Could Amsterdam’s picturesque canals attract London-based businesses looking for alternatives?Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images Is Amsterdam going to be the new London? Some people seem to think so. Ever since last June’s Brexit vote, there has been serious talk of the Dutch capital as a potential…

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El-P was riding through a downtown L.A. intersection, shotgun in Jonah Hill’s Audi, when another car materialized seemingly out of nowhere and – bam! – T-boned it. The Audi’s entire passenger side was destroyed but, amazingly, everyone emerged OK. “I’m a believer in air bags,” El-P says three days…

WASHINGTON — Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Trump, said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday that the White House had put forth “alternative facts” to ones reported by the news media about the size of Mr. Trump’s inauguration crowd. She made this assertion — which quickly went viral on…

Underground hip-hop enthusiasts rejoiced when Drake’s Nothing Was The Same album featured production from the immensely talented Jake One. The producer laced the Toronto golden child with a beat that felt old and soulful, gentle and elegant, intricate and transfixing—by far one of the best on the…

LONDON — It remains unclear whether Prime Minister Theresa May’s plans or timetable for taking Britain out of the European Union will be altered by the Supreme Court’s ruling on Tuesday that she must secure Parliament’s approval before beginning the process. Most analysts, even those who opposed…

(Courtesy Dippin’ Dots) While most people were focused on the fallout of White House press secretary Sean Spicer’s falsehood-laden , meme-inspiring , fiery first media briefing , the A.V. Club was busy unearthing news of a different sort: that Spicer had been “waging a quiet, one-sided Twitter feud”…

After the November election, Donald Trump’s campaign strategist Kellyanne Conway has stayed in the picture — the spin-master of Trump’s muddy words , Conway is a frequent and often provocative visitor to TV news. That should probably stop, journalism professor Jay Rosen says. “I don’t think the…

(Getty Images/Ringer illustration) Will Mark Zuckerberg run for president? The next election is almost four years out, but that has not kept Vanity Fair , Wired , The Atlantic , and a slew of other media outlets from hypothesizing. It’s not difficult to see why Silicon Valley’s most high-profile boy…

Game Info Platform Win, PS4, Xbox One Publisher Capcom Developer Capcom Release Date Jan 24, 2017 With Resident Evil 7 , Capcom has proved me wrong about the Resident Evil franchise. Resident Evil 6 was a game wildly out of touch with its own fanbase ; this beloved horror series has struggled for…

No, you’re the baby. Photo: JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images The president is a 70-year-old child whose TV time must be closely monitored — because any news story that upsets his ego will trigger a temper tantrum followed by irrational demands that his indulgent, overwhelmed guardians will be helpless to…

This post originally appeared at LinkedIn . Follow the author here . I’ve sent out hundreds of resumes over my career, applying for just about every kind of job. I’ve personally reviewed more than 20,000 resumes. And at Google we sometimes get more than 50,000 resumes in a single week. I have seen a…

Aarron Walter wants to show you how to build a team that can design for human emotion. He’s widely known for starting and scaling the experience design team at MailChimp , a place he called home for more than eight years. His classic book, Designing for Emotion , just reached its 5th publishing…

WASHINGTON ― Thousands of people on Twitter are following along as people who voted for President-elect Donald Trump begin to question their decision. “I’m starting to feel like the biggest mistake of my young 23 years of life has been voting for [Trump],” Joseph Richardson tweeted on Nov. 21. His…

MOSCOW — A day after President Obama commuted the sentence of Chelsea Manning , the Russian government clarified on Wednesday the fate of Edward J. Snowden, the other main source of secrets about United States surveillance in recent years. Mr. Snowden, a former National Security Agency contractor…

Since announcing his candidacy for the leader of the Conservative Party, I've been inundated with requests to comment on Kevin O'Leary. The question on everyone's mind is the same: "Is the cold, money-driven person we see on television what we will get as a potential political leader?" It's the…

President Donald Trump took office on Friday with an inaugural address that was striking for both its bleakness and its fiery, populist promises for a better future. “Today we are not transferring power not from one administration to another, or from one party to another, but we are transferring…

You made me a better President, and you made me a better man. My fellow Americans, It’s a long-standing tradition for the sitting president of the United States to leave a parting letter in the Oval Office for the American elected to take his or her place. It’s a letter meant to share what we know,…

If you don’t finish then you’re just busy, not productive January 14, 2017 Thoughts Tags: Productivity 76 Comments One of the biggest realisations I’ve come to as part of my PhD, is how little people care about how I spend my time, they only care about what I am able to deliver. Yet in order to…

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One of the many things that is remarkable about the Trump administration is its devotion, even in its first days, to a particular variety of pointless falsehood. Mendacity among politicians and the spokespeople hired to spin for them runs across eras and aisles, though it is true that some are more…

At his Inauguration, Donald Trump spoke about a history in which power had been concentrated among élites and politicians, and said, “That all changes. Starting right here and right now.” PHOTOGRAPH BY MARK PETERSON / REDUX FOR THE NEW YORKER Politicians, preparing for inaugurals, scurry for their…

Above: The many forms of Ara. Image Credit: Illustration by Harrison Weber for VentureBeat It looked nothing like an iPhone, or anything Apple might dare to make. On September 10, 2013, the day Apple unveiled the iPhone 5S, Dutch designer Dave Hakkens uploaded a video to YouTube to promote his…

I wonder if, when Mark Sinclair was growing up, any of his childhood friends in Greenwich Village ever called him "Slick." Or maybe "Sly" — though that one already belongs to one of the Hollywood greats. Maybe they found him some other name, one that might have adequately given credence to one of…

Betsy DeVos , whom Donald Trump has nominated as education secretary, doesn’t know basic education terms, doesn’t know about federal statutes governing special education, but thinks school officials should carry guns to defend against grizzly bears. Monica Crowley , selected as deputy national…

Kate Wagner is the founder and editor of McMansion Hell , a web site for people who love to hate the ugly houses that became ubiquitous before (and after) the bubble burst. Photo: Sam Horine If I had a dollar for every time I received a request to take on Donald Trump's interior design, I'd have…

The most interesting thing about Herzog and De Meuron’s newly opened concert hall, the Elbphilharmonie, isn’t its wave-like facade, which rises above the city of Hamburg, Germany. It’s not the gently curved elevator at the base of the lobby that deposits you into the belly of the Swiss architects’…

I'm 18 days into my year-long shopping ban and so far, no slip ups. For fun, I have started keeping a list of all the things I even briefly think about buying, and sometimes I'll post the sillier ones to Facebook. On New Year's Day I hosted a dinner for friends, and a myriad of "when will I ever use…

Donald Trump is ready to take an ax to government spending. Staffers for the Trump transition team have been meeting with career staff at the White House ahead of Friday’s presidential inauguration to outline their plans for shrinking the federal bureaucracy, The Hill has learned. The changes they…

Starting a business is something we’ve done a few times at Virgin – hundreds of times actually, across more than 40 years. How do we manage to see these new businesses through from ideas to realities and into successes? Keep reading for my seven top tips. Image from Virgin.com Write a business plan…

The Type Snob And how to turn into one Can you name the typefaces drawn on this gif? The wannabe Back in 2014, I was a graphic designer who had just moved to San Francisco to become a UX designer. Before that, I had worked with different multinational conglomerates (well, more like dive bars,…

Uber and Seamless ads reveal how Silicon Valley is screwing us An essay by comedian/author Matt Ruby . Want more? Sign up here to get my newsletter . “These days, everyone needs a side hustle,” starts the Uber commercial recruiting new drivers. And it’s got bouncy music and the dude is hip and it…

LONDON — “Get on with it.” With those words late in a major speech on Tuesday, Prime Minister Theresa May charted Britain’s course toward a clean break with the European Union and expressed her fondest hope: that the time for “division and discord” is over. Her much-anticipated speech outlined what…

El-P and Killer Mike’s new album feels political, if only in its spirit of refusal. Illustration by Nick Little Run the Jewels is made up of El-P and Killer Mike, two forty-one-year-old rappers who, until a few years ago, were largely unaware of each other’s career. El-P was born and raised in a…

The Food Lab Unraveling the mysteries of home cooking through science. Profile Twitter Facebook Contact Printer-Friendly Version Serious Eats Watch More Videos [Photographs and video: J. Kenji López-Alt] This macaroni and cheese—this pot of creamy, gooey, cheesy, glorious macaroni and cheese—was…

Every four years, a group of U.S. intelligence analysts tries to predict the future. And this year, in a report released just weeks before Donald Trump assumes the presidency, those analysts forecast a massive shift in international affairs over the next five years or so: “For better and worse, the…

The room is packed, as recording studios tend to be at one in the morning. The weather in downtown Chicago is on brand: blistering cold. Inside are engineers and beat tweakers and Shake Shack runners and weed deliverers and weed rollers and childhood friends now playing the integral part of weed…

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump’s aides often cite his appearances at professional wrestling matches as an inspiration for his outsize political speaking style, and his buoyantly belligerent news conference in New York on Wednesday proved he has no plans to betray his brawler’s roots in…

How do you follow up a game like Frog Fractions (2012)? That’s the question its creator Jim Crawford had promised an answer to for two years. On December 27th, 2016, he delivered with the release of Frog Fractions 2 , which he had hidden away inside a fairy-themed city builder called Glittermitten…