Month: January 2026

Austin’s legendary South by Southwest Festival is back for its fourth decade, and it shows no signs of slowing down as it enters middle age. We already knew that SXSW…

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is officially heading to TV, with Sky greenlighting an eight-episode series that adapts the iconic Stieg Larsson book. Amazon had been trying to develop…

Every single person who has ever watched a movie knows the bit about Viggo Mortensen hurting his toe while shooting The Two Towers. The fact that Mortensen broke two toes…

Boots Riley refuses to do the normal thing. As front man for The Coup, Riley mixed funk, punk, and rap with stridently leftist lyrics, resulting in a sound unlike any…

The galaxy far, far away is now a bit long, longer ago. Galaxy’s Edge, the Star Wars sections of Disneyland and Disney World, originally only featured characters from sequel trilogy…

This article is presented in partnership with The Perfect Parfait and appears in the new issue of DEN OF GEEK magazine. You can read all of our magazine stories here. When I arrived…

I’m not sure when I first heard this quote, but it’s something that has stayed with me over the years. How do you create services for situations you can’t imagine?…

We’ve been having conversations for thousands of years. Whether to convey information, conduct transactions, or simply to check in on one another, people have yammered away, chattering and gesticulating, through…

In the 1950s, many in the elite running community had begun to believe it wasn’t possible to run a mile in less than four minutes. Runners had been attempting it…

Antiracist economist Kim Crayton says that “intention without strategy is chaos.” We’ve discussed how our biases, assumptions, and inattention toward marginalized and vulnerable groups lead to dangerous and unethical tech—but…