Tag: CULTURE

In his time on stage at Apple’s annual developer conference yesterday, Craig Federighi did many of the things that people have come to expect of the company’s senior vice president of software engineering. He wore a blue shirt. He said "isn’t that amazing?" a lot. He undertook a demo with an oddly personal touch—in this…

It’s hard to believe that when Jurassic World arrived two summers ago, the movie seemed like a Tyrannosaurus-sized risk: The last film in the series, 2001’s Jurassic Park III, was a regrettable, forgettable mishmash of weirdo ideas (like the talking-Raptor dream sequence) and familiar-feeling action scenes, and sent the once-stomping franchise out with a limp.…

#DrakeSZN, and thus the promise of summer, commenced last Friday. Of late, the music industry has flirted with the idea of thrift, but Drake is a showman with a distaste for restraint: Scorpion, his fifth solo effort, embraces immoderation, a two-disc, 25-track affair that runs an obnoxious 90 minutes in full. It’s a mega-production that…

Back in the last presidential campaign season, reporters on the tech and politics beats began noticing a rise in far-right memes that supported Trump. Memes being memes, these seemed initially like weird, off-color jokes. They wondered: What the hell is going on? Was this shitposting ironic or serious? Or both? Either way, it seemed newsworthy.…

Of all the faces that smiled from the screen during the 90th Academy Awards’ “In Memoriam” segment on Sunday night, the one that made me sigh the loudest was that of George Romero. The director of such horror classics as Night of the Living Dead died last summer at the age of 77, but I…

There are just three giant robots standing between a posse of massive bugs and the end of the world. At my command, my flagship mech, a brawler, zooms forward, punching one of the massive creatures in its ugly face, sending it careening into the sea. Then more bugs show up, and before I can figure…

Ever since last week's school shooting in Parkland, Florida left 17 people dead, much of the internet's attention has been focused on that tragedy. But that hasn't been the only thing taking up bandwidth. For one thing, there was internet uproar over a New York Times op-ed writer, Mitt Romney making his expected, if not…

Every year important movies come to the Sundance Film Festival. Documentaries about global warming, narrative features about the trials of incarceration, stories of marginalized communities—they’re all screening from sunup to sundown. Yet this year’s Sundance lineup might be its most crucial, and timely, yet. Related Stories That’s because at a time when less than 5…

Uber knows where you live and work; Amazon tracks your spending habits; Facebook logs your Likes. But Postmates—the refuge of homebodies, impulse shoppers, and the lazy, hungry masses—understands the real you: your moods, your flings, your celebrations, and your munchies. We tapped a team of data scientists at the anything-goes delivery company to reveal our…

The road to dystopia is paved with errors. It winds and undulates, and its off ramps include avoidable catastrophes like Madmaximum, where a boneheaded energy policy un-terraforms Earth, and the suburban nightmare of the Handmaid’s Vale, with all its orderly fascism. But honestly, the destination that freaks me out the most is the collection of…