Once again it’s time to look forward and ruminate on what we’d like to see in the next iPhone.
Inside Jaws is a Steven Spielberg biopic in podcast form
There are a ton of podcasts out there, but finding the right one can be difficult. In our column Pod Hunters, we cover what we’ve been listening to that we can’t stop thinking about.
Steven Spielberg’s 1975 film Jaws is a cinematic classic, a film that set the mold for the modern blockbuster. This summer, Wondery debuted a new podcast from Mark Ramsey, the podcaster who was responsible for two earlier series, Inside Psycho and Inside the Exorcist. Inside Jaws opens with an infamous incident that occurred in July 1916: 25-year old Charles Epting Vansant takes a swim at in New Jersey with his dog, and became the first victim of a series of shark attacks that summer in the area. It was an incident that cemented the image of a killer shark…
3 Required Romances For Your September Reading Pleasure
It’s back to school season, which means required reading — so of course, we’ve got a list of great romances. And they’re educational, too — plenty of lessons about life, love and happily ever after.
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This beautiful map shows everything that powers an Amazon Echo, from data mines to lakes of lithium
We are all dimly, unsettlingly aware that our lives are enmeshed in systems we can’t fully comprehend. The last meal you ate probably contained produce grown in another country that was harvested, processed, packaged, shipped, then sold to you. The phone in your hand is the end-product of an even more convoluted chain; one that relies on human labor from mines in Africa, assembly lines in China, and standing desks in San Francisco.
Explaining how these systems connect and the effect they have on the world is not an easy task. But it’s what professors Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler have attempted to do in a new artwork and essay, unveiled last Friday at the…
Fan Going To See How First Few Games Go Before Declaring Moral Objection To Watching NFL
LAKE WORTH, FL—Preparing to denounce football as a dangerous sport that takes advantage of athletes as soon as he could determine his favorite team had no hope of making the playoffs, local Dolphins fan Brad Abbott announced Sunday that he was going to check out the first couple games of the season before declaring a…
Instagram adds emoji shortcuts for quicker comments
Instagram has added personalized emoji shortcuts to its app, placing your most used emoji above your keyboard when you begin to comment on a post. The new feature was widely rolled out on Thursday, but it has been in public testing since May on both Android and iOS.
That feeling when your favorite emojis are right in front of you pic.twitter.com/QPF8eGc5yD
— Instagram (@instagram) September 6, 2018
The new emoji bar won’t show up in other areas that the keyboard is used, like responding to a story or captioning your own posts. But given the huge number of people that comment with emoji, this should help cut down on the time it takes to post a comment.
The new personalized emoji shortcuts are now available in the latest Instagram…
White House Secrets Top This Week’s Internet News Roundup
Last week the internet was preoccupied with sleuthing who was telling White House secrets.
This Week in the Future of Cars: What Happened at Tesla, Uber, and Chevy this week
Elon Musk is smoking something, doppler lidar helps cars see better, and the Diplomatic Security Service braves Ebola
Female Breakout ‘Captain Marvel’ Screenwriter Is Disrupting The Superheroine Trope
Geneva Robertson-Dworet, who wrote Marvel’s first female-led film, doesn’t want to be a rarity in Hollywood. To advance these dynamic roles, her suggestion is simple: Hire more women.
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‘Ordinary People’ Learn What Happens To Marriage In Midlife
Diana Evans’ novel follows two couples — 30-something Londoners — as they navigate friendship, relationships and parenthood. The goal, she says, was to write “about very ordinary moments.”
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