For all the attention paid to ISIS, relatively little is known about its inner workings. But a man claiming to be a member of the so-called Islamic State ’ s security services has stepped forward to provide that inside view. This series is based on days of interviews with this ISIS spy. Read Part…

Aws, 25, a former resident of Raqqa, Syria, used to be a member of the Khansaa Brigade, the Islamic State's female morality police. Her first husband was a jihadist, and when he died in a suicide operation she reluctantly agreed to marry another fighter. Tara Todras-Whitehill for The New York Times…

For all the attention paid to ISIS, relatively little is known about its inner workings. But a man claiming to be a member of the so-called Islamic State’s security services has stepped forward to provide that inside view. This series is based on days of interviews with this ISIS spy. Read part 0ne…

For all the attention paid to ISIS, relatively little is known about its inner workings. But a man claiming to be a member of the so-called Islamic State’s security services has stepped forward to provide that inside view. This series is based on days of interviews with this ISIS spy. Read part one…

For all the attention paid to ISIS, relatively little is known about its inner workings. But a man claiming to be a member of the so-called Islamic State’s security services has stepped forward to provide that inside view. This series is based on days of interviews with this ISIS spy. Read part two…

If America is going to keep existing, then young people are going to have to form households. You can’t sleep on Twitter or take a shower on Instagram or raise a child on Facebook. At least not exclusively. A generation often characterized by its digital connections still has to go somewhere. So how…

Amber Rose promotes her new book How to Be a Bad Bitch on last week in Philadelphia.Photograph: Ouzounova/Splash News/Corbis Amber Rose makes no apologies. Not for her curves, not for her her sexiness, not for her signature peroxide buzz-cut. Spend five minutes looking at Google Images of the…

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Natalie Dormer. Photograph: Julien Lienard/Getty Y ou need to write a whole other article about that,” says Natalie Dormer , sweeping her hair to one side casually, the shaved part of the head she sports as gun-toting rebel Cressida in the Hunger Games: Mockingjay films having completely grown back.…

Facebook M — The Anti-Turing Test Facebook has recently launched a limited beta of its ground-breaking AI called M. M’s capabilities far exceed those of any competing AI. Where some AIs would be hard-pressed to tell you the weather conditions for more than one location (god forbid you go on a trip),…

A few years ago, Esquire put together a list that keeps rising from the dead like a zombie to haunt the Internet. It embodies the whole mission of that magazine so far as I can tell. The magazine’s monthly instructions are not aimed at me, so I know the magazine mostly by the taglines and tarted-up…

f.lux is no longer available here November 12, 2015, 1PM PST Apple has contacted us to say that the f.lux for iOS download (previously available on this page) is in violation of the Developer Program Agreement, so this method of install is no longer available. We understood that the new Xcode…

Living and Dying on Airbnb My dad died in an Airbnb rental, and he’s not the only one. What can the company do to improve safety? Photo-illustrations by Matter T he rope swing looked inviting. Photos of it on Airbnb brought my family to the cottage in Texas. Hanging from a tree as casually as baggy…

Brianna Wu visited Google's office in Cambridge, MA to give practical, no-nonsense advice about unconscious actions that harm women in tech, and ways to start solving the problem. Ms. Wu is one of the leading voices for women in tech, and Head of Development at Giant Spacekat.

Drinking beer isn't exactly tough work, but brewing it on your own can be a disaster. Ex-Microsoft Vice President Bill Mitchell is trying to fix the latter problem with PicoBrew , a company that makes self-contained home brewing machines. PicoBrew's latest, the Pico, uses prepackaged pods to brew…

Our country is convulsing over the issues of diversity and race. Police departments from Baltimore to Minneapolis are talking about diversity hiring as the antidote to anti-black police brutality. Last month’s flash point was Hollywood darling Matt Damon whitesplaining diversity, igniting a…

Truth and fiction YESTERDAY, while General Stanley McChrystal announced a new strategy in Afghanistan (without yet cluing us in to what the strategy is), the White House assembled fifty metrics to measure whether that strategy is working, Anthony Cordesman argued that everyone else should butt out…

Max Martin, pictured at the 2015 Grammy Awards, has written nearly two dozen No. 1 songs, for performers including Britney Spears, Katy Perry, and Taylor Swift. Credit PHOTOGRAPH BY MICHAEL TRAN / FILMMAGIC VIA GETTY Among the stranger aspects of recent pop music history is how so many of the…

Five Years On In some ways, iOS 9 feels like the third and final installment of the iOS 7 saga. With San Francisco, a revised keyboard, and an interface that's been polished across the OS, Apple's new design language has moved past its awkward (and problematic) teenage years to accept its own style…

A Columbia University law professor stood in a hotel lobby one morning and noticed a sign apologizing for an elevator that was out of order. It had dropped unexpectedly three stories a few days earlier. The professor, Eben Moglen , tried to imagine what the world would be like if elevators were not…

Software has been around since the 1940s. Which means that people have been faking their way through meetings about software, and the code that builds it, for generations. Now that software lives in our pockets, runs our cars and homes, and dominates our waking lives, ignorance is no longer…

Freelancers, do these 5 don’ts! “Freelancers don’t get sick.” “Freelancers don’t go on holiday.” Freelancers, self-employed and startup people are often told these supposed rules, and many start believing them. Well, I’m a freelancer and I just came back from a holiday. Before that I happened to…

Leveraging User Behavior to Drive Recommendations Image credit: Paul Butler , with modification Working at Storefront , we’re always excited about new ways we can keep our users engaged. Recommendations or suggestions are a fantastic way for a platform to encourage users to stick around and keep…

T here is no more exuberant winner than Serena Williams. She leaps into the air, she laughs, she grins, she pumps her fist, she points her index finger to the sky, signaling she’s No. 1. Her joy is palpable. It brings me to my feet, and I grin right back at her, as if I’ve won something, too.…

Yanis Varoufakis said, “There are times when you say, ‘I’m not going to sign something I disagree with. And stuff the consequences!’ ” Credit Photograph by Davide Monteleone / VII On July 4th, the night before a referendum asked the Greek people to decide how far their debt-ridden government should…

Quite a few people have been linking to an article on The Verge with the inflammatory title The Mobile web sucks . In it, Nilay Patel heaps blame upon mobile browsers, Safari in particular: But man, the web browsers on phones are terrible. They are an abomination of bad user experience, poor…

Who’s a clever boy, then? Taylor Wilson. Photograph: Jamie Kingham for the Guardian T aylor Wilson has a Geiger counter watch on his wrist, a sleek, sporty-looking thing that sounds an alert in response to radiation. As we enter his parents’ garage and approach his precious jumble of electrical…

I’m sorry, I couldn’t find that. Perhaps you’d like to do a search? Photograph by Donnie Ray Jones , used under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license .

Managing consistent, typographic rhythm isn’t easy, but when the type is responsive, things get even more difficult. Fortunately, Sass maps make responsive typography much more manageable. Writing the code is one thing, but keeping track of font-size values for each breakpoint is another — and the…

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein is generally remembered as a parable about the dangers of scientific progress, and the hubris of tampering with the natural order. It can also be viewed, arguably, as a warning against messing with gender roles. Dr. Frankenstein, a man, seeks to create life, as women do.…