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.
Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday defended her exclusive use of a private email address during her time as secretary of state, saying that she did so as a matter of “convenience,” to make life simpler by using one device and one email account.
You’re embarrassed to send people a link to your website. You hide it from friends and loved ones. You know you need help but you’re not sure who to turn to. Shhh, it’s okay — Creative Market is here for you. Admitting you’ve hit design rock bottom is the hardest part. It gets easier from here, we promise.
The harsh reality is that America's internet is still fundamentally broken, and there's no easy fix.
An unwrapped moist towelette branded with the Malaysia Airlines logo has been found on a beach in West Australia — and it's now being tested to see if it is the first confirmed piece of evidence from the airline's missing plane.
The extraordinary life of Janet Vaughan, who changed our relationship with blood.
There are many good and proper ways to eat dates; they are a versatile food.
This is what it must be like to be eaten by an amoeba.
A federal jury on Tuesday found that Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams lifted "Blurred Lines" from Marvin Gaye's "Got to Give It Up" — but they didn't do it on purpose — and awarded more than $7.4 million to Gaye’s children Nona, Frankie and Marvin III.
It's not that hard to score bud with the right amount of finesse. Come with me as I guide you on a keef-paved road to sparking up.
"If I could give them no stars, I would."
If you came of high-school age in Southern California in or after the nineties and spent any time in shopping malls, chances are you celebrated a birthday or driver’s license over barbecue-chicken pizza from California Pizza Kitchen.
The fact that Yellow Tail has only been on the market for about 14 years is probably very surprising to anyone who came of drinking age in the early 2000s.
The Warburg is Britain’s most eccentric and original library. Can it survive?
The authorization makes Michigan State Police the first law enforcement agency to be given statewide license to use drones by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The FAA had only previously granted the licenses to a few municipalities around the country.
HBO’s wildly popular fantasy show will air, as usual, on Sundays at 9pm in New York — which is also Mondays at 2am in London, 9am in Hong Kong, and noon in Auckland. Unusual times to watch a television drama, to be sure, but it will please some fans who can’t wait.
The easiest way to magically* be a total dick to your friends, and then probably pocket their money.
There's a little Lewis Black inside all of us. He's tiny and red and constantly screaming.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel told supporters that there is “a tremendous effort, worldwide, to topple” him as Israelis head to the polls next week, according to an audiotape broadcast Tuesday on Army Radio.
The film will be a mix of CGI and live action.
Louisiana tried to sentence five men to death for the murder of a prison guard. It wasn’t cheap.
"Top Gear" host Jeremy Clarkson suspended by the BBC "following a fracas" with a producer.
The dogs were able to identify the differences between cancerous and non-cancerous samples in 30 of 34 cases.
A century ago, the sea otter was almost wiped out. Now, after decades of conservation, one hunter is trying to bring its fur back into fashion.
For the next 24 hours, a host of Class A drugs are legal (or else in a legal quandary) in Ireland due to an accidental loophole in drug laws.
Today we saw an aging pop singer do unspeakable things to a printer, and it was glorious.
Daniel Vaughn will soon visit his one thousandth barbecue joint in eight years — that’s one thousand different places, not one thousand total barbecue meals.
The second season is just a first act in Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson’s plan for world domination.
A generation living beyond its means is waiting for the biggest transfer of wealth in human history. Some are waiting more patiently than others.
And so did Hansel. Quite the buzzmarketing for the upcoming "Zoolander" sequel.
In May 2010, a whale showed up on the wrong side of the world.
CGP Grey breaks down how ideas are like a contagion, which emotions make us share things, and why rage can form a balanced ecosystem.
Rude in Tokyo, rude not to in New York — tipping mystifies tourists, economists and anthropologists. Should we stop?
To find the best selfie stick, we put in 20 hours of research, brought in 20 testing models, and took dozens of selfies in various conditions, including frozen-over Niagara Falls.
Like a freshly-minted grad with a liberal arts degree, ViralNova is moving to New York City and working in sponsored content.
For the first time in a decade, astronomers have found new dwarf galaxies — ones with just billions of stars or even less compared with the hundreds of billions in our own — orbiting the Milky Way. And they've found nine of them.
The story of your life, told with alcohol.
I owed about $2,000 in state taxes which I can easily pay out of savings. But I also considered another option: paying the taxes owed on a credit card that offered reward points. This could be an easy way for someone who regularly pays off credit cards to rack up some points to put towards a future trip, right? Not exactly.
If you're not speaking up, you're not helping anyone.
Photographer Liza Van Der Stock’s intimate project about a porn-producing family in Flanders was shortlisted for the 2015 Sony World Photography Awards.
As Moore's Law has packed more and more transistors onto a single memory chip, scientists have fretted for years that electric charges that “leak” out from those tiny components might cause unpredictable errors in neighboring semiconductors.
An innovative company, a last-century idea. Will Apple become the new Ford?
Two independent investigations suggest hallucinogens like LSD are not linked to psychological problems and may actually confer certain benefits.
Watching reruns of M*A*S*H in 8-bits seems like a really terrible way to enjoy Alan Alda's comedic timing, but it's a wonder these guys could even make this hack work.
The original Barbie was based on a German cartoon call girl.
On the plus side, a grain silo doesn't have any annoying push notifications.
Two new "blue books" help enthusiasts track prices for white-whale whiskeys on the secondary market, raising questions about the true value of rare bottles.
"Today, we’re filing a lawsuit against the National Security Agency to protect the rights of the 500 million people who use Wikipedia every month."
The Museum of Stolen Art seeks to archive some of these lost works via a virtual museum exclusively dedicated to pieces currently MIA. Two of the first scheduled exhibits include works lost in the looting of Afghanistan and Iraq.
Like Uber, Instacart and Seamless, ClassPass offers a considerable leap in efficiency and convenience, paired with a price cut that seems too good to be true.
Tearing apart the products of U.S. manufacturers and potentially putting backdoors in software distributed by unknowing developers all seems to be going a bit beyond "targeting bad guys." It may be a means to an end, but it’s a hell of a means.
Tony Robinson was diagnosed with ADHD and depression and experienced a "chaotic’ environment," court documents filed last year reveal.
A renewed focus on the value of music comes as a transition point for the record business.
In a stunning global expansion, the Swedish home furnishings giant has been quietly planting its blue and yellow flag in places you’d never expect. Pay attention, Wal-Mart: You could learn a few things.
What happens when running dialogue with a friend who’s always online replaces solo reflection?
There is something conceptually funny about the product that Apple has engineered. We are talking about an 18-karat gold watch that, to quote one of the company's patents, uses "as little gold as possible."
Those black and white photos of the Selma march? Good chance John Lewis is in many of those, standing side by side with Dr. King. He's what you'd call, in congressional terms, a bonafide badass.
New Orleans is selling almost 1,800 properties on the Web to fatten its tax coffers and build on the momentum it's enjoying in the local real estate market.
It seems buffalos are friendly and docile, just like a dog. A dog with a monstrously long tongue.
Whatever your personal feelings about Earth's most powerful beasts may be, there's no denying their critical importance to our planet.
Brave stuntmen have long been riding the near-vertical walls of India's Well of Death — but the popular spectacle is on the decline.