Toggle between pages with these arrows, or use your keyboard (left/right arrows or j/k keys) Use this menu to jump through pages In late 2013, Polygon published “The birth of Xbox Live,” an extensive feature covering the origins of Microsoft’s online service up through the release of Halo 2. Now…

My kid fell down the other day. She said she did, anyway. I didn’t actually see it happen. Sure, I’m skeptical—the kid’s a liar. Say, ask her what her favorite snack is. Did she say blueberries again? Well, she’s never eaten a blueberry in her damn life. A blueberry might as well be a charm quark…

THE FUTURE of the Toronto Blue Jays wakes up in a 1978 Volkswagen camper behind the dumpsters at a Wal-Mart and wonders if he has anything to eat. He rummages through a half-empty cooler until he finds a dozen eggs. “I’m not sure about these,” he says, removing three from the carton, studying them,…

When was the last time you paused between sips of your favorite soda and wondered about that can in your hand? If you’re like most people, the answer is likely never. But that seemingly unremarkable object is actually a marvel of modern manufacturing. It is, in fact, a glorious thing. A few years…

By John Herrman Last month my fourth iPhone in six years was, in medical terms, crashing. The screen, which had pulled away from its glue, was behaving strangely. The charging port, no matter how thoroughly I cleaned it, only occasionally took power. Repair would be expensive, especially considering…

The young woman sitting in a Parisian cafe could be meeting a friend for lunch. Her figure-hugging purple top sets off her dark hair and intelligent eyes, and her hands are heavy with rings. Every so often she glances out of the window, but she is not checking whether her friend has arrived: She is…

If you want to imagine how the world will look in just a few years, once our cell phones become the keepers of both our money and identity, skip Silicon Valley and book a ticket to Orlando. Go to Disney World. Then, reserve a meal at a restaurant called Be Our Guest, using the Disney World app to…

At the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Ninth Street in Brooklyn, the heart of Park Slope’s tree-lined prosperity abruptly gives way to grittier windswept blocks that march south to Sunset Park and west to the Gowanus Canal. Trucks and cars speed down Ninth Street as dusty construction workers,…

This Friday we’ll get to see the Wachowskis’ latest crazy, gorgeous, and mind-blowing epic, Cloud Atlas. Most people know the Wachowskis for the Matrix trilogy, but we think their version of Speed Racer — a dud at the box office — is actually an unappreciated masterpiece. Here’s why. 1. The…

Bonnie Ross is in charge of Microsoft’s biggest video game ever. The women’s volleyball locker room at the University of Southern California’s 10,000-seat Galen Center isn’t the most glamorous green room, but Bonnie Ross couldn’t care less. It’s June 15, and in 30 minutes, Ross, who’s in charge of…

One for the fans There’s a funny thing about fans (whether they’re fans of a sports team, a band, or a particular company or product): they can be hard to please. Google learned this with last year’s Nexus 6. It was a much larger and more expensive phone than the Nexus 5 that preceded it, and there…

From the magazine: ISSUE 89, December 2013/January 2014 In a recent New Yorker story about EDM, there is an aside about the mega-rich Dutch DJ Afrojack in which his cowriter, producing a song while flying on a private jet, requests that Afrojack think about composition not in terms of minutes and…

LAS VEGAS — As I’m writing this, the sun is burning off a thick layer of fog outside my hotel window and ironically Im waiting for the thick haze asssociated with consuming an enormous amount of fireball to wear off. Las Vegas is truly a land of contrasts, perhaps none bigger than the juxtaposton on…

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See Taylor Swift’s Stunning GQ Photo Shoot “That’s a pap,” she says as we leave the restaurant, pointing toward an anonymous gray car that looks like the floor model in an auto dealership specializing in anonymous gray cars. Her security detail suggests that it’s probably not a paparazzo because…

There are more white rappers today than ever, but there still aren’t very many—you can rattle off a dozen if you really try. Yet somehow, white rappers have attracted a disproportionate amount of attention and accolades: from Eminem’s commercial dominance in the early ’00s, to frat rap exploding out…

By Rob Delaney I’m going to talk about comedy here, but it won’t be funny. Or maybe it will be. Or maybe you can blow it out your ass and see if I give a shit, because it’s my article and you’re basically trespassing. Did you think of that? Did you think you were going to just waltz in here and be…

View this image › John Gara /BuzzFeed News Donald Trump is sitting in the passenger seat of a black SUV packed with four well-dressed yes-men — and me — as we wind through the snowy roads of Manchester, New Hampshire on a quiet Tuesday morning in January. He has just finished a series of speeches…

Yesterday, Apple was supposed to release Watch OS 2.0, a new version of the software for the Apple Watch. At the last minute, the company announced that it had discovered a bug that’s so important, it’s postponing the software’s release. Whenever the actual release comes to pass, it will bring many…

Kristen is a technology reporter for Fusion. She enjoys tea, giraffes and the occasional app. The Internet loves an opportunity to feel good about itself almost as much as it loves an opportunity to shame. On Monday, 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed was arrested after bringing a homemade clock to school…

Image via Flickr user Mike Schinkel Two months ago, the Huffington Post made a gimmicky declaration: The news site would be relegating news of Donald Trump’s presidential run to its “Entertainment” section. Back then, Trump’s candidacy was a joke, a “sideshow,” as HuffPo’s editors put it. Today, it…

My wife, Maureen, and I are standard-issue modern parents. Our children are standard-issue twins, a boy and a girl, 3¾ years old. We push my daughter toward the toy trucks and my son can hug all the dolls he likes; nothing is “for boys” or “for girls.” We want them to feel unconstrained by gender,…

Four Syrians explain why they have no option but to take to the sea – and reveal the few things that they will take with them Friday 4 September 2015 05.00 EDT Last modified on Friday 4 September 2015 05.03 EDT Patrick Kingsley and Sima Diab Friday 4 September 2015 05.00 EDT Last modified on Friday…

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Video playback is not supported by your browser wo years ago, around the time that League of Legends became the most popular computer game in the world, chat rooms from Berlin to Beijing started to buzz about a mysterious Korean known as GoJeonPa who was tearing up the online ranks. No one had heard…

Music One of the most successful independent artists of the decade, the Pittsburgh rapper left his hometown only to stumble into a personal rough patch in Los Angeles. Now that he’s kicked some habits (thanks to Rick Rubin), moved to New York City, and signed to a major label, has Mac changed for…

Bernie Sanders, the senator from the very great state of Vermont, is campaigning to be the next president of the United States of America. As such, he is giving speeches throughout the land. This past weekend, his ongoing tour took him to Seattle, Wash., where he stumped in front of people at…

I know the headline may have ruffled your peacock feathers, but please, hear me out. Many men do not know how to have a conversation, and it would behoove our communities, our country, and dare I say the entire human race if this disconnect could be bridged. I’m not referring to suaveness in the…

The common narrative about Titus Andronicus, the one that lead singer and sole songwriter Patrick Stickles can’t stand, is as follows: his bedroom-project punk-rock band rolled out of northern New Jersey in 2008 with their sometimes-sloppy, never-less-than-grandiose debut The Airing of Grievances,…

In the mid-1980s, the easiest way to check out the latest computer games was to go to a bookstore in the mall. Past the John Grisham and the bargain history books in the B. Dalton Bookseller, you’d find Software Etc., a small island of boxes amidst bound volumes, and a few computers on which to play…

This is by far the toughest region of the tournament. SB Nation presents: The bracket of awful Internet things, Midwest Region (1) SOMEONE IM’ING YOU ON FACEBOOK. As most recently passed along by Scientific Podcast Goes Boink: “Twitter is for loving people you’ve never met, and Facebook is for…

Tim Sykes has a lot of advice for the people who aspire to be as wealthy as he is. Today, the chubby-cheeked 33-year-old has a characteristically strange suggestion: self-harm. “I want everyone to take your hands,” he says into the camera lens of his laptop, “and smack yourself in the face!” Sykes…