Unity was once heralded as the savior of the video game industry. It was relatively easy to use, and provided an engine/framework for multiple games rather than just one. Even as late as the early 2000s, some game companies, especially … Read more
The Church of Complexity There is a pretty well-known sketch in which an engineer is explaining to the project manager how an overly complicated maze of microservices works in order to get a user’s birthday – and fails to do … Read more
… A few weeks before yesterday’s Vastum album debut, I asked the band’s publicist for its lyric sheet. I knew that Vastum’s lyrics addressed eroticism and sexuality, but the lyrics certainly don’t read like most writing on those subjects. Here … Read more
Seven years ago, hype about self-driving cars was off the charts. It wasn’t just Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who has been making outlandish predictions about self-driving technology since 2015. In 2016, Ford set a goal to start selling cars without … Read more
Photo: Matthew Klein Editor’s note: New York’s issue of September 8, 1975 included a cover story about two gynecologist twin brothers who had died under strange circumstances on the Upper East Side. The brothers’ story eventually inspired a novel, Twins, … Read more
The first two decades of the twenty-first century were a period of tremendous optimism about the trajectory of the poor world. If you spent those years as a news consumer in the rich world, it may have been difficult to … Read more
Bobby Azarian is a cognitive neuroscientist, a science journalist and the author of the book “The Romance of Reality: How the Universe Organizes Itself to Create Life, Consciousness and Cosmic Complexity.” Perhaps the most depressing scientific idea that has ever … Read more
This is the tale of what for me was a rather remarkable adventure. It was assembled on the basis of my personal recollection and experience, emails, GPS logs and some official documents. It represents solely the perspective and opinions of … Read more
In August 1886, when curious Parisians opened up the newspaper Le Journal Illustré and read its cover story on “Enfant de la Rue du Vert-Bois,” a four-year-old girl found dead with a single mysterious bruise on her hand, they knew … Read more
