75 Before Civilization VI ’s official release date, those with access to the unreleased version of the game were treated not to the ‘official’ theme on the game’s title screen, but with what would prove to be the theme music for the American civilization. The piece is a combination of two very…

65 Tell about the South. What’s it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all. —William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! (1936) One of the currents running through Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! , and indeed the Southern literary tradition at large, is the difficulty…

As told by six of Vine’s biggest stars By Doreen St. Félix ( MTV.com | Twitter ) Image Credit: Photos by Jay Versace, Edgar Cutino, Ryan Reed, Oscar Alva, and Mylik Steen. Collage by Maria Chimishkyan for MTV News. There should be no humor in a barrel-chested pastor giving last rites before a grave.…

Hip-hop’s beef market is oversaturated with Tweets, ‘Grams, and Snaps O ver consecutive nights in mid-September, Kid Cudi and The Game started two unrelated rap feuds, seemingly for no apparent reason. Each feud began targeting specific rappers, with Cudi taking shots at Kanye and Drake, while The…

One of the signature sounds of modern life, the startup chime of a Macintosh computer, looks headed toward obsolescence. Photograph by David Gee / Alamy Take a moment to mark the passing of one of the signature sounds of modern life: the startup chime of a Macintosh computer. As reported by the Web…

Hey there shitheads. Remember me? Yeah, it’s James fucking Madison. Third Secretary of State? Supervisor of the Louisiana Purchase? Fourth President of the United States of America? That guy. How’s it going? What’s that? You’re scared? You’re worried you might elect as the next President a…

It was only two weeks after MetLife unveiled its new logo —the centerpiece of its first global rebranding in three decades—that the company was forced to defend itself against accusations of theft. As it turns out, the insurance giant’s new logo is nearly identical to that of Diffen, a website that…

Brie Code Monday 7th November 2016 Share this article Recommend Video games are bigger than movies . Everyone's a gamer . I've devoted my life-no exaggeration-to video games for 14 years, working on titles such as Company of Heroes, a few Assassin's Creeds, and Child of Light. But everywhere I go, I…

Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of internet software and services, talks about Apple TV at a product-launch event in San Francisco last September. Mr. Cue is the point man of Apple’s strategy to revolutionize the television-watching experience. Photo: MONICA DAVEY/EUROPEAN PRESSPHOTO AGENCY…

Here’s a basic reality: criticizing and second-guessing Apple is a hobby for many of us, and a profession for more than is probably healthy for the Apple ecosystem. That is a basic reality that isn’t going to change any time soon. I long ago got used the the idea that no matter what Apple said or…

While much of the focus of last Thursday’s Apple announcement was on the new MacBook Pros (and the Macs that were not updated), the more interesting announcement from a strategic perspective was about Apple TV. Tim Cook stated Apple’s goals plainly: We want Apple TV to be the one place to access all…

Apple’s Product Development Process may be one of the most successful design processes ever implemented. With the company verging on becoming the world’s first $1 trillion business organization – there’s a lot that designers can learn from Apple and introduce into their own design environments.…

Bank notes are checked in 1929 at the US Bureau of Engraving and Printing.Photograph: FPG/Getty Images W hen it comes to global warming, we know that the real problem is not just fossil fuels – it is the logic of endless growth that is built into our economic system. If we don’t keep the global…

MYSTERY, MIRACLE AND authority are three powers alone able to hold the conscience of people captive, explains Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Grand Inquisitor in “The Brothers Karamazov”. Mr Putin has mastered all three. Yet none of these is as important as secrecy, the main tool of a good spy. Nobody really…

As a journalist for the New Yorker, English-born Canadian writer Malcolm Gladwell doesn't need to be encouraged to speak up. Ask him about Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, however, and you'll be hard-pressed to get him to stop. Live coverage of U.S. election "I think he will be in…

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Michelle McNamara, a 46-year-old true-crime writer, died chasing a serial killer. The Golden State Killer , a name she coined while working on a book about him, raped and murdered dozens of victims in the 1970s and ’80s and remains at large. After years of investigative…

Photo: Gene Page/AMC If nothing else, the seventh season premiere of The Walking Dead gave audiences a metaphor for the show’s methods: a bat to the head. Whunk! Whunk! Whunk! Splat! Goooosh! After nearly seven months of waiting, fans finally got to see which beloved cast members would get their…

ProSymbols / The Noun Project / Andrew McGill Last week, a massive chain of hacked computers simultaneously dropped what they were doing and blasted terabytes of junk data to a set of key servers, temporarily shutting down access to popular sites in the eastern U.S. and beyond. Unlike previous…

Ringer Illustration When it fails — when the orange man loses the presidency but wins the platform; when the yelling grows louder and the things that used to work, like your Xbox controller and left shoulder and the local public schools, suddenly don’t anymore; when all of your favorite sites shut…

Is she interested? That’s the question scientists just asked a bunch of men. Researchers at the University of Iowa had men look at photos of women and rate their perceived sexual interest on a scale of -10 (extremely rejecting) to 10 (extremely interested). The scientists instructed the men to focus…

Getty Images/Ringer illustration Most prominent Republicans who aren’t Donald Trump or his shrinking cult of cranky old men know how to read polls. And right now, they’re scrambling to find a lifeboat before hitting the iceberg. For the GOP House and Senate candidates who are watching their leads…

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Thirty-six hours after the nation heard a major-party nominee brag about sexual assault, Saturday Night Live weighed in with … a cold open that made the same jokes about Donald Trump’s ego and hypocrisy the show had all season. The comments themselves were mostly mined for shock value, not their…

Uber is rolling out a major redesign of its app today — the most significant update since 2012. The changes, which are only for users and not drivers, are supposed to offer a much cleaner interface, less confusion around which service to request, and shortcut options to frequent destinations. The…

If you’re a fan of Apple laptops, I’ve got some good news and some bad news. The good news: Apple has finally updated its Pro laptop line with some genuinely new and powerful options. Even better, the new MacBook Pro has been shrunken down to the degree of serving as the MacBook Air’s spiritual…

Updated at 3:45 p.m. Our Facebook timelines erupted early Monday morning with a specific kind of post: Seemingly half of our friends had apparently traveled to the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota and used Facebook to “check in.” Except they weren’t really there. They had used Facebook’s…

Maybe Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) had the right idea after all. Maybe Republicans are willing to trigger a constitutional crisis over the Supreme Court. Some conservatives certainly seem to be warming up to McCain’s controversial suggestion last week that Senate Republicans should dig in their heels…

Like 20 to 30 percent of genital warts, Sex Box has recurred. Once again, couples are getting into a big soundproof box in front of a live studio audience, having sex, then coming out of the box and talking about the sex they just had. Part voyeuristic giggle-fest, part sex education seminar from…

The “future” — or a dumb gimmick? Last night’s Apple event was bizarre — I had been anticipating this show for a while, mostly looking forward to being able to stop telling people not to buy a Mac, because everything was so outdated. But, even though what I saw was interesting, it really feels like…

Snyder had spent the preceding months building a computer in his basement, cobbling it together with remnants of electromagnetic switches and electronic wiring he'd found thrown out behind several telephone company offices. Their switch to touch-tone phones was his gain, as the outdated relays…

“#DaddyWillSaveUs,” a pro-Donald Trump exhibit billed as “the first conservative art show” in America, was like a parody of bad art. PHOTOGRAPH BY KIMBERLY FLORES GUZMÁN In the fall of 2008, as the election of Barack Obama started to seem inevitable, many Republicans began wondering about their…

When my Mom was dying, my siblings and I gathered to be with her in her final days. None of us knew anything about supporting someone in her transition out of this life into the next, but we were pretty sure we wanted to keep her at home, so we did. While we supported Mom, we were, in turn,…

Kanishk Tharoor | Kill Screen | October 2016 | 13 minutes (3,204 words) The following essay was published by Kill Screen , the video game arts and culture magazine, and co-funded by Longreads Members. *** The pleasure of Sid Meier’s Civilization series is that it is at once tantalizingly grand and…

Top Stories Canada ‘I am scared to death’: Neighbours describe shock, fear as shooting kills four in Fredericton, including two police officers Fredericton police said they have arrested one suspect who is being treated for serious injuries sustained in the shooting. City Hall Mayor John Tory urges…