Image: Shutterstock/ Julia Zakharova Bitcoin is no longer decentralised and the cryptocurrency needs fixing if it’s to survive. That’s the warning some cryptocurrency researchers are giving since a single entity, a Bitcoin mining pool called GHash, managed to acquire 51 percent of total network…

For those of us who have spent the past decade or two on the front lines of trying to make newspapers and other legacy news organizations more digital, the internal innovation report that leaked from The New York Times newsroom last week is fascinating – and more than a little depressing. Viewed…

Shapes fall from the sky, all you have to do is to control how they fall and fit within each other. A simple premise, but add an annoyingly addictive electronica soundtrack (based on a Russian folk tune called Korobeiniki , apparently) and you have a revolution in entertainment. Since Tetris was…

"Is Terry Richardson an Artist or a Predator?" wonders New York Magazine. Phrasing the proposition in that way — as an either-or binary — is not only insultingly reductive, it's also wildly misleading: as though it's possible that the end product justifies the sexual coercion that created it, or…

Photo: Cass Bird/New York Magazine Terry Richardson, displaced from his old photography studio on the Bowery by a high-end fitness chain, was at his new space, an unadorned floor-through loft down the street. Wood floor, tin ceiling, brick walls interrupted by white swaths of Sheetrock. Four…

Image: screengrab of Logic Pro I play the violin. It's really fucking hard and if I'm even in a less-than-optimal mood, the thing just knows, releasing sounds as if it's being smeared strings-first against a brick wall. So, I get it. I get how programming MIDI instruments to replicate an orchestra…

Getting a College Degree, With Help From Starbucks Monica Almeida/The New York Times Starbucks will provide a free online college education to thousands of its workers, without requiring that they remain with the company, through an unusual arrangement with Arizona State University, the company and…

Photo Credit Lucy Nicholson/Reuters Who is the male feminist? Perhaps we should first ask: Does he even exist? The singer-songwriter and record producer Pharrell, of “Blurred Lines” infamy, thinks not. “I’ve been asked, am I a feminist?” he told an interviewer for Britain’s Channel 4 News. “I don’t…

The Betteridge law of headlines states that "any headline which ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no, " but a Monday piece in the New York Times may be the rare exception. "Is it possible to be a male feminist?" asks writer (and self-described male feminist) Jake Flanagin. The…

Jordan Kerner The cast and crew of ‘D3: The Mighty Ducks’ with Anaheim Mighty Ducks star Paul Kariya Like the fictional team, The Mighty Ducks film franchise was always an underdog, one that forced its way to three movies and a fiercely devoted following through dedication, passion and, as often as…

On the eve of Book Expo America (BEA) and BookCon, publishing industry expatriates Jennifer Pan and Sarah McCarry conducted an extended written conversation on why they chose to leave publishing. Sarah McCarry is the author of the novels All Our Pretty Songs and Dirty Wings , and the editor and…

Getting ready for a run: Tying shoes can also get tricky. (Photo: Christopher Anderson/Magnum Photos/Getty Images) I could tell you about toasting a bagel, opening a new box of cereal, or changing the trash bag, but you get the idea. A morning routine that used to take 30 minutes now lasts more than…

Clive Thompson: How the invention of kitty litter led to today's internet culture: A superb investigation by @ftrain -- https://t.co/uvhKSDSWdf

david carr: All brand-sponsored journalism does not suck. Witness this peach by @mdeziel on women in prison. From Netflix, natch. http://t.co/Jljr6MvzpP

Entertainment Geekly is a weekly column that examines pop culture through a geek lens and simultaneously examines contemporary geek culture through a pop lens. So many lenses! I never really had my Godzilla moment as a kid. The closest I ever came was a Godzilla franchise marathon one Saturday…

Ticketing for restaurants has been in the news a lot lately. Here are just a few articles: Ticket to dine – the restaurant reservation revolution Are restaurant tickets the new reservations Alinea’s ticketing system soon commercially available It took a while for the media to catch up – and for…

The Great Horror Campout is an interactive, overnight camping experience that promises to bring attendees “face-to-face (and closer) with their worst nightmares.” On Saturday, the event rolled through Los Angeles’s Griffith Park, and Grantland’s summer interns were there to report on the proceedings…

In a world of infinite headlines, there's no need for one. Here's a question: What exactly are headlines for, on the internet? This post doesn't have a canonical headline (that is, a single, main, authoritative headline, chosen by me, that isn't a joke). But it has a large number of other headlines…

The media mogul (twice over) on being both contagious and sticky By Felix Salmon Illustrations by Young Professionals I first got to know Jonah Peretti in February 2011, very shortly after the Huffington Post was sold to AOL. At the time, he explained to me that BuzzFeed, a company he had built to…

You both clearly realize that making a sequel is a dicey proposition. Did you find the prospect daunting? Phil Lord: It is, it’s totally scary. Especially because we got lucky and had a really nice success with the first one — and why would you go back to the blackjack table after that? Christopher…

This is my second E3, and the first year I decided to make actual appointments. The good news is that this year would mark one of the most positive feelings I've ever had about the industry -- because I saw myself represented every. Single. Time. Could I really spend the entirety of the day at the…

nathan fielder: The New York Times wrote a hefty profile on me and the show! http://t.co/tc4Wzhy6kC

Lana Del Rey. Photograph: Neil Krug "I wish I was dead already," Lana Del Rey says, catching me off guard. She has been talking about the heroes she and her boyfriend share – Amy Winehouse and Kurt Cobain among them – when I point out that what links them is death and ask if she sees an early death…

Editor’s note: This column originally ran on June 11, 2004. T hings That Make Me Feel Old, Chapter 253: There’s an entire generation that doesn’t remember the O.J. Trial. Some of you remember bits and pieces. Like the surreal Bronco Chase. Marcia Clark breaking out her Mokeski perm. Chris Darden’s…

Are you still using real money? That flimsy paper stuff that crumples up in the bottom of your pocket, the kind flight attendants won't even accept anymore, that antiquated currency secretly controlled by Janet Yellen? Then you haven't embraced Bitcoin. Or maybe you just don't understand what…

Adrian Tomine is an artist and illustrator. He is most well-known for his New Yorker covers and the Optic Nerve comic series. His artwork has illustrated album covers by Yo La Tengo and DVDs for the films of Yasujirō Ozu . Here he talks to Francisco Vilhena about his work, unresolved endings and…

[Mayor Murray signing Seattle's minimum wage legislation. Photo: Mayor Ed Murray/Facebook] Last week, Seattle's City Council unanimously voted to raise the city's minimum wage to $15 an hour. The decision has the restaurant and bar industry's full attention. Struggling to come to grips with the…

UPROXX Movies TV Gaming Comics Sepinwall Archive UPROXX Home About About Corporate Privacy Terms Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube Get UPROXX Everywhere. Follow @UPROXX Follow UPROXX FlipBoard Sign Up Sign In Is Han Solo Stupid? An Investigation 08.07.18 3 days ago The Bomb Inside Darth Vader No…

John Waters with his hitchhiking sign at 12th Street and Sixth Avenue. Photo: Christopher Anderson/ Magnum Photos for New York Magazine “CAN YOU HITCHHIKE IN NYC?” It’s morning rush hour in Manhattan in early May, and John Waters is showing off one of three cardboard signs he’s prepared for an…

Nick Ut holding his classic Vietnam photograph, "Napalm Girl." All photos courtesy of Nick Ut I was already on my third glass of whiskey when I realized the guy I'd been talking to all night was Nick Ut. He was too humble to mention that “Napalm Girl,” the definitive photo of the Vietnam War, was…

The epochal boom of the sports card industry in the US can betraced back to 23 February 1989, when Upper Deck – an upstartproducer of classy baseball card collectibles based in Anaheim,California – delivered its first case of individually wrapped cardpacks to George Moore of Tulsa’s Baseball Card…

Craig Duff: "We are no longer collecting music," writes @carr2n. "It is collecting us on various platforms." via @nytimes http://t.co/7u8gH2I7yp

Dean Pavlovic says he didn’t intend to make a social statement two years ago when he bought two white cartoon stick-figure decals—one to represent him as a dad and one to represent his two-year-old son—for the back window of his yellow Fiat 500. “I didn’t think too much about it,” the 42-year-old…

Chappelle with (from left) Wayans, Thompson, Bellamy, Rock, and Hart on February 27, 2013. _ Photo: Courtesy of Bill Bellamy_ It was a routine Wednesday at the Comedy Cellar in N.Y.C....until Dave Chappelle dropped in for a surprise set. The unicorn of comedy then proceeded to invite a few famous…

A career-spanning Q&A with Louis C.K. FX I interviewed Louis C.K. at his apartment in Manhattan in November, 2011, for a Rolling Stone profile (you can read that story in full here ). This is a condensed and edited transcript of our conversation. Jonah Weiner: You don’t want me to say where you…