Tech Boot Camp A weeklong series of workouts to get your devices in shape. Photo: Uli Wiesmeier/Getty Images/LOOK Last year, I replaced almost all of the light bulbs in my apartment with smart light bulbs — the kind that you can dim or brighten remotely, from your phone or over a smart speaker. In…

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This article is based on the presentation What The Government Doesn’t Want You to Know About Variable Fonts delivered at ISType conference in Istanbul. It’s a summary of my personal thoughts on recent developments that might have an effect on responsive typography. It is also a collection of…

Ads that automatically redirect you from your daily browsing to a flashy sweepstakes have long been an incredibly annoying facet of the internet. But the versions that have evolved on the mobile web are particularly vexing, because they can trap you with a pop-up “notification” and nowhere to go.…

For the people who have found a home on Tumblr, it isn’t just an app, website or brand — it’s one of the few spaces that helps them to feel comfortable and accepted for being their true selves. Every day millions of people gather on Tumblr to connect with others who love what they love. Over time,…

Photo: Image courtesy of The Athenaeum/Getty Images In a lengthy interview published today , Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg attempted to explain to Recode’s Kara Swisher why his platform wouldn’t ban Holocaust deniers: [A]t the end of the day, I don’t believe that our platform should take that down…

Photo: Getty My own personal Amazon Prime day is in two weeks. It’s not the day that Amazon puts a lot of random crap on sale. (That’s in approximately three weeks.) My day is when Amazon will charge me $120 for another year of membership. That’s $20 more than what the company charged me last year…

“If I had a disciple worthy of the name,” said the 11th-century Indian tantric adept Tilopa to his student Naropa, “he would jump off the roof of this building.” Naropa immediately jumped and ended up in agony on the ground. Tilopa then explained to Naropa how his suffering was due to attachment to…

Renowned Bhutanese lama, filmmaker, and writer Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche on Tuesday issued a strongly worded, heartfelt statement via Facebook titled “Guru and Student in the Vajrayana,” in which he addresses recent public criticism from students over the conduct of the Nyingma teacher…

Ian Allen “They’re a rotten crowd,” I shouted across the lawn. “You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby I. “Love Will Make You Do Wrong” In the waning days of President Barack Obama’s administration, he and his wife, Michelle, hosted a farewell party,…

Photo illustration by Slate. In 1976, the historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich published a scholarly article about the representation of women in early American funeral sermons. It was her first published article, and its first paragraph ended with a flourish: “Well-behaved women seldom make history.”…

KIWI WAS THE gateway drug. Native to southern China, where it was known as mihoutao, or monkey peach, the hairy fruit with the chlorophyll-rich, jade-green interior first started coming in bulk to the U.S. via New Zealand in the 1950s under the name “ Chinese gooseberry .” It made little headway —…

Over the last few months, Select All has interviewed more than a dozen prominent technology figures about what has gone wrong with the contemporary internet for a project called “ The Internet Apologizes .” We’re now publishing lengthier transcripts of each individual interview. This interview…

Dear Fuck-Up, I ghosted a girl I met on Tinder and now I feel very bad, but honestly I think I’m just too messed up for anything serious. Dear Fuck-Up: I got too drunk and cheated on my boyfriend, and now I feel bad. How do I forgive myself and move on? Dear Fuck-Up: I have a friend whose problems…

Gadi Dagon From Arkadi Zaides’s performance “Archive,” in which Zaides dances against a backdrop of video footage of Israeli soldiers and settlers in the West Bank, 2014 In June 2014, after three Israeli teenagers went missing from a settlement, Israel launched Operation Brother’s Keeper, one of the…

A postcard showing the St. Denis Hotel at Broadway and 11th Street, New York City, circa 1908 I am one of the last tenants of the St. Denis, a 165-year-old building on the corner of Broadway and East 11th Street, just south of Union Square in New York City, that is in the process of being emptied…

Burton Malkiel, 84, who long endorsed passive investing, has had a change of heart. Julie Glassberg for The New York Times In his classic 1973 book “A Random Walk Down Wall Street,” Burton Malkiel, a Princeton economics professor, made an assertion that was startling at the time: that “ a…

Rob Abruzzese/Brooklyn Eagle A view from 7 DeKalb Avenue, an apartment tower in Downtown Brooklyn. Eighty percent of its 250 apartments are subsidized units, for which there were 87,754 applications when it opened. 1. New York City is in the throes of a humanitarian emergency, a term defined by the…

Susan Flanders, a retired Episcopal priest in Truro, Mass., believes the aid-in-dying movement may progress, giving people an alternative to Medicaid and long-term care insurance. Erik Jacobs for The New York Times The latest version of the Senate’s health insurance bill appeared on Thursday , and…

When I moved from Philadelphia to Buffalo a handful of years ago, I thought I was pretty prepared for the major dialect differences. Pronunciation-wise, I had steeled myself for the Western New York pronunciation of words like car and crab shack, and I knew I wouldn’t be understood if I asked for a…

In the age of the internet, where anyone with decent wifi has a platform to voice his or her opinion, what it’s like to be a professional critic? We sat down with Emily Nussbaum , Pulitzer Prize-winning television critic for The New Yorker , to talk about what her job looks like in 2017. How does…

Illustration by Cristiana Couceiro, photographs by Shutterstock and Deseronto Archives I used to think the word “feminist” reeked of insecurity. A woman who needed to state that she was equal to a man might as well be shouting that she was smart or brave. If you were, you wouldn’t need to say it. I…

This week’s U.S. Islands special package celebrates the charming, often dreamy life to be found off American coasts and within its lakes. Below, Kim Severson writes about Cumberland Island , Ga., full of charm but not easy to get to. Padre Island, in Texas , offers soft sand and seclusion. The…

In “The Benedict Option,” Dreher says that Christians have lost the culture wars, and calls for a “strategic retreat.” Credit Photograph by Maude Schuyler Clay for The New Yorker Rod Dreher was forty-four when his little sister died. At the time, he was living in Philadelphia with his wife and…

Master of a universe … Illustration by Yann Kebbi for Review. 1 Many years ago, during a visit to Washington DC, my wife’s cousin pointed out to us a crypt on a hill and mentioned that, in 1862, while Abraham Lincoln was president, his beloved son, Willie, died, and was temporarily interred in that…

You probably write on the job all the time: proposals to clients, memos to senior executives, a constant flow of emails to colleagues. But how can you ensure that your writing is as clear and effective as possible? How do you make your communications stand out? What the Experts Say Overworked…

Getty Mark Sanford has nothing left to lose. And he’s here to haunt Donald Trump. By Tim Alberta None of this feels normal. The congressman greets me inside his Washington office wearing a wrinkly collared shirt with its top two buttons undone, faded denim jeans and grungy, navy blue Crocs that…

Vevo , YouTube’s biggest competitor when it comes to music videos, has today unveiled a new tool that lets users create GIFs from Vevo’s massive video library. With more than 230,000 videos, Vevo offers users a wide variety of content featuring musicians/celebrities. Giphy , the platform for all…

The iPhone 7’s powerful new camera features will be getting the spotlight in an upcoming version of Instagram. Ian Spalter, Instagram’s head of design, appeared on-stage at the iPhone 7 launch event to demo the iPhone-inspired upgrades coming to his app. The iPhone 7 Plus telephoto zoom lens will be…

Remy Ma Never Rests A candid conversation with the New York rapper about the women she met on the inside, the person she’s become, and the solo record that will tell all. Story by Sheldon Pearce Remy Ma Photo by Piotr Sikora for VH1 Everyone around Remy Ma says she’s never been better, but she isn’t…

Improv has become the default activity for today’s postgraduate seekers. Credit Illustration by Hudson Christie I thought that I had reached an age at which I could opt out of embarrassing myself in public, but last year, of my own free will, I did something mortifying. I took a series of eight…

Yarn alone makes up half the stock at Cook’s Arts & Crafts Shoppe in Glendale, Queens. Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times The clean, modern lines of contemporary New York are absent here. Shelves and floor space are shrouded in heaps of soft yarn and fuzzy pompoms. Like an overstuffed closet,…

Ending at Midnight: $50K $1-for-$1 Match It's your last chance to make double the difference for birds—and make your deductible gift towards tax year 2016. Donate Apolinar Basora never thought he would get so lucky. He was on his first birdwatching trip to El Triunfo, a biosphere reserve in the…

SALES of facial tissue during the cold and flu season are, appropriately enough, feverish, but not so during the summer. In the four weeks that ended July 12, 2009, for example, revenue for the products totaled $57.8 million, compared with $92.4 million in the four weeks ending Jan. 24, 2010, a…

An image from Petra Cortright’s video “VVEBCAM.” Petra Cortright/Foxy Production In the 1990s, art found a new medium. Anarchic and unconstrained, the World Wide Web attracted an oddball collection of people ready to do almost anything and call it art. Often their work looked weird and amateurish,…

Pipilotti Rist at the New Museum, which is giving its entire building over to her forthcoming retrospective, “Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest.” Joshua Bright for The New York Times The Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist may have been raised in the birthplace of Calvinism, with its reputation for austerity and…

In our apartment in central Beijing, we fight a daily rearguard action against entropy. The mirror on my wardrobe came off its hinges six months ago and is now propped up against the wall, one of many furnishing casualties. Each of our light fittings takes a different bulb, and a quarter of them are…

George Condo, the American painter who collaborated with Kanye West on visuals for My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy , once said the rapper was moved by ballerinas. “Hey man, I'd love to have a great ballerina painting,” he recalled West saying after the painter's wife showed him a photo of the…

A year ago, I lost my best friend, Oliver Sacks. For many years, each week, Oliver and I would cruise north on the West Side bike path at sunrise. Alone, our bicycles a few inches apart, we spoke about everything and anything, but mostly about interesting patients, natural history, and food. His…