Tag: culture
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This could actually be good news for streaming services, which for the past two years have been pouring money into podcasts, which cost them less. https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/9500546/streaming-music-growth-stalled-factors-attention-economy/ more ›
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I’m sitting on a Zoom with the best-selling fiction writer Robin Sloan, author of Mr. Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore and Sourdough. He opens his notes app, nvALT, and the word… more ›
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As the battle against COVID-19 continues to rage, the plight of Britain’s theatres, which have suffered catastrophic financial strain thanks to lockdown, continues to rumble through the arts world. One… more ›
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Sickly and often bedridden, by February 1911 French novelist Marcel Proust had one constant companion in the solitary confines of his cork-lined Paris sanctuary: a mysterious contraption that he kept… more ›
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Twenty twenty wap wap wap. Weird and problematic. Wintry and pandemicy. Wishing away politicians. Weeknd and Pop Smoke. Watermelon (sugar) and ppcocaine. Our annual running list of top 10s,… more ›
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You’re reading a Quartz member-exclusive story, available to all readers for a limited time. To unlock access to all of Quartz become a member. Workplaces have gone through enormous change… more ›
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The song in question not a genuine track, but a convincing fake created by “research and deployment company” OpenAI, whose Jukebox project uses artificial intelligence to generate music, complete with… more ›
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“The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they’re indistinguishable from it.” That quote from computer scientist Mark Weiser is… more ›
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As most of the major media categories — music, video and video games — have existed for decades, we tend to forget that media is technology. Instead, we think of… more ›
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Covid-19 has hit fashion sales hard. It is also driving the completion of a long but radical reboot that started 20 years ago, shifting high-end fashion away from its elitist,… more ›