“Life is lonely, boring and dumb.” — The Doom Generation “I feel like a gerbil smothered in Richard Gere’s butthole.” —also The Doom Generation Gregg Araki likes young people. He likes their asymmetrical dyed hair and ripped denim, the tight fabrics that look like placeholders waiting to be ripped…

1979 Revolution is a game about the Iranian Revolution of 1978-79. It came out back in April this year and, two weeks later, the Iranian government announced its plans to ban it . Specifically, Iran’s National Foundation for Computer Games (NFCG) planned to ban any website or individuals selling the…

Iranian women walk past an anti-United States mural. (Abedin Taherkenareh/European Pressphoto Agency) ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates What does Donald Trump’s election mean for the Middle East? A group of prominent foreign ministers and policy experts gathered here last weekend to explore the…

Jacob Blickenstaff has been photographing Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings since 2009. He started out documenting shows, then recording sessions, and was eventually asked by Gabe Roth, a co-founder of Daptone Records, to shoot his first album cover for the label, “I Learned the Hard Way,” depicting…

Gallery DJ Shadow Begins Photo by B+ As we finalize Wax Poetics Issue 66, with DJ Shadow on the cover, we offer some bonus coverage as a sneak peak of our cover story by David Ma—the DJ Shadow origin story. And don’t miss the Endtroducing box set out now. Issue 66 also features Family Stone…

The TV show’s techno-dystopian “what if”s have proved remarkably prescient. Illustration by Malika Favre In 1999, at the age of twenty-eight, Charlie Brooker, the British satirist who is now a television auteur, was at a low ebb. He’d spent most of his twenties freelancing for PC Zone, a little-read…

Algorithms are now used throughout the public and private sectors, informing decisions on everything from education and employment to criminal justice. But despite the potential for efficiency gains, algorithms fed by big data can also amplify structural discrimination , produce errors that deny…

2014–09 Vulture — Dick Knight (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) From now on, I won’t be building any more native apps. All my apps going forward will be progressive web apps. Progressive web apps are web applications which are designed to work even more seamlessly on mobile devices than native mobile apps. What do…

I recently wrote an article called “Native Apps are Doomed.” I was surprised at how many people were defending native apps. In all honesty, the user experience story for native apps has never been impressive. The numbers paint a bleak picture for native app success rates that teams need to be aware…

On Thursday evening, President-elect Donald Trump took to Twitter to announce that he “Just got a call from my friend Bill Ford, Chairman of Ford, who advised me that he will be keeping the Lincoln plant in Kentucky - no Mexico.” He followed up a few minutes later to assert his role in the decision:…

http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/d/dd/Yodalukedagobah.png/revision/latest?cb=20130324024419 There’s some interesting research in social psychology explaining how most people form their peer groups. Especially as children and adolescence, but often as adults, people select their…

Warren Ellis is a writer who works in many different forms: novels, graphic novels and prodigious rants about coffee . His writings generally blend big ideas with a deeply felt humanism, including his earlier novels, Gun Machine and Crooked Little Vein , and his work in comics, from the…

NEWARK — As the two late-night comedians sat across from each other onstage at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center here on Saturday night, Stephen Colbert asked John Oliver why he had not yet been given a commitment for four more seasons. “There’s a clear road that you can put your foot out,” said…

Will VR Create The Ultimate Filter Bubble? Or maybe we can switch to a simulation where this isn’t happening. Donald Trump’s unthinkable victory makes more sense if you believe Elon Musk, the Tesla entrepreneur and techno-futurist who claims the chance that we’re all living in base reality is nil.…

Donald Trump with his wife and adult children at the opening of the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., shortly before the election. PHOTOGRAPH BY ANDREW HARRER / BLOOMBERG VIA GETTY “Are you planning on putting your assets in a blind trust should you become President?” the Fox Business…

Brendan Sinclair North American Editor Wednesday 16th November 2016 Share this article Recommend Companies in this article Ubisoft Watch Dogs 2 launched on Tuesday, but instead of spending the day scouring the internet for fan reaction or enjoying a post-launch vacation, Ubisoft's Roxanne…

The first album in 18 years from exploratory, jazz-traveling rap heroes A Tribe Called Quest effortlessly chronicles the chaotic crescendo of the 2016 election: a warning of “mass un-blackening,” dark-humored crooning about intolerance (“Muslims and gays, boy, we hate your ways”) and perceptive…

Donald Trump’s policy advisers are discussing plans to establish a registry for Muslim immigrants in the US, a man believed to be a key member of the President-elect's transition team has revealed. Kris Kobach, the s ecretary of s tate for Kansas, said the President-elect’s advisers were looking at…

When we think about touch screens, we think about handheld devices like smartphones and tablets. The problem with having only one design is that every screen has a different viewing distance and height, creating a visual parallaxing factor that affects the usability of the device, system, and user…

By Andrea Limjoco & Rob Bartlett This week we updated our Spotify icon suite. It was a four month process of creating and implementing six hundred individually crafted icons that had to look and function well across all of our products. Redesigning an entire icon suite (which hadn’t been updated in…

In a battered warehouse in San Francisco, Uber is working on what it thinks will be a shortcut in the race to make money from vehicles that drive themselves. A fleet of six modified white Volvo truck cabs operate out of a brick building in the SoMa district popular with technology startups. Around…

In 1986, President Ronald Reagan nominated Jeff Sessions, then a United States attorney from Alabama, to be a federal judge. The Republican-controlled Senate rejected Mr. Sessions out of concern , based on devastating testimony by former colleagues, that he was a racist. Three decades later, Mr.…

A prototype automated truck developed by Foton and Baidu. China is gearing up to overhaul its road delivery with fleets of self-driving long-haul trucks. A number of companies are developing automation technologies that promise to lower costs, reduce accidents, and improve overall efficiency for the…

Jad Abumrad from the Radiolab podcast says the only journalism that matters is ‘the kind of journalism that forces you to experience what someone else is going through’.Photograph: Marco Antonio “The ineffectiveness of journalists who peddle in truth has never been more apparent to me than in this…

Donald Trump and Reince Priebus, the chair of the Republican National Committee, who will serve as the White House chief of staff. In her gracious concession speech last Wednesday, Hillary Clinton said of her victorious opponent, Donald Trump, "We owe him an open mind and a chance to lead." That's…

Q-Tip, left, and Jarobi White, members of A Tribe Called Quest, which is releasing “We Got It From Here, Thank You for Your Service.” Credit Chad Batka for The New York Times ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J. — On March 22, at 3 a.m., Q-Tip and Phife Dawg were on the phone. The two rappers — lifelong friends…

N.W.A’s lead lyricist pays tribute to the Kings from Queens By Ice Cube I became a rap music fan in 1979 when the Sugarhill Gang released “Rapper’s Delight.” I was also a fan of groups like Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five and Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force. Although those groups did great…

The Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly has spent the better part of the last year living in the main gladiator pit of 2016, becoming as much a target for Donald J. Trump as any of his opponents and emerging as a pivotal figure in the forced resignation of the Fox News Channel chairman Roger Ailes, whom she…

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump’s transition was in disarray on Tuesday, marked by firings, infighting and revelations that American allies were blindly dialing in to Trump Tower to try to reach the soon-to-be-leader of the free world. One week after Mr. Trump scored an upset victory…

By Meg Sri • @fudgeposner • 1 year ago The harrowing looming onset of the apocalypse after the events of November 8th is no doubt heavy on all our minds. And we can’t move forward, or fix anything, without asking: Ho w did we get here? And what do we do now? The outcome of this election has been…

WASHINGTON — In Donald J. Trump’s private conversations and public commentary, one guiding principle shines through: The world is a zero-sum place, and nations, like real estate developers, are either on the winning side of a deal or the losing side. Yet he also is the ultimate pragmatist, perfectly…

I've never been punched in the face. Not in an actual fight, at least. I'm not much of a fighter, I suppose... more of an "arguer." I don't think I'm "scared" to get into a fight, necessarily -- there have been many times I have put myself in situations where a physical fight could easily have…

This post has been updated. President-elect Donald Trump's decision to appoint Stephen Bannon as his chief strategist in the White House has drawn a sharp rebuke from political strategists who see in Bannon a controversial figure too closely associated with the “alt-right” movement, which white…

Getty Images On the occasion of A Tribe Called Quest returning from an 18-year hiatus to release their sixth studio album — We Got It from Here… Thank You 4 Your Service , out on Friday — Ringer staffers have put together a list of our favorite songs, videos, and memories from the group’s storied…