Unless you are a trust fund baby, choosing to devote your life to making art typically means choosing to follow a very challenging life path. The pursuit of creative expression often clashes with the harsh […]
Through the first few decades of television, the last piece of music late-night viewers heard was “The Star-Spangled Banner” before a station signed off. That changed thanks in large part to Burt Sugarman, an independent […]
Photo Credit: Jonathan Kemper TikTok owner ByteDance has ramped up its lobbying efforts to the US government after its data security issues. OpenSecrets analyzed the company’s reported payments to federal lobbyists since 2019. What they […]
You’ve probably heard by now: AI is coming, it’s about to change everything, and humanity is not ready. Artificial intelligence is passing bar exams, plagiarizing term papers, creating deepfakes that are real enough to fool […]
Photo Credit: Turag Photography Microsoft is shutting down its metaverse unit comprising 100 employees amidst broader layoffs. Microsoft has internally announced disbanding its Industrial Metaverse Core group, a division comprising around 100 employees focused on bringing the […]
Photo Credit: Raluca Seceleanu Once a corporate darling in the metaverse frontier, Decentraland is a ghost town as investors abandon the metaverse. Decentraland was hailed in 2021 as one of the first instances of an […]
GLAZING is the latest trend on popular social media app TikTok as young users continue to invent their own slang. The platform is famous for churning out viral fads in quick succession, but what does […]
Finding a quality pair of noise-canceling headphones that are truly noise canceling is a challenge. I’ve been on the hunt for a pair for quite some time now, especially because my tolerance for snoring and […]
AUSTIN, Texas — Walking through Roku City on Sunday afternoon, you’d hardly know the namesake company was having an unusually stressful weekend. Sure, the faux metropolis — a several-story re-creation of Roku’s beloved screensaver, set up […]
Photo Credit: Roman Martyniuk Meta has announced an additional round of 10,000 layoffs and a pivot away from NFTs. CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote the move is one to streamline the company in terms of efficiency. […]
Photo Credit: Shiller Snoop Dogg is one of the Co-Founders of a new web3 live streaming platform called Shiller. Snoop is no stranger to the world of web3, cryptocurrencies, and blockchain technology. He was revealed […]
Sometimes Rabbi Joshua Franklin knows exactly what he wants to talk about in his weekly Shabbat sermons — other times, not so much. It was on one of those not-so-much days on a cold afternoon […]
The cover letter is its own unique, dreaded genre of writing. In a few — often formulaic — paragraphs, job applicants must accomplish several things: prostrate themselves at the feet of hiring managers, extolling the […]
Image Source: Getty / Kevin Mazur Eminem‘s daughter Hailie Jade is engaged! On Feb. 6, the 27-year-old “Just a Little Shady” podcast host announced on Instagram that her longtime boyfriend Evan McClintock popped the question. […]
The way we live our lives online is rapidly changing. Artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality and innovations such as blockchain – a kind of digital record for transactions — are set to transform the online […]
Photo Credit: Rubaitul Azad Last September, a federal judge dismissed stream-ripper Yout’s much-publicized lawsuit against the RIAA with prejudice. Now, as Yout continues to appeal the ruling, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and Microsoft’s GitHub have […]
Half-Life 2 Rebellion, sacrifice and shooting stuff … Half-Life 2. Photograph: Valve Valve’s brilliant shooter dumps scientist Gordon Freeman on a dystopian Earth crushed by the evil Combine alien invasion force. The visuals are wonderful, […]
Move over, autotune. Deepfake vocals could be the next big tool for musical manipulation. This week, Grammy-winning artist David Guetta claimed the crowd at a Feb. 3 performance “went nuts” when he played a track […]
Photo Credit: Motown Records Layoffs begin at Motown Records as the label changes course to return to the fold of Capitol Music Group. Motown Records has had a rough year. After the exit of CEO […]
If “budget-friendly” and “high-quality” sound like oxymorons to you, you’re in for a surprise. As it turns out, you can buy a number of great gifts without completely draining your savings account, which makes it […]