Month: April 2026

“Play is how we give permission,” says Vitor Freire, co-founder of the Amsterdam-based studio Imagination of Things. “Permission to challenge what’s fixed, rehearse what doesn’t exist yet, and close the…

An even more convenient way to get ice cream.  Whenever someone from overseas raves about Japanese convenience stores, they’re usually talking about the big three – 7-Eleven, Family Mart, and…

Ottawa, Los Angeles and Pittsburgh could be eliminated as soon as this weekend. Let's take a spin through the league.

When you support these cool grandparents, you’ll get a lot in return too. There are plenty of green tea stores vying for your attention in Japan, but right now there’s…

You don’t look a day over 30 lives. On this very day in 1986, a piece of code was accidentally left in the Famicom (NES) version of Konami’s Gradius that allowed…

There was more than one famous Masako at this year’s Spring Garden Party. Every year in spring, the imperial family of Japan hosts a Spring Garden Party on the grounds…

When we consider that enormous metropolises like New York City and Chicago have only come into being within the past few hundred years, it’s impossible not to stand in awe…

Back in March, Firefox 149 was released with many changes, like a free built-in VPN, a Split View that allows the loading of two pages side by side, and the…

KVM devices let you remotely control a computer by capturing its display output and emulating a keyboard and mouse without having a hypervisor in the mix. They are an important…

That Cirelli has become one of the NHL’s premier two-way centers is no surprise to those who have closely followed his journey.