Photo: Mark Wilson (Getty) It’s been nearly three months since many Google employees—and the public—learned about the company’s decision to provide artificial intelligence to a controversial military pilot program known as Project Maven, which aims to speed up analysis of drone footage by…

What makes the police encounters chilling is how routine they are . They’re sparked by black people going about their everyday lives, only to be interrupted by someone calling the police for the thinnest of suspicions. In the past month, more than a handful of such interactions have attracted…

(CNN) On Wednesday morning, the Senate Judiciary Committee released a slew of transcripts related to its investigation of a June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower between the top brass of Donald Trump's presidential campaign and several Russians, including Natalia Veselnitskaya, a Russian lawyer. The…

Illustration by Luci Gutiérrez Hey, buddy, So great to hear from you. It’s a bummer that we’ll miss you while you’re in town. We’re sneaking away for a little babymoon before Keithlyn arrives. It sounds corny, but we seriously need it. (What do you think of Keithlyn as a unisex baby name, by the…

Of all the buzzy 21st-century tech phrases, “machine learning” threatens to be the most important. Programming computers is slow, but we’re nearing the point where humans give the bots parameters and let them teach themselves. After all, computers can run tons of simulations and figure out the…

Mahmoud M’seddi at his bakery, which he calls a “laboratory,” in Paris. He is the latest child of immigrants to excel at keeping the French baguette tradition alive. Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times PARIS — Beware that basket of limp crust put in front of you. Not all French bread is created…

Maybe it was the slides . Maybe it was the MAGA . Maybe it was the impressively horrible take on American slavery. Maybe the event just wasn’t well publicised. All we know is that for whatever reason, so few people showed up to a Yeezy launch in Sydney, Australia, that the event was shut down in…

The other day, I found myself looking at a blinking cursor in a blank address bar in a new tab of my web browser. I was bored. I didn’t really feel like doing work, but I felt some distant compulsion to sit at my computer in a kind of work-simulacrum, so that at least at the end of the day I would…

As anyone who has fumbled through a sexual encounter knows, real-life sex can be far more complicated than a poster declaring, “ Consent is Sexy .” Many remain confused about what constitutes sexual consent, and talking about it in the moment can feel awkward. On college campuses, a combination of…

I’m about to go speak to NAMI Ohio’s statewide conference, Fulfilling the Promise. These are the remarks I prepared for my speech. Before I begin, I want to warn you that this talk touches on many triggering subjects, including self-harm and suicide. I also want you to know that I’m speaking from my…

Ross Miller / Polygon YouTube was born more than a decade ago with the intention to give a growing online audience a seamless interface in which to upload video — a catch-all that would be defined a few years later by limitless possibilities and star-making qualities. In 2017, Google’s reported…

A scene from Neil Breen’s Fateful Findings / Youtube There’s nothing good about the misogyny of bad movies and their most devoted fans. B ad-movie fans always remember the first cinematic travesty that made them love bad movies. For me? That movie was Squirm . Schlocky, horrendously acted,…

Getty Images/Ringer illustration Kanye West and Donald Glover have fallen into an odd, indirect conversation with one another throughout Kanye’s ongoing reputational collapse. Their interactions have inspired some popular discussion of whether Glover might be regarded as West’s rightful successor,…

President Trump displays his signed memorandum that reinstates sanctions on Iran. (Chip Somodevilla) In retrospect, the era of American hegemony — the moment of the “sole superpower,” when the United States was the “essential” country — was remarkably brief. It began in 1991, with the collapse of…

Columbus Nova has access to billions of dollars, with no need for new capital. So why did the firm hire Michael Cohen as a business consultant for a half million dollars? Photograph by Spencer Platt / Getty After the news came out, on Tuesday, that Columbus Nova, an American company linked to the…

Paul Simon felt grateful. It was March 2001, and the occasion was the 16th-annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, held at the Waldorf Astoria in midtown Manhattan. Along with another honoree that night, Michael Jackson, Simon joined an elite group of artists that has been inducted…

Robert Daly / Caiaimage / Getty Facebook’s chief product officer, Chris Cox, made a remarkable announcement during a keynote at the company’s big conference this week: “The increase in the Stories format,” he explained, “is on a path to surpass feeds as the primary way people share things with their…

On Easter Sunday, as children hunted for brightly colored eggs, adults crowded into stately churches, and 20-somethings celebrated yet another excuse to brunch, I nestled into a large beige recliner at the Studio Movie Grill in Marietta, Georgia. I’d made a 30-minute trip through Atlanta traffic to…

YouTube/Ringer illustration Donald Glover kicked off his Saturday Night Live monologue this past weekend with a joke, a restated grudge, and a multistage introduction that all evoked peak—and also valley —Kanye West. The joke: “I used to live in New York, and it’s so great to be back here,…

Electronic Arts Here’s the story of the unlikely people who made Vol. 2 —and why nothing has come close since. It’s been a decade and a half since Electronic Arts released NBA Street Vol. 2 , the last truly great basketball video game. Even 15 years later, the game’s sense of style and spirit (and…

S ex workers have always been on the cutting edge of innovation. From photography and film to virtual reality, they have discovered new ways to use technology , innovating for both profit and safety. But in the United States, criminalization efforts increasingly attempt to prevent sex workers from…

WASHINGTON — No sooner had President Trump declared that he was exiting the nuclear deal with Iran than Hassan Rouhani, the country’s president, reassured the world that he remained committed to making the accord work — even if Mr. Trump did not. But he also left a vaguely worded, dangling threat:…

The original iMac. (Photo courtesy Stephen Hackett.) 20 years ago today, Steve Jobs (the interim CEO of Apple) stood on the same stage from which he introduced the original Macintosh, and spent the first half-hour of his presentation trying to convince the world that Apple was no longer failing .…

HONG KONG — When Secretary of State Mike Pompeo briefly spoke with reporters on Tuesday ahead of a trip to North Korea, he answered questions about President Trump’s planned summit meeting with the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, with diplomatic platitudes. But his comments, made aboard a flight…

On Tuesday, AT&T acknowledged that it paid $200,000 to Essential Consultants, a shell company set up by Donald Trump longtime attorney, Michael Cohen. The payments were first revealed in a document released by Michael Avenatti, the attorney for Stormy Daniels. In the weeks leading up to the 2016…

President Donald Trump on Tuesday declined to extend sanctions waivers on Iran, a move that signals the end of U.S. participation in the 2015 nuclear deal that saw Iran limiting it’s nuclear enrichment in exchange for sanctions relief and access to global markets. In announcing his administration’s…

Glenn Harvey I could only have seen it there, on the waxed hardwood floor of my elementary-school auditorium, because I was young then, barely 7 years old, and cable had not yet come to the city, and if it had, my father would not have believed in it. Yes, it had to have happened like this, like…

The global economy created a record number of billionaires last year, exacerbating inequality amid a weakening of workers’ rights and a corporate push to maximize shareholder returns, charity organization Oxfam International said in a new report. The world now has 2,043 billionaires, after a new one…

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If there’s one rule of thumb when it comes to the Stormy Daniels saga, it’s this: That which the Trump team won’t fully deny will probably turn out to be true. It’s just happened too many times . The White House and Trump’s legal team seem more interested in avoiding questions and muddying the…

Three ways Bitcoin could be brought down, co-opted, or made irrelevant By Morgen Peck In 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto served the world an entirely new kind of currency. It was one that people could move over the internet instantaneously and nearly free of charge. Issued and distributed not by a central…

Animation Credit: Coleen Baik Over the five years I’ve been a consultant , I’ve seen it all. From the I can get a kid on Fiverr to build me a brand strategy to the clients who worship at the altar of the Facebook ad fairy, a mythical being that delivers passive income while they sleep. Straight…

Syrian refugees could regain legal identities that were lost when they fled their homes A customer pays for groceries at a supermarket in the Zaatari refugee camp. By Russ Jusklaian A few times a month, Bassam pushes a shopping cart through the aisles of a grocery store stocked with bags of rice, a…

Last week, we visited the city to find further signs of recovery as Detroit moves out from under budgetary oversight. By MONICA DAVEY APRIL 30, 2018 Photography by EMILY NAJERA For a while, Detroit was known for vacant, crumbling homes and rock-bottom house prices. I found neighborhoods like this…

Alek Minassian, who plowed a rental van through a busy Toronto sidewalk on Monday, left little doubt as to why he killed 10 people, most of them women. Minutes before his attack, he posted a message on Facebook lauding the mass murderer Elliot O. Rodger and warned of an “incel rebellion” — a…

Eric Lundgren atop a pile of 48,000 “restore CDs” he purchased recently for less than 5 cents apiece. He faces prison for seeking to distribute similar CDs to computer refurbishers. (Eric Lundgren) This story has been updated with statements from Microsoft and additional information about how…