Sony Pictures/Netflix/Ringer illustration Early on in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood , magazine writer Lloyd Vogel (Matthew Rhys) asks Fred Rogers (Tom Hanks) about the difference between his private self and his public persona—much to the confusion of his subject. “Mr. Rogers is the character…

A year ago, electric rental scooters were hailed as the next big thing in transportation. But their troubles in San Diego show how the services have now hit growing pains. Companies distribute scooters around cities, often on sidewalks. In the area around Mission Beach, one of San Diego’s main…

With coffee bars, free beer and arcade games, WeWork pitches a different type of office environment—one that appears to have allure with young workers. Photo: Cassandra Giraldo for The Wall Street Journal By Eliot Brown July 14, 2015 5:55 pm ET A young real-estate company promises to disrupt the…

Getty Images/Ringer illustration There’s something contradictory about Apple’s long-awaited entry into the streaming content arms race. On the one hand, a trillion-dollar company parachuting into a capital-intensive industry practically demands a series of financial and logistical flexes, together…

Mengxin Li for The Washington Post Clue, a popular app women use to track their periods, has risen to near the top of Apple’s Health and Fitness category. It could be downhill from here. Apple plans this month to incorporate some of Clue’s core functionality such as fertility and period prediction…

Telling Lies In America 1985-1995: The Joe Eszterhas Eraby Jessica Kiang “Written by Joe Eszterhas” is a phrase that has not had much of a workout on US cinema screens in over twenty years—and it’s arguable whether the 1997, 19-screen nationwide release of certifiable shitshow Burn Hollywood Burn:…

Everybody at the strip was convinced that Caleb had stolen the cash. We were leaned back in uncomfortable metal chairs that left dents in our legs, sitting around a table littered with menthol cigarette butts. “The strip” was a strip mall, sterile and unexceptional, home to a Starbucks, a Cold…

IKEA stores are so big some people find it’s easy to get lost. At the weekend, thousands decided to put the theory to the test. Police were called to the Glasgow branch of the Swedish furniture giant on Saturday after thousands of people threatened to turn up for a mass game of hide and seek. Plans…

Kiwibots — rolling robots that deliver burritos and smoothies — have become a fixture on UC Berkeley’s campus thanks to their creepy-cute “faces” and low delivery prices. But while the robots appear to be autonomous, the San Francisco Chronicle reports they’re actually operated by remote workers in…

Clare de Boer, of the Manhattan restaurant King, chronicles a week in her home kitchen, from chicken and peppers roasted over focaccia to the juiciest BLTs. The chef Clare de Boer cooking at her home near Dover Plains, N.Y. We asked her to keep a cooking diary for a week in July. Credit Daniel…

Chapter 1 Gerald Selbee broke the code of the American breakfast cereal industry because he was bored at work one day, because it was a fun mental challenge, because most things at his job were not fun and because he could —because he happened to be the kind of person who saw puzzles all around him,…

Note: The following will contain spoilers for John Wick: Chapter 3 . John Wick: Chapter 3 opens with John Wick on the run, hoping to beat the clock before he’s officially excommunicado. He races down an alleyway, through pouring rain and neon-burnished darkness, Dog alongside him. Everyone in New…

Illustration: Sébastien Thibault I n a distant echo of a medieval monarch’s royal progress around the realm, Boris Johnson has been journeying on a prime ministerial grand tour around the country to show his new subjects who is boss. Last weekend it was northern England ; on Monday, Scotland ;…

Illustration: Sebastien Thibault A n “outrage”, a “coup”, an “abomination”, a country tumbling into “failed state status”, Britain a “banana republic”, Boris Johnson a “dictator”. Parliamentarians stretch the limits of their vocabulary to express disbelief that this could happen in Britain, the…

‘Boris Johnson lacks the guts to do what Theresa May did, and account for himself to parliament.’Photograph: Neil Hall/EPA T his is not well done. The prime minister, Boris Johnson, displays cowardice and mendacity in insulting parliament with enforced suspension , and then in claiming that it has…

Spoiler alert! The following contains plot details from the “Game of Thrones” series finale, Season 8 Episode 6, "The Iron Throne." There's nothing like the anticipation, expectation and dread that surrounds the finale of a beloved TV series. This year, two of television's biggest shows of all time…

The film, called “El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie,” will expand on the story of Jesse Pinkman, the excitable meth cook and former partner of Walter White. Bryan Cranston, left, and Aaron Paul on “Breaking Bad.” Paul will star in a sequel movie premiering on Netflix in October. Credit Frank…

Venture down the self-help aisle of any bookstore and you’ll see it littered with titles about hacks, quick fixes, burning fat, and accessing mystical sounding theta brainwaves. We’re told that a ‘superfood’ can cure cancer, that a new routine will fix our motivation problems, and that a…

Netflix/Ringer illustration To save everyone some time, here are a few of the headlines you can expect to see as the internet starts to metabolize Dave Chappelle’s latest stand-up special for Netflix, Sticks and Stones : “Dave Chappelle Doesn’t Believe Michael Jackson’s Accusers.” “‘What Is the…

Modern Love They thought college was too soon for lifelong love, so they scheduled their next date for a little later — 60 months. Credit Brian Rea When I told Howard that we should meet again in five years to see if we were meant to be together, I thought I was just being practical. My idea was…

In 2010, a pair of researchers published a controversial economics paper. It was cited by UK politicians to justify austerity measures that sparked economic and employment crises, and anti-austerity protests—measures that the UN later called “punitive, mean-spirited, and often callous” inflicting…

The agony of overexposure to the things we love. Photo: Unsplash Here is an hour of my life I lose every day to Instagram. It’s always alone, usually after dinner or sometimes during middle-of-the-night bouts of insomnia, and reaches some kind of crescendo, like ordering $30 shoe inserts that…

Unlike other icons who have appeared on the front of Life magazine, Ferdinand Waldo Demara was not famed as an astronaut, actor, hero or politician. In fact, his 23-year career was rather varied. He was, among other things , a doctor, professor, prison warden and monk. Demara was not some kind of…

Credit Max Guther Skip to contentSkip to site index The once-swaggering company is losing more money and growing more slowly than ever. What happened? Credit Max Guther This article is adapted from the book “ Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber ,” by Mike Isaac, a reporter for The New York Times. The…

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Join the crowd. Photographer: Miguel Medina/AFP/Getty Images Photographer: Miguel Medina/AFP/Getty Images In 1953, mountaineers Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary made the first confirmed summiting of Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak. Recently, Everest has grown so popular that photos are…

It’s been a long and winding road for Tumblr, the blogging site that launched a thousand writing careers. It sold to Yahoo for $1.1 billion in 2013, then withered as Yahoo sold itself to AOL, AOL sold itself to Verizon, and Verizon realized it was a phone company after all. Through all that, the…

O bviously, you can tell you’re getting better as a designer when your craft is a little more polished, when you start thinking more about systems rather one-offs, when you start caring about how someone will move through a page more than how the page looks, when it takes you an hour to do what used…

‘Internet shutdowns made headlines during India’s communications blackout in Kashmir.’ Protests in London against direct rule in Indian-held Kashmir.Photograph: Tolga Akmen/AFP/Getty Images C ommunication has been weaponised, used to provoke, mislead and influence the public in numerous insidious…

Alternate Internet This week, we look at the ways the internet could have been—and could be—different. Sixteen years ago, the sun set on Web 1.0, and we embarked by the light of our smartphones to 24/7 connectivity, down a road paved with corporate blunders, littered with yesterday’s top 8 friends,…

I n May, “You’re the Man Now, Dog!” a long-running meme site first created in the early 2000s, shut down unexpectedly . The eulogies flowed as another influential, beloved internet site was taken offline. As my Twitter timeline grieved, I realized that I had a lot to learn. I’m 23. The start of my…

Earlier this week, IndieWire unveiled our list of the 100 Best Movies of the Decade. As you might imagine, selecting those movies from the thousands that have been released over the last 10 years wasn’t an easy process. A multitude of factors went into the team’s individual and collective choices,…

Despite apocalyptic warnings from restaurateurs that a $15 minimum wage would ruin business, a new study suggests that higher earnings for employees haven't actually hurt the hospitality industry—in fact, the city's eateries overall are "thriving." James Parrott, director of economic and fiscal…

O n On August 14th, The We Company (the company formerly known as WeWork) filed its mandatory S-1 paperwork to go public, and it’s worth reading in full . I mean, forget the serious stuff for a moment. The thing begins with an epigram: “We dedicate this to the energy of we — greater than any one of…

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Engineer.ai, an Indian startup claiming to have built an artificial intelligence-assisted app development platform, is not in fact using AI to literally build apps, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal . Instead, the company, which has attracted…

“It’s like belonging to a very elite golf course,” stuntman Jack Gill says of membership in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, “where you can look at the course but you can never play.” Photo: Paramount Pictures Believe it or not, it was all Sidney Lumet’s idea. In 1991, while working…

Together Again With Together Again, Jesse Hassenger looks at actors and directors who have worked together on at least three films, analyzing the nature of their collaborations. Prev Next View All In Quentin Tarantino’s recent Once Upon A Time…In Hollywood , Brad Pitt plays Cliff Booth, stunt…

Top tech companies are rallying around the flag. How opportunistic of them. Credit Brandon Celi 阅读简体中文版 閱讀繁體中文版 Not long ago, many leading technologists considered themselves too lofty and idealistic to concern themselves with the petty affairs of government. John Perry Barlow , a lion of the early…

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge At least three smart June Ovens have turned on in the middle of the night and heated up to 400 degrees Fahrenheit or higher. The ovens’ owners aren’t sure why this happened, and June tells The Verge that user error is at fault. The company is planning an…