“When your robotic lover tells you that it loves you, should you believe it?” —“Robots, Love, and Sex: The Ethics of Building a Love Machine,” IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (2012) Late June. Sweltering, airless English summer heat. 4,165 days […]
The internet, you have undoubtedly heard, is bad for your brain. It can be especially damaging for those struggling with mental illness. Trolls are everywhere. Searching for information about your struggles may lead you into dark places. Websites that promote […]
Each year, more comics hit the shops than any one person could ever read. And while the splashy superhero titles are (somewhat) easier to keep up with, finding all of the great hidden gems each year is tough. We're here […]
Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is not going to be president. That much, at least, is clear, despite the outsize coverage of his apparent intentions to run. But in the three days—has it really only been that long?—since Schultz first […]
Samantha Bee has a problem: 54 percent of her audience isn’t registered to vote. Yes, more than half of the people who watch Full Frontal—a group that ought to know a thing or two about politics in America by now—never […]
Remember that Saturday Night Live bit from last year when "Steve Bannon" (someone in a Skeletor-faced Death costume) sent "President Trump" (Alec Baldwin) to a smaller kids’ desk in the Oval Office? the name may not have been on the […]
Greetings, fans! Seeing as this will likely be the last Cantina Talk news roundup before the new year, it seems only right that we end 2018 the same way it began: Feeling sorry for the people involved with Solo: A […]
Leonard is a private investigator who's experimented with LSD and loves oysters. He lives in NoLita, a fashionable downtown Manhattan nabe, and his wife of 34 years, Susan, died of cancer three years ago. "It was one of those storybook […]
Once again, the country seems divided. This time, it’s not a border wall or a health care proposal driving the animus, but an online ad for a men’s razor, because, of course. But underneath the controversy lies something much more […]
So, there was no Super Bowl trailer for Star Wars: Episode IX, despite relentless anticipation and hunger for one. Yet, considering things are quiet—suspiciously, painfully quiet—in the galaxy far, far away right now, that's not terribly surprising. Seriously, what is […]