In the late 1970s, James Caan was a movie star who’d grown tired of the kinds of roles offered to movie stars. “I don’t want to get esoteric and get into all this actor bullshit, but I got put into th
(CNN) Ellen Coleman had never received so many offers on a house in her 15 years of selling real estate . She listed a fixer-upper in suburban Washington, DC for $275,000 on a Thursday. By Sunday even
Can’t Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional History of the Modern World did – sorry – leave me quite emotional. I cannot – sorry, very sorry, again – get it out of my head. Adam Curtis’s new series of
Young Steve Jobs loved the pivot table. Photo by Reuters/Blake Sell Pivot tables are the quickest and most powerful way for the average person to analyze large datasets. No coding skills or mathematic
In October of last year, Mike Winkelmann, a digital artist who goes by the name Beeple, noticed increasing talk in his online circles about a technology called “non-fungible tokens,” or N.F.T.s. Broad
Credit... Yoshi Sodeoka Sky Bet, the most popular one in Britain, compiled extensive records about a user, tracking him in ways he never imagined. Credit... Yoshi Sodeoka Adam Satariano March 24, 2021
Health A subset of Americans haven’t yet made up their mind about getting a COVID-19 shot. Whether they turn out in the coming weeks will determine the future of the pandemic. Daniel Engber 4:34 PM ET
Energy consumption has become the latest flashpoint for cryptocurrency. Critics decry it as an energy hog while proponents hail it for being less intensive than the current global economy. One such cr
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A look at why the movie never had to be better than its predecessor. The real winner here is AT&T and HBO Max. I’m writing to you in a sleep-deprived state. My son woke me up in the middle of night af
DAVID EHRLICH (Senior Film Critic): Well, it actually happened. Just when it seemed like America was done capitulating to the will of its most toxic online communities, a massive telecom — potentially
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Earlier this year, The CW announced it was developing a new version of The Powerpuff Girls that sounds far removed from the clever, frenetic, Craig McCracken-created cartoon that first premiered on th
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Parsing the cultural event of “ Zack Snyder ’s Justice League ,” otherwise known as the Snyder Cut , may require a PhD in the legitimization of fan culture over the past 25 years. Yet even considerati
When the newest batch of Grammy nominations were announced, in late November, Justin Bieber expressed displeasure with the way his music had been identified by the Recording Academy. His fifth studio
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There’s an admirable new series, titled “Reframed,” that’s playing Thursday nights on TCM. It features the channel’s hosts—the film scholar Jacqueline Stewart alongside Ben Mankiewicz, Dave Karger, Al
As companies and investors increasingly say they are focused on climate and sustainability, the cryptocurrency’s huge carbon footprint could become a red flag. A Bitcoin mining operation in Florence,
Ideas In America’s largest, richest cities, home prices and rents are going in opposite directions. 10:01 AM ET Derek Thompson Staff writer at The Atlantic Joe Munroe / Hulton Archive / Getty / The At
In a surprising turn of events, the United States government is calling upon its country’s industry to reverse engineer components for the Air Force’s B-2 Spirit stealth bomber . An official call for
It’s on us. Source: Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto Source: Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto Google and Facebook make a lot of noise about how their main services are free to use. And it’s true, they are. But what the
VanMoof’s recent CGI extravaganza was only the start of the trip. In the hand-drawn sister film, illustrator Jim Stoten celebrates the power of bikes, and their potential to transform cities worldwide
It’s safe to assume that Nico Walker knew his life story could make for a good movie in the right hands. By the time he finished up his prison sentence in Ashland, Kentucky, he was waiting for the publication of the semi-autobiographical novel he’d written from jail about the wayward journey that…
There’s chaos, and then there’s chaos. In 2020, the Primetime Emmys were one of the first awards telecasts to take its ceremony to the virtual realm, relying on a mix of teleconferenced acceptance spe
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Ideas The Republican Party Is Now in Its End Stages The GOP has become, in form if not in content, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union of the late 1970s. February 25, 2021 Tom Nichols Author of Ou
This week on The Ringer , we’re hosting the Best Video Game Character Bracket—an expansive competition between the greatest heroes, sidekicks, and villains of the gaming world. And along with delving
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Despite the rise of streaming, there is still a vast library of moving images that are categorically unavailable anywhere else. Also a big nostalgia factor. Hannah Selinger Feb. 20, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
If you were bullied or excluded as a child or adolescent, it might not surprise you to learn that studies have shown how peer victimization can have long-term effects . That’s certainly been the case
She turned to me the other morning and said, “You heard of The Gateway?” It didn’t register in the moment. She continued, “It’s blowing up on TikTok.” Later on, she elaborated: it was not in fact the
The Shocking Meltdown of Ample Hills — Brooklyn’s Hottest Ice Cream Company They had $19 million, a deal with Disney, and dreams of becoming the next Ben & Jerry’s. Then everything fell apart. Courtne
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T his week, Amazon announced that Jeff Bezos will no longer be chief executive of the corporation but will instead take the position of “executive chairman”. Andy Jassy, who runs the highly profitable
Getty Images The University of Cambridge's online tool estimates Bitcoin's annual electricity consumption is more than The Netherlands, United Arab Emirates and Argentina Bitcoin uses more electricity
Everything a tiny fraction of the internet knows about an obscure TV show called Street Sharks is a lie. Geek.com writer Jordan Minor announced on Thursday that in the early 2000s, he made a habit of
Shtrunts via Getty Images The coronavirus pandemic has taken a bigger toll on our psyches in the last few weeks than it has in a while. Within the past couple of weeks, many of us have been slammed wi