Month: September 2021

Archive PhotosGetty Images Every ’90s kid with even a passing interest in fashion remembers where they were when Cher’s digital closet in Clueless made its onscreen cameo. Like a hoverboard for the Nordstrom Brass Plum set, this technological leap implanted fever dreams in all of us—of an ever-rotating, constantly trackable wardrobe, something a number of
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Doreen* had been bullied since middle school because of her looks. People called her fat and ugly, at what felt like a ceaseless pace. She didn’t feel sexually or romantically desired. Boys didn’t treat her the way they did her more attractive friends. Having a sex-positive attitude was even tougher growing up in a religious
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“I peeked around my camera and saw people running and screaming,” says Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times photojournalist Ruth Fremson, who took the above photo. “I thought, just stay calm—then it registered that the people running were police officers.” RUTH FREMSON Within minutes, they were at the scene—or what was left of it—battling falling debris
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On a hot tennis court one afternoon in Houston, former magazine editor Francine Ballard found herself the center of her friends’ attention, though not for her racket skills. In her hand was a Lucite cube containing a QR code, which itself contained an original work of digital art that corresponded to a gold ring of
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Photography courtesy of JOHN P. FLEENOR/NETFLIX CanadaThe dark Netflix thriller is back, with more plot twists than ever. By Natalie Michie Date August 31, 2021 Facebook Twitter You is not your typical psychological thriller. Since the show’s premiere in 2018, it has taken a unique approach to murder mystery by positioning the predator as the
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Colin Anderson Productions pty ltdGetty Images If you described your car as a smart device, everyone but Elon Musk might look at you askance. But the modern car really is one, points out Ivan Poupyrev: “It has internet, a map, artificial intelligence, and people you can talk to.” Poupyrev, Google’s director of Engineering, Advanced Technology
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