Hasan Minhaj talks about an awful lot in the new Netflix series Patriot Act . Cara Howe//Netflix I never really thought about Dunk Fatigue until I saw Hasan Minhaj, on his new Netflix show Patriot Act , masterfully working around it. What is Dunk Fatigue? Well, let us take as a baseline that public…

Access to cheap electricity can make or break a cryptocurrency mining operation, and firms angling to strike it rich in an industry where delays can and will cost digital money will do just about anything to get it, as soon as they can. The latest move in the quest for bargain-basement kilowatt…

Korea is full of different designs that never fails to amaze us. When it comes to café, café owners in this amazing country always takes a step forward. There are many creative and attractive cafes and restaurants in this amazing country. And Café Yeonnam-dong 239-20 has a special feature. This…

If Bitcoin is adopted at rates similar to other technologies, like credit cards, it could increase global temperatures by two degrees Celsius by 2033 according to a study published on Monday in Nature Climate Change . To put this in perspective, a recent climate change report from the United Nations…

Gritty actually broke the glass in the penalty box. NHL By on October 23, 2018 When the Philadelphia Flyers announced that Gritty would be their new mascot, most of the comments were about how creepy he was. We took a different stance , saying that the Flyers had an opportunity to make a memorable…

In the course of a single generation, Amazon has grown from fledgling online bookseller to one of the most valuable and powerful corporations in modern history. The empire of CEO Jeff Bezos has grown so vast that critics , overseas regulators , and Washington politicians are all now wondering…

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Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast Hasan Minhaj has said that he wants to be more than just the “Indian John Oliver.” Or as he tells me, “I’m not going to open up with, ‘Did you hear what happened this week?’” That drive to bring something different to the very crowded…

Barcelona … ‘Airbnb is a parasitic monster that squats over cities and hoovers up vast sums of money through its slimy proboscis.’Photograph: Alamy R emember the “sharing economy”? That rhetoric looks more comically disingenuous than ever in light of the news that a single Airbnb user in Barcelona…

Trump’s Potent Toxicity Trump has flirted with the deepest racists and Nazis and it has not gone unnoticed, least of all by them. Opinion Columnist Image President Trump speaks during a rally at Southern Illinois Airport on Saturday. Credit Jeff Roberson/Associated Press Our national dialogue about…

Get the Better newsletter. Oct. 20, 2018 / 12:48 AM GMT By Julie Compton Serdar Tuncali was a “skinny kid” until he moved from Turkey to the United States in 2009. By the time he was married with a full-time job as a cancer researcher, he had begun to pack on the pounds, he says. “We started going…

What’s in a camera? A lens, a shutter, a light-sensitive surface and, increasingly, a set of highly sophisticated algorithms. While the physical components are still improving bit by bit, Google, Samsung and Apple are increasingly investing in (and showcasing) improvements wrought entirely from…

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge In iOS 12, Apple introduced a new , helpful way of making your life easier by stringing together the things you do most often on your iPhone with an app called Shortcuts. Beyond automating daily tasks, Shortcuts even enables some new possibilities — tasks…

Rockstar San Diego/Rockstar Games I ride off the top of a butte backward on a burro. I’m also being shot at, but I’m pretty sure that’s just a bonus here. If it were real-real, it’d be about a 500-foot fall, minimum. I’m tumbling like a crash test dummy off the side of what is clearly a virtual…

Photograph: Kellie French for the Guardian. Hair and makeup: Sarah Cherry. Top: My Gym Wardrobe. Leggings: Bellum T he first thing you need for a home workout is a really tidy house. I’m not remotely house proud, but I can’t do even half a sit-up if I can see an empty yoghurt pot under the sofa (and…

Credit Photo Illustration by Tracy Ma/The New York Times; Getty Images (student) Skip to contentSkip to site index America’s public schools are still touting devices with screens — even offering digital-only preschools. The rich are banning screens from class altogether. Credit Photo Illustration by…

In an effort to reduce harmful wintertime smog, Montreal has set strict standards for residential wood-burning stoves and fireplaces, essentially making it illegal to burn wood within the city limits using anything other than the newest, cleanest stoves. With the ban in place, city officials have…

T his morning we learned the utterly unsurprising news that the loon who’s—allegedly—been mailing crude bombs to every Democratic politician and TV talking head he could think of is—allegedly—a gentleman named Cesar Sayoc, who seems to be devoted to Donald Trump. And since then a few ordinarily…

From 1892: “The present requirements for admission to Harvard” Intelligence, it has been said, is the ability to hold two opposing ideas at the same time and still function, and if universities could be said to have one overriding goal as institutions of higher learning, it is to teach its students…

University of Pittsburgh students attended a vigil Saturday night at the Sixth Presbyterian Church in the Squirrel Hill area of the city. Credit Jared Wickerham for The New York Times In South Florida, not far from the mass shooting in Parkland in February, voters absorbed a week of gun violence and…

Illustration: Matija Medved Illustration: Matija Medved On Aug. 1, Brooklyn Burger Factory began selling gourmet patties in its residential neighborhood of Crown Heights. But even though the restaurant serves a steady stream of jerk burgers, salmon burgers, and veggie burgers, not a single person…

In 2014 researchers at the MIT Media Lab designed an experiment called Moral Machine . The idea was to create a game-like platform that would crowdsource people’s decisions on how self-driving cars should prioritize lives in different variations of the “ trolley problem .” In the process, the data…

Credit Photo Illustration by Tracy Ma/The New York Times; Getty Images (woman and child Skip to contentSkip to site index “I am convinced the devil lives in our phones.” Credit Photo Illustration by Tracy Ma/The New York Times; Getty Images (woman and child SAN FRANCISCO — The people who are closest…

The most influential action movie of this decade doesn’t have a plot. What it has is a setup: A squad of armored cops has to fight its way from the bottom of a dilapidated apartment tower to the top. There sits a drug lord who wants all of them dead. The entire building is populated with criminals…

The former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci, who has written a hagiographic book about Trump, at a launch party for his media company, in October. Photograph by Sam Hodgson / NYT / Redux “I dreamed the American dream,” Anthony Scaramucci writes in his memoir, “ Trump, the…

Istanbul on Wednesday rolled out an alternative currency for commuters who need to top up their subway cards but are short of cash: recyclables. The city is installing “reverse vending machines” at metro stations that allow passengers to add credit to their subway cards simply by inserting a plastic…

Investigators bring Cesar Sayoc's car to an FBI facility in Miramar, Florida. Johnny Louis / Getty Donald Trump condemned a spate of attempted mail bombings this week as “terrorizing acts.” And his Justice Department today charged a suspect with five federal crimes, including interstate…

A definition of fixed gender identity proposed by the Trump Administration would present a new—and incorrect—explanation of sex and gender. Photograph by Sarah Silbiger / NYT / Redux If the Trump Administration sticks with its plan to define gender as immutably male or female, determined at birth by…

The Cat Who Won’t Cop Out: Shaft as the ‘70s Black Superheroby Jason Bailey (The following essay is excerpt from Jason’s new book , It’s Okay With Me: Hollywood, the 1970s, and the Return of the Private Eye .) The first thing John Shaft (Richard Roundtree) does in Gordon Parks’ Shaft , after…

It is easy to fetishize the Concorde, in part because we lost it, and in part because it was so plainly handsome. Photograph by Mario Tama / Getty The progress of technology can seem inexorable—a kind of unstoppable lunge. It’s curious, then, to consider the trajectory of Concorde, the first (and…

The Tip Sheet President Trump boarded Air Force One before traveling to a rally in Texas on Monday. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times Welcome to The Tip Sheet, a daily political analysis of the 2018 elections, based on interviews with Republican and Democratic officials, pollsters, strategists…

Netflix/Ringer illustration The most thrilling and cathartic guitar solo you’ll hear in 2018 is uncorked by Adam Sandler—puerile comedy icon, Netflix pioneer, and invulnerable critical punching bag—deep into his new stand-up special, 100% Fresh . It’s on Netflix, of course; it took me way too long…

The Pixelated Splendor of Michael Mann’s ‘Blackhat’by Bilge Ebiri [Last year, Musings paid homage to Produced and Abandoned: The Best Films You’ve Never Seen , a review anthology from the National Society of Film Critics that championed studio orphans from the ‘70s and ‘80s. In the days before the…

Red Dead Redemption 2, the next game from Rockstar, will be out on October 26. In the final year of development on Red Dead Redemption 2 , the upcoming Western game, the top directors decided to add black bars to the top and bottom of every non-interactive cutscene in hopes of making those scenes…

President Trump on Tuesday ramped up his rhetoric against Saudi Arabia over the death of Jamal Khashoggi, as the U.S. took its first steps to punish the kingdom over the incident that has triggered global outrage. Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump criticized the operation that killed…

In 1997, Britney Jean Spears was a high school freshman aching to get out of the quiet stretch of Louisiana that bumps up against Mississippi. The most notable thing about her at the time was one off-Broadway credit and her status as a former Mouseketeer. A year later she would become one of the…

The queen is back Simone Giertz didn’t let brain surgery stop her. What’s next? by Morgan Sung The “Queen of Shitty Robots” won’t be stopped. In the six months since the YouTube star and inventor had a large brain tumor that could have left her paralyzed, blind, or a completely different person…