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…

Getty Images It’s been 18 years since A Tribe Called Quest last dropped a new album. As fate would have it, the comeback is right on time. We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service is the first rap album, and perhaps the first significant piece of art, to be released since Donald Trump was…

WASHINGTON — “Busy day planned in New York,” President-elect Donald J. Trump said on Twitter on Friday morning, two days after his astonishing victory . “Will soon be making some very important decisions on the people who will be running our government!” If anything, that understates the gravity of…

“The Rule Book”: Rule #1 — Use Margin? As I sometimes dig inside my work process, trying to understand what’s going on inside my head while I design, I started to realize what drives my decisions and thinking process. Pushing pixels, placing objects in the space, and adjusting colors, sizes and…

I’m English, but when I was twelve I lived in North Carolina and went to an inner-city school a bit like that one in The Wire . I only have two memories of that time. One, of police arresting one of my classmates in the middle of Social Studies, (I never saw him again), and two, of technology…

Donald Trump. Photo: CBS “It is so big, it is so enormous, it is so amazing.” That’s how President-elect Donald Trump described his Electoral College victory and ascension to the White House to 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl Sunday night. In a still sharply divided nation, the words were…

Kellyanne Conway, Donald Trump's former campaign manager, said it is incumbent upon Hillary Clinton, President Obama and other Democratic leaders to calm their supporters and encourage a peaceful transition of power amid anti-Trump demonstrations that have swept U.S. cities since Election Day. Trump…

NBC So, hell of a week, huh? Kate McKinnon opened Saturday Night Live in a state of mourning, in character as Hillary Clinton, seated alone at a piano, under dimmed lights, performing “Hallelujah,” a song written by the late Leonard Cohen . That’s a great dosage of grief to pack into a cold open,…

Speculators are snapping up a new virtual currency known as Zcash that was designed by university academics and built to be all but untraceable. Investors were paying over $1,000 for a single unit of Zcash on Monday, a few days after the currency was first brought online. The company behind Zcash,…

COMPETITION between currencies is the stuff libertarian dreams are made on—and central bankers’ nightmares too. Already digital monies, in particular Bitcoin and Ethereum, are rivals. On October 28th a new crypto-currency will join the fray: Zcash. Many such “altcoins” are dubious affairs and don’t…

Seriously? This is a thing now? Wear a safety pin to show “you’re an ally?” So immigrants, people of color, LGBTQ people, and others who were targeted and persecuted and (further) marginalized by the Trump Campaign will know they’re “safe” with you? No. Just no. Please, take it off. Let me explain…

The rapid-fire back and forth of a witty repartee is an exhilarating thing. When the conversation is ping-ponging between you and someone else—be it on a date, or in a business meeting, or at happy hour—chances are you’ll find yourself drawn to that person. And it’s the speed that’s the key,…

Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland, right, meets with Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. (Sait Serkan Gurbuz/Associated Press) Gregory L. Diskant is a senior partner at the law firm of Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler and a member of the national…

The story of the 2016 election is one of a stunning defeat, not just for Hillary Clinton, but also for the pollsters, pundits and data-driven journalists who overwhelmingly predicted her victory. But at least one scholar, Allan J. Lichtman, saw both coming. Dr. Lichtman, a historian at American…