Investors and clients of the facial recognition start-up freely used the app on dates and at parties — and to spy on the public. The billionaire John Catsimatidis used Clearview to surveil shoppers at a grocery store he owns, and to identify a man he saw on a date with his daughter. Credit... Krista…

Airlines are running empty "ghost" flights during the coronavirus outbreak because of European rules forcing operators to run their allocated flights or risk losing their slots. Some airlines have wasted thousands of gallons of fuel flying the empty planes into and out of Europe. Demand for flights…

From where I'm standing, the city-sized Baogang Steel and Rare Earth complex dominates the horizon, its endless cooling towers and chimneys reaching up into grey, washed-out sky. Between it and me, stretching into the distance, lies an artificial lake filled with a black, barely-liquid, toxic…

Amidst the millions of social media users is a sizable chunk well-acquainted with what I’ll call “post-post anxiety.” It’s a dreadful malady, really; with symptoms that come on after you’ve fired off a tweet or pic that is, on second-thought, offensive or unflattering. Once this anxiety has taken…

Jason Redmond / Reuters For the professionals who try to manage homeland-security threats, reassuring the public after a natural disaster or terrorist attack—or amid a coronavirus outbreak like the one the world now faces—is just part of the job. I am a former federal and state homeland-security…

Room and gloom? Tiny houses are everywhere. They’ve received heavy coverage in the media and there are millions of followers on dozens of pages on social media. While there is no census for these homes, they have seen a surge in popularity in the decade since the Great Recession – witness the…

CBS/Ringer illustration Survivor: Winners at War is so good that it might turn me into an apologist for the Edge of Extinction. That twist, first introduced two seasons ago, changes the game by putting eliminated players on a desolate island where they await a chance to win a challenge and return.…

Migrants walking toward Greece along a railway track near the Pazarakule border crossing in Edirne, Turkey, on Sunday.Photograph: Emrah Gürel/AP Migrants trying to reach Europe have violently clashed with Greek riot police as Turkey claimed more than 76,000 people were now heading for the EU as a…

Aaron Sorkin has always considered himself a playwright at heart. Now, at 58, he can definitively say he has had a theatrical success to match his achievements in television (creating “The West Wing”) and film (screenplays for “The Social Network” and “Moneyball,” among others). His adaptation of…

Photo: Art Streiber/Comedy Central via Polygon R eview Review may just be one of the best TV shows ever made. Based on the Australian series Review with Myles Barlow , Review , which aired from 2014-2017 on Comedy Central, stars Andy Daly as Forrest MacNeil, a professional critic who takes write-in…

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Sahar Khan’s blackboard at Columbia University. A photo survey of the blackboards of mathematicians. Sahar Khan’s blackboard at Columbia University. Credit... This is what thought looks like. Ideas, and ideas about ideas. Suppositions and suspicions about relationships among abstract notions —…

Peter MacKay has jumped into the lead in the hotly contested battle to offer the most ignorant response to the Wet’suwet’en pipeline crisis. Announcements, Events & more from Tyee and select partners Say Hello to Our New Health Reporter: Moira Wyton She’s eager to start sharing important stories…

Lilia serves house-made pastas such as sheep's milk cheese agnolotti in saffron butter and ricotta gnocchi in a broccoli. Photo by Janelle Jones/Bloomberg . In 2017, Italy landed the No. 1 spot on the Bloomberg Global Health Index . Eating all that pasta pays off. Missy Robbins. Photo by Evan Sung .…

Sypha and Trevor are back, and there are still monsters to whip and/or ice magic to smithereens. Image: Netflix Castlevania is on its way back to Netflix , with more bloody monsters to slay and more villainous scheming than you can shake a Belmont-approved whip at. But it faced a bit of a problem…

The latest guest on our interview series Good Convo is El-P, whose I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead was Vinyl Me, Please’s Rap & Hip-Hop Record of the Month in February. This episode features El-P: one half of Run the Jewels, founder of Def Jux, relentless artist settling into his next act. He’s the most…

H ere is our annual list of technological advances that we believe will make a real difference in solving important problems. How do we pick? We avoid the one-off tricks, the overhyped new gadgets. Instead we look for those breakthroughs that will truly change how we live and work. Unhackable…

Enlarge / Amazon Go Grocery's first location in the Seattle neighborhood of Capitol Hill. Sam Machkovech SEATTLE—For how far and wide Amazon's digital footprint reaches, the company clearly wants to advance into real-world space as much as possible. And to that end, Amazon runs some of its most…

Illustration: Matija Medved for Bloomberg Businessweek Illustration: Matija Medved for Bloomberg Businessweek In a dingy corner of the internet is a message board, soaked in profanity, bro-speak, and greed, where posters with handles such as OverthrowYourMasters and yolo_tron campaign for their…

Photo by Eric Thayer / Reuters . The telephone swept into Americans’ lives in the first decades of the 20th century. At first, no one knew exactly how to telephone. Alexander Graham Bell wanted people to start conversations by saying, “Ahoy-hoy!” AT&T tried to prevent people from saying “hello,”…

Ringer illustration In March, as spring continues to evade our grasp, trade the great outdoors for the wilds of your couch. This month, there’s something streaming for everyone: an animated video-game adaptation; a drug-trafficking drama; a dark mystery-comedy. Check out everything that’s new on…

A China Airlines flight crew wear masks at Los Angeles international airport.Photograph: Mario Tama/Getty Images Claim: ‘It is no more dangerous than winter flu’ Many individuals who get coronavirus will experience nothing worse than seasonal flu symptoms, but the overall profile of the disease,…

Two beach chairs sit side by side in front of the glittering blue ocean. The sun is shining. And in between those chairs, nestled in the warm sand, is a perky yellow bag of Funyuns. That’s a mural I saw in the Frito-Lay headquarters in Plano, Texas. I was there! My pilgrimage to the pinnacle of…

Photo by edgamon / Getty Images . I consider myself incompetent when it comes to figuring out how most common technology works. I’m not proud of this — I find it somewhat embarrassing to consider how, if I were transported to the Middle Ages, I wouldn’t be able to make a light bulb from scratch and…

Christian Bale as Dick Cheney in Vice.Photograph: Allstar/Annapurna Pictures A dam McKay’s Vice is a screwball biopic of Dick Cheney , the man widely reckoned to be the most powerful vice-president in US history. It traces his rise from beer-brained dropout to an intern during the Nixon…

The effort is designed to block Bernie Sanders by poaching supporters from Joe Biden and other moderate Democrats. Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg's effort comes as the prospect of a contested convention becomes less and less remote. | George Frey/Getty Images 02/20/2020 05:45 PM…

Advertisement Pocket Worthy · Stories to fuel your mind. How Fast Food Reveals Secrets of the Economy From the Pizza Principle to the Waffle House Index, fast food can reveal surprising things about our behaviour and hidden changes in the market. What is an economist’s favourite food? Burgers, chips…

His campaign is testing the boundaries of what platforms like Twitter and Facebook allow in politics. They’re having trouble coming up with an answer. Michael R. Bloomberg at the Democratic debate last week. A campaign video, extending a pause and adding crickets, made it appear that he had left his…

From our Obsession The Third Age of TV First came broadcast, then cable, now streaming. Netflix already lets users skip the intro credits to its shows. Now the streaming service will let you skip through some actual content—in one comedy special, at least. Seth Meyers’ upcoming standup special on…

Until now, I thought that the best metaphor for filmmaking that I’d ever seen in a movie was found in Akira Kurosawa’s “High and Low”: throwing bags of money out of a speeding train. But Josh and Benny Safdie ’s new film, “Uncut Gems,” offers a better, if more elaborate, one, when its protagonist,…

From our Obsession The Third Age of TV First came broadcast, then cable, now streaming. What if movies were taller and thinner? That’s the question posed by Russian director Timur Bekmambetov, who is developing “the first vertical format blockbuster,” according to Deadline . Based on the true story…

Lost wallets in Japanese cities are usually returned, intact, to their owners. Why? Zhang Peng/LightRocket via Getty Images Allan Richarz February 10, 2020 If you misplace your phone or wallet in Tokyo, chances are very good that you’ll get it back. Here’s why. Phones left in taxis. Briefcases…

“ Hunters ” is the kind of black-comic thriller that takes a common phrase like “eat shit” to the literal extreme, but couches its outrageous moments in historical import. Al Pacino isn’t just spoon-feeding poop to a random bad guy — he’s shoveling shit into a suspected Nazi . If that sounds like a…

Photo by Rick Stewart / Stringer/Getty Images Something strange was in the air at the Nike headquarters in Beaverton, Oregon. It wasn’t just that deadlines loomed—that was typical. A shareholders meeting was just around the corner, which never brightened the mood, but that wasn’t it, either. Tinker…

Floraes Mallewagen (Flora's wagon of fools): Hendrik Gerritsz Pot, c1640 (photo: Laura Blanchard), CC BY-SA . Right now, it’s Bitcoin. But in the past we’ve had dotcom stocks, the 1929 crash, 19th-century railways and the South Sea Bubble of 1720. All these were compared by contemporaries to “tulip…

For years in British Columbia, the elected powers looked at rising home prices and saw that it was good. Announcements, Events & more from Tyee and select partners EVENT: Join Us for ‘Vancouver Never Plays Itself,’ a Storytelling Evening Our lineup of captivating speakers will explore this place we…

A billboard in London displays the Gotham font. Photo by Alexander Spatari / Getty Images . When I close my eyes and think of a word, I picture that word in Gotham. I am cursed with the compulsive need to identify every typeface I come across, but even if you do not suffer this particular affliction…

A campaign of sponsored content for the candidate flourished suddenly on Instagram. A new outfit, called Meme 2020, is behind it. Michael Bloomberg in Philadelphia on Feb. 4, 2020. Credit... Hannah Yoon for The New York Times Mike Bloomberg has contracted some of the biggest meme-makers on the…