(This review contains light spoilers for Shadow of the Tomb Raider .) “Every day it encroaches. Paititi will not survive its invasion. Everything we are will be taken or destroyed.” It’s not a line of dialogue I expected from a Tomb Raider game. But deep into the narrative of Shadow of the Tomb…

There is a computer program called Vim, based on software created in the 1970s. It is famously difficult. Computer programmers have endless jokes about how much of a challenge it is just to exit the program . It is also ubiquitous. If you are on Mac or Linux, it is already installed on your…

U nlike America's other tech giants, Amazon doesn't have a traditional campus. The 45,000 or so employees and executives in Seattle, out of 575,000 worldwide, fan across numerous high-rises downtown and in the South Lake Union neighborhood. Amazon's "headquarters" defaults to where Jeff Bezos, the…

Rubén “El Rubius” Gundersen talking about his mental health and burnout. Rubén “El Rubius” Gundersen/ YouTube Three weeks ago, Bobby Burns, a YouTuber with just under one million subscribers , sat down on a rock in Central Park to talk about a recent mental health episode. One week ago, Elle Mills,…

Getty Images/Ringer illustration For the past two years, Nike has kept Colin Kaepernick on the bench despite an endorsement partnership that dates back to 2011. In 2016, Kaepernick started using his platform as an NFL player to protest the extrajudicial killing of unarmed African Americans by police…

YouTuber Matt Lees: ‘Human brains really aren’t designed to be interacting with hundreds of people every day.’Photograph: David Vintiner for the Guardian W hen Matt Lees became a full-time YouTuber, he felt as if he had won the lottery. As a young, ambitious writer, director and presenter, he was…

Nintendo never released a CD-ROM gaming system. But for a while in the early 1990s, it flirted with the idea. That protracted will-they-won’t-they romance produced pages of breathless gossip columns in video game magazines, a mountain of vaporware, some terrible Zelda games, and one priceless…

When will astronauts launch from U.S. soil again? Flight controllers in Russia boosted the oxygen supply to the Soyuz as a protective measure. Astronauts covered the opening with some Kapton tape, an adhesive film that remains sticky in extreme temperatures, as a temporary fix. Later in the day, the…

Even in its thirteenth season, there is, it seems, more for “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” to say—a group of reactionary, mean-spirited, lying degenerates seems perfectly suited to the moment. Photograph by Patrick McElhenney / FXX We may be living in the era of the post-comedy comedy , but…

Photo: Christaan Felber for Vulture Mac Miller is nervous. He’s pacing, running scales and planning outfits in the Late Night With Stephen Colbert green room during a Monday taping where he’s the musical guest. It’s a windowless white space with two extraneous doors that don’t appear to move or lead…

FX/Ringer illustration Replacing a main character is a time-honored tradition for TV sitcoms. Kirstie Alley replaced Shelley Long after the fifth season of Cheers ; The Office tried to fill the Michael Scott-sized hole left by Steve Carell’s seventh season departure with James Spader; mid-flameout,…

Metal Gear wants the player to fail. The game’s rough edges are part of the growing pains of an early genre, but taken in the context of the entire Metal Gear series, these challenges also feel like horrifying defense mechanisms. As Solid Snake infiltrates Outer Heaven, the player intrudes upon the…

How do New York Times journalists use technology in their jobs and in their personal lives? A. O. Scott, a chief film critic of The Times, discussed the tech he’s using. How have tech and online publishing changed the way you review movies? When The Times started reviewing movies regularly — back in…

I would know. I am one of them. To be clear, ours is not the popular “resistance” of the left. We want the administration to succeed and think that many of its policies have already made America safer and more prosperous. But we believe our first duty is to this country, and the president continues…

AFP Trump said of Woodward's work: "It's just another bad book" US President Donald Trump has condemned a book on his White House by renowned Watergate journalist Bob Woodward as a "con on the public". Mr Trump's chief of staff and defence secretary, in responses posted by the president on Twitter,…

John Dowd was convinced that President Trump would commit perjury if he talked to special counsel Robert S. Mueller III. So, on Jan. 27, the president’s then-personal attorney staged a practice session to try to make his point. In the White House residence, Dowd peppered Trump with questions about…

A person identified as a senior administration official blasted President Trump in an anonymous op-ed published by The New York Times on Wednesday, saying they were working to “thwart” President Trump’s “worst inclinations.” In the piece, titled, “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump…

Over the six months of the Trump administration, the confidence of the alt-right has been growing by the day. “We’re winning” was the buoyant slogan in alt-right gatherings and chat rooms, and the movement’s leaders regularly said that they believed their ideas would soon become second nature in the…

Looking for news you can trust? Subscribe to our free newsletters. When Leigh McIlvaine first learned that her student loan debt could be forgiven, she was thrilled. In 2008, at age 27, she’d earned a master’s degree in urban and regional planning from the University of Minnesota. She’d accrued just…

T he 18th of March 2018, was the day tech insiders had been dreading. That night, a new moon added almost no light to a poorly lit four-lane road in Tempe, Arizona, as a specially adapted Uber Volvo XC90 detected an object ahead. Part of the modern gold rush to develop self-driving vehicles, the SUV…

Malls are being hollowed out. Shops are closing by the thousands. Retailers are going bankrupt. But it may be too early to declare the death of retail. Americans have started shopping more — in stores. From the garden section at Walmart to the diamond counters at Tiffany & Company, old-school…

It takes me forever to get anywhere in Paris. It’s not the traffic, or the strikes — which are almost as reliable as the church bells tolling the hours — or the weather, or the bumpy cobblestone streets. It’s the pastry shops: There are so many of them, and I can’t keep myself from lingering in…

A Twitter storm erupted after outlets published a photograph of the actor Geoffrey Owens bagging groceries at a Trader Joe’s. Photograph from Alamy Not long ago, I was visiting the set of a popular TV show for a story and recognized an actor who was there shooting a guest spot. I remembered Geoffrey…

Proving that a team or a league colluded to keep a player off the field has been difficult over the years. “Smoking gun” documents that show owners acted in a coordinated way are rare. Aggrieved players have a hard time proving teams deliberately passed them over in favor of less talented…

Last week, 42-year-old Ricky Ma made headlines for his creation of a life- sized robot he called Mark 1, which he modeled after Scarlett Johansson. The robot, which the Hong Kong designer dedicated 18 months of his life to completing, was an easy sell to the viral internet. The story was titillating…

WASHINGTON — President Trump surprised Donald F. McGahn II, the White House counsel, on Wednesday with an abrupt announcement that Mr. McGahn will be departing his post this fall, effectively forcing the long-anticipated exit of a top adviser who has cooperated extensively in the investigation into…

Village Voice newspaper boxes on a sidewalk in 2013 (Mark Lennihan/AP/Shutterstock) Three years after buying The Village Voice , and a year after the paper shut down its print edition , owner Peter Barbey told the remaining staff today that the publication will no longer be posting any new stories.…

Photo: HBO HBO is done giving subscribers late night thrills. Earlier this summer, HBO quietly removed its many “late night” options, including erotic movies and TV shows and documentary series like Taxicab Confessions and Real Sex . Gone are the days of Cathouse ’s Nevada brothel, porn star Katie…

People in an Internet cafe in Pakistan B.K. Bangash / AP You can buy almost any thing you want online—toothpaste, books, plastic devices that allow you to lick your cat . On digital work platforms like Upwork, Fiverr, and Freelancer.com, you can also buy nearly any service— often from someone…

Aretha Franklin’s memorial service, at Greater Grace Temple, in Detroit, capped four days of mourning. Photograph by Angela Weiss / AFP / Getty The Queen of Soul required four days of mourning. The public viewing began on Tuesday. Aretha Franklin lay in repose at the Charles H. Wright Museum of…

"Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt", which opens at London's V&A museum next Saturday, 8th September, is not the first exhibition dedicated to games by an august institution of art and design. Many reading this might remember "Game On", an exhibition staged by the Barbican in 2002 (and touring ever…

I t’s 9am on a hot August morning and timed tickets to visit Barcelona’s emblematic Sagrada Família basilica have already sold out. Only a few years ago you could turn up and queue for maybe half an hour to get in but with the soaring numbers of visitors to the city (around 30 million last year)…

Unlike the fast couplings of years past, the recent series of engagements—like that of Pete Davidson and Ariana Grande—seems to operate according to the corporate principles of the age. Photograph by Gotham / Getty The first sign that a new wave of celebrity matrimony was upon us came in late…

Now he’s 47, but when he was much younger, Ethan Hawke read “Cassavetes on Cassavetes,” the indie filmmaker bible, and then went to hear the author’s widow, Gena Rowlands, speak. She looked out at the crowd and laughed. She said John Cassavetes was always disappointed because nobody would finance…

Ringer illustration In 1943, a failed mystery novelist named Isabel Briggs Myers started a career in the new field of personality testing. “The more you know about what a man is like, the more effectively you can work with him or under him, or assign him the right job,” Myers wrote to Edward Hay, a…

BRUSSELS — For 20 years, the Dutch police investigated the rape and murder of an 11-year-old schoolboy, and the Dutch news media chronicled the case’s many twists and turns. Now, after an investigation in which 17,500 Dutchmen voluntarily took part in DNA profiling, a suspect has been arrested in…

Photo: GoFundMe Johnny Bobbitt is reportedly homeless and asking for money on the Philadelphia streets less than a year after he selflessly helped a stranded person, earning him viral attention and hundreds of thousands in crowdfunded donations. In October 2017, Kate McClure ran out of gas on the…

Getty Images/Ringer illustration A Hollywood comeback requires many more participants than whoever’s trying to come back. That’s been true for many former personae non grata, and it has been true so far in the saga of comedian Louis C.K., who this week gave one of his first public performances since…

Gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon, seen at a New York rally on August 16, reopened a debate by requesting a warmer temperature in a debate hall. But there’s a larger issue here. (Eduardo Munoz Alvarez/Getty Images) By Columnist On Tuesday, New York gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon made a…

Photo Illustration/Getty Images As the "comebacks" start, remember that we're doing just fine without these guys. While the tentative comedic return of Louis CK dominated the news yesterday, I’m still stuck on Matt Lauer. The former NBC host, who was fired from the network after over 20 years for…