Tag: pop culture
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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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Coronavirus is perhaps a fitting crisis for the modern aspiration economy. With uncanny precision, it targets all its tenets: travel, tourism, dining, experiences, leisure, art and culture, and the luxury… 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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For decades, the best thing about being a Hollywood executive, really, was how you got fired. Studio executives would be gradually, gently, even lovingly, nudged aside, given months to shape… 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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Denis Shiryaev uses algorithms to colorize and sharpen old movies, bumping them up to a smooth 60 frames per second. The result is a stunning glimpse at the past. https://www.wired.com/story/ai-magic-makes-century-old-films-look-new/ more ›
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Anecdotal examples bolster what the data shows. Internet communities that hadn’t previously done so are now associating with far-right conspiracies like QAnon, impending mass arrests of elites for running pedophile… more ›