Mukbang, or "eating broadcasts," have been big in South Korea for years, so big in fact that you can actually make a living from streaming your meals. Broadcast jockeys, popularly referred to as "BJs," sit before sprawling feasts, slurping their ramen, smacking their lips, and talking to their fans over huge…
Asad J. Malik wanted a way to express what he was feeling and thinking without actually saying anything out loud. Art, of course, has long been a favored form of such expression, but he also wanted scientific fidelity.
Despite its wild monetary success, Pokémon Go has been fraught with problems, causing injuries and even murders since its release last month. Now, the game is congesting a major traffic hub in Canada's largest city.
In what feels like an inevitability, the owners of Pokémon Go have started threatening to sue outside developers for reverse engineering some of the game's code.
It's Thursday night and I'm on the top floor of the Kink.com castle in San Francisco's Mission District. There's a virtual reality porn summit going on, so 70 strangers and I are strapping on VR headsets and immersing ourselves in our own private XXX scenes. Thankfully, it didn't cause a near-riot like a similar event…
When the augmented reality game Pokémon Go launched a few weeks ago, it quickly became a sensation. It was swiftly downloaded by millions of people who began wandering the streets to catch the animated creatures at the center of the game. Pokémon could pop up just about anywhere: in a cop car, in a pet store, in your…
Only three short weeks have passed since Pokémon Go took over our streets, but talented trainers are already looking for new challenges. There are new Instagram accounts that are dedicated entirely to creative Pokémon Go photography, birthing a new genre of cute and hilarious pictures.
Three years before Pokémon Go became a phenomenon-cum-new way for teens to discover dead bodies, the game's developer, Niantic Labs, launched a different augmented reality game called Ingress. Like Pokémon Go, Ingress is played through an Android or iOS app, and relies on players walking around in the real world with…
Pokémon Go may have more people than usual staring down at their smartphone screens, but don't let that fool you: One of the most fascinating aspects of the Pokémon Go phenomenon has been the way it's made people more aware than usual of their surroundings because the gyms and pokéstops that make up the augmented…
Pokémon Go has been out for a little under two weeks, and it's definitely, uh, a phenomenon. It's getting strangers to talk to one another, to stab each other, and to walk the world until their legs are sore.
After leaking the episode briefly last weekend on the various online platforms where their fans are likely to spend a Sunday night, Mr. Robot season two premiere finally aired Wednesday night and what a premiere it was.
Less than a week into its existence, the very popular augmented reality game Pokémon Go has caught the attention of authorities. Police departments have issued warnings asking people to please stay aware of their surroundings, not to walk into traffic while trying to catch a cartoon character on their screen, and…
Pokémon Go is a new augmented reality (AR) game that allows players to wander the world catching tiny cartoon creatures called pokémon. The game uses your smartphone camera to show the real world around you, and superimposes the pokémon on your real world landscape. Released at the beginning of July, it's already been …
Gender is a social construct. Gender is a drag. Gender is over.
Here is a brief survey of the current field of science fiction adapted to film. Jules Vern over 140 adaptations. H.G. Wells? Over 80. Ray Bradbury and Richard Matheson have over 70 each. Mary Shelley has been adapted close to 60 times. Michael Crichton and Philip K. Dick, both in the 20s. We haven’t even gotten to…
When Watch Dogs, Ubisoft's fastest selling video game ever, was released in 2014, it captured the hacking spirit of the times. The game's hacker hero, Aidan Pearce, takes advantage of the connected nature of today's smart cities to wreak havoc in Chicago while hunting down the organization that killed his niece. The…
Today's virtual reality parable comes to us from Reddit's r/virtualreality, where a user with the handle DeadMage shared a story about joining a cult in a VR world. Not a real one, but we'll get to that in a moment.
There is a charismatic man running for president with the slogan, "Help us make America great again." He calls his enemies rapists and destroyers of the country. His opponent calls him a demagogue, a rabble-rouser, and a hypocrite. His supporters have been known to form mobs, get violent and burn people to death. He…
After Saturday night's mass shooting at Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Islamic State supporters changed their Twitter profile pictures to images of shooter Omar Mateen in tribute. Though Mateen appears to have no official ISIS ties, he called police during the attack to dedicate the destruction to the terrorist network.…
If pop culture has taught me anything, it's that computers love a good game of chess. Chess is now comparatively passé in the world of artificial intelligence playing games, surpassed by the more complex game of Go, but it's still fascinating to watch computer chess machines work.
