Messages transmitted between two computers located about 380 miles apart would form the basis of what would become the internet. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Leonard Cohen sings a song called “The Partisan”. It tells the story of an antifascist fighter in the heart of the war against Nazism. Beautifully rendered by Cohen on his 1969 album Songs From a Room ...

“Black Arms to Hold You Up,” the latest salvo from the award-winning cartoonist Ben Passmore, merges of-the-moment urgency with historical fact. By Sam Thielman Sam Thielman is a reporter and critic ...

The U.S. government has shut down for the first time since 2018, as federal funding expired at 12:01 a.m. ET on Wednesday. While shutdowns are rare, they have occurred more often in recent decades.

Whether born in the prosperous capitalist democracy of the south or the communist monarchy of the north, every Korean learns that their country came to be because bears have a higher tolerance for ...

When I was a kid, my parents used to say, “Stop wasting time on those games and do your homework.” Fast forward a few years, and I’m seeing people doing homework for money as a side hustle, with some ...

Detroit-born screenwriter Rob Edwards has written a graphic novel detailing a little-known figure of America’s Black history: Robert Smalls. One Detroit’s Chris Jordan caught up with Edwards at Comics ...

Over 500 million people have played Microsoft Solitaire since its 1990 release as an included game in the Windows 3.0 operating system. In 2019, it was inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame, ...

With the rapid transformation of our lives by AI, one might wonder if there has ever been a societal force that has changed the way we work and communicate. One only has to look back at the last half ...

Through the looking glass: In early 1995, IBM sent shockwaves through the laptop industry with the introduction of the ThinkPad 701, a device that appeared to be just another unassuming black ...

Grace Hertlein’s collection is “a kaleidoscopic snapshot of the early decades of an art historical and technological phenomenon.” Courtesy Sotheby's It’s Geek Week at Sotheby’s—the auction house’s ...