Tag: media

• Your Favorite Stars, Now Playing in Your Ears

  September 16, 2019

  In fiction podcasts, screen and stage actors get to play parts Hollywood is too risk-averse to offer, with the added perk of no need to sit for makeup. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/13/arts/fiction-podcasts-gimlet-carrie-coon.html more ›

• Lifestyle website for Muslim teens is covertly funded by the Home Office

  September 15, 2019

  The revelation about funding of the project has led to a row between its owners, a former Muslim employee and its Muslim audience. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/sep/15/lifestyle-website-for-muslim-teens-is-covertly-funded-by-the-home-office more ›

• Cos’è il nuovo chip Apple U1 e perché è importante?

  September 14, 2019

  https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-new-Apple-U1-chip-and-why-is-it-important more ›

• And for His Next Act, Ev Williams Will Fix the Internet

  September 9, 2019

  For years, Ev Williams was saddled with doubts. As a co-founder of Blogger and Twitter and, more recently, as the chief executive of the digital publishing platform Medium, Mr. Williams… more ›

• ‘We’re at War’: A Covert Social Media Campaign Boosts Military Rulers

  September 8, 2019

  CAIRO — Days after Sudanese soldiers massacred pro-democracy demonstrators in Khartoum in June, an obscure digital marketing company in Cairo began deploying keyboard warriors to a second front: a covert… more ›

• Chinese face-swap app triggers privacy fears after going viral

  September 2, 2019

  The app’s surge in popularity and sudden backlash from some users highlights how artificial intelligence (AI) technologies raise concerns surrounding identity verification. Zao was uploaded to China’s iOS App Store… more ›

• How TikTok Is Rewriting the World

  August 30, 2019

  TikTok will change the way your social media works — even if you’re avoiding it. Hello, person who is, statistically speaking, a human adult aged approximately “millennial” to “boomer. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/10/style/what-is-tik-tok.html more ›

• Why I Printed My Facebook

  August 24, 2019

  In my attic lies a big box of scrapbooks and diaries chronicling my preteen through early college years, from the mid-1990s to early 2000s, in minute and sometimes cringe-inducing detail.… more ›

• Exclusive: Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg on what’s next for Tumblr

  August 21, 2019

  It’s been a long and winding road for Tumblr, the blogging site that launched a thousand writing careers. It sold to Yahoo for $1.1 billion in 2013, then withered as… more ›

• Beyond Techno-Orientalism: An Interview with Logic Magazine’s Xiaowei R Wang

  August 19, 2019

  Though they’ve spent the last few years focusing on the intersection between agriculture and technology, Xiaowei R Wang‘s resume of working with tech in China is long and varied. https://radiichina.com/beyond-techno-orientalism-an-interview-with-logic-magazines-xiaowei-r-wang/ more ›