The National Football League offseason is supposed to be a time for players to relax, recover from the brutality of the prior season, and prepare for the next one.
Every January, independent filmmakers try to drum up buzz for their movies in quaint Park City, Utah, at the Sundance Film Festival. If they’re lucky, deep-pocketed movie studios will buy the rights to distribute those films.
Do you have “LEGO building experience” and “a good knowledge of LEGO parts”? Then you might qualify for the job of your childhood dreams: building stuff for Legoland attractions around the world.
The National Football League—a league of men governed mostly by men—now has its first full-time female coach. The Buffalo Bills have hired Kathryn Smith as a special-teams quality-control coach, the team announced on its website Wednesday (Jan. 20).
Ice cream and a movie—that’s how the most prominent couple in the United States got their start. Now that love story is getting the film treatment in an independent drama that depicts Barack and Michelle Obama’s first date.
Long gone are the days when the idea of watching HBO on the internet without also needing a cable TV subscription was considered farfetched. In at least one major market, you soon won’t have a choice—the only way to watch HBO will be on the internet.
Netflix—you want the good news or the bad news first?
They say they’ve cured HIV. They’ve apparently annihilated Ebola. And now, North Korea has eliminated the hangover.
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For the second year in a row, more people trust Google for their news than the news outlets whose articles Google aggregates.
Pizza is one of humankind’s most holy institutions. But now some enterprising mathematicians want to ruin it, in the name of equality.
Briton Tim Peake and American Tim Kopra launched into space only a month ago, and they’re already performing daring spacewalks. The two are—this very moment—replacing a failed power regulator outside the International Space Station (ISS).
It couldn’t happen again, could it? In a year with several brilliant performances by non-white actors—in films like Beasts of No Nation, Creed, and Straight Outta Compton—every single Oscar acting nomination went to a white person.
Making predictions is hard. Most people can’t even predict what they’ll eat for dinner, let alone make grand predictions about the future of technology. Nevertheless, it’s fun to go back and look at a time when someone was so very, very wrong.
Thomas Keller’s Per Se—the lavish New York restaurant boasting $125 tagliatelle made with “shaved black winter truffles from Provence” (where else?) on its chef’s tasting menu—was marched slowly and mercilessly to the meat grinder Tuesday (Jan. 12), when New York Times food critic-turned-assassin Pete Wells demoted the restaurant from four stars to two in a scathingly snarky review.
The strangest story of 2016 just took yet another dramatic turn.
The 2016 Golden Globe Awards were awful and boring last night (Jan. 10). Beer-wielding, nonchalant host Ricky Gervais perhaps explained it best when he said—in all seriousness—that the ceremony was totally meaningless. ”That award is—no offense—worthless,” he said. “It’s a bit of metal that some nice, old, confused journalists wanted to give you in person so they could meet you and have a selfie with you.”
So you’ve decided to watch the Golden Globes this year. Good. Perhaps best described as the “Oscar’s ugly, inebriated stepsister,” the Globes are among the least prestigious of Hollywood’s self-congratulatory award shows, but often the most fun and unpredictable. Love-him-or-hate-him British comedian Ricky Gervais returns to host for the fourth time, and first since 2012, the year when critics decided it was time to take a break from his abrasive brand of humor.
Here are some things 3D printers can build: Working rocket engines for NASA, FDA-approved epilepsy medicine, and, crucially, a model of your face to put onto Lego characters.
Netflix, already the global leader in streaming television, just launched in 130 additional new countries, essentially covering the entire world except for China.
Did you know that black holes can burp? According to the world’s leading space agency, they can. They can also scream, kiss, and smile.
A group of armed militants took control of a US federal wildlife refuge in Oregon over the weekend, pledging to occupy the area until the government gave up its control of the land. The building was unoccupied because of the New Year’s holiday. Some argue that the militants, who are all believed to be exclusively white and male, should really be labeled as domestic terrorists.
Hope you didn’t sleep on Netflix this year.
When ISIL leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi called upon Muslims around the world to join his “caliphate,” Muslims around the world confidently replied that they’d rather do literally anything else.
