Robyn Beck / AFP / Getty In a country where the laws compel the use of cars, Americans are condemned to lose friends and relatives to traffic violence. My childhood neighbor was a varsity scholar-athlete, the president of the junior class, and the most popular girl in school. One day in September…

So far, the e-scooter has been nimble enough to avoid all kinds of legal potholes. Amanda Morris/AP Perspective Bird, Lime, and other shared micromobility services are disrupting the legal landscape, too. Jun 28, 2019 Jesse Halfon Attorney specializing in product liability In 2018, in what appeared…

In cities all over Europe, in every cafe, people are talking about the same thing. No, not Brexit : it’s those damn electric scooters. The plague started last year and has spread like wildfire: Brussels to Lisbon, Paris to Wroclaw. Silicon Valley start-ups showed up one day with vans full of them –…

Netflix/Ringer illustration Aziz Ansari hasn’t been quiet, exactly. The comedian and actor has spent the last year on an expansive international tour that’s yielded a steady drip of headlines, despite his use of phone-disabling Yondr pouches (a practice that’s become typical of context-conscious…

Mel Gibson in a scene from S. Craig Zahler’s Dragged Across Concrete . Photo: Summit Entertainment I used to sleep on Dragged Across Concrete director S. Craig Zahler’s couch. And sometimes his floor. We weren’t particularly close, but he and his NYU roommate had been high-school friends with my…

S. S. Craig Zahler doesn’t care if you don’t like his new movie. That’s a relief, because many of you won’t. Like Zahler’s previous films, Brawl in Cell Block 99 and Bone Tomahawk , Dragged Across Concrete is a fifth of genre rotgut, an agonizing and corrosive journey into hell, punctuated by spasms…

Lionsgate/Ringer illustration D irector Director S. Craig Zahler makes movies that drag across the screen. They are nasty, brutish, and long. Of all the skilled, interesting genre auteurs who have emerged at the turn of the 21st century, a post-Tarantino epoch when slathering a high-art gloss on…

Health + Tech / 08 Mar 2018 03.08.18 It’s been two years since our social media lives were forever changed. No matter what side of the political divide you might have been on in 2015-2016: if you spent time online, there’s a chance you fell for fake news. It’s scary to look back and think about how…

Do you have plans, goals, ideals, or outcomes that you want to achieve? And do you get frustrated when things don’t go according to plan? If so, I want to share a simple, yet powerful idea with you in this article. I learned this from Jocko Willink’s book Discipline Equals Freedom . The idea is very…

Senator Kamala Harris said she is often asked to describe “what it’s like to be the first woman fill-in-the-blank” while on the campaign trail. Credit Travis Dove for The New York Times GREENVILLE, S.C. — Some people whisper it, some apologize for it, and some are very careful to mention their…

“Is this bad, Sam?” “Yes, Tony, this is bad.” Drew Angerer/Getty Images If you believe the signals coming out of the bond market, it might be time to start counting down until our next recession. As of this week, the U.S. Treasury yield curve has now been inverted for a full quarter—an incredibly…

Kentwood, Louisiana, is located about an hour and a half north of New Orleans in Tangipahoa Parish, in what would be the instep of the ankle-boot-shaped state. It’s home to a successful brick-manufacturing plant and a popular brand of bottled water, Kentwood Springs. It’s also sometimes called the…

Credit Cathryn Virginia Opinion The Worm That Nearly Ate the Internet It infected 10 million computers. So why did cybergeddon never arrive? Credit Cathryn Virginia Mr. Bowden is the author of “Worm,” about the Conficker virus. Just over 10 years ago, a unique strain of malware blitzed the internet…

‘As a rule of thumb, a vegetarian meal is going to have a substantially lower carbon footprint than a meat one.’Illustration: Steve Caplin/The Guardian The researcher planning a four-day working week ‘We need to reduce our capacity and urge to consume’ Month after month, there is research showing…

The cast of Seinfeld . Castle Rock Television Seinfeld , one of the most successful TV shows ever made, turns 30 on July 5, 2019. Its pilot, “The Seinfeld Chronicles,” aired that evening in 1989, but the show wouldn’t return for nearly a full year — its second episode didn’t air until May of 1990.…

Influencers aren’t welcome at Nicchi’s truck.Photograph: Instagram/@cvtsoftserve Customers at Joe Nicchi’s ice cream truck have increasingly had the same demand: give us your ice cream for free. CVT Soft Serve, a popular truck in Los Angeles, has started to receive weekly requests from…

I did not begin 2014 by imagining that the most resonant movie moment of the 12 months to come would be a quiet, resigned stare-down in a bathroom. But it has been that kind of year. Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Birdman tells the story of an actor trying to outrun a character that threatens to devour…

Photographer: Art Streiber Stylist: Samantha McMillen (Above: Coat, approx. $4425, by Boglioli. Image: Art Streiber, Styling: Samantha McMillen.) Once the crowd was on its feet, it stayed there for a full six minutes. The audience at the Cannes Film Festival, not known for hiding its judgement,…

Goodbye to all that … The Lord of the Rings, Jennifer Aniston, Steve Carell in The Office and Homer Simpson.Photograph: NBC/Fox T he most watched show on US Netflix, by a huge margin, is the US version of The Office. Even though the platform pumps out an absurd amount of original programming – 1,500…

Photograph from Getty Salesclerk: Greetings, maiden. How may I help ye? Me: Well, I’ve been in the mall for three hours. I intended to get this errand completed in forty-five minutes. I’ve looked in sixteen different stores. I’ve purchased a soft pretzel, CBD hand lotion, and a melon-flavored bubble…

When Scott Udall first played Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance shortly after it came in 2005, he was in a vulnerable spot. Udall, who grew up Mormon in Salt Lake City, Utah, was very religious, and his family were all politically active Republicans. His parents had gone through a messy divorce, and…

A Subway in Queens. Credit An Rong Xu for The New York Times Skip to contentSkip to site index Operators say they’ve lost their stores to conflicted managers over petty infractions, like cucumbers sliced too thick and sabotaged meatball bags. A Subway in Queens. Credit An Rong Xu for The New York…

W hile a doctoral student at Princeton University in 1957, studying under a founder of theoretical computer science, Raymond Smullyan would occasionally visit New York City. On one of these visits, he met a “very charming lady musician” and, on their first date, Smullyan, an incorrigible flirt,…

Ringer illustration There has never not been a time when Hollywood was barely hanging on. The very best books about the history of the town are invariably about the way it has been threatened by its own design, its eminent respectability in peril due to self-created imminent doom. In Lillian Ross’s…

Photo from Dmelow / Wikipedia E ric Lundgren, the 33-year-old, fedora-wearing CEO of a major electronic waste recycling plant in Los Angeles, could be called both the Elon Musk and the Edward Snowden of e-waste. Elon Musk because in 2017 he built an electric car out of recycled batteries that broke…

Apple Newsroom : Apple today announced that Sir Jony Ive, Apple’s chief designofficer, will depart the company as an employee later this year toform an independent design company which will count Apple amongits primary clients. While he pursues personal projects, Ive inhis new company will continue…

David Gambacorta | Longreads | June 2019 | 20 minutes (5,128 words) The sun was beginning to set over a mostly deserted expanse of beach in Malibu, casting long shadows behind a pair of visitors as they strolled a few feet from the water’s edge. They had the innocuous, no-particular-place-to-go…

Porn on Tumblr — a eulogy / love letter Vex Ashley Dec 6, 2018 · 6 min read I started taking my clothes off on the internet in 2011, I was 21 and at university looking to make extra money and explore my exhibitionist streak, I found a home on Tumblr.com . The site’s tolerance for NSFW content had…

Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut. Photo: Warner Bros. Something curious happened in New York around Christmastime 2016. For a few weeks, most of the rep houses in the city were screening Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut . The director’s final film had become, somehow, a holiday staple. This was a…

● other web This site uses cookies. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. In the era of countless interfaces, landings of products and services, there exists another web design . This quirky term refers to projects that stand out in their design and content from…

Jony Ive, the man most often credited with Apple’s visual, industrial, and product design, is leaving the company . He leaves a legacy of pushing its products toward disposability and unrepairability, a choice that has reverberated across the consumer electronics industry. With Ive as Chief Design…

“I just thought, it’s time, I owe it to my beloved readers,” E. Jean Carroll said of the assault allegations she has made against Trump and other men in her forthcoming memoir. “I can’t keep up this facade.” Credit Joe Schildhorn/BFA The advice columnist E. Jean Carroll accused President Trump of…

Source photo: Jessica Zollman | Illustration: James Bareham/Polygon Table of Contents Her first bomb threat Moving an industry The message is the medium Childhood and teenage rebellion Political awakening The early videos The Kickstarter Hell Creation and destruction The future Chapter 1: Her first…

Credit Illustration by Delcan & Co. SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook unveiled an ambitious plan on Tuesday to create an alternative financial system that relies on a cryptocurrency that the company has been secretly working on for more than a year. The effort, announced with 27 partners as diverse as…

It’s long been said that a jack of all trades is a master of none. But the myth of the superiority of specialists is apparently based on limited data, and there’s plenty of evidence, now collected in a new book, to suggest that range is the true engine of innovation and creativity in the game of…

version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"? A man in New York City, September 2001 Christopher Morris / VII / REDUX Sometime in the last two years, American hegemony died. The age of U.S. dominance was a brief, heady era, about three decades marked by two moments, each a breakdown of sorts. It was born amid the…

Jessie Giacomazzi, on top of the car, with Bill Hader, left, and Stephen Root in “Barry.” Credit HBO This article contains spoilers about Season 2, Episode 5 of “Barry.” Bill Hader thought he might be pushing it too far with Sunday’s episode of the HBO comedy “Barry.” In it, his assassin and…

Alexey Pajitnov hands me a condom. It’s still in its shiny wrapper, and the wrapper is festooned with Tetris -related images. I’m interviewing Pajitnov, the 63-year-old inventor of Tetris , in a fancy hotel lobby in the general vicinity of E3. He says the condom “is contraband,” and then he smiles.…

I follow Felicité Raminisoa and her father, Romain Randiambololona, up a narrow track along the forested slopes of her family’s farm in southern Madagascar. It is lychee season and, as we walk, we break off branches of fruit and peel off the pink, spiky shells. Large yellow jackfruit grow like…