In the chronicles of Father John Misty, the thirty-six-year-old singer-songwriter whose real name is Josh Tillman, the cardinal psychedelic encounter has him naked in a tree, in Big Sur, in 2010, zonk
Android 8.0 Oreo is the 26th version of the world's most popular operating system. This year, Google's mobile-and-everything-else OS hit two billion monthly active users—and that's just counting phone
On Saturday night, Florida State freshman quarterback James Blackman went from relative obscurity to a name on the tip of every Seminole fan’s tongue. A three-star recruit, Blackman was far from the b
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John McCain, a Republican, represents Arizona in the U.S. Senate. Americans recoiled from the repugnant spectacle of white supremacists marching in Charlottesville to promote their un-American "blood
Earlier this summer Google engineer James Damore posted a treatise about gender differences on an internal company message board and was subsequently fired . The memo ignited a firestorm of debate abo
The work patterns of engineers reveal interesting things about their character, but it’s not what you might imagine. Our Hypothesis: Speedy vs. Bulky To explore this, we started with a hypothesis that some engineers on a team are better at turning work around fast, while others are better at burning…
AMPersand. Posted on 31 August 2017 If you’ve spent any time looking into Google’s “ Accelerated Mobile Pages ” ( AMP ) project , I’m sure you’ll agree: it’s wonderful to hear the AMP team talk about
Sometime late last year, as I was playing a video game named Dishonored 2 , I did a routine YouTube search about how to beat a tricky section of the game. As usual, I found a video to answer my questi
Published in Google Design · 5 min read · Jul 31, 2017 -- Material Design provides a set of tools and guidance to help you make informed decisions about the different UX design directions you could ta
T wo Major League Soccer expansion clubs first took the field in March 2017, both bearing the moniker United. One in Minneapolis, the other in Atlanta – a city in that lower-third of the American map
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge I know Twitter these days can feel like an endless litany of commentary on the actions (and omissions) of the US president and the whirlwind of social discord t
8 min read · Aug 6, 2017 -- You have probably heard about the manifesto a Googler (not someone senior) published internally about, essentially, how women and men are intrinsically different and we sho
I sat down with Kevin Systrom, the CEO of Instagram, in June to interview him for my feature story, " Instagram's CEO Wants to Clean Up the Internet ," and for " Is Instagram Going Too Far to Protect
"Eliminate render-blocking JavaScript and CSS" . It's the one Google Page Speed Insights suggestion that I always get stuck with. When a web page is accessed, Google wants it to only load what's usefu
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Design Matías Duarte's Material World First he brought design to Google. Now, the visionary is subtly shaping our lives. August 03, 2017 Google vice president of design Matías Duarte at his team’s off
Larry Zottarelli, who recently retired from the Voyager flight crew. Credit... Graeme Mitchell for The New York Times Feature The Loyal Engineers Steering NASA’s Voyager Probes Across the Universe As
A rough inventory of July’s contribution to the global collapse of democracy would include Turkey’s show trial of leading journalists from Cumhuriyet , a major newspaper; Vladimir Putin’s ban on the v
Sep 30, 20168min read Write for InfoQ Join a community of experts. Increase your visibility. Grow your career. Learn more Key takeaways Feature flags are a valuable technique to deliver better, more r
On the morning after the election, November 9, 2016, the people who ran the U.S. Department of Energy turned up in their offices and waited. They had cleared 30 desks and freed up 30 parking spaces. T
Toddlers crave power. Too bad for them, they have none. Hence the tantrums and absurd demands. (No, I want this banana, not that one, which looks identical in every way but which you just started peel
Even as President Donald Trump faces ever-intensifying investigations into the alleged connections between his top aides and family members and powerful Russian figures, he serves as commander in chie
Spencer Platt/Getty Images When a Baltimore police shift commander created an arrest form for loitering on public housing, he didn’t even try to hide his racist expectations. In the template, there was no space to fill in gender or race. Instead, that information was automatically filled out: “black…
The Living and the Dead In October, Iraqi forces set out to retake Mosul, one of Iraq’s largest cities and ISIS’s biggest stronghold in the country. It would take them nine months and cost thousands o
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Trump Inherits a Secret Cyberwar Against North Korean Missiles An image distributed by the North Korean government showing the country’s leader, Kim Jong-un, visiting a missile test center in North Py
With President Donald Trump reportedly contemplating radical measures to defend his beleaguered administration from investigation, the United States stands on the brink of a constitutional crisis. Acc
At FullStory, we use Slack for just about everything — including conducting job interviews. It wasn’t something we thought we would do when we first started using Slack. But since bringing chat into our interview process, we’ve found ourselves hiring better people, faster, and with less productivity…
Republicans celebrating the House health-care vote in May. Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images In 2009, David Frum, the former Bush administration speechwriter whose ideological apostasy was in its format
E verybody lies. People lie about how many drinks they had on the way home. They lie about how often they go to the gym, how much those new shoes cost, whether they read that book. They call in sick w
This preview originally published July 17 and has since been updated. Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Head coach : Johnson (71-48, 10th year) 2016 record and S&P+ ranking : 9-4 (45th) Projected 2017 recor
Javier Zarracina / Vox Andrew Prokop is a senior politics correspondent at Vox, covering the White House, elections, and political scandals and investigations. He’s worked at Vox since the site’s laun
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I n the summer of 1977, Bobby Fischer was in self-imposed exile in Pasadena, California. The greatest chess player on Earth at the time, Fischer had joined an apocalyptic cult and covered the windows
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