Oh, Foursquare. We’re breaking up. It’s not me. It’s you. I know this may come as something as a surprise; after all I’ve known you longer than I’ve known my wife and been with you more places. I’ve paid extravagant international data plans simply for the pleasure of checking in somewhere. I’ve used…

The Foursquare check-in officially is no more. The newly revamped Foursquare is now a Yelp-like local discovery app, while check-ins have been relegated to Swarm. But the transition to Swarm, which first launched in May, has not been an easy one for Foursquare's base. For his part, Foursquare CEO…

Talk Martin Lawrence Credit... Brad Swonetz for The New York Times The comedian and actor talks to Dave Itzkoff about returning to television and good health — and letting his daughters in on his past. Your new FX series, “Partners,” stars you and Kelsey Grammer as mismatched lawyers working…

1 / 8 Residents of Beit Hanoun evacuated their neighborhood in Gaza on Monday. Credit... Tyler Hicks/The New York Times 1 / 8 Residents of Beit Hanoun evacuated their neighborhood in Gaza on Monday. Credit... Tyler Hicks/The New York Times 2 / 8 Thousands of Palestinians fled the Shejaiya…

White House Memo President Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry and others at a dinner hosted by President François Hollande in Paris in June. Credit... Stephen Crowley/The New York Times WASHINGTON — President Obama had just disembarked from Air Force One and was still on the tarmac in Rome when he…

Video No Credit? No Problem Banks and private equity firms searching for high-yield investments have fueled a boom in subprime auto loans to buyers who can’t afford them, including those who recently filed for bankruptcy. By Axel Gerdau and John Woo on Publish Date July 19, 2014. Rodney Durham…

When I met Jonica Hunter, Sarah Taub, and Michael Rios on a typical weekday afternoon in their tidy duplex in Northern Virginia, a very small part of me worried they might try to convert me. All three live there together, but they aren’t roommates—they’re lovers. Or rather, Jonica and Michael are.…

Style Style Our New Year's Style Resolutions GQ staffers on the closet tweaks they're making this year. By The Editors of GQ 2 days ago View More Don't Miss! GQ Recommends GQ Recommends 11 Wild Menswear Trends to Try in 2020 Kick off the decade with some big swings. By Yang-Yi Goh December 29, 2019…

Credit Photograph by Martin Parr/Magnum. Want to hear my favorite procrastination joke? I’ll tell you later. Piers Steel, a psychologist at the University of Calgary, has saved up countless such lines while researching the nature of procrastination. Formerly a terrible procrastinator himself, he…

You’re probably not getting enough sleep, but you might not be as far off the mark as you think. Most sleep experts would offer that aiming for between seven to nine hours of snooze time a night is optimal for feeling refreshed and productive the next day. In a new report, however, the Wall Street…

Maciek Jasik It's bright but cold and the yellow cabs and skyscrapers are on some Big Apple snow-globe shit—the whole thing looks like a Hollywood back lot. Fifty-third and Fifth Avenue is an aggressively New York corner and one I usually avoid for reasons of: It's gross. At 11 am on a Friday the…

Arthur C. Brooks Love People, Not Pleasure Credit... Andrew DeGraff ABD AL-RAHMAN III was an emir and caliph of Córdoba in 10th-century Spain. He was an absolute ruler who lived in complete luxury. Here’s how he assessed his life: “I have now reigned above 50 years in victory or peace; beloved by my…

It was some time after I had clocked up 10 minutes discussing the business of selling air-conditioning units in St Albans that I began to regret my interest in other people. The setting was a classic social situation. At a recent dinner, surrounded by people I did not know but who appeared to know…

JERUSALEM — The Gaza-based interior ministry advises its supporters in a YouTube video that whenever talking about the dead, “always add ‘an innocent citizen.’ ” In Israel, the message is quite different: Those same victims are described as “human shields” sacrificed by the “heartless” Hamas…

Michael Roston: I watched someone get fooled by a Borowitz thing in the wild this weekend, so read @jwherrman http://t.co/uhua4WYZ6a

The Media Equation Media companies and readers with numerous other options are increasingly passing by print products like magazines, regardless of quality. Credit... Yana Paskova for The New York Times Even if you aren’t one of those people worried about media consolidation — there are many in that…

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Last week, Floyd Mayweather announced that he will fight a rematch with Marcos Maidana on Sept. 13. Their first fight , two months ago, was Mayweather’s closest challenge in years, with many in the boxing media believing that Maidana had earned the decision. And while that bout may have failed to…

By Joss Fong Being pretty pays. Researchers from the fields of psychology, sociology and economics have repeatedly found that attractive people benefit from widespread biases that can translate into big bucks over the course of a lifetime. We made the short animated piece above to show the many,…

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Soon after Maryanne Wolf published “ Proust and the Squid ,” a history of the science and the development of the reading brain from antiquity to the twenty-first century, she began to receive letters from readers. Hundreds of them. While the backgrounds of the writers varied, a theme began to…

The American electorate is often upset, but a recent poll by Quinnipiac University was still a surprise. It had Barack Obama coming in last among all postwar Presidents, twelfth out of twelve. That’s got to be deflating for Obama, although he may find solace in an approval rating that still hovers…

Amazon on Friday introduced a digital subscription service that allows subscribers to download unlimited e-books and digital audiobooks for $10 a month. Credit... Associated Press After months of speculation, Amazon on Friday introduced a digital subscription service that allows subscribers…

Christopher Waller, the principal of Parks, was lauded in Atlanta, and became a minor celebrity of the school-reform movement. Illustration by Oliver Munday One afternoon in the spring of 2006, Damany Lewis, a math teacher at Parks Middle School, in Atlanta, unlocked the room where standardized…

Florencio et al. By now, most readers know the advice cold. Use long, randomly generated passwords to lock down your digital assets. Never use the same password across two or more accounts. In abstract terms, the dictates are some of the best ways to protect against breaches suffered by one…

Tory Burch Fitbit Accessory Collection The Full Collection The Tory Burch for Fitbit collection features two silicone wristband options, a brass bracelet and a pendant. Image: Mashable, Sarah Fisher Brass Designs A closer look at the necklace and bangle. Image: Mashable, Sarah Fisher Tory Burch for…

During a trip to the United States in the nineteen-seventies, the Tibetan scholar, translator, and lifelong meditator Lobsang Lhalungpa found himself in San Francisco’s financial district. Struck by the hordes of rushing bodies, he stopped, turned to his guides, and said, “I don’t see any humans…

Op-Ed Contributor The Benefits of Failing at French Credit... Jason Logan I USED to joke that I spoke French like a 3-year-old. Until I met a French 3-year-old and couldn’t hold up my end of the conversation. This was after a year of intense study, including at least two hours a day with Rosetta…

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This Life Credit... Trenton Duerksen In 1991, I was preparing to publish my first book , about a year I spent teaching junior high school in Japan. Stephen Birmingham, the author of “Our Crowd” and an acquaintance of my parents, offered to give me a blurb but recommended one change: that I drop the…

Almost anyone that has tried to cancel cable service, wireless service, or a gym membership knows how difficult it can be to do over the phone, but a recent call to Comcast by one customer might take the cake for the worst of them all. Ryan Block, formerly of Engadget and now at AOL, called Comcast…

Credit... David Plunkert Vincent Zandri hails from the future. He is a novelist from the day after tomorrow, when Amazon has remade the worlds of writing, printing, selling and reading books so thoroughly that there is hardly anything left besides Amazon. Mr. Zandri, an author of mystery and…

The Miami coastline: there are fears that even a 30cm rise in the sea level could be catastrophic. Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty A drive through the sticky Florida heat into Alton Road in Miami Beach can be an unexpectedly awkward business. Most of the boulevard, which runs north through the heart of…

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Jeff Jarvis: What if the journalism is the problem? http://t.co/20sM5ahMhH

A hipster on the streets of London sports trendy tattoos. Photograph: Wayne Tippetts/Rex Features Meet Josh. Josh is a 30-year-old artist/chef who lives in a converted warehouse in Hackney, east London . Josh has a beard, glasses and cares about the provenance of his coffee. He pays his tax, doesn’t…

The Facebook feed is a bit like a sausage. Everyone eats it, even though nobody knows how it is made. The gap between our use of Facebook and our understanding of how it works, however, is a problem. By now most people are aware of the outrage triggered by a paper in the Proceedings of the National…

Sara Libby: YUP. RT @patcaldwell As always, @MonicaBPotts writes the best #longreads on poverty in America http://t.co/ueGvomG9fE …