Antonio Brown again went after an NFL player on social media, this time trading barbs with Browns QB Baker Mayfield after he referenced Brown in an Instagram comment.
Not My Job: We Quiz Actor Charlie Day On Conspiracy Theories
There’s a well-known meme that shows Day in front of a conspiracy-theory blackboard, so we’ve invited him to play a game called “It’s all connected … don’t you see?”
(Image credit: Joe Scarnici/Getty Images for Vulture Festival)
2020 Toyota 86 gets some TRD goodies – Roadshow
The TRD Handling Package mirrors an optional Subaru BRZ performance upgrade.
35 Reliable Products That We Think You Can Count On
In ‘Rusty Brown,’ Chris Ware Resolves To Find The Good In Everyone
Ware’s new graphic novel follows six extremely ordinary people — a teacher, a bully, a father — and meditates on the significance of their everyday actions, and the webs of connection between them.
(Image credit: Pantheon)
New trailers: Frozen 2, El Camino, and more
I’m filling in for Jake this week, and this is usually where he writes some pithy thoughts about a movie or show that he watched recently. I was really hoping that there would be a new Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker trailer out so I could write about that, but, sadly, there wasn’t. Although, if history is anything to go by, we’ll probably get one sometime over the next few weeks, so hopefully there won’t be too long to wait.
I did watch Once last week. It was very cute, and the music was fantastic. It was also nice to see a movie that didn’t just go straight for a boy-meets-girl love story. Once’s relationship between Guy and Girl was more complex, bittersweet, and honest than that.
Check out nine trailers from this week below.
F…
How to survive the Whole30 challenge – CNET
With advice from people who have been there before.
Fresh Air Weekend: Ta-Nehisi Coates; Music Duo Tegan And Sara
Coates’ new novel infuses the Underground Railroad with teleportation power. Justin Chang reviews Judy. Identical twins Tegan and Sara revisit their teen years and their early music in a new memoir.
(Image credit: Gabriella Demczuk/The New York Times)
Alexa’s real competition is still your phone screen
One of the big themes we’ve been tracking for a few years now is Amazon’s various attempts to make Alexa useful outside your home. Amazon has a very good value proposition for customers inside their houses: Echo speakers are great for music, timers and such in the kitchen, and smarthome controls.
Amazon clearly has ambitions to make Alexa the leading platform for ambient computing. But to do that, it needs more ubiquity than it can achieve right now. That’s one reason that Amazon was so excited to announce a partnership with GM to make Alexa available on those cars. It’s also one reason I was surprised to see the company didn’t announce any updates to the Echo Auto.
But the most obvious way to do that is to be the default assistant on…
Reclaiming Sci-Fi’s Lost History
Many sci-fi and fantasy authors didn’t get recognized in their time. It’s time they got their due.