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L ast fall, I went to an egg freezing cocktail hour. The downstairs bar of the glossy SoHo hotel was thronged with women in heels and sleek business attire. Club music thumped, cameras flashed, and I narrowly missed being hit by a videographer angling a tripod over the crowd. The evening was hosted…
Walter Isaacson’s official biography of Apple’s genius leader is being challenged by a new book supported by Jobs’s inner circle. Brent Schlender, with Bill Gates and Steve Jobs in 1991 On October 16, 2011, the early evening weather on the Stanford University campus in Palo Alto, California, was…
When Kimmy escapes from the Reverend Richard Wayne Gary Wayne, she doesn’t look wrecked; her expression is pure sunshine. Illustration by David Saracino The credit sequence for “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” is a variation on a familiar viral meme: an excitable trailer-park resident gets interviewed on…
Could robo-luxury become the norm?Photograph: Everett Collection / Rex Feature At a time when robots crowd factory lines, algorithms steer cars and smart screens litter the checkout aisles, automation is the new spectre. The robots, they say, are coming for our jobs. Let them, reply the luxury…
Reviving an old computer is like restoring a classic car: There’s a thrill from bringing the ancient into the modern world. So it was with my first “real” computer, my Mac Plus, when I decided to bring it forward three decades and introduce it to the modern Web. It’s a lowly machine, my Mac. The…
Marclay spent three years assembling “The Clock,” a twenty-four-hour video collage. Photograph by Nadav Kander When Christian Marclay moved from New York to London, in the summer of 2007, he left behind some of his most valued possessions: hundreds of boxes of thrift-store junk. Marclay, the most…
I remember the first time I saw a Santiago Calatrava bridge, a spinal column of calcium-white ribs snaking across a Spanish ravine. "That's cool," I thought. Then, a few years and a few thousand miles away, I saw another one. And another one. And another one. Why did all these cities have similar…
One World Trade Center dominates the Lower Manhattan skyline. All photographs: Vivienne Gucwa /Guardian Y ou see it when you whip over the Brooklyn Bridge, or look downtown crossing Sixth Avenue: eight isosceles triangles of blue glass, taller than anything else on the skyline. One World Trade…
Popcorn Time Popcorn Time was an instant hit when it launched just over a year ago: The video streaming service made BitTorrent piracy as easy as Netflix, but with far more content and none of those pesky monthly payments. Hollywood quickly intervened, pressuring Popcorn Time’s Argentinian…
The Koryo Hotel does pretty well on TripAdvisor, all things considered. The Internet never—and I mean never—works. The towels are “thin,” the sheet thread count low, and the milk powdered. Watch out for the “giant mutant cockroach snake hybrid“ in the shower. Guests even have to pay for the pool.…
Illustration: Jim Cooke You don’t have to look very far to find naked breasts in video games. Uncensored dicks, on the other hand? Those are rarer. Maybe that’s changing. Have you noticed that there are a surprising number of recent big games that show uncensored penises? I couldn’t help but wonder…
Part of collecting is knowing when to let go There’s something sick and twisted , even self-destructive, about selling records. I don’t mean setting up shop and earning an honest living or posting the occasional list. I’m talking about the time-honored practice of unloading records you once deemed…
In the months following Apple's latest iPhone release, this little guy has been through every imaginable hell, including water submersion , 50-caliber rifles , liquid nitrogen , knives and hammers , microwaves , blenders , blow torches , thermite , Molotov cocktails , power drills , turkeys , Tasers…
Cody Wilson made 3D-printed guns famous. But there’s an easier and cheaper way to make a semi-automatic rifle at home, and it’s unregistered, unserialized and completely legal: buying gun parts online. As Fusion found last year in a joint investigation with Univision , the loophole that makes these…
There's something in her eyes. Something more than the bafflement you so often see in the faces of innocents victimised by the wars of others. It's something that haunts. Something that reaches you most powerfully not in your mind, but somewhere more prosaic. In your guts. In your bones. Her…
A group of leading biologists on Thursday called for a worldwide moratorium on use of a new genome-editing technique that would alter human DNA in a way that can be inherited. The biologists fear that the new technique is so effective and easy to use that some physicians may push ahead before its…
On March 18, 1965, Alexey Leonov stepped outside the thin metal shell of Voskhod-2 to float in the harsh void of space. For 12 minutes and 9 seconds, Leonov opened the doors on an entire new branch of exploration as the first spacewalker. It was nearly a disaster. Earlier on March 18, the Voshkhod-2…
Photo Illustration by Elena Scotti/Fusion Last night, Apple pushed out iOS 8.2 to my iPhone, an update to its operating system. The blurb for the update promised " improvements to the Health app ." Finally , I thought. When HealthKit was first introduced last year, it came under criticism for not…
When Philip Seymour Hoffman died of an accidental drug overdose on February 2, 2014 at age 46, it felt like a huge part of the past two decades of cinema had disappeared as well, as if all the wonderful characters he created were on some level buried with the man who played them. A shocked public…
Indonesian police stand guard at Wijaya Pura port as the Bali Nine duo Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran pass through on their way to Nusa Kambangan ahead of their execution.Photograph: Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images As Indonesia prepares to execute up to 11 prisoners, including two Australians, a…
RECIPES | SCHOLARS | MUSIC | EXTRAS | LINKS A cache of old wine bottles that can be used for making counterfeit wine. French physicist, Philippe Hubert uses gamma rays to detect radioactivity in wine. "In the wine is the story of the atomic age," he says. Photograph: CJ Walker Courtesy of William…
Tom Scharpling and Jon Wurster in cartoon form, surrounded by characters they've created for The Best Show over the past 15 years courtesy of Scharpling & Wurster Eighteen years ago, Superchunk drummer Jon Wurster called his friend Tom Scharpling, who had a radio show on New Jersey noncommercial…
The 2017 Dutch General Election Unless you’ve been living in a cave, (no offence to my readers in Afghanistan hiding from US drones), you can’t but have noticed that the 2017 Dutch general election will soon be taking place. Dutch politics, are complex, challenging, and often completely…
By Ryan Mac, David M. Ewalt and Max Jedeur-Palmgren It's 7 p.m. on a Monday in Stockholm, and Markus Persson sits on the terrace of his ninth-story office, sipping the speedball of alcoholic beverages, a vodka Red Bull. Three hours ago he committed to not drinking today, still in recovery from a…
F or thirty years, she was the buxom babe of baseball who famously rushed the field at major league baseball games to steal kisses from up to 50 athletes in front of thousands of spectators. The media branded her Morganna, “The Kissing Bandit,” and she quickly became a celebrity in her own right,…
The techno-anarchist wants to make it easy for everyone to manufacture his or her own gun. But will he actually pull it off? Cody Wilson is standing on red Texas dirt jamming ammunition into an M-16 magazine. It’s a cool December evening at an outdoor shooting range about 45 minutes from downtown…
WORDS & PHOTOS BY SUSANNAH BRESLIN | LOGO & DESIGN BY CHRIS BISHOP 2009 At a certain point during the week that I spend in Los Angeles, interviewing adult performers, visiting adult movie sets, and talking to those who live in the San Fernando Valley and work in the adult movie industry about the…
Noted scam artist and "Facebook fugitive" Paul Ceglia, hoping to escape from a recently imposed state of house-arrest, "sliced off his GPS ankle monitor and affixed it to a crudely built contraption in his rural New York residence," Ars Technica reports. The GPS sensor's subsequent movements were…
Getty Images FERGUSON, Mo. — Peering outside the office window of his tire shop, John Zisser grumbles about the pile of burnt rubble that lies on the opposite corner of a busy intersection. "If you come here to my shop and you see that," he says, as gestures out the window, "is that going to give…
Keith: Okay, everyone, now that we’ve had a chance to shake off the the tinsel, glitter, and chaos that always comes at the end of a film year, let’s say goodbye to 2014 and hello to 2015. I always start the new year optimistic about what’s to come. Whatever highs and lows we’ve had in the preceding…
Steven Soderbergh might be known for his big budget Oceans series, which has more stars in it than Andromeda, but his low-budget work truly showcases his mettle as a seriously creative director. Below is almost 40 minutes of Soderbergh and Mark Romanek talking about making his low-budget feature,…
If you want to imagine how the world will look in just a few years, once our cell phones become the keepers of both our money and identity, skip Silicon Valley and book a ticket to Orlando. Go to Disney World. Then, reserve a meal at a restaurant called Be Our Guest, using the Disney World app to…
Goldman Sachs’s Manhattan headquarters. Allegedly the trading floor “stopped dead” to watch a CNBC debate on high-frequency trading. Photograph by Justin Bishop. When I sat down to write Flash Boys, in 2013, I didn’t intend to see just how angry I could make the richest people on Wall Street. I was…
My passionate teenage obsession with Radiohead coincided with the rise of Napster. So whereas previous generations of fanatical music fans lived and died by record stores, catalogs, and zines, I surfed the far recesses of the internet for rarities and had them delivered directly to my hard drive at…
Post-prandial bliss is especially sweet when enjoyed in the shade of a sunlit restaurant terrace in Vernazza, a picturesque village in Liguria, on Italy’s northwestern coast. But all good things must come to an end and, to signal that lunch was over, I had to perform one final parting ritual:…
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