Computers and the Internet

October 14, 2019

Fortnite Goes Dark. Gamers Wonder What’s Next.

If you have an inconsolable gamer in your life, here’s why: Fortnite, one of the world’s most popular video games, has gone quiet. Since Sunday afternoon, […]
October 4, 2019

That Music You’re Dancing To? It’s Code

On a computer, Sonic Pi looks like any other coding language. It’s a mess of numbers, parentheticals, punctuation marks and keywords, splattered over an LCD screen. […]
August 8, 2019

Markiplier’s Work Diary: ‘I Find a Game and I Play It. Not Much to It.’

He’s being modest. (Maybe?) The YouTube streamer — who made a reported $17.5 million last year — has created videos that have been watched 11 billion […]
May 2, 2018

All We Want to Do Is Eat Junk and Watch Each Other Play Fortnite

Gamers are the new stars. Esports arenas are the new movie theaters.
December 20, 2017

Yes Me Can

Advertisement The word “me” has suffered mightily since Tom Wolfe’s rollicking indictment in the pages of New York magazine over 40 years ago. He deemed the […]
November 28, 2017

Finally Putting Some Fun in Erectile Dysfunction

Advertisement To whisper into the millennial’s heart, as the 2017 playbook says, look first to his houseplant. Millennials: They love plants! So when Hims, a new […]
November 24, 2017

Hacks That Help: Using Tech to Fight Child Exploitation

Advertisement Spending the weekend in front of a computer sounds like a nightmare, especially to people who already spend most of their week in front of […]
October 28, 2017

Virtual Reality Gets Naughty

In early 2014 Ela Darling, 31, a pornographic actress, recorded her first virtual reality sex scene. She was in a college dorm room at the University […]
October 28, 2017

Future Tense: Amazon Key Is a Lot Less Scary Than My Post-1-Click Remorse

Future Tense By TEDDY WAYNE I recently bought a pair of sneakers online after some browsing. I knew exactly what I was getting, having owned the […]
September 27, 2017

Kids Make the Darndest Viral Videos

Mila and Emma Stauffer, 2-year-old twin sisters who live with their parents and three older siblings near Phoenix, were sitting on the floor, having a discussion […]