Tag: media platforms
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Chinese tech is a loaded term. The very fact that we have to say ‘Chinese’ tech rather than tech demotes its otherness. So what does a place of origin signify?… more ›
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Apple has updated the 💉 Syringe emoji to remove the blood, allowing this existing emoji serve as a vaccination emoji in 2021. New emojis and new vaccines have more in… more ›
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Merck Mercuriadis had a good Christmas. On Christmas Day, the No 1 song in the UK was LadBaby’s Don’t Stop Me Eatin’, a novelty cover version of Journey’s 1981 soft-rock… more ›
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Even as more people are logging onto popular video chat platforms to connect with colleagues, family and friends during the COVID-19 pandemic, Stanford researchers have a warning for you: Those… more ›
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The playing field of who and what we want to identify with and aspire to be and do has expanded. It has also reorganized our communities under different personality cults:… more ›
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Music is TikTok’s universal language, each song representing a flourishing web of emotions, in-jokes, and dances. As the spaces where people normally enjoy music were impacted by the pandemic, TikTok… more ›
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For a music industry hobbled by a year of shuttered festivals, silent clubs, and canceled recording sessions—an industry that had generally been financially imperiled and uncertain since the invention of Napster—this… more ›
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In Paris. Exactly Seventy Years Ago. He likely arrived in Paris from Darmstadt, Germany, by train that January, exactly seventy years ago. https://computerhistory.org/blog/thinking-about-machines-and-thinking/ more ›