Ross Anderson

Shaking up the mojito

12 September 2024 7:45 pm

Barmen despise making mojitos. The descendant of various Caribbean rum-based cocktails, they only became truly popular in the early 2000s.…

Dyson makes headphones again… and they don’t suck

4 September 2024 2:19 am

Dyson isn’t the first brand that comes to mind when you’re thinking about buying a pair of Bluetooth headphones. You…

Should you buy a folding phone?

17 May 2024 12:47 am

Just five short years ago, Samsung released the first mainstream folding phone with their debut Galaxy Fold. It had some…

Loving Las Vegas

15 May 2024 8:10 pm

After ten hours of flying and too much bad airplane coffee, the beef carpaccio from 8 East at the Circa…

Loving and tweaking the Long Island Iced Tea

15 May 2024 6:00 pm

Want to get drunk, fast? To most, that’s the point of the Long Island Iced Tea. It’s not so much…

The best and worst of the 2024 Met Gala

9 May 2024 6:50 am

On Monday night, celebrities, designers and the highest edges of New York’s upper crust attended the biggest party of the…

The VR and AR arms race

16 April 2024 11:04 pm

You probably don’t remember the Humane Pin, despite its dominating the tech-news cycle a few months ago. It’s an elegant…

Watches & Wonders had only a few truly wonderful timepieces

14 April 2024 1:20 am

Every year, the world’s greatest watch companies and their biggest watch fans head to Geneva for an orgy of horological…

Does Nike hate the military?

8 March 2024 2:36 am

Nike — named after the Greek goddess of victory — is seemingly too scared to be associated with US armed…

Trump’s Never Surrender High Tops embody the worst of sneaker culture

23 February 2024 7:49 am

It was inevitable. Having infected every other part of culture, partisan politics has arrived in the world of sneakerheads. Last…

Could AI ruin the election?

17 February 2024 7:47 am

The artificial intelligence space is strange. Significantly overfunded, overhyped and overcovered — in part because AI can easily produce bad,…

The tech I’m looking forward to in 2024

24 January 2024 3:46 am

The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the first and biggest tech convention of the year, took place earlier this…

Mr. Uygur goes to Washington

18 January 2024 2:23 pm

You’ve probably seen a clip of Cenk Uygur, founder and host of the progressive online news network the Young Turks.…

Visiting Glashütte, the small town in East Germany that has mastered time

21 December 2023 8:00 am

The view from my top floor room at the Steigenberger Hotel de Saxe looked out at the great dome of…

Defending Matthew Williams’s Givenchy

13 December 2023 2:23 pm

Matthew Williams, the tattooed American fashion designer and creative director at Givenchy, will soon be evicted from the famous house.…

The Cybertruck is a dud

2 December 2023 12:56 am

The Cybertruck is here. Finally. Maybe. Sort of. Thursday was the “Cybertruck Delivery Event,” where they finally rolled off the…

The sorry state of Supreme

19 October 2023 2:18 pm

It would have happened on a Thursday, as it does every Thursday. Crowds of young men and teen boys would…

Tom Ford is back (without Tom Ford)

3 October 2023 1:02 am

What happens to a fashion brand when the founder leaves? Or, to be more direct, what is Tom Ford without…

The problem with Burberry

21 September 2023 11:34 pm

It was raining on and off, but that was only fitting, as guests waited for the Summer 2024 show of…

There is no best martini

23 August 2023 6:56 am

What’s the best suit? To an American, it’s something from Brooks Brothers. Classical, democratic and made with high quality. To…

Nothing makes technology transparent again

12 July 2023 4:18 am

Consumer technology is, usually, profoundly dull. I love technology, but even I must concede the undeniable. A new pair of…

Why is Sarah Silverman suing artificial intelligence?

11 July 2023 2:48 am

Crypto was a wonderful Wild West of anarchic financial innovation, absurd idiocy and scamming. Lots of scamming. Then regulators came…

The useful influencers of Shein

4 July 2023 3:33 am

The Soviets had a problem. On March 5, 1940, Stalin had given the order to massacre 14,700 Polish officers, which…

Why Pharrell Williams will make LVMH happy

25 June 2023 8:06 am

Amid the dusk light, there’s hushed, excited chatter. And then drums, lights, and orchestral tones. It’s 10:18pm in Paris, and…

Can Apple make virtual reality relevant?

6 June 2023 7:11 am

Today, from Cupertino, California, Apple held their latest Worldwide Developer Conference Event, and (along with new laptops and software features)…