Apple, Google, and Amazon all started in a garage. Discogs —the music cataloguing database and marketplace founded in 2000 by Kevin Lewandowski—has a similar, albeit more cramped…

When Daniel Joseph, a York University doctoral student studying labor and technology, found out about Coca-Cola’s GIF the Feeling promotion, he knew exactly what he wanted to make with it: a Coke-branded critique of capitalism. An accessory for Coke’s newly launched “ Taste the Feeling ” global ad…

How prepared is our president for the next great foreign, economic or terrorist crisis? After a little more than two months in office, President Trump has raised doubts about his ability to deal with what the former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld famously described as the “known unknowns” and…

HONG KONG — President Xi Jinping of China will visit President Trump at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida next week, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said Thursday, confirming details of the two leaders’ first summit meeting. #BREAKING : Chinese President #XiJinping to meet @POTUS @realDonaldTrump at his…

From “Ten little girls who are ready for the first woman president,” hillaryclinton. com, November 2, 2015. November 2016 It was going to be the most thrilling night of my life. As I walked the darkening streets of midtown Manhattan toward Jacob Javits Convention Center, from blocks away I could…

Anthony Levandowski is the key player in the unfolding legal fight between his former employer, Google’s self-driving car unit Waymo, and Uber, where he now runs the startup’s self-driving program. To put it lightly, the case has shown the dude has some seriously deep—but, crucially,…

It's happened. The nadir of brands using ethical consciousness to sell products has been reached with a (since pulled) Pepsi advert that reveals the secret weapon in combating police brutality: carbonated soft drinks. Here we break it down scene-by-scene: We open on a man virtuosically playing the…

Before it’s an ad for shampoo or cat food or cola, every advertisement is first an ad for capitalism. Without a privately-controlled industry jockeying to compete with one another for consumer dollars, there’s no need for advertising. People would wash their hair with Shampoo, and feed their cats…

The Senate has altered the long-standing practice for confirming Supreme Court justices after Democrats today blocked the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch . Interested in Supreme Court? Add Supreme Court as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Supreme Court news, video, and analysis from ABC…

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans on Thursday engineered a dramatic change in how the chamber confirms Supreme Court nominations, bypassing a Democratic blockade of Judge Neil M. Gorsuch in a move that will most likely reshape both the Senate and the court. After Democrats held together Thursday…

Funny or Die at 10, an Oral History of a Comedy Juggernaut When Funny or Die launched on April 12, 2007, with “The Landlord” —a supercheap two-minute sketch pitting Will Ferrell against a swearing toddler—the premise was so simple even a 2-year-old could understand it: A user submitted a homemade…

Most mornings as I leave the Y after my swim and shower, I cross paths with a coterie of toddlers entering with their caregivers for a kid-oriented activity. I can’t resist saying hello, requesting a high-five, and wishing them a fun time. I leave the Y grinning from ear to ear, uplifted not just by…

Firewatch Campo Santo Just over a year ago, Firewatch released to positive reviews and commercial success. It was an intriguing exploration-puzzle story set in a beautiful wilderness. But its main strength was in creating believable characters — Henry and Delilah — who spoke like human beings. “I'm…

Everyone has biases. We all like to think that we are level-headed, rational people, but our brains are actually hard-wired to jump to conclusions. As designers, our biases seep into our work and cause us to create concepts that seem like a great idea at the time… until we expose them to the light.…

Ethan Klein, aka h3h3Productions Over the last couple of weeks, anger has been bubbling on YouTube over the news that major brands pulled advertisements on the platform in an effort to avoid being matched with objectionable content. The reports, which were published by the Wall Street Journal , were…

Academics 03/28/17 10:09pm Credit: Photo from Justin McDaniel / The Daily Pennsylvanian Some students struggle to sit through an hour-and-a-half lecture. But what if the class went on for seven hours straight? Professor Justin McDaniel, the chair of the Department of Religious Studies , will be…

by – on Apr 02, 2016 in Wrestling Wrestler's Court is a type of "kangaroo" court that was brought into the WWE by Zeb Colter as a way for two guys to settle any beefs that they may have with each other before things come to blows or get out of hand. It's meant as a fun way for all the guys to get…

With so many new platforms, buzzwords, technologies and mediums in the digital industry, if you’re not thinking about what to learn next you’ll end up lagging behind. If you want to stay relevant as a designer, you need to keep pushing forward and honing your design skills. Successful UX designers…

A proper sharing feature has been part of iOS for years. It has a consistent, system-level UI that’s available from most any app with anything worth sharing and yet no one seems to use it. Well, no one but us geeks, right? Everyone else just takes screenshots—which require mastering an unintuitive…

This was first published on my mailing list The Looking Glass . Every week, I answer a reader’s question. Photo by Garry Knight What are some things that help you not take feedback on your work personally? I recently had a situation where my team was re-doing something I had worked on for a couple…

Ars at SXSW 2017 A chat with Ron Howard after watching his Einstein series premiere American Gods may have finally nailed the modern-fantasy formula on TV In Sylvio , anthropomorphic ape scenery stretches from six seconds to 80 minutes How to get a Vulcan salute from Jake Gyllenhaal and Ryan…