May7, 2019 12 min read This story appears in the April 2019 issue of Entrepreneur . Subscribe » Imagine that you are sitting in the boardroom of a major global drinks company, charged with producing a new product that will rival the position of Coca-Cola as the world’s second-most-popular cold…

Daan Brand / Bransch The Way We Eat Now: How the Food Revolution Has Transformed Our Lives, Our Bodies, and Our World by Bee Wilson Basic Books Pressure Cooker: Why Home Cooking Won't Solve Our Problems and What We Can Do About It by Sarah Bowen, Joslyn Brenton, and Sinikka Elliott Oxford University…

Photo: Don Dille There’s a video going around the Internet of a balance-bike race in Japan. A long row of pre-school-aged kids, aboard low-slung bikes with no brakes or pedals , takes off from a start ramp like a pack of greyhounds. The kids kick their bikes up to speeds that would make most adults…

Photo: Getty Images After a couple hours of swiping on Bumble not so very long ago, I had exactly one decent match, a programmer in San Francisco. He had an honest face slung on two good cheekbones, and he posed with acceptable-enough props (guitar, martini, ’90s-era Macintosh). Naturally, I…

Jump to navigationJump to search An example of the coastline paradox. If the coastline of Great Britain is measured using units 100 km (62 mi) long, then the length of the coastline is approximately 2,800 km (1,700 mi). With 50 km (31 mi) units, the total length is approximately 3,400 km (2,100 mi),…

Exactly a decade ago, Walt Mossberg and I declared the end of Web 2.0 and the beginning of its next iteration: Web 3.0. There was a recession messing badly with the tech sector at the time, which we dubbed the Econalypse. But we decided to make a loud prediction right before our seventh All Things…

AP Photo Abolishing the Electoral College and creating a national popular vote are far-fetched ideas for now. But there’s a more targeted way to reform American elections by 2020—starting with the swing states. Edward B. Foley, an Ohio State University law professor, is the author of Presidential…

Mortal Kombat 11's art director Steve Beran has seen a lot of fatalities, given that he’s worked on the series since the ‘90s. His favorite in the new game involves “bloodsicles,” where the character Skarlet stabs an opponent over and over with spikes made from their own frozen blood. Then she pops…

“Conan” host Conan O’Brien was sued in July 2015 by Robert Alexander Kaseberg, who accused O’Brien and others on the TBS show of stealing five jokes from Kaseberg’s Twitter account and blog. Here, O’Brien explains why he reached a settlement in the case, which had been expected to go to trial in…

Mortal Kombat 11 is a brutal game. That’s what you come for—sensational, over-the-top violence that’s inventive and gratuitous on a level that doesn’t exist anywhere else. It can be shocking in its detail and funny in its execution, but it’s always arresting. It’s also short. Fatalities, gory,…

Shoppers look at products at the Upper West Side Apple Inc. store in New York. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg Web Smith’s recent experience at his local Apple store in the suburbs of Columbus, Ohio, has been an exercise in frustration. There was the time…

The simultaneous release of the final season of Game of Thrones and Avengers: Endgame has wrought upon this earth the swarm of a particular breed of internet person, one who responds to critics of any corporate franchise or brand with this insipid image: The original image comes from a webcomic…

Getty Images O n On the night Boyz n the Hood opened in theaters in July 1991, the film’s 23-year-old writer-director John Singleton rented a limousine and rode around his native Los Angeles. Along with a few USC friends and some cast members, Singleton stopped at local theaters to gauge the…

Credit Chris Koehler Skip to contentSkip to site index The C.E.O. wants to prove that the start-up has evolved past a raucous, and profligate, tech-bro culture. But Uber’s past is simply not that far gone. Credit Chris Koehler Dara Khosrowshahi had a problem. His name was Travis Kalanick. That, of…

In the Dubai of 2050, the world looks both instantly familiar and utterly strange. Here, urban planning is driven by an omniscient AI installed at the top of a skyscraper; your smart bathroom mirror tracks your physical health; and you interface with the government through a personalized “genie,” a…

May 1, 2019 A Conspiracy To Kill IE6 The bittersweet consequence of YouTube’s incredible growth is that so many stories will be lost underneath all of the layers of new paint. This is why I wanted to tell the story of how, ten years ago, a small team of web developers conspired to kill IE6 from…

Future Relics is a column about the objects that our society is currently making, and how they may explain our lives to future generations. In each article, we'll focus on one item that could conceivably be discovered by someone 1,000 years from now, and try to explain where this item came from,…

Epic Games via Polygon I n In a private school where tuition is high, students can bicker about clothes, shoe brands, cellphones, or video games. At Paul Towler’s middle school, where he teaches English to seventh and eighth graders, some kids “have enough money to be comfortable and others’ parents…

Hailing from Messac, France, producer Medline evolved into a self-made multi-instrumentalist and composer. His upcoming album Solstice is like a final exam: eight interpretations of diggers’ treasures and classics in 70s jazz-funk, soundtracks, and library music. Not by sampling, but by deciphering…

Medline A Quest Called Tribe By Published Mar 27, 2019 8 In 2017, French graphic artist Stéphane Carricondo turned his talents to a series of hip-hop portraits, a creative happening that went on to inspire Orlando Díaz, also known as Medline . The latter, a French-Chilean crate-digger and…

Critic’s Pick Werner Herzog, left, and Mikhail S. Gorbachev in “Meeting Gorbachev.” Credit The Orchard Meeting Gorbachev NYT Critic's Pick Directed by Werner Herzog , Andre Singer Documentary 1h 30m More Information Geopolitics has never been high on Werner Herzog’s list of concerns, at least in his…

What can we learn about the Mueller Report from the PDF file released by the Department of Justice (DoJ) on April 18, 2019? This article offers two things: a brief, high-level technical assessment of the document, and a question of culture: why everyone assumes it would be delivered as a PDF file –…

J. David Ake / Reuters Ever since Donald Trump made Twitter his preferred medium for communicating with the country, the platform has taken an outsize hold on the American imagination. Once a forum on which users could discuss the day’s news, Twitter now just as often sets the day’s agenda. Being…

Steve Lacy's story originally appeared in i-D's The Voice of a Generation Issue , no. 356, Summer 2019. Pre-order your copy here . 20 miles north-west of central Los Angeles, somewhere between Malibu and Pacific Palisades, lies the quiet, secluded Topanga Canyon. Verdant and lush, largely untouched…

Aaron Gilbreath | Longreads | April 2019 | 48 minutes (8,041 words) In 1973, East Coast rock promoter Howard Stein assembled a special New Year’s Eve concert at New York City’s Academy of Music. It was a four-band bill. Blue Öyster Cult headlined. Iggy and the Stooges played third, though the…

William Barr defiant amid furor over his handling of Mueller report - CNNPolitics Cookie Notice We use cookies to understand how you use our site and to improve your experience. This includes personalizing content and advertising. To manage or opt out of the use of cookies click here. By continuing…

Stop being so busy, and just do nothing. Trust us. Credit Headexplodie Leer en español Keeping busy? Running from place to place and laboring over long to-do lists have increasingly become ways to communicate status : I’m so busy because I’m just so important , the thinking goes. Perhaps it’s time…

By raising levels of the stress-related hormone cortisol, our phone time may also be threatening our long-term health. Credit Raúl Soria 阅读简体中文版 閱讀繁體中文版 Leer en español If you’re like many people, you may have decided that you want to spend less time staring at your phone. It’s a good idea: an…

Jeremy Pettus / Loop / The Atlantic One day last June, Doug Boss pulled into a police-station parking lot to meet a stranger from Craigslist. His purpose: to buy used insulin pumps. Boss has type 1 diabetes, and he relies on a small pump attached to his body to deliver continuous doses of insulin…

Indonesia is moving its capital city away from Jakarta, according to the country's planning minister. Bambang Brodjonegoro said President Joko Widodo had chosen to relocate the capital in "an important decision". The new location is not yet known. However state media reports one of the front runners…

Closers are paid $1.45/session to log into (usually) men's dating-app accounts and flirt with the women in their queue for 10 minute stretches, as part of a gig-economy company called Vida (Virtual Dating Assistants). To be a Closer you need "good Tinder skills" -- to be a good writer, who is…

Soraya Roberts | Longreads | April 2019 | 6 minutes (1,674 words) I didn’t do my homework last weekend. Here was the assignment: Beyoncé’s Homecoming — a concert movie with a live album tie-in — the biggest thing in culture that week, which I knew I was supposed to watch, not just as a critic, but…

Steven T. Johnson rents a bed at the PodShare in Hollywood, Calif. "When you don't own things, you don't have to keep track of them," he says. "You just show up." Courtesy of Steven Johnson More young people are leaning into the rental or sharing economy — owning less of everything and renting and…

Taylor Swift Productions One of the most impressive things about Taylor Swift is that she keeps finding a way to offend people simply with sound alone. The story’s been the same every album rollout since 2012’s Red : Swift, the onetime mascot for speaking your own truth over humble country strums,…

Bloom Productions / Getty Once upon a time, offices had walls inside them. They weren’t glass, like the conference rooms of 2019, but were made of drywall, and were usually painted a neutral color, like many of the walls you know and love. Over time, office walls gave way to cubicles. Now, for many…

T he The recent AI boom has had all sorts of weird and wonderful side effects as amateur tinkerers find ways to repurpose research from universities and tech companies. But one of the more unexpected applications has been in the world of video game mods. Fans have discovered that machine learning is…

Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty) San Francisco is ground zero for an unprecedented year of giant tech public offerings: Uber is the $100 billion main event while Lyft, Palantir, Pinterest, Airbnb, Slack, Postmates, Instacart and more promise billions of their own. And all of them could soon find…