Courtesy of NBC Popular on Variety How the challenges of the past year sharpened “Late Night’s” edge “There’s nothing like an iPad and a slow internet connection to make TV sparkle,” laughs Seth Meyer

The rise of private cryptocurrencies motivated the Fed to start considering a digital dollar to be used alongside the traditional paper currency. The Federal Reserve is considering launching its own v

More than half of homes in the US are selling above list price . People are playing a lottery to see if they’ll win the honor of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to build a home. The Case-Shi

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It’s a tale as old as time in business: One group of aggressive interlopers targets another group, and they fight it out. One comes out ahead; the other gets run over. Historically, however, one of th

M artina Topley-Bird is struggling with her voice today. “It was awful last night,” she says, croakily, down the line from her home in Valencia. “My first interview in 11 years and then this happens!”

Global shortages of many goods reflect the disruption of the pandemic combined with decades of companies limiting their inventories. The empty shelves at a Target store in Dallas last June highlight h

W e’re approaching the year-and-a-half mark of the globe’s collective experience with the SARS-CoV-2 virus and the Covid-19 pandemic it has triggered. At this point, it’s fair to assume people the wor

Photo by DNY59/Getty Images It’s finally happening. You’re about to get that big promotion. You’re on the cusp of landing that enormous client. There’s interest in your book proposal. Then, you miss a

Ideas If Democracy Is Dying, Why Are Democrats So Complacent? Democrats are unwilling to match their language of urgency with a strategy even remotely proportional to it. May 24, 2021 Staff writer at

The other day, Johnny Knoxville came across a relic from his past buried in a drawer at home. “I found a packet of those things at the house,” he said. “What do you call it? I can't remember what they

Fewer babies’ cries. More abandoned homes. Toward the middle of this century, as deaths start to exceed births, changes will come that are hard to fathom. A family eating hotpot at a restaurant in Bei

The Great Read At 94, the magician David Berglas says his renowned effect can’t be taught. Is he telling the truth? Is … this your card? David Berglas at work in a previous decade. Credit... Via David

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A year ago, as the pandemic ravaged country after country and economies shuddered, consumers were the ones panic-buying. Today, on the rebound, it’s companies furiously trying to stock up. Mattress pr

From a picture of a twig to a golden Pringles can, we've rounded up eight NFTs that are trying take advantage of the hype around the blockchain technology. Non-fungible tokens (NFTs), which can be use

Culture She’s always been an A-lister. But her new film, Those Who Wish Me Dead , reflects Hollywood’s impulse to stifle female action heroes once they hit a certain age. Shirley Li May 15, 2021 SOPA

In Absolute Best Tests , writer Ella Quittner destroys the sanctity of her home kitchen in the name of truth. She's mashed dozens of potatoes, seared more porterhouse steaks than she cares to recall,

Brushes with our celebrity crushes Illustration: Magdalena Wosinka When I meet E.R. Fightmaster over a video call, we’re both coping with springtime growing pains. The comedian, writer, and actor warn

In 1974, The Advocate wrote letters to Major League Baseball teams asking to interview players “living a gay lifestyle.” The request “was meant to jolt the baseball establishment into acknowledging th

Created as a cryptocurrency parody in 2013, Dogecoin languished for years. Then, in 2021, it went absolutely wild. What have its holders learned? The price of Dogecoin, a cryptocurrency created in 201

The problem with reality is that it is very irritating. In our imaginations, we might dream of a satellite internet system that delivers lightning-fast broadband speeds from space, freeing us from the

04 June 2016 Does ?your ?favorite soda have a Belle Époque past? The colorful history of Italy's fizzy, bitter-sweet soda. Italians have a taste for an often-missing component in food: bitterness. It

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Ideas Unless and until Republicans summon the wit and the will to salvage the party, ruin will follow. April 26, 2021 Peter Wehner Contributing writer at The Atlantic and senior fellow at EPPC Win McN

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It’s been nearly twenty years since the reclusive, mysterious, almost mythical comedy writer John Swartzwelder left “The Simpsons,” and yet, to this day, one of the biggest compliments a “Simpsons” wr

Two mobsters chase a seemingly invincible man through the South Jersey forest. Then he vanishes, leaving only a trail of blood. As day turns into night and cold turns into much colder, the gangsters g

Horse racing meet NFT mania on Zed Run, a digital platform where some top steeds are fetching six-figure sums. An NFT horse on Zed Run, a platform where players can buy, breed and race digital steeds.

We’ve all wondered how the other half lives, but how many of us have fabricated an identity to find out? That’s what Hungarian artist Andi Schmied did: As “Gabriella,” an ultrawealthy European sociali

It's hard to say where you can catch Bowen Yang these days. Filming the second season of Awkwafina Is Nora From Queens ? That was Monday. Recording an episode of his podcast Las Culturistas alongside

The game touted its use of the GPT-3 text generator. Then the algorithm started to generate disturbing stories, including sex scenes involving children. In December 2019, Utah startup Latitude launche

Widely circulating coronavirus variants and persistent hesitancy about vaccines will keep the goal out of reach. The virus is here to stay, but vaccinating the most vulnerable may be enough to restore

Justin lives in Portland, Maine, where he does woodworking, listens to harp music on vinyl, and, after the kids fall asleep, smokes pot. Maine legalized recreational marijuana in 2016, but the state d

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KEY POINTS An MIT study showed that people who maintain 60 feet of distance from others indoors are no more protected than if they socially distanced by just 6 feet. According to the researchers, othe