Donald Trump’s motorcade and security staff outside the “21” Club, in New York City, after he told his press pool that he would not be leaving his residence but then went to the restaurant. PHOTOGRAPH BY CAROLYN KASTER / AP It’s been one week since an unusually subdued Donald Trump gave his victory…

Donald Trump, with Governor Mike Pence, makes an address, at around 3 A.M. on November 9th, at the New York Hilton Midtown, after becoming the President-elect. Photographs by Philip Montgomery for The New Yorker Four decades ago, Watergate revealed the potential of the modern Presidency for abuse of…

'For a while there,' Cage says of his reputation, 'it was the three Cs: castles, comic books and cars.' Photograph: Nigel Parry/CPi Syndication T o start with, the thing most often said of Nicolas Cage : he is weird-looking, with constituent parts that don't promise to add up to a movie star. His…

BONY, Hungary — To his neighbors in a village in western Hungary, 76-year-old Istvan Gyorkos was just an old man who mostly kept to himself. Hardly anyone looked askance at his passion for guns and for training youths in paramilitary tactics. In late October, however, Mr. Gyorkos, a veteran neo-Nazi…

The president-elect continues to employ a battalion of retired cops and FBI agents to protect him and clamp down on protesters. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — President-elect Donald Trump has continued employing a private security and intelligence team at his victory rallies, and he is expected to keep at…

The shocking murder of Andrei Karlov, Russia’s ambassador to Turkey, generated a swell of outrage across Russia, much of which would sound familiar to Americans. Karlov was widely described as a patriot and skilled diplomat. “He was killed carrying out his duties,” said the chairman of the Russian…

How Otto Defied Nevada and Scored a $680 Million Payout from Uber The engineer who helped craft Nevada’s self-driving car regulations also ended up blowing past them. Photo credit: Otto It could be the plot of an Ocean’s Eleven movie: A team of daring engineers heads to the wilds of Nevada to create…

To properly understand globalization, you need to start 200,000 years ago. Richard Baldwin skillfully takes on this daunting task in a new book, starting all the way back with the hunter-gatherers. For too long, he says, traditional analysis of trade has been too narrow, he argues. The economist,…

To die-hard fans, Apple Inc.'s Macintosh sometimes seems like an afterthought these days. Mac upgrades, once a frequent ritual, are few and far between. The Mac Pro, Apple's marquee computer, hasn't been refreshed since 2013. The affordable and flexible Mac mini was last upgraded in 2014. And when a…

The makers of the Raspberry Pi computer have created a version of its graphical front end that can run on ordinary desktop computers. The Pixel desktop has been re-worked so it runs on PCs and Apple Mac machines, said the Foundation . People who use it on a Raspberry Pi and other machines will now…

If charity Christmas adverts tell us anything, it's that this is a hard time of year to be alone. Think of the poor and needy, they say, the homeless in the cold, older people with no friends and family to celebrate with, the refugees in camps across Europe. Nobody young and successful and healthy…

PRESIDENTIAL TEMPERAMENT Trump during an Apprentice press tour, 2015. By Chris Pizzello/Invision/A.P. Images. I. The Tapes On an unseasonably warm Monday, in late December 2015, members of theHillary Clinton campaign for president gathered at their headquarters,in a nondescript brown-brick high-rise…

Donald Trump has vowed to change things at the United Nations when he takes over at the White House next month, after the UN Security Council's vote in favour of a resolution demanding the halt of settlement activity by Israel in occupied Palestinian territory. The resolution was put forward at the…

Photographers are a narcissistic breed. Not me, of course, but my colleagues are. We’ve got profiles on dozens of websites and we must tell the world what we are doing at our jobs every day and in real-time — we just have to. It’s compulsory. On all those websites and social media outlets you need a…

I n 1930, a psychologist at Harvard University called B.F. Skinner made a box and placed a hungry rat inside it. The box had a lever on one side. As the rat moved about it would accidentally knock the lever and, when it did so, a food pellet would drop into the box. After a rat had been put in the…

Credit Illustration by Pablo Delcan Prologue: You Are What You Have Read Late one Friday night in early November, Jun Rekimoto, a distinguished professor of human-computer interaction at the University of Tokyo, was online preparing for a lecture when he began to notice some peculiar posts rolling…

The evacuation follows a long siege and bombardment of the area by Syrian forces and their allies. Hundreds of people were killed and much of the city reduced to rubble. Salah al-Ashkar, an activist, filmed himself saying goodbye to the city of his birth as crowds waited to exit. “Just as you see,…

“Reshoring,” the return of once off-shored operations, is fuelled by automation: salaries aren’t an issue without the salaried. Illustration by Matt Blease There are many accounts of the genesis of Watson. The most popular, which is not necessarily the most accurate—and this is the sort of problem…

The act of playing yourself—as in “Congratulations, you played yourself,” a catchphrase adopted last year by DJ Khaled—can be loosely defined as working against your conscious intentions. Photograph by Roger Kisby / Redux Earlier this year, in the deep boredom of late winter, I started keeping a…

In the early Nineties, roughly around 1994, a now 52-year-old man named Don ordered two copies of a brand new video for the rental store his uncle owned and he helped to run. “I had to handle the two copies we owned dozens of times over the years,” says Don (who wishes to give his first name only).…

In an upscale beachfront neighborhood on the west side of Havana, a creative 20-something named Adrian is designing for Cuba’s capitalist tomorrow. Adrian’s firm offers a variety of standard advertising services: interior design, brand identity, video spots, business cards, and tarps and posters.…

Photo: Marco Rullkoetter/Getty Images/Hemera Imagine being rid of the internet. Doesn’t some part of you knot up with rash, intimate desire? Some of us have begun to voice the fantasy, muttering in low whispers: I need to get off , like it’s a ride that’s stopped being fun. Wouldn’t it be amazing if…

Octopus at Huertas, before and after the no-tipping policy. The dish gained a tentacle to ease a price increase. Francesco Sapienza for The New York Times The owners of Huertas , a cheerful Spanish small-plates restaurant in the East Village, knew they would have to raise prices when they abolished…

Latest news View all A version of this story originally appeared on Aug. 22, 2016. In July 2018, Airbus Defense & Space announced... Play the Pentagon-Funded Video Game That Predates ‘Pong’ This story originally appeared on July 27, 2014. Before Call of Duty, before Mario and even before Pong…

(Getty Images/Ringer illustration) In early 2016, the day before the State of the Union, the White House joined Snapchat in a promotional social media blitz. Alongside photos of the Oval Office and the Obamas’ two Portuguese water dogs, the account posted a late-night pic of a White House corridor…

2016 was a strong year for good television. Last Week Tonight with John Oliver had one of its most vital and poignant seasons. Donald Glover made a timely, funny and honest sitcom about race in America with Atlanta . Netflix ushered in one of the most intriguing and, well, strangest new series with…

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — President-elect Donald J. Trump said on Thursday that the United States should greatly “expand its nuclear capability,” appearing to suggest an end to decades of efforts by presidents of both parties to reduce the role of nuclear weapons in American defenses and strategy. Mr.…

Sexism and homophobia are forever tied to the Beasties’ debut—30 years on, so is their maturity and repentance L ast month marked the 30th anniversary of the Beastie Boys’ debut record, Licensed to Ill , one of the most famous and influential albums in hip-hop history. As the anniversary approached,…

Prototyping has gone from a buzzword to an actual part of the process in agencies and creative studios. We started our own digital studio over a year ago with the idea to create prototypes for every project. During this year we have worked with various brands like Electrolux , Hilliards , Sony and…

iOS said, “Ok clarity, let’s not be friends anymore.” The iOS lockscreen has been pretty straightforward for years since its inception in 2007 but now it is not as obvious as it used to be. There are a few reasons why this is happening. Before we go any further, here’s what this post is about: It is…

In 2005, in the midst of a career of traveling around the world to help set up elections in some of the most challenging places on earth – Afghanistan, Burma, Egypt, Lebanon, South Africa, Sudan and Yemen, among others – my Danish colleague, Jorgen Elklit, and I designed the first comprehensive…

Last week, after a wait of almost a decade, the world’s most popular video game series, Super Mario Bros., finally came to the world’s most popular video game machine: the iPhone. Nintendo’s Super Mario Run went immediately to the top of the App Store charts, above mainstays like Facebook, Snapchat,…

Design is a rather broad and vague term. When someone says “I’m a designer,” it is not immediately clear what they actually do day to day. There are a number of different responsibilities encompassed by the umbrella term designer. Design-related roles exist in a range of areas from industrial design…

Investing in user experience is a good start. Understanding how to make the most from that investment takes time. The good news is that UX, in the majority of cases, is an iterative process. There’s almost always room for improvement in a product, website or service. The approach that your business…

Mayberry Machiavellis . That was the sharp and memorable term coined by John DiIulio in 2002 to describe those staff in the George W. Bush White House who imagined themselves cunning—but actually bungled everything. There needs to be an update for the would-be grand strategists of the Trump era.…

One of the best aspects of the NES Classic — the detail that feels the most refreshing — is that you can plug it into the wall or a powered USB port, plug the HDMI cable into your television and everything works. You will be playing games in under 30 seconds. That’s an advantage no other “smart”…

Concerns are mounting about how the cars behave in dense urban environments, particularly in San Francisco, where there are an estimated 82,000 bike trips each day on over 200 miles of cycling lanes.Photograph: Alamy Uber has admitted that there is a “problem” with the way autonomous vehicles cross…