Last week's best things
Seb Chan's Digital Works keynote, AI and the future of humanity, Apple's monopoly is threatened, useless AI-enabled devices, sponge cities, and seagull screeching.
Seb Chan's Digital Works keynote, AI and the future of humanity, Apple's monopoly is threatened, useless AI-enabled devices, sponge cities, and seagull screeching.
The National Theatre marks 100 NT Live productions, the rise of customer satisfaction surveys, how much does a play change during previews, the biggest cruise ship ever, and the tail orchestra
Watershed's 5 guiding principles which turned a deficit into profit, the invisible seafaring industry that keeps the internet afloat, a new audio-only social media app, new ways of engaging with artists, synthetic social networks, Instagram's ad revenues, AI girlfriends, and rats driving cars.
The disappearing insta grid, how to stop your data from being used to train AI, the UK considering banning smartphone sales to under-16s, contagious curiosity, an Italian bank goes offline for days, and the effect of the pandemic across generations.
Dopamine addiction and the end of being 'extremely online', Amazon's Wizard of Oz approach to AI, the cost of interrupted work, a haunted Discord server, AI being used to revive the dead, and The Makedonium Band
The age of flash fads, the death of the internet, how people listen to podcasts, the racism of AI tools, streaming bots, and a crow named Russell.