In trying to figure out what the future of design will look like, we’re at a bit of a loss. Technology is changing at a rapid pace. In five years, mobile platforms have gone from being an emerging part of a company’s strategy to the focal point of its future. So who’s to say when virtual reality and…

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I know Donald Trump. Though we have never met, I know him well. At several moments throughout the campaign, I have felt that something about Trump was disturbingly familiar, but I couldn’t quite pinpoint it. After seeing the video of this presidential candidate and married man talking about kissing…

HBO’s new series Westworld has probably got a lot of people reconsidering their most recent Grand Theft Auto V murder spree. Reconsidering, though probably not regretting. On the one hand, the first two episodes of HBO’s new sci-fi drama have asked us to at least entertain the idea that the…

caption Werner Herzog shooting "Into the Inferno." source Netflix For over five decades and 70-plus movies, German director Werner Herzog has given us some of the most powerful stories ever put on-screen. At 74 years old, he has no plans to slow down. Known for his on-the-fringes tales ranging from…

Mafia III takes hours to really get going. Sometimes it’s a predictable, janky slog. Once it finds its groove, though, it’s an open-world crime game unlike any other. It’s a bold depiction of a difficult time and place—a portrait of New Orleans in the late 1960s, racism and ugliness included. Early…

Here is how Ken Bone, newly minted celebrity , introduces himself on the Twitter feed he established on Sunday : “Somewhat reluctant, undecided, cuddly internet political faceman!” The “undecided” part is, it seems, still true. So, definitely, is “cuddly,” and “political faceman”—not to mention the…

Fire and smoke rise after a Saudi-led airstrike hit a site believed to be one of the largest weapons depots on the outskirts of Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, on Friday.Photograph: Hani Mohammed/AP What if the United States went to war and nobody here even noticed? The question is absurd, isn’t it? And…

On the Level is a series that closely analyzes individual videogame sections, examining how small moments in games can resonate throughout — and beyond — t he games themselves. /// Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare ‘s (2007) writers understand brevity. Each loading screen provides a satellite image of…

Will the Republican party survive Donald Trump?Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP Accusations of betrayal. Demagoguery and hatred. The bunker in Berlin. Comparisons with Adolf Hitler have been tempting throughout Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign for the presidency – never more so than at its mad, destructive…

The UK faces the stark choice of either a hard Brexit or no Brexit , the president of the European council has said – the first time he has taken such a clear line on the likely outcome of the UK’s exit talks. Just hours after the foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, had told a committee of MPs he was…

Because Medium is sad when you tweet without a header image. Or, “What I learned after taking a week off and watching thousands of micro-interaction animations until my eyeballs fell out.” First of all, let’s get synced up. What is a micro-interaction anyway? In doing my due diligence for this post,…

Atari/Ringer illustration This postseason, we’ve seen hitting heroics from players as high-profile as presumptive MVP Kris Bryant and as anonymous as Conor Gillaspie. We’ve seen duels between aces . We’ve seen defensive sleight of hand; Javier Báez’s tag work may have won the week . Increasingly,…

Unlimited vacation is a growing trend in the agency industry. The idea of limitless paid time off is the product of a work-culture shift toward, ostensibly, treating employees like adults who can be trusted to get their work done. It is also an answer to the generous perks from around Silicon…

That’s right, I said it. Fuck your startup scene with your 30 minute morning routines of reading TechCrunch, TNW, Wired, Gizmodo, Mashable, The Verge and ProductHunt- all so you don’t feel ‘left out’. Fuck your weird fucking conversations, things like “OMG did you see Snapchat’s new feature? OMG…

Illustration: Angelica Alzona If there’s a bathroom in a video game, you can count on one of two things: a helpful item (such as health), or the ability to flush an otherwise useless toilet. For game creator Robert Yang—who is one of the most banned developers on Twitch—that’s not enough. Yang has…

There are 27 days left in the 2016 presidential election. The shrinking calendar is likely to add a little-needed infusion of mania into an already maniacal race, especially as it concerns the wildest of the four remaining candidates. In the last 72 hours, Donald Trump has proven that he is willing…

Donald Trump has threatened China with a trade war, but also praised leaders for their ‘strength’Photograph: John Bazemore/AP When there is upheaval within China’s own borders – riots, protests, vicious political power struggles – hardly a sniff of it will be found in the pages of the country’s…

In the hot-mic tape of Trump talking about women with Billy Bush, it is the desperate need for validation, as much as the mere ugliness, that impresses. Photograph by the Washington Post via Getty A famous scene in the great Marx Brothers’ surrealist farce “Duck Soup” has Groucho, as Rufus T.…

In case you missed it, I took the time to transcribe the entire second presidential debate . Here’s what happened: Martha Raddatz: Hi I’m Martha. Anderson Cooper: And I’m Anderson. And we’ll be your moderators tonight. Martha: We’d like to remind all audience members that they’re props more than…

“Cards Against Humanity” is a pun, of sorts, on “crimes against humanity” — which isn’t really funny. But if you got a half-dozen people to vote on it, they’d probably say it was. Individual taste becomes awful in groups, and nothing demonstrates this phenomenon better than Cards Against Humanity, a…

Most of Aaron Sorkin ’s professional life has been spent making political debates — both personal and public — into poetically entertaining and informative exchanges. In “ The West Wing ,” he did it every week. Josh and Toby would fight it out until one was proven the victor or a compromise was…

"Kenneth Bone, fashion icon, and disposable camera user." 1. an actual ghost tbh @thecultureofme KENNETH BONE IS HERE TO REMIND U IT’S SWEATER WEATHER 02:38 AM - 10 Oct 2016 Retweet Favorite 2. Brody Logan @BrodyLogan Kenneth Bone, fashion icon, and disposable camera user 02:49 AM - 10 Oct 2016…

Getty Images Uber’s upfront pricing has now officially arrived in New York City. (It’s been unofficially here, on select rides, for a while.) Instead of being charged on a minutes-and-miles basis, now Uber passengers will see a preset fare when they book their ride. On its face, upfront pricing…

His question was simple: “What steps will your energy policy take to meet our energy needs while at the same time remaining environmentally friendly and minimizing job layoffs?” The reaction to the question, however, was swift and passionate. More specifically: The reaction to the question er was.…

Illustration by Oliver Munday; Source: PAUL J. RICHARDS / AFP / Getty (Clinton); Win McNamee / Getty (Trump) Shortly before the second Presidential debate began, on Sunday night, John Podhoretz, the editor of Commentary and a New York Post columnist, remarked on Twitter that this was "the weirdest…

FACT-CHECKERS had a field day with Donald Trump’s Monday night debate performance, finding fault with his claims on a wide array of subjects, from Barack Obama’s birthplace to whether he has denied climate change . But one statement he made largely evaded scrutiny. “Our airports are like from a…

No new updates Marina Koren Trump Tweets Back On Monday morning, House Speaker Paul Ryan told his GOP colleagues he would not campaign with or defend Donald Trump in response to the presidential candidate’s lewd marks about groping women, according to news reports. On Monday afternoon, Trump…

Donald Trump knows he won't be president. He's now in full carnival-barking, network-launching, party-nuking mode—a scowling, pouting menace who threatened during a nationally televised debate to throw Hillary Clinton in jail and called her husband the most sexually abusive man in political history.…

This live blog has concluded Molly Ball Notes From the Spin Room The Trump surrogates’ line is that Trump was “presidential” and Clinton was “rattled.” They contend that once the debate moved past petty personal issues, Trump won on substance. Clinton surrogates disagree, of course. They are seeking…

ES Lifestyle Newsletter The woman is allowed to be the voice and the soul and the emotive creature — and the guy is the creator and the maker and the genius,’ declares Björk, her Icelandic burr veering from Cockney Elvish to the staccato and rolled Rs of an alien dialect. ‘I thought it was a cliché.…

With less than a month to go before the election, a major political party is poised to walk away from its own presidential nominee — a situation with few precedents in American political history. There is little to guide Republicans, collectively and individually, except the growing realization that…

Photograph by Annie Leibovitz. In 1987, Michael Kelly, later a celebrated editor but at the time areporter for The Baltimore Sun , took Fawn Hall, a secretary to OliverNorth, as his guest to the White House Correspondents’ Associationdinner. Hall had been caught up in the whole Iran-contra scandal,…

Getty Images The Donald fancied himself a player in the ’90s, but the shock jock knew just how to play him. Now that’s back to haunt the candidate. To anyone who’s listened to “The Howard Stern Show” since it hit the national airwaves in 1986, Stern’s name still conjures the snicker of adolescent…

The Daily Trump: Filling a Time Capsule People will look back on this era in our history to see what was known about Donald Trump while Americans were deciding whether to choose him as president. Here’s a running chronicle from James Fallows on the evidence available to voters as they make their…