Every year at Oculus Connect, the virtual reality company's developer summit, Facebook's footprint gets bigger. That's no surprise: Since the social-media giant bought Oculus for $3 billion in 2014, it's slowly assumed strategic control of the scrappy startup, subsuming it […]
This story originally appeared on CityLab and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The only land route that connects Isle de Jean Charles, Louisiana, to the rest of the continental United States is Island Road, a thin, four-mile stretch of pavement that lies […]
Was there anything more all-consuming in 2018 than television? In addition to the ever-churning 24-hour news cycle, the streaming services all increased their output wildly, cranking out more shows than anyone could ever possibly watch. Cable networks, too, kept releasing […]
Click:Pen bag making machine Nobody scours Central Park looking for drugs quite the way Sean Brady does. On a sweltering Thursday, he hops out of a yellow cab, crosses Fifth Avenue, and scurries up a dirt path. Around us, the […]
Humans dance. It's what they do. Everyone always wants to get some cool new dance move. First there was the electric slide. Yeah, that was cool—but then there was the moonwalk. That was really cool. And now we have the […]
The dogs will lose their minds. They always do. Every Fourth of July in America, as children stay up past their bedtime to watch colors explode in the sky and adults sit on the back of pickup trucks drinking beer […]
YouTube: the platform that made it possible to get famous for videos other than sex tapes. Since its rise, aspiring influencers have performed amazingly stupid—and occasionally clever—stunts for a global audience. Can you tell which of these are legit? (Answers […]
Politics. Aunt Diane’s secret marriage. LeBron James vs. Michael Jordan. Nothing is off the table when families bicker during Thanksgiving—except maybe a thrown wineglass. Grievances are aired, harsh words are said. Sometimes not even pie can soothe the wounds. Such […]
Click:HE5000 As the glam metal band Cinderella once said, you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone. I’m relatively certain they weren’t talking about snow, but let’s pretend they were anyway: Global warming threatens to wreak havoc on snowpack. […]
Of all the shows that have redefined the way we think about television, the most invigorating of them in recent years have been comedies with an existentialist bent. Starting with NBC's The Good Place,1 the subgenre's standouts manage a sort […]