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…

Finland is about to launch an experiment in which a randomly selected group of 2,000–3,000 citizens already on unemployment benefits will begin to receive a monthly basic income of 560 euros (approx. $600). That basic income will replace their existing benefits. The amount is the same as the current…

Posted by Artisan on Apr 5, 2016 7:00:00 AM A Creative Art Director might be doing anything from building a website to drawing sketches for a video game, but an Interactive Art Director is probably going to be designing web and mobile content more than anything else, and no matter how good it looks,…

Polito in Miller's Crossing. Jon Polito, the mustachioed, raspy-voiced character actor who squeezed both humor and surprising pathos from the many mobster and cop roles he played—most memorably for the Coen brothers—has died. The news was passed along by Polito’s friend, filmmaker John McNaughton ,…

Every year since 2001, Mary Meeker, a partner at the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, has published an Internet trends report. It’s full of new figures, and ideas that will shape the year ahead.

Fall 1990, ground zero for the modern games industry. The six-year-old Nintendo Entertainment System (eight if you count the time since its Japanese launch), with its box-like chassis and dated visuals, looked like a relic of another era. Nintendo’s arch-rival Sega was killing it with the Genesis,…

Donald Mustard remembers poring over previews of the sci-fi game Super Metroid in Nintendo Power magazine back in the summer of 1994. He remembers mowing lawns in the hot Houston sun so he could save up enough money to buy the game on launch day. And he’ll never forget when he and his brother…

On the first day of the Republican National Convention, Donald Trump made a surprise speech—and the Trump Organization’s general counsel sent a threatening letter to Tony Schwartz, the ghostwriter of “The Art of the Deal.” PHOTOGRAPH BY PHILIP MONTGOMERY FOR THE NEW YORKER When Tony Schwartz, Donald…

When I was a kid, “Quantum Leap” was one of my favorite TV shows. Its conceit was ludicrous, but in a way that allowed for maximum entertainment: A time-travel experiment gone awry forces the handsome Dr. Sam Beckett to “leap” among different bodies at various points in history. Each episode began…

Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 — a museum for the idealized Japanese female form, where women are gazed upon as they play volleyball and sunbathe and enjoy themselves on an island away from men — will support PlayStation VR at the headset's launch . This is an exciting proposition for some. The mode, as far…

Kanye West at the MTV Video Music Awards. Photograph by Kevin Mazur / WireImage / Getty “I came here to present my new video. But, before I do that, I’mma talk,” the rapper Kanye West announced at the MTV Video Music Awards on Sunday night. He was wearing a boxy white T-shirt with the word “ FAMOUS…

Theresa May holding her first cabinet meeting in July.Photograph: Dan Kitwood/PA Philip Hammond wants to see Britain retain access to the single market in specific sectors such as financial services, while also securing border controls for the UK. The chancellor wants to ensure that Brexit…

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CEO Tim Cook says Apple has tried to be more transparent under his watch. Except for one thing: “We try to be as secretive as we’ve always been on products, although it’s increasingly difficult to do that.” (Andrew Burton/For The Washington Post) On a sleek white coffee table in Apple CEO Tim Cook’s…

The first time I made a frozen pizza, I was 11, and I left the cardboard on the bottom. The thing didn’t cook, and my entire family laughed at me for YEARS after. Jerks! Well now I’m a slightly more experienced home cook who continues to make stupid mistakes like that, but my frozen pizza game has…

ISTANBUL — The wedding on Saturday night was winding down, and some guests had already left. But the music was still playing and people were still dancing in the narrow streets of Gaziantep, a city not far from the Syrian border. Just then a child — no more than 14 years old, Turkey ’s president…

Kids these days: They just aren’t pulling out the plastic like they did in the past. Data from the Federal Reserve indicates that the percentage of Americans under 35 who hold credit card debt has fallen to its lowest level since 1989, when the Fed began collecting data in a standardized way,…

No Truce With The Furies , in addition to being an oil painting come to life, is a game with a very high standard for writing. Developer Fortress Occident boasts a published science-fiction author in its writing team, and the game cites as inspirations text-heavy Infinity Engine games like…

Image via screenshot/New York Times. Kendall Huberman doesn’t deserve this. She seems like a perfectly fine person, if somewhat bland, and certainly lacking in self-awareness. So why does the New York Times care about her boring new condo in her boring new neighborhood ? Maybe because the Times is…

Crewneck by Gucci, Jeans by Dior Homme, Boxers by Polo Ralph Lauren, Cap by New Era Mark Seliger At just 23, Chance the Rapper has already earned the love and respect of his elders, like Kanye West, who let him lead off on The Life of Pablo, and his musical peers, who hear a generational voice in…

"To change or be changed, that is the question," said Thomas Bach, the International Olympic Committee's president, in Agenda 2020 , a set of recommendations for reform in an age where the Olympics are an engine for social unrest and economic waste. "We need to change because sport today is too…