If 2016 was the year of “Uber for X,” 2017 was the year of Silicon Valley “inventing” things.

Need to buy a board game? Our 2017 guide has you covered.

Bill Gates shares five amazing books he read in 2017 including “The Best We Could Do” by Thi Bui, “Evicted” by Matthew Desmond, “Believe Me” by Eddie Izzard, “The Sympathizer” by Viet Thanh Nguyen, and “Energy and Civilization” by Vaclav Smil.

It’s been a damn good year for video games. The arrival of new consoles like the Nintendo Switch and Xbox One X has ushered in a slew of new games, from long-awaited sequels to stunning open world adventures. Here’s a look at TIME’s top picks of the year.

Technology companies like Apple, Samsung, Microsoft and more are constantly finding new ways to improve their cutting-edge products, whether it’s with stunning new hardware designs, useful software improvements, or by coming up with entirely new products we didn’t even know we wanted.

Blogging, though fun, can involve a lot of work so it's smart to use browser extensions to make your job easier. Here are 10 of the best ones out there.

Hard to believe that after Wham disbanded, but George Michael never had a number one in the UK as a solo artist – all his previous trips to the top had been duets. That all changed this year as he bought out his third album Older, arguably his strongest record in his career with a good mixture of strong up-tempo tracks and ballads. Leading the way was Jesus to a Child, which competes strongly with Father Figure as the best of his best ballads.

It’s hard to believe that it’s been nearly three decades since Marge first stepped out from behind that curtain to warn viewers about the spooky scenes they were about to witness. But that warning started a proud, hilarious tradition for The Simpsons, and 28 seasons later, the show has offered a triple-dose of tales to fright and delight featuring Our Favorite Family each and every year. The Treehouse of Horror Halloween specials allow The Simpsons to spoof classic movies, indulge in a little blood and guts, and have some macabre fun in a non-canon setting.

Miles Bowe rounds up the best of Bandcamp with new releases by Leyland Kirby, Smurphy, NMESH and more.

No one talks about what you shouldn't do.

If you’re test-driving a car at a dealership pay attention to the check engine light when you turn the key: it should temporarily flicker then go away. If it doesn’t, the dash has been tampered with to mask a potential issue. Also, if a dealership car is parked over a puddle they do not want you looking underneath it.

From Thaddeus Wolfe to Amber Cowan, these artists are taking the medium in radical new directions.

Why are there such huge gaps in your bathroom stall doors?

Stoicism has been growing increasingly popular over the last decade, helped by a huge number of silicon valley entrepreneurs, financial leaders, authors, and other thought leaders swearing by their lessons. If you haven’t read any of the classical stoic books, you should. That advice needs no qualification: they’re excellent, endlessly applicable, and more often than not, readers come out of them fundamentally changed in how they think about the world.

Execution is everything. Here's how you can execute at a much higher level, each and every day.

As a veteran blogger, I’ve been around the block a bit, and in that time I’ve seen just about every type of blogging there is. I’ve seen masters of prose, masters of spin, masters of drama, and masters of nothing at all. And while each of us has our own story to tell, and our own way to do it, there’s one consistency among all of us that no matter how hard we try, we just can’t shake - we love to stretch the truth. We can’t help ourselves!

Although they were once feared as an evil omen, solar eclipses have helped to shape human history.

Bloomfield Capital has been particularly active in the apartment space in recent years, funding over $24 million in multifamily loans over the last 24 months.   Market-rate multifamily bridge lending is becoming increasingly competitive across the country, as more and more sponsors and lending platforms target the asset class.  The apartment landscape has been supported by …

The year's not even close to over, and we already have a growing list of great sci-fi reads.