New York City’s 432 Park Avenue, the tallest residential building in the western hemisphere (although it won’t be for long, with the nearby Nordstrom Tower scheduled to open in 2018), is nearing completion. It has reached its peak height of 1,398 feet, and will officially open for tenants some time next year.
Researchers at Stanford University have developed the Minority Report for battery fires.
Inevitably, perhaps, conspiracy nuts and internet trolls have emerged from under their rocks to attack Pakistani Nobel Peace Prize recipient Malala Yousafzai.
Of all the cool gadgets in science fiction, one of the niftiest is the memory-eraser stick that Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones wield in the movie Men in Black.
Patrick Modiano, a French writer renowned for his novels about memory and identity, has been awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature. He’s the 11th French writer to win, the most of any other country.
Toshiba revealed its new “communication android” at CEATEC this week, adding it to the growing list of Japanese eldercare robots.
The medical drama. The courtroom thriller. The detective series. Because there are apparently no other interesting human professions, the newest overplayed trope in broadcast television is to go superhuman.
Popular sentiment has long maintained that smoking cannabis is a relatively safe activity. Now, a 20-year research study argues the opposite.
One prominent member of the Taliban might want to consider finding a new place of refuge.
“Convenience” has long been the defense of people who illegally download movies and television shows for free on the internet. If you live in the US, it’s time to admit you’re probably doing it for other reasons.
Your smartphone probably isn’t bent, but it very well may be damaged in other ways. Join the club.
Movie directors are swarming to the small screen, where networks are allowing them to have more and more creative control with which to imbue TV shows with their distinctive styles.
The last thing hedonists participating in Oktoberfest this week need to hear is that beer can make you smarter. While that’s not true—as far as we know—new research suggests that a certain compound found in one of the main ingredients of beer can actually improve cognitive function.
If you’re in need of a deranged, psychotropic jump-start to your weekend, an enigmatic Korean music producer has you covered.
Apple customers may be feeling especially protective of their personal information, given the recent questions surrounding the iCloud’s security. What then to make of QuickType, Apple’s new predictive text keyboard for iOS8?
Mr. Eko, the Nigerian drug lord turned priest, would say that the story of Lost’s creation was not coincidence, but fate.
If you’re in the market for a quirky historic artifact to show off to your friends (and have a lot of money to spare), look no further than Boston-based RR Auction, which will be auctioning away an extremely rare piece of space history this week, among other intriguing items.
You’d think Twitter would offer an outlet for female sports broadcasters to actually talk about sports.
While many of TV’s best scenes feature no music or merely ambient sounds, a smart song selection can turn what would be an otherwise ordinary moment into an extraordinary one.
In the first season of Mad Men, Don Draper ruminated on the potency of nostalgia as he pitched an ad campaign for a new Kodak projector. “It’s a twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone,” he said. “It takes us to a place where we ache to go again.”
American sports haven’t had a great summer. Football—the most popular American sport—has been mired in controversy for years, and the NFL routinely chooses to deny problems exist, because, well, money. None of these issues are going away anytime soon.
Chances are that if you are a regular Netflix user, you often wish you could adjust the quality of your video stream. While you could always go into your account settings and change your streaming quality—auto, low, medium, or high—there’s an even more precise way to do so without ever leaving the video you’re watching.
AMC is at a crossroads. With the legendary Breaking Bad gone and Mad Men midway through its final season, the US cable network is in dire need of a prestige-boost. It still has the enormously popular zombie show The Walking Dead (and will for the foreseeable future) but it has very little to hang its hat on besides that.
It’s certainly no secret that the History Channel (now called just History) moved away from historical programming a long time ago. Like nearly every other American cable channel, it succumbed to “channel drift”—due, in part, to the reality-TV boom of the early 2000s—and lost its identity as cable’s sanctuary for history buffs. Today, it’s perhaps known best as a sanctuary for aficionados of alligator-hunting and ice-road trucking.
