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The short history of podcasts—how and when and why they went from the nichiest, wonkiest content platforms to a star-studded, self-contained media ecosystem with hundreds of millions of dollars in annual advertising revenue—comes down to three turning points, each of which triggered a wave of growth bigger than the last and only one of which…

I press a buzzer on a dingy apartment door, and a single pulsing eye appears on the intercom screen. My voice comes out frail, disappointed, all age and regret. "KPD," says the visitor, meaning Krakow Police Department. "I need to talk to you for a moment." The voice that responds is incoherent, rambling, paranoid. I…

Late last night, Riz Ahmed—who just hours earlier had become the first male of Asian descent to win an acting Emmy, for his role in The Night Of—uploaded a photo to Instagram. “We here,” the caption read; paired with the image of Ahmed, Lena Waithe, and Donald and Stephen Glover all clutching Emmy statuettes, it…

After weeks of near-silence, writer-director Rian Johnson is finally starting to talk about December's Star Wars: The Last Jedi (seriously, for those looking for details on the new movie, there's a lot straight from his mouth below), but never you mind that. Even as Johnson started sharing Star Wars super-secrets, Lucasfilm accidentally stole his thunder…

Happy long weekend, friends. How’s it going? Feeling rested? After last week, you deserve a break. And that's not even because everything that happened last week was bad—Jay-Z did drop a new album to apologize to Beyoncé and Germany did legalize same-sex marriage, after all—it was all just kind of a lot. In other words,…

Billie Lurk, the protagonist of Dishonored: Death of the Outsider, is probably scowling as she breaks into the beauty salon. The place is a front for the Eyeless—a criminal syndicate that might actually just be a cult worshipping a hidden trickster god—but that's not what makes Billie so angry. She crouches, gripping her knife in…

With all due respect to the masochists in the Tour de France, the 2,200-mile bike race is not the most grueling endurance event July has to offer. That honor falls to Comic-Con International: San Diego, in which 150,000 pop-culture obsessives flock to a beautiful beach town—and then head straight inside for four days of panels,…

It’s 8:30 am on a blindingly sunny Texas morning in March, and most of Austin is still passed out. Abdalaziz Alhamza—Aziz for short—is one exception. The night before, the 25-year-old had salsa-danced and chain-smoked into the early morning hours with his fellow millennials who flock to this city each year for the 24-7 party that…

For years, the X Prize Foundation has funded competitions that ask participants to make sci-fi a reality: a device to extract water from thin air, like Star Trek’s replicator; a tool to instantly diagnose disease, like the Star Trek tricorder; a crime alert network, inspired by Minority Report. But for its latest competition, Seat14C, the…

On April 8, French Montana posted a video to Instagram. That alone wasn’t unusual; the rapper uses the platform as a constant promotional tool, blasting photos and clips of the good life to his more than 6 million followers. This time, though, he slapped a new hashtag on the video, in which he held a…