How we went from depressive flannel and fog to anxiously monitoring our heart rates, twirling fidget spinners and streaming into meditation studios.

How does someone get away with helping a foreign adversary? Writer Sarah Laskow digs into the gonzo story of an American acquitted of spying for the Sovietseven after he confessed to it.

Don’t call Heather Erickson a glasshole. Yes, that’s Google Glass on her frames. But she’s not using it to check her Facebook, dictate messages, or capture a no-hands video while riding a roller coaster. Erickson is a 30-year-old factory worker in rural Jackson, Minnesota. For her, Glass is not a

The story of a duel between two men, one who dies, and the nature of the quest to build artificial intelligence

As the R&B legend tours the country this summer, parents have told police that R. Kelly is keeping women against their will in an abusive cult thats tearing families apart

Backstage at the Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio, California, on May 23, 2015, J. was thrilled that her 19-year-old daughter’s music career was going to make a major leap forward from recording demos and performing at talent shows to the chance of stardom — thanks to the help of

A daring experiment builds a new tame species in just 60 years.

Nicolas Cage kept repeating face off so many times we were worried Paramount would change the name of the film.

Yours truly, in a tweet on July 7 : I’ve heard that inductive charging will (a) be sold separately,and (b) might be late, waiting for iOS 11.1 (a la Portrait modelast year). https://twitter.com/ATP_Tipster1/status/883457889729425408 On July 11, Mark Sullivan reported a piece for Fast Company under…

Despite the latest revelations in the Trump-Russia saga , there is still no sign that Republican lawmakers are breaking from the President in a meaningful way. Photograph by Olivier Douliery / Getty Donald Trump is off to Paris, where he will attend Bastille Day eventswith Emmanuel Macron, the new…

The rise of online short-term rentals may be the tipping point that causes idyllic outposts like Crested Butte, Colorado, to lose their middle class altogetherand with it, their soul.

In Pamplona, Ella Alexander found an adrenaline rush, an interesting story, and a side of herself she didnt recognize.

Brickell Heights and Jorge Perez The Related Group and Rockpoint Group satisfied their $160 million construction loan for Brickell Heights, property records show. Related broke ground on the two-tower, 690-unit condo development in late 2014, secured its $160.5 million mortgage in April of the…

Digital metaphors for the human microbiome abets fantasies of reprogramming our guts and rebooting our systems

The White House has been thrust into chaos after days of ever-worsening revelations about a meeting between Donald Trump Jr. and a lawyer characterized as representing the Russian government, as the president fumes against his enemies and senior aides circle one another with suspicion, according to…

Hemingway hid a complex sexuality and a deep trauma behind his outlandish public image

YouTube as a website and community bursts with positivity and good vibes. Its also a cesspool of divisive discourse, which can sometimes turn into harassment. Youll find all that and more at VidCon.

‘Digital truth serum, on average, will show us that the world is worse than we have thought’ Seth Stephens-Davidowitz photographed in New York.Photograph: Christopher Lane for the Observer E verybody lies. People lie about how many drinks they had on the way home. They lie about how often they go

Bitcoin makes it possible to send money around the world with no fees, banks or governments required. Buterin, now 23, has upped the ante envisioning a way to apply that idea to everything else and usher in Web 3.0

To read an annotated version of this article, complete with interviews with scientists and links to further reading, click here . I. ‘Doomsday’ Peering beyond scientific reticence. It is, I promise, worse than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level rise,…

15 years on, Winamp still lives"but mismanagement blunted its llama-whipping.

The cyberattack targeted computers in Ukraine, but collateral damage took down operations around the globe. Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters As investigators continue to gather clues about the cyberattacks that hit computers around the world last week, some big companies and other organizations are still…

Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images From his speech in Poland to his two-hour summit in Hamburg, the president seemed determined to promote Russia’s dark and illiberal view of the world. President Donald Trump needed to accomplish two things this week during his visits to Poland and the G-20 Summit in…

In the last decade, electric guitar sales have plummeted. But why?

Michael Thevis made his fortune by selling porn to millions of Americans in the 1970s. Then a campaign of bombings, killings, and a prison break brought down his peep-show empire.