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The Silent Film Returns — on Social Media » The summer’s hottest destination for video entertainment is a U.K.-based social media brand called LADbible. In July alone, the viral clips… more ›
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Facebook’s war on free will » All the values that Silicon Valley professes are the values of the 60s. The big tech companies present themselves as platforms for personal liberation.… more ›
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What it means when white guys are “crate digging” through Africa’s pop music archives » Legendary UK Radio DJ, the late John Peel used to play Zimbabwe’s The Bhundu Boys… more ›
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Harry Styles is a Business, and Fangirls Are Buying It » The success of Harry Styles’s breakthrough performance in Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk is no surprise, according to Dr. Francesca Coppa. more ›
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X-Ray Records Are Changing The Business Of Vinyl » Bone music is back. Los Angeles-based label Blank City Records is investing in X-ray audio and vinyl records pressed on medical… more ›
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India’s biometric database is a massive achievement and a dystopian nightmare » Seven years ago nearly 400 million people in India did not exist in the eyes of the government.… more ›
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Who Owns the Internet? » On the night of November 7, 1876, Rutherford B. Hayes’s wife, Lucy, took to her bed with a headache. The returns from the Presidential election… more ›
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The Coming Battle for Long Attention Patterns » How do you decide how to spend your attention? Growing up in the ‘golden era’ of TV and print media in the… more ›
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The ultimate, 2000-word, plain English guide to Ethereum » Although ‘Bitcoin’ and ‘Ethereum’ are terms that are often paired together, the reality is that they are vastly different. The only thing… more ›
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Machines with Brains » Robots and artificial intelligence are upending everything we thought we knew about what it means to be human. The boundaries between person and machine are becoming… more ›