Rowling, Tolkien, Austen Novels Vie for Bragging Rights The results are in for an impassioned national election that put the popularity of candidates Jane Austen, J.R.R. Tolkien and J.K. Rowling on the line. Read More…
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These Robots Run, Dance and Flip. But Are They a Business? Boston Dynamics often makes a splash with videos of its anthropomorphic robots. But after years of work, it is not clear who would buy them or what they would be used for. Read More…
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Larsen Thompson, the Dancer From Sia’s ‘The Greatest’ Video, Wants to Be a Pop Star The teenage dancer, model and singer from Thousand Oaks, Calif., is also acting in her first movie. Read More…
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Meechy Monroe, a YouTube Star for Her Natural Hair Lessons, Dies at 32 Ms. Monroe achieved online fame with style tutorials that empowered black women to forgo harsh chemicals and embrace the natural hair movement. Read More…
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Here Come the Fake Videos, Too Artificial intelligence video tools make it relatively easy to put one person’s face on another person’s body with few traces of manipulation. I tried it on myself. What could go wrong? Read More…
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Some Said They’d Flee Trump’s America. These People Actually Did. Like modern-day von Trapps, minus the singing, families are climbing mountains and fording streams with nothing but backpacks and a Wi-Fi connection. Read More…
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Could You Make It Through Dinner Without Checking Your Phone? In an effort to free people from the phones, if just for a meal, one Manhattan restaurant suggests that diners stash their devices in a box on the table. Read More…
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Saudi Arabia. For years, they’ve been known as the superconservative country where women can’t drive, gay people get flogged, and thieves have their hands chopped off. Now, for the thieves, uh, they can’t say they weren’t warned. I mean, Saudi Arabia literally has a sword on their flag, so you know. Yeah. They’re owning that shit. It would be like if the NFL made its logo a sad brain. You know, you… Yeah, in a way, you kind of respect them for their honesty. But, last year, […]
More infoMissing Widow of China’s Nobel Laureate, Liu Xiaobo, Surfaces in Video The brief statement from Liu Xia, whose husband, Liu Xiaobo, died last month, first appeared on a YouTube channel that has issued only videos echoing Chinese government views. Read More…
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Disney Drops PewDiePie and YouTube Distances Itself After Reports of Anti-Semitic Videos PewDiePie, whose real name is Felix Kjellberg, is the most popular user on YouTube. His videos have attracted nearly 14.7 billion views. Read More…
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