A esthetically speaking, Twins.com is one of the world’s least-interesting websites. It doesn’t take long to load, but that’s only because there’s nothing to see. In an instant, one can survey all the homepage has to offer: a pixelated “D&D” logo, and an accompanying name, D&D Miller. Then there’s…

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WASHINGTON — The White House on Friday announced wide-ranging changes to loosen travel, commerce and investment restrictions on Cuba , moving to fulfill President Obama ’s goal of breaking down barriers between Washington and Havana even as the American embargo remains in place. The rules will allow…

President Obama and the Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, last November. They are hoping to announce an agreement this week. Mandel Ngan/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images WASHINGTON — The United States and China are negotiating what could become the first arms control accord for cyberspace, embracing a…

I have something in common with Ahmed Mohamed: as a youngster, I was also an electronics enthusiast. At his age and even earlier, I frequently took apart electronic devices – anything from my own toys, to broken things around the house, and even that dirty garbage-picked black and white TV my…

First Coast News A man in Florida says he was banned from Disney World because he joked about building a meth lab in his room. According to First Coast News , David Swindle was staying in the Pop Century resort over Labor Day weekend when he became upset with an employee—who are called cast members…

In 1979 David Lee Roth met Helmut Newton, inciting an ego-fueled power struggle that ultimately split the group apart Van Halen’s star was on the rise in late 1979. Vocalist David Lee Roth, bassist Michael Anthony, guitarist Eddie Van Halen, and drummer Alex Van Halen had sent sold out crowds into…

Welcome to Netiquette 101, in which we'll be using cyber-case studies to teach you basic but valuable cyber-lessons in being a better cyber-citizen. Today, we discuss the various ins, outs, and what-have-you's of online dating. Case Study: On January 26, 2013, the greatest Twitter direct message of…

Photo: Getty Images Get Ask Polly delivered weekly. By submitting your email, you agree to our Terms and Privacy Policy . Dear Polly, I feel like you get lots of letters from folks either starting out pursuing their passion, or looking for a passion to begin with, but here I am, midlife, mid-career,…

I’ve been going over what was said at Wednesday’s Republican debate , and I’m terrified. You should be, too. After all, given the vagaries of elections, there’s a pretty good chance that one of these people will end up in the White House. Why is that scary? I would argue that all of the G.O.P.…

About 20 minutes into The Reflektor Tapes, an inscrutable sorta-documentary about Arcade Fire’s 2013 album Reflektor and its support tour, frontman Win Butler ruminates off-camera about the challenge of reconciling the “philosophical, intellectual stuff I think about and the physicality of trying to…

They are all insane people. Even poor, stressed-out, occasionally lucid-seeming John Kasich: bonkers. Pathology is contextual, and one simply does not bring reasonable takes like Actually, the deal with Iran is okay, provided we do the diligence of enforcing it, just like pretty much every other…

Little Hannah Rucker’s robot is in for a beatdown. The girl's 60-pound wheeled blue rectangle, named Blue, is locked in a 1,600-square-foot polycarbonate box with a four-wheeled platform called UnMakerBot that spins a steel tube at unfathomable speed. UnMakerBot's pilot Zach Goff, a buff dude with…

This article has been corrected. We had met at a bar. I told him I was an economist. He told me he was a pot dealer. You might think we wouldn’t have had much to talk about. But the most exciting story in economics is one where an innovation disrupts a market and creates new ones. So once he said…

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Credit Dan Winters for The New York Times I n the sleek, cold lobby of the Langham Place hotel in Midtown Manhattan, one of those thoroughly designed spaces in which one cannot find a right angle, much less a comfortable chair, the 68-year-old, 7-foot-2 former basketball star…

I am the ruler of worlds. Let me rephrase that: I am the ruler of one very small world of social media bots. My Twitter bots resemble real people, with photos for avatars and bios. Meet Fabiola Shaffer: She is pretty, has long brown hair, is a writer and researcher in New York and loves chocolate.…

Every week, the Criticwire Survey asks film and TV critics two questions and publishes the results on Monday morning. (The answer to the second, “What is the best film in theaters right now?” can be found at the end of this post.) Send suggestions for future questions to sam at indiewire dot com. Q:…

So two yahoos from Southie in my hometown of Boston severely beat up a Hispanic homeless guy earlier this week. While being arrested, one of the brothers reportedly told police that “ Donald Trump was right, all of these illegals need to be deported.” When reporters confronted Trump, he hadn’t yet…

Sealed inside a locked Los Angeles soundstage, clad head to toe in motion-capture equipment that tracks every muscle he moves, Nolan North senses that something is wrong. He’s just completed two takes of a 30-second scene, which PlayStation 4 players will see in six months or so as an in-game…

Earlier this month, in a post to his Facebook page, WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum announced that his company’s instant messaging service is now used by more than 900 million people . And then Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg promptly responded with two posts of his own. One said “congrats,” and the other…

Gabriella Peñuela/FUSION If you live in the Bay Area and have looked for something special to spice up a birthday party, you might have discovered the Freakin' Awesome Karaoke Express, a truck that promises to deliver an unbelievable selection of songs to your doorstep. You might have seen a review…

An improv class, an automobile crash test and your cousin’s home videos somehow interbred, and on Tuesday night the result turned up on NBC in the form of “Best Time Ever With Neil Patrick Harris,” a live variety show. How can three things interbreed? Hey, if you really want to reinvent something,…

Donald J. Trump arrived at the second Republican presidential debate dominating the field but facing a critical question: Would he use the moment to move beyond attention-grabbing theatrics and present himself as a candidate many voters could envision as the party’s nominee — not to mention as…

Hockey history is a rich tapestry of traditions, trends, and innovations. Many stuck around to become part of the game’s enduring fabric. Others … not so much. Today we will look back at one of the odder things that used to be part of the NHL’s culture and wonder how exactly it made sense at the…

So let's talk about ad blocking. You might think the conversation about ad blocking is about the user experience of news, but what we're really talking about is money and power in Silicon Valley. And titanic battles between large companies with lots of money and power tend to have a lot of…

There comes a time in the course of many romantic relationships when one party feels strongly compelled to have sex with someone other than their beloved. It is, dare I say, normal. Ideally, all adults have practice controlling their impulses, so it’s not the end of the world to occasionally commit…

READ MORE: The 2015 Indiewire TIFF Bible In an age of rampant video diaries and increasingly sophisticated gaming experiences, the idea of a movie shot entirely in first person is so obvious it’s surprising that the genre hasn’t already taken off. The Russian action-thriller "Hardcore" takes the…

Did you know that earlier this week we celebrated the 25th anniversary of Death Warrant ? Do you even know what Death Warrant is? Death Warrant is a movie in which Jean-Claude Van Damme plays a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police who poses as an inmate in a California prison. He does so to…

Nitehawk , one of Brooklyn’s foremost purveyors of niche indies and cult revivals, took September 15 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the teen cyberpunk thriller “ Hackers .” The director, Iain Softley, and members of the cast, including Jonny Lee Miller , Renoly Santiago, Laurence Mason and…

So, you’ve decided to start dating. But instead of diving headlong into a committed monogamous partnership—or one of those polyamorous ones that’s really more about booty-calling whoever’s around—you’re going to date casually . Which is to say, an ongoing but uncommitted relationship wherein the…

In the pantheon of sexual fantasies blissful to imagine but volatile to undertake, threesomes are near the top of the list. It might seem like a ménage à trois should be an easy sell: more hands! More mouths! More genitals! More fun! Yet such logic evades the emotional brains driving our…

@IStandWithAhmed The Internet loves an opportunity to feel good about itself almost as much as it loves an opportunity to shame. On Monday, 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed was arrested after bringing a homemade clock to school that police described as a "hoax bomb." The story of a Muslim teen in Texas…

So I’m halfway across the planet in a crowded hall, astride a unicorn with a young woman touching my face and repeating, “You look just like her!” Admittedly, I didn’t see this coming. I’m a cosplayer, and I work for CD Projekt RED as the official Yennefer of Vengerberg for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.…

How did a 1972 exhibition game between Russia and Uganda become a crucible for Cold War tensions at the dawn of Idi Amin's brutal regime? Ask the former CIA agent who tried to embarrass the Soviets where they'd least expect it: on a basketball court in Kampala. From the stands, Jay Mullen didn’t…

Okay readers, today's post is a little bit more serious than usual and a topic that I have been brewing upon for ages. In recent posts, I've written a lot of lofty thoughts about racism and how to equip my daughter with the tools she will need. And then I just finished reading Between the World and…

David McNew / Reuters Last fall at Oberlin College, a talk held as part of Latino Heritage Month was scheduled on the same evening that intramural soccer games were held. As a result, soccer players communicated by email about their respective plans. “Hey, that talk looks pretty great,” a white…

I don't think I've weighed in much on this whole 'Walking Simulator' concept that adventure games have devolved into in recent years. The whole thing where there is no gameplay besides wandering around an empty environment looking for dialogue and cutscenes to bring the story across. Prominent…