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…

Some companies in Sweden are moving to a six-hour working day in a bid to increase productivity and make people happier. Employers across the country have already made the change, according to the Science Alert website, which said the aim was to get more done in a shorter amount of time and ensure…

Despite what you may have heard, millennials aren’t lazy. It fact, they’re downright work-obsessed—and it’s making life worse for everyone else, says a new study. A report from Project: Time Off, an organization started by the U.S. Travel Association to change American work attitudes and behavior,…

VICE Sports staff writer Aaron Gordon is in Rio for the 2016 Summer Olympics and filing daily dispatches. Every morning for the last 19 days, I woke up to the gentle sound of ocean waves lapping against the sublime Barra beach. I then walked a block and a half to get a cup of coffee, enjoying the…

August 20th was a national holiday in Canada. Huddled together in a hundred thousand living rooms, bars, backyards, sheds, and stadiums, more than 11 million people tuned into the CBC for the final Tragically Hip show. We said goodbye to a national icon. It was a beautiful concert. Poet and frontman…

Donald J. Trump was in a state of shock: He had just fired his campaign manager and was watching the man discuss his dismissal at length on CNN. The rattled candidate’s advisers and family seized the moment for an intervention. Joined by his daughter Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner, a cluster…

Werner Herzog, director of "Lo And Behold." (Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures) Filmmaker Warner Herzog didn't make his first phone call until he was 17, and still doesn't ever use a cellphone. That may make him seem like an odd guide to take a hyper-connected society through an examination of how…

Later this year, tech entrepreneur turned space pioneer Elon Musk is planning the blastoff of a new rocket, the Falcon Heavy, that would be twice as powerful as any other in use and one of the biggest since the Apollo era’s mighty Saturn V. The stage for the rocket’s debut: the Kennedy Space…

T he e-mail confirmed it: everything was finally back on schedule after weeks of maddening, inexplicable delay. A 747 cargo plane had just lifted off from an airport in Hungary and was banking over the Black Sea toward Kyrgyzstan, some 3,000 miles to the east. After stopping to refuel there, the…

One quirk of the American political system is that a candidate can win a primary with a much narrower slice of the electorate than he’d need to win a general election. Donald Trump claimed 45 percent of the vote in Republican primaries and caucuses this year, about 14 million votes. That’s a healthy…