Tag: culture
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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 ›
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Photographer Misan Harriman is gently cajoling actor Shaun Parkes as the sun burns through the morning cloud above St Michael’s church in Ladbroke Grove, west London. “Look at me as… more ›
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This story appears in the August 31, 2019 issue of Forbes Magazine. Subscribe You know when Kanye West is coming. https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackomalleygreenburg/2019/07/09/kanyes-second-coming-inside-the-billion-dollar-yeezy-empire/ more ›
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All that pink. All those plants. All that white. It’s so clean! Everything’s fun, but not too much fun. And there, in the round mirror above the couch: It’s you. You… more ›
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With nightlife in limbo due to Covid-19, the legendary temple of techno has reinvented itself as art gallery. If a new report by nightlife consultancy VibeLab is anything to go… more ›
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Hundreds of explicit deepfake videos featuring female celebrities, actresses and musicians are being uploaded to the world’s biggest pornography websites every month, new analysis shows. Up to 1,000 deepfake videos… more ›
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As the influenza pandemic swept across the United States in 1918 and 1919, masks took a role in political and cultural wars. The masks were called muzzles, germ shields and… more ›