Downloading films such as Bad Santa 2 and Roxette Diaries without removing the torrents from your computer, could turn out to be one of the biggest mistakes you'll ever make. Not because they're a waste of your time, but because, if uploaded, they could cost you 2,000 SEK/€210 each. In countries…

This article contains plot spoilers for BioShock and BioShock 2. If you played it at launch in 2010, you might have found it easy to disregard BioShock 2 as a cowardly, or at least diffident, kind of video game. Three years earlier, its predecessor, BioShock , had made land on the browned shores of…

Say less. When in doubt, say nothing at all. Listening, really listening, will educate you to the lingo and to what’s happening around you. Look, but don’t stare. Be mindful of what’s going on around you, without appearing to be paying attention to anything in particular. Don’t look in someone…

Danny Brown can barely keep his eyes open. He's sitting alone, in a corner booth on the roof of the Ace Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. In front of him: a paper cup of coffee, untouched, and a stack of promotional posters. He scrawls a signature on each one, then pushes it to the side; when he's…

I was a washed up, bitter ex-musician who used to have a future By Dia Frampton I t’s been five years since my last album came out. Five years. A lot can happen in a half a decade. Trust me. I don’t even know where to begin, or what exactly I’m trying to say. But I do know that I want to at least…

All images: Christina Warren / Gizmodo Apple spent a lot of time today explaining that the iPhone 7 is the most “refined” iteration yet. Which is just a fancy way of saying that this phone’s design is going to look very similar to last year’s phone. Aside from a slightly different finish for the jet…

Glitches and bugs have become the hallmark of Bethesda Softworks’ renowned 3D RPGs. Their releases are riddled with them: Fallout 3 (2008) regularly sent robots and Deathclaws flying through the air, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (2006) had an arrow duplication glitch that led to the greatest…

In this series, Perfect Company , we are examining pockets of excellence in the corporate world. No single company is perfect, but together they show what the corporate ideal could look like. The platonic ideal “Design is not style. It’s not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn…

Photo: Getty Yesterday on TMZ live , Ann Coulter blamed her instantly legendary bombing at The Comedy Central Roast of Rob Lowe on editing. But Coulter’s set was so horribly unfunny and incompetently delivered that her excuse reads like more of the same truth-bending she often calls on to support…

I’ll cut to the chase: someone gave Link a voice. As everyone’s favorite silent protagonist for 30 years and counting(!), you’d think that Link might have some sophisticated musings on his experiences. As it turns out, he’s got something even better: the power of rhymes. The Legend of Zelda: The…

Nick Ut's Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph of nine-year-old Kim Phúc fleeing from a napalm attack during the Vietnam war is one of the most iconic pieces of photojournalism in existence. The importance of Ut's 1972 photograph cannot be underestimated. The image was instrumental in exposing to the…

Comedy Central’s Rob Lowe roast, in which Ann Coulter became the primary target, illustrated why the genre has become dismal to watch. Photo by Alberto E. Rodriguez / Getty The final week of August was a rough one for the conservative commentator Ann Coulter. First, the release party for her new…

Interior warning signs at Christmas Village - photo from Vibrant Victoria The Christmas Village store was opened 28 years ago by Gudrun Reinhold and her husband, Falk Reinhold, who died just over a year ago. After closing for a short time following his death, the store reopened in time for the…

The original Nintendo Entertainment System arrived on US shores during a divided era in American politics. The Iran hostage crisis concluded with eight American casualties in April 1980, marring the end of President Carter’s first term and contributing to a landslide victory for Ronald Reagan. The…

Stuart Goldenberg Forget about the headphone jack for a second. Sure, it’s pretty annoying that Apple ’s newest iPhones — the 7 and 7 Plus, which were unveiled in San Francisco on Wednesday and will start shipping to customers on Sept. 16 — will not include a port for plugging in standard earbuds.…

From what was a fairly dominant position, the latest opinion polls will concern Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. She is now tied with Donald Trump in Florida, down in Ohio and slightly ahead in Pennsylvania - all states anyone who wants to win the White House really has to take. While it…

It's the 9th of September, 2001. Major Charles Ingram – soon to be known forever, eternally, as the Coughing Major – is sitting on the edge of a stainless steel high-chair. He is in the middle of filming an episode of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? He is also in the middle of committing one of the…

The iPhone 7 Plus uses circuitry, software, and algorithms to create images that look and feel as if they came out of high-end cameras. PHOTOGRAPH BY DAVID PAUL MORRIS / BLOOMBERG VIA GETTY Camera companies, like traditional phone manufacturers, dismissed the iPhone as a toy when it launched, in…

Lord Beaverbrook, proprietor of the Daily Express. In 1939, the paper was convinced there would be no war with Germany.Photograph: Margaret Bourke-White/Getty Images T he urge to bluster is universal among reckless men who have risked everything. They boom that events have proved them right, as if…

I enjoy the writing of Farhad Manjoo, tech columnist at The New York Times , but I was prepared for the hottest of hot takes when I saw his latest column, penned just hours after Apple’s latest product unveiling, was titled What’s Really Missing From the New iPhone: Dazzle . 1 Once I read it,…

Björk : With all the Earth’s Electricity © Santiago Felipe Björk - Stonemilker (Patten Rework) Long Reads / 06.09.16 WORDS A week before our interview, Björk and I came face to face in the New Wing of London’s Somerset House, a former Inland Revenue headquarters reclaimed for culture. In typical…

Getty Images/Ringer GIF Another September, another iPhone event. As the years have passed, the announcement of a new device has become less and less thrilling. Do you remember when the first iPhone came out? That was exciting! We realized the dream of a mobile computer — we learned about apps! Sure,…

Lady Wray literally got her hands dirty when it came to recording her new album. “When you get by yourself sometimes, the dirt will speak to you,” says Wray, a gardening enthusiast who grows flowers and vegetables when she's not cooking and painting. “Playing in the dirt is therapeutic for me.” The…

Wandering Thereare fewer connections between walking and meditation, although youcan find new age relaxation remedies that try to combine thetwo. No matter, the practice of meandering has been connected withsalutary effects for centuries. Medieval labyrinths were thought toprovide pathways to…

In the eight months since I wrote Cars and the Future , there has been an explosion in news about the future of transportation, much of it in the last few weeks: Ford announced plans for its own car-sharing service built around self-driving Fords Elon Musk penned a second master plan envisioning a…

Theresa May has ruled out a points-based immigration system supported by the official Brexit campaign, while promising a more effective way of bringing “some control” over the number of people coming to the UK. The prime minister was accused of backsliding on promises made by Vote Leave after she…

WITH its high unemployment, pervasive crime and rows of empty shops, the Belgian town of Charleroi is a “ musée de la globalisation ”, quips Nico Buissart, with something approaching pride. The former art student has run tours of his town, which was once voted the ugliest place in Europe, since…

It’s been seven months since Emma died and two weeks since I started building a bot from her texts. I’m feeding every word she sent me into the system, every thought, every feeling. I just want five more minutes. Just want to talk to her one last time. To tell her. Today, now, the import is finally…

Credit: JORGE NUÑEZ / EPA MEXICO CITY ( The Borowitz Report )—The war of words between Donald J. Trump and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto continued on Thursday as Peña Nieto vehemently asserted that he made the Republican Presidential nominee pay for lunch during his visit to Mexico City. “As…

Exactly one month ago, Instagram pilfered a major feature from Snapchat, and the teen photo wars entered a new and more ruthless chapter. The feature, Instagram “Stories,” lets a user share a photo or video that will be automatically deleted after 24 hours. This closely resembles a Snapchat feature,…

Heterotopias is a series of visual investigations into virtual spaces performed by writer and artist Gareth Damian Martin . /// What makes a battlefield different from any other place? Our towns, cities, fields, and parks are all potential battlefields, with lines of sight, choke-points, defensible…

B-Real and Sen Dog exhale the secrets behind their classic debut and its potent cannabis philosophy W eed. Blunts. Joints. Spliffs. Izm. Slang terms for cannabis—all largely popularized by hip-hop music. But for a subject matter so synonymous with rap, there was a time not too long ago when MCs did…

[photo: Getty] A small U.K. record label has built a business on resurrecting golden era hip-hop demo tapes W hile most of the world was frantically refreshing their Twitter feeds on Thursday night, hoping for the release of Frank Ocean’s Boys Don’t Cry LP, another small frenzy was taking place in a…

This article originally appeared on VICE Australia. It's difficult to understand how people can stay passionate about game development. The job is impossible. You pull ridiculous hours, meet stringent deadlines, cross your fingers, and hope like hell your product meets a very particular combination…

A particular wave of crime has yet to crest, a pattern of theft in Manhattan that has penetrated the safest of neighborhoods. I scream. The thieves know just where to strike, entering stores and making their way through the aisles, past the diapers, the formula, the razors and the deodorant. You…

The cap does not look good on you, it's a duffer's cap, and when you come to the microphone, you look like the warm-up guy, the guy who announces the license number of the car left in the parking lot, doors locked, lights on, motor running. The brim shadows your face, which gives a sinister look, as…

It's Friday, July 1, and we should be thinking about our Fourth of July weekend plans. But as baseball fans, we can't. Why? Because today is all about Bobby Bonilla . A man who last played 5,381 days ago owns this day. Not just this July 1, but every July 1 through 2035. It's the day when the New…