Input • March 16, 2022 His software sang the words of God. Then it went silent. Who was Thomas Buchler, the late creator of beloved Torah program TropeTrainer? And can anything be done to revive his life’s work? By S.I. Rosenbaum
Input • November 22, 2021 This webcomic made it okay to be sad online. Then its artist vanished. The author of ‘Pictures for Sad Children’ went AWOL after a 2014 Kickstarter drama. In an exclusive interview, she explains why she had to unplug from the internet. By Justin Ling
Input • November 16, 2021 The Bored Apes take Manhattan Members of Bored Ape Yacht Club, the internet’s hottest NFT project, monkeyed around IRL at Ape Fest 2021. How long can the party last? By Jessica Klein
Input • September 15, 2021 Paradise lost: The rise and ruin of Couchsurfing.com The once-utopian accommodations site, now headed by an alum of surveillance-analytics firm Palantir, has gone back on its always-free ethos. By Andrew Federov
Input • July 8, 2021 Finally, the truth behind the ‘haunted’ Dybbuk Box can be revealed The ‘cursed’ cabinet inspired a Hollywood film and spooked Post Malone. Now the man who first sold it on eBay in 2003 is coming clean. By Charles Moss
Input • May 16, 2021 All hail King Pokémon! Gary Haase has amassed the world’s most expensive Pokémon card collection, valued at over $10 million. So why isn’t he cashing in? By Brendan Bures
Input • April 22, 2021 Sex dolls are the new influencers Synthetic women are “running” their own Instagrams. There’s money to be made, sure, but what their human partners want most is respect. By Jessica Lucas
Input • March 4, 2021 I have one of the most advanced prosthetic arms in the world — and I hate it Being a cyborg is cool right now, thanks in large part to gee-whiz media coverage. But actually using a bionic arm can really suck. By Britt H Young
Input • February 6, 2020 The high-tech secret behind the stunning cinematography of ‘Uncut Gems’ How did the Safdie brothers keep a perpetually moving Adam Sandler in focus? With a device called the Light Ranger 2. By Charles Bramesco
