Inside the studio where ESPN is betting billions on the future of sports "Oh my goodness," NBC football analyst Cris Collinsworth shouts into his headset mic over the roar of the MetLife Stadium crowd
The Web’s Grain A view on designing for the web This site is an interpretation of my talk from Webstock, 2015. It is a companion to What Screens Want , a previous essay on designing natively for screens. Can I play something for you? Trust me: it’s totally worth it. Oh, and while you’re listening,…
200,000 brave and/or insane people have supposedly signed up for a one-way mission to Mars. But the truth about Mars One, the company behind the effort, is much weirder (and far more worrying) than an
I. Launch Day “So much of our manufactured environment testifies to carelessness,” Ive says. Things are “developed to be different, not better.” Photograph by Pari Dukovic In recent months, Sir Jonath
Theo Padnos. Credit... Andrea Modica for The New York Times In the early morning hours of July 3, one of the two top commanders of Al Qaeda in Syria summoned me from my jail cell. For nearly two years
When you get right down to it, even a mega-million-dollar international criminal caper is mostly boring shitwork. As Frank Bourassa tells it, his own criminal masterpiece hinged on the events of one m
Why does my only option for long-term birth control have to involve cutting open my ballsack? The doctor gives my scrotum a firm tug, stretching the skin flat. “This is where I would punch the hole,”
At around 8:30am on the morning Dante Orpilla planned to pay back the woman who had saved his life, he made a phone call. Scenarios about the way things were about to play out had been running through his head all morning, but he kept the conversation short. “If we want to do this,” he said to the…
On Wednesday afternoon, Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson reached the top of El Capitan, the massive naked granite centerpiece of Yosemite National Park. The pair spent 19 days climbing a sheer rock f
Op-Ed Contributor I Owe It All to Community College Credit... Maëlle Doliveux IN 1974, I graduated from Skyline High School in Oakland, Calif., an underachieving student with lousy SAT scores. Allowed
Terrorism persists because terrorism works. Terrorism works because we let it. It takes a great deal of violence to wipe out an army. But it only takes a tiny bit of violence to instill a sense of fea
PARIS—Following the fatal terrorist attack Wednesday at the offices of French newspaper Charlie Hebdo , sources confirmed this afternoon that it is sadly not yet clear whether this very article will u
Welcome to the Revenge of '90s Internet The '90s are back. They’re back in fashion, they’re back in music, and they are most certainly back in technology. In a way this makes sense; the top end of the
A Holiday Confession My life as a fake Internet “War on Christmas” meme Steven Levy Dec 17, 2014 · Unlisted Many people contend that Thanksgiving is the official kickoff of the holiday season. Others
Sal DiVita, the lead artist and game designer at video game maker Midway, was suplexing his co-worker. A big pro wrestling fan, he was having a bit of fun in the motion capture room after miming tackles for the animations of the company's upcoming video game, NFL Blitz . He'd mix in elbow drops, leg…
Illustration by Morgan Schweitzer for BuzzFeed It’s a sweaty July day, and Rick Dyer is in his tank-like Toyota, barreling down a highway just south of Atlanta. It’s a comically oversize SUV, with a r
Photo This month, Jaden (left) and Willow Smith both released new abums. Credit Nathaniel Wood One of the gifts of being young is that particular blend of self-confidence and self-consciousness. Jaden
I confess to being bewildered, still, by what is often said to be the greatest game of StarCraft II ever played. Fall, 2013. New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom. Scarlett vs. Bomber. Third game in a best-of-three series, a quarter-final in a tournament sponsored by Red Bull. It lasted about forty…
Op-Ed Contributors Why Our Memory Fails Us Credit... Johnny Selman NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON, the astrophysicist and host of the TV series “Cosmos,” regularly speaks to audiences on topics ranging from cosm
“The presentation was just okay. They take you and the rest of your group to this little room, and I’m expecting levers and flashing lights and science stuff, but it looks pretty much like a big ski l
Op-Ed Contributor The Battle Over Dress Codes Credit... Ana Benaroya BERKELEY, Calif. — IN the Bay Area, the last week of school is a time to dig out cozy jackets and socks, but this year our natural
Christopher George for BuzzFeed It is 7 a.m. on a Monday morning, and I am sat at my kitchen table in my pyjamas, grumpily. I am on a conference call with approximately five strangers, and we are laug
Published in the September 2013 issue Our new hundred-dollar bill, like every other single piece of American folding money, is born in this rotary boiler. It's a perfect sphere, an angry kettle fiftee
The NFL is Running a Billion-Dollar Con The welfare kings of the NFL are laughing all the way to the bank, and you’re not in on the joke. October 16, 2013 , C hances are good that you or someone you k
Darren Braun Every year, thousands of teenagers move to the United States from all over the world, for all kinds of reasons. They observe everything in their new country with fresh eyes, including bas
The period was always the humblest of punctuation marks. Recently, however, it’s started getting angry. I’ve noticed it in my text messages and online chats, where people use the period not simply to
Loading... Compensation 8.95 Buy Copies Loading... It wasn’t that long ago that in most companies, especially large ones, a fair amount of time was spent worrying about whether the company’s practices
Early in Spike Jonze’s film Her , Joaquin Phoenix’s character gazes out his Los Angeles window. As the camera pans, we see not a squat, sprawling metropolis, but a golden-lit landscape of skyscrapers
In early 2005, Josh Demmitt arrived at a federal prison camp, in Sheridan, Oregon, to serve a thirty-month sentence for starting a fire outside an animal-testing facility at Brigham Young University. The nineteen-year-old received a warm welcome from his fellow inmates, who greeted him with coffee…
Last month, Isaac Fitzgerald, the newly hired editor of BuzzFeed's newly created books section, made a remarkable but not entirely surprising announcement: He was not interested in publishing negative
In a perfect storm of corporate greed and broken government, the internet has gone from vibrant center of the new economy to burgeoning tool of economic control. Where America once had Rockefeller and
Jon Evans Contributor Jon Evans is the CTO of the engineering consultancy HappyFunCorp; the award-winning author of six novels, one graphic novel, and a book of travel writing; and TechCrunch's weeken
For the first time this week, I’m angry. Like, Hulk angry. Maybe it’s all that burnt drive-through coffee I’ve been drinking. Or the lack of sleep. But my patience is wearing thin—as thin as the fabri
What does the word “lobbying” connote? Maybe a smoke-filled room somewhere, or multi-course meals, charged to an expense account. Well, “government affairs professionals,” as they like to call themselves, say the job has changed. “I think there is less golf and there are fewer martinis than ever…
In 2004, UPS announced a new policy for its drivers: the right way to get to any destination was to avoid left-hand turns. Even if that means following this route that a UPS driver described to an inc