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MOSCOW — Aleksandr B. Vyarya thought his job was to defend people from cyberattacks — until, he says, his government approached him with a request to do the opposite. Mr. Vyarya, 33, a bearded, bespectacled computer programmer who thwarted hackers, said he was suddenly being asked to join a sweeping…

DORAL, Fla. — Inside a clandestine Carnival Corporation complex here, two former Disney executives have been plotting a drastic cruise industry overhaul. Their mission: Take lessons learned at Walt Disney World, where they helped bring about a $1 billion vacation management system involving…

Home MusicAlbum Reviews January 3, 2017 9:53PM ET Review: Run the Jewels Expand Protest-Rap Palette on ‘Run the Jewels 3’ Our take on duo’s latest call-to-arms Killer Mike and El-P broaden their sound on 'Run the Jewels 3' with help from guests including Kamasi Washington and TV on the Radio's Tunde…

“Let us not be timid,” Paul Ryan exhorted members of the House on Tuesday, moments after 239 Republicans had, in near-unanimous fashion, re-elected him as speaker. He was girding his party for what he called “the opportunity of a lifetime”—the chance to remake Washington under President-elect Donald…

(BBC) This piece contains spoilers for the first episode of Sherlock, Season 4. Like so many busts of a certain prime minister, Sherlock began its fourth season by shattering its template. Perhaps because Sherlock ’s “seasons” are more truthfully made-for-TV movie trilogies, and perhaps because its…

Here we go. President-elect Donald Trump apparently tuned in to FOX News Tuesday night for Sean Hannity’s sit down with Wikileaks chief Julian Assange, who appears to be emerging as a surprising ally of some conservatives in Washington. Trump tweeted Wednesday morning that Assange backs up his own…

2016 was the year of redesigns. From the controversial to the clever, brands took a gamble with flat design, colour and everything inbetween. Here we round-up the biggest logo designs of 2016. Let us know your favourite in the comments box below. 01. DELL The new Dell logo is accompanied by branding…

The Technics 1200s turntable is one of the tools of the Hip-Hop trade. Introduced in October of 1972, the SL-1200 has grown step-by-step with the musical culture credited with a birthday less than one year apart (August 11, 1973). Over the years, more than three-million units have sold, many in…

Tony Prince, right, and Barrington Oakley, a British D.J. known as Cutmaster Swift, with a Technics turntable. “If you wanted to be taken seriously, you saved up and you bought a pair,” Mr. Oakley, who won a world D.J.ing championship in 1989, said of the Technics SL-1200 turntable. Andrew Testa for…

LONDON — Complicating his country’s already fraught preparations for exiting the European Union, Britain’s top diplomat in Brussels resigned unexpectedly on Tuesday, less than three months before withdrawal negotiations are scheduled to start. The decision by the diplomat, Ivan Rogers, the permanent…

MOSCOW — It was one of the most heavily anticipated diplomatic moves of the year, but when it came down to it, the Obama administration’s decision to expel 35 embassy staff, close two compounds, and impose sanctions on top intelligence chiefs caught Russia off guard. The move was virtually…

There are good reasons to worry about how Donald Trump will handle foreign policy, but there are also reasons to think he won’t be any worse than some other administrations. The neoconservatives who dominated foreign-policy making in George W. Bush’s administration had lots of prior experience, God…

Run The Jewels type Music Current Status In Season release date 08/21/15 performer Killer Mike, El-P Hip-hop is often a youngster’s game. The genre’s reigning commercial king, Drake, turned 30 last year and his high-profile peers — from Kendrick Lamar to A$AP Rocky to Chance the Rapper — are all…

The universal basic income — a cash payment made to every individual in the country — has been critiqued recently by some commentators . Among other things, these writers dislike the fact that a UBI would deliver individuals income in a way that is divorced from working. Such an income arrangement…

Web design is boring. Web design is losing its “soul.” Web design is becoming less creative. No it isn’t. I’ve heard these types of comments from both developers and designers, makers and spectators alike. And a large portion of the community seems to agree. But I want to set the record straight,…

WASHINGTON — The most powerful and ambitious Republican-led Congress in 20 years will convene Tuesday, with plans to leave its mark on virtually every facet of American life — refashioning the country’s social safety net, wiping out scores of labor and environmental regulations and unraveling some…

Illustration by Javier Jaén In the summer of 1967, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara commissioned a group of thirty-six scholars to write a secret history of the Vietnam War. The project took a year and a half, ran to seven thousand pages, and filled forty-seven volumes. Only a handful of copies…

STANFORD, CALIF. — Take out your flow journals. We’re going to talk about flow moments. You’re going to learn how to find a fulfilling career. You’re going to learn how to better navigate life’s big-moment decisions and kill your “wicked problems” dead. How? By training yourself to think like a…

Jan. 1, 2017 Image Credit Olivier Schrauwen By January is the big month for buying gym memberships. The excesses of the holiday season leave many of us looking to make improvements in our lives — a search that often leads straight to the elliptical machine. But what about your job and career? How…

by Tobias van Schneider first appeared ✍🏼 on my personal blog I haven’t read much about this topic yet, and honestly I’m still trying to understand it myself. In the last few months I spent more time in Virtual Reality. Not only developing for it, but also playing games, experiencing everything I…

Microsoft Research's "SparseLightVR" project, without the sheer plastic screen that is eventually used to better diffuse the array of 80 LEDs. Microsoft Research The current world of consumer-grade virtual reality has a bit of a tunnel-vision problem. As realistic as VR can feel, even the most…

President-elect Donald Trump would like everybody to believe that his election is energizing the economy by forcing businesses to create thousands of jobs in the United States. And companies like Sprint seem perfectly happy to go along with this fiction because they know they can profit handsomely…

Everybody wants what feels good. Everyone wants to live a carefree, happy and easy life, to fall in love and have amazing sex and relationships, to look perfect and make money and be popular and well-respected and admired and a total baller to the point that people part like the Red Sea when you…

Africa, from space. (NASA) On June 13, two weeks before the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, the African Union announced a new “ single African passport .” The lead-up discussion was much like the original debate on the European Economic Community, the E.U.’s predecessor. African…

Many parts of applications are rarely experienced, yet we have to consider how the presence or absence of these states affect a user’s experience. As UX Designers it’s our job to go beyond visual design and make the best experience possible— this includes all the parts of the experience that nobody…

When Jimmy Fallon talked to Donald Trump on The Tonight Show last week, he ruffled the presidential candidate’s hair. Seth Meyers, the host of Fallon’s former show Late Night , had a slightly different message for the Republican presidential candidate last night. “Obama was born in the United…

Story highlights The proposal to curb the office's powers was pulled after an outcry from Democrats and ethics watchdogs Trump also criticized the move via Twitter Washington (CNN) President-elect Donald Trump dramatically strong-armed House Republicans into line Tuesday in his first Washington…

When Tobias van Schneider slips on a virtual reality headset to play Google’s Tilt Brush , he becomes a god. His fingertips become a fiery paintbrush in the sky. A flick of the wrist rotates the clouds. He can jump effortlessly from one world that he created to another. When the headset comes off,…

Few cities in the world are as closely linked to their subways as New York City — the vast network helped shape the city and now carries nearly six million people a day. So when the most ambitious expansion of the subway system in half a century opens on Sunday, it will be a transformative moment,…

Ukrainian artillery forces and the Democratic National Committee have something surprising in common: They were targeted by the same Russian code and spied upon by the same military intelligence unit. The finding, contained in a report released Thursday by security firm Crowdstrike, provides…

(Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Talking to Valerie Jarrett about her time as senior adviser to President Obama and specifically about that time he sang “Amazing Grace” in Charleston, S.C., on June 26, 2015, got me to thinking about other amazing moments of the Obama presidency. So, before Obama nostalgia…

In 2015 the city of Ashgabat, the capital of Turkmenistan, was graced with a new public monument: a giant gold-plated sculpture portraying the country’s president on horseback. This may strike you as a bit excessive. But cults of personality are actually the norm in the “stans,” the Central Asian…

In 1979, Donald Trump and the City of New York cut a deal. His flagship skyscraper, Trump Tower, could be fifty-eight stories tall—about twenty stories taller than would normally be allowed so close to Central Park—if parts of the lobby, balcony, and terraces were designated as “privately owned…

Donald Trump owns the members-only luxury resort, which each year sells tickets to swank parties it throws on holidays and special occasions. | AP Photo The private club owned by the president-elect sold hundreds of tickets to the party the Trump family will attend. Mar-a-Lago, the pricey private…

As Donald Trump prepares to take office, R.R. Reno of First Things is feeling “guardedly optimistic.” The editor of the conservative, religious magazine cautiously supported the Republican’s candidacy. Reno does not believe Trump will fix what he sees as America’s frayed social contract. But he does…