Mank opens in select theaters November 13. The filming of Mank . Photo: Miles Crist/Netflix/ David Fincher’s 11th feature film, Mank , is a passion project like no other on the director’s résumé — a d
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The reverberations of Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman ’s stunning Quibi shutdown are being felt both in financial circles — where the $2 billion failure cements itself as a cautionary tale — and in
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Eric Andre has been trying to read the Bible. But even with the help of pandemic-enforced downtime (and Adderall), he just can’t get into it. “I’m only in the Old Testament, the Jewish part of it, but
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Last week on the TV’s Top 5 podcast, Star Trek producer Alex Kurtzman dropped some numbers that made hosts Lesley Goldberg and Dan Fienberg, two jaded, longtime television writers, stop in their track
Recipes greek Kitchn Love Letters published 2 days ago We independently select these products—if you buy from one of our links, we may earn a commission. Credit: Ivy Manning When I went to dinner part
A study finds that only 11 percent of firms that have deployed artificial intelligence are reaping a “sizable” return on their investments. At some DHL shipping centers, artificial intelligence now he
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Ringer illustration The 14th anniversary of The Prestige felt like as good an excuse as any to create a package devoted to the movie and TV twists through the years that have stunned us, destroyed us,
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The 39-year-old indie rapper’s therapist told him, “Write your feelings.” So he did, on the new LP “Anime, Trauma and Divorce.” Last year, Open Mike Eagle’s Comedy Central show got canceled, an antici
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When you think of design, you may think of websites and graphics. You may think about interiors or maybe clothes, as ex-Facebook head of design and author Julie Zhuo once did. Me too. When I told my p
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The resilience of American democracy has been sorely tested by Mr. Trump’s first term. Four more years would be worse. But even as Americans wait to vote in lines that stretch for blocks through their
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At the start of each academic year, Rosa Brooks asks her freshmen students what they think of the US constitution . Almost all express pride that — at 233 years of age — America has by far the world’s
Getty Images/Ringer illustration On Wednesday, USA Today reporter Susan Page, moderating the vice presidential debate, asked Mike Pence about the doomsday scenario for November 3, 2020. “If Vice Presi
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The Look 2020 Veterans, gamers, history buffs and gun enthusiasts are shelling out to take part in military simulations. Sept. 26, 2020 MilSim West is one of several companies that host military simul
Jasper Juinen/Bloomberg Jasper Juinen/Bloomberg (This story is part of an ongoing series on the home designs that define cities. Read more here about iconic floor plans in Sydney , Singapore , London
It turns out frequent flyer programs are worth more than the airlines themselves Byrne Hobart Sep 29 · 6 min read A fleet of Delta Airlines jets parked at the Southern California Logistics Airport (SC
With less than a month to go until Election Day, former Vice-President Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump by an average of more than nine percentage points in national polls. Biden has been ahead
Cory Doctorow's Little Brother series has been a young-adult sci-fi bible for teen hacktivists. But with the latest and darkest book in the trilogy, it's all grown up. Set the first and last books in
On a recent rewatch of Inception , which is low-key the most bizarre blockbuster of the 2010s, I couldn’t help noticing just how much exposition Christopher Nolan packed into his movie. This isn’t qui
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This article appeared in the November 2020 issue of Discover magazine as "The Quest for a Quantum Internet." Subscribe for more stories like these. Call it the quantum Garden of Eden. Fifty or so mile
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In 2019, two multimedia artists, Francesca Panetta and Halsey Burgund, set about to pursue a provocative idea. Deepfake video and audio had been advancing in parallel but had yet to be integrated into
Neil Zlozower / Atlas Icons On the day of his death, an irregular cortege rolled in pieces across America, a scattered celebratory motorcade: maybe a pickup truck at a traffic light in Louisville, wit
After brute-forcing its way to dominance in so many industries, the tech leviathan may finally have met its match. Three years ago, on a drab, chilly summer day in the Dutch port of Den Helder, Amazon
Apple TV+’s latest comedy, Ted Lasso , sees a hapless yet hopeful American football coach flown over to America to coach the fictional AFC Richmond team through the Premier League. Baffled by the rule
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As a former standout Saturday Night Live cast member, Jason Sudeikis is accustomed to creating characters and never revisiting them again. And yet, he couldn't quite shake Ted Lasso. Back in 2013, Sud
Getty Images/Ringer illustration Joe Biden was already in public life before Saturday Night Live was even on the air. Which is saying something, because the venerable sketch show has been around for,
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