There’s a moment in James Vlahos’ piece—"A Son’s Race to Give His Dying Father Immortality"—that made me tear up the first time I read it. Vlahos has just finished a prototype of a chatbot that speaks much like his father, […]
A throbbing beat is pounding through my skull while half-heard emo lyrics play somewhere in an abandoned viewing screen of my brain. My hands are numb. I feel jittery, a little hungover, and completely thrilled. Lumines Remastered will do that […]
The biggest question around MoviePass and its $10-per-month unlimited subscription has never been whether it’s a good deal. It's whether—or how long—it can possibly last. But there’s another monthly moviegoing plan that has largely dodged those existential doubts. In fact, […]
Last night, The Game Awards, hosted by journalist and television producer Geoff Keighley, aired on … well, on the internet, streaming on Twitter, YouTube, Twitch, and just about every other platform imaginable. The successor to Spike TV's Spike Video Game […]
It’s hard to believe that it’s only been a few weeks since the release of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, a movie that busted up the box office and has kept fans in heated debate ever since. Yet there's another […]
At the time of this writing, the opening sentence of Larry Sanger’s Everipedia entry is pretty close to his Wikipedia entry. It describes him as “an American Internet project developer … best known as co-founder of Wikipedia.” By the time […]
So, 2017 turned out to be a year with a lot of great cinematic surprises, from the scares of Get Out to the wonderful love story in Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water to the superheroine supersmash Wonder Woman. […]
Tonight, more than 9,000 people will fill Red Rocks Amphitheatre outside Denver to listen to Vance Joy, an Australian singer-songwriter with a name like a game-show host and an abiding love for ukulele. He'll be playing songs from his most […]
When it comes to multiuser virtual reality experiences, success isn't always a matter of numbers. Take TheWaveVR. In the year since the virtual dance party released its free beta on Steam, it's only been downloaded about 30,000 times. Its usage […]
“In today’s networked environment, when anyone can broadcast live or post their thoughts to a social network, it would seem that censorship ought to be impossible," Zeynep Tufekci writes in our special issue about online free speech. But while the […]