Getty Images/Ringer illustration In May 2018, James Blake, your favorite rapper’s favorite digital-poltergeist moper, put out “Don’t Miss It,” an eerie and startling song about paralyzing depression and how to fight it, or maybe just why to fight it. “The world has shut me out,” he moans over a…

Last year was a wild one for the oil industry. Between January and October, oil prices rose to almost $80 per barrel — a 25 percent increase since the start of the year — thanks to fears stemming from Washington’s withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action with Iran. In the months that…

Among the glut of lists on the internet toward the end of last year, Spotify’s Wrapped 2018 broke through, perhaps landing on more social media feeds than any other. Instagram-ready graphics detailing every user’s most streamed songs and artists became empirical proof of fandom, a dorm-room poster…

Trump received 10 personal updates from Michael Cohen and encouraged a planned meeting with Vladimir Putin. Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Donald Trump and his longtime attorney Michael Cohen. President Donald Trump directed his longtime attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about negotiations to…

Benjamin Lowy / Getty / The Atlantic O n January 20, 2017, Donald Trump stood on the steps of the Capitol, raised his right hand, and solemnly swore to faithfully execute the office of president of the United States and, to the best of his ability, to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution…

The “Vesuvius” violin, made by Antonio Stradivari in 1727, in the Museum del Violino in Cremona, Italy. The museum is assisting with an ambitious recording project to preserve the sound of Stradivarius instruments for future generations. Credit Isabella de Maddalena for The New York Times CREMONA,…

Critic’s Pick On his fourth album, James Blake ponders a new frontier: intimacy. Credit Amanda Charchian Love is a murky, uncertain, only sporadically blissful thing on James Blake’s fourth album, “Assume Form.” But sometimes it manages to break through his chronic melancholy. He needs the changeup,…

There are many reasons to hate open offices: They’re loud , prone to thieves , and, most of all, lack any kind of privacy . But a new research paper reveals yet another knock against them: They’re subtly sexist. Researchers Alison Hirst of Anglia Ruskin University and Christina Schwabenland of the…

First, you tear down the walls and dispense with the soulless cubicles. Then you put everyone at long tables, shoulder to shoulder, so that they can talk more easily. Ditch any remaining private offices, which only enforce the idea that some people are better than others, and seat your most senior…

If you use social media , you've probably noticed a trend across Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter of people posting their then-and-now profile pictures , mostly from 10 years ago and this year. Instead of joining in, I posted the following semi-sarcastic tweet:…

CES is always a show about the future of TVs, and this year is particularly interesting. Not only are 4K HDR TVs better and cheaper than ever, but the software side of things is opening up in unprecedented ways. Not only are Google Assistant and Alexa control everywhere, but Apple’s embracing the TV…

On Friday, the New York Times reported that “in the days after President Trump fired James B. Comey as F.B.I. director, law enforcement officials became so concerned by the president’s behavior that they began investigating whether he had been working on behalf of Russia against American interests.”…

Taoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar will hold a meeting with his cabinet later to discuss no-deal Brexit contingency preparations. It will take place just hours before the UK Parliament votes on Theresa May's draft EU withdrawal deal. The Irish government will circulate new memos building…

After years of exploiting his position of power at Pixar and Disney, pressure from the Me Too movement recently ousted John Lasseter from his post as chief creative officer. But Pixar has yet to address how John’s sexist attitudes permeated its culture for decades, giving men license to mistreat…

R R ight around the time I turned 42, I started thinking about what my life was going to look like when I was 50. Long-term planning skills had previously been absent from my existence, and the fact that these concerns had surfaced was as much a surprise to me as to anyone else. Living day by day…

At a company-wide town hall in early October, numerous Facebook employees got in line to speak about their experiences with sexual harassment. The company called the special town hall after head of policy Joel Kaplan caused an internal uproar for appearing at the congressional hearing for Judge…

Air traffic controllers in the tower at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. (Seth Wenig/AP) The National Air Traffic Controllers Association filed a lawsuit Friday against President Trump and other top federal officials, saying they are depriving controllers of their “hard-earned…

In 1991, aspiring animator Mike Judge was a touring musician and grad student living outside of Dallas, TX when he channeled his past cubicle-life angst – from his former life as an engineer – into a 16mm short film called Office Space, featuring Milton . The vignette about a mumbling office worker…

An unnamed “senior official in the Trump administration” wrote in an anonymous Daily Caller op-ed Monday that the record-breaking 24-day partial government shutdown “is an opportunity to strip wasteful government agencies for good.” While it’s unclear how “senior” this administration official is —…

The vast majority of televisions available today are "smart" TVs, with internet connections, ad placement, and streaming services built in. Despite the added functionality, TV prices are lower than ever — especially from companies like TCL and Vizio, which specialize in low-cost, high-tech smart…

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It’s hard to find anyone who will admit to it now, but when the Centerpoint Intermodal freight terminal opened in 2002, people in Elwood, Illinois, were excited. The plan was simple: shipping containers, arriving by train from the country’s major ports, were offloaded onto trucks at the facility,…

David Hanover / Getty Over the past year, visitors to the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City have been revealing their deepest fears and wishes. As part of a special exhibit, museum-goers were invited to write down their secrets on small pieces of vellum paper and hang the entries on a wall for…

On July 13, President Trump Donald Trump Jr, who was accused of colluding with Russians after he tweeted out a stream of emails showing him colluding with Russians. “[The meeting] went very, very quickly, very fast, two other people in the room. I guess one of them left almost immediately and the…

Image: Princeton University Press In the early days of file-sharing and the internet, experts worried that technology would gut the creative industries, leaving consumers with fewer (and lower-quality) choices than ever before. It’s clear now that this hasn’t been the case, says Joel Waldfogel , an…

When the shortlist for the Oscars’ Best Original Song category was released in December, everything was in its right place, as far as Radiohead fans were concerned. Thom Yorke ’s “Suspirium,” the opening and closing theme song for the much-debated horror remake “ Suspiria ,” made the Academy music…

Robert J. Cooper Credit The Aspen Times Robert J. Cooper, whose unusual elderflower liqueur, St-Germain, introduced in 2007, was so completely embraced by the cocktail community that it became known as “bartender’s ketchup,” died on Monday in Santa Barbara, Calif. He was 39. His death was confirmed…

Share Turn on the television any night in France and chances are excellent that you’ll land on a program, held in a brightly-lit studio, where celebrities, authors, and other French luminaries mingle, chat, and talk about issues—or whatever they feel like. For some reason, though, they don’t run a…

Shareware disks with mods for Wolfenstein 3D . Photo: Chris Kohler (Kotaku) If you asked me to list some of the games I bought or played in 1994, I’d probably start off with Donkey Kong Country and Final Fantasy III , and it would likely take me a long time before I ever mentioned Barneystein 3D.…

Carlos Barria / Reuters A president only gets one chance to make his first Oval Office address—making Donald Trump’s reiteration of familiar talking points in a short speech Tuesday night all the more puzzling. Over the course of roughly 10 minutes, Trump brought his case for more spending on border…

Carolyn Kaster / AP Well, that was the shortest, most easily resolved national emergency in U.S. history. Twelve hours ago, the president was preparing to set aside the regular process of law. By 9 p.m. eastern time? Not so much. Perhaps somebody pointed out that 15-year civil-engineering projects…

JAN. 3, 2019 It was a dream job, visiting the globe’s most alluring destinations on assignment. Here’s what our 2018 Traveler learned in a year of almost nonstop travel. It was a dream job, visiting the globe’s most alluring destinations on assignment. Here’s what our 2018 Traveler learned in a year…

A cluttered home can be a stressful home, researchers are learning. Do you have a clutter problem? If you have to move things around in order to accomplish a task in your home or at your office or you feel overwhelmed by all your “things,” it’s a strong signal that clutter has prevailed. And it…

In 2017, blockchain technology was a revolution that was supposed to disrupt the global financial system. In 2018, it was a disappointment. In 2019, it will start to become mundane. Recommended for You The real reason America is scared of Huawei: internet-connected everything How quantum terrorists…

The United States is currently experiencing one of the tightest labor markets in history and many say that the country is currently facing a skills gap. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics , the U.S. currently has over 7 million unfilled jobs. This tight labor market has led many companies…

HELSINKI — Jaana Partenen is not your typical AI programming geek. Until a year ago, the 59-year-old dentist from the Finnish town of Mikkeli had no idea what to make of terms like "machine learning" or "neural networks." Now, Partenen spends her evenings learning the basics of coding and she is…