Tag: media

• Epic Games : The most important, least understood company of the future

  May 27, 2020

  Whether you’re in media, technology, architecture, armed services, or healthcare, you need to understand Epic Games and game engines. Yes, Fortnite is an enormously popular and innovative hit ‘game’, and… more ›

• Delayed Moves, Poolside Videos and Postmates Spon: The State of TikTok Collab Houses

  May 23, 2020

  Gen Z influencers are settling into life in a shuttered Los Angeles. When Gianluca Conte, 20, a TikTok star with more than 2.4 million followers, left his home in Charlotte,… more ›

• The haunting of Girlstown

  May 23, 2020

  Between October 2006 and June 2007, more than 500 students, one teacher, and some religious mothers succumbed to the contagion. An estimated 300 girls were sent home. At the height… more ›

• The podcasting world is now Spotify versus everybody else

  May 23, 2020

  In what’s likely the biggest deal ever for a single podcast, Spotify announced this week that Joe Rogan’s enormously successful show, The Joe Rogan Experience, will become a Spotify-exclusive. https://www.theverge.com/21265005/spotify-joe-rogan-experience-podcast-deal-apple-gimlet-media-ringer more ›

• Sundar Pichai on managing Google through the pandemic

  May 20, 2020

  Like all big tech companies, Google and Alphabet are playing an outsized role in our lives as the coronavirus pandemic continues. https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/19/21262934/google-alphabet-ceo-sundar-pichai-interview-pandemic-coronavirus more ›

• How the Passion Economy will disrupt media, education, and countless other industries

  May 18, 2020

  [Clayton Christensen’s writing has been hugely influential on my thinking. So when Cliff Maxwell, Christensen’s former Chief of Staff and student at HBS, reached out to discuss my work on… more ›

• Yes, websites really are starting to look more similar

  May 18, 2020

  Over the past few years, articles and blog posts have started to ask some version of the same question: “Why are all websites starting to look the same?” These posts… more ›

• Africa Is Not Waiting to Be Saved From the Coronavirus

  May 17, 2020

  As Covid-19 races its way across Africa, there are two stories happening at once. The first is of governments using their armies and militarized police to beat, threaten, and shoot… more ›

• Nvidia launches Clara Guardian to power smart hospitals with surveillance, sensors, and edge AI

  May 15, 2020

  Nvidia today announced the launch of Clara Guardian, a smart hospital edge AI system that uses sensors like cameras to limit the spread of infectious disease and do things like… more ›

• Audio Deepfakes Result in Some Pretty Convincing Mashup Performances

  May 2, 2020

  Have you ever wanted to hear Jay Z rap the “To Be, Or Not To Be” soliloquy from Hamlet? You are in luck: What about Bob Dylan singing Britney Spears’… more ›