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“What if movies were taller and thinner?” Adam Epstein asked in Quartz. “That’s the question posed by Russian director Timur Bekmambetov, who is developing ‘the first vertical format blockbuster,’ according to Deadline. Based on the true story of a Soviet fighter pilot who led an escape out of a Nazi concentration camp in World War […]
In an explosive article on BuzzFeed News, the organization obtained client lists of a New York-based startup Clearview AI, showing a staggering number of law enforcement officers as well as retail stores have implemented facial recognition technology tied to a vast database including local police departments, the FBI and Walmart. “Government agents should not be […]
“The robots are watching over hotel housekeepers, telling them which room to clean and tracking how quickly they do it,” according to an article by Josh Dzieza for The Verge. “They’re managing software developers, monitoring their clicks and scrolls and docking their pay if they work too slowly. They’re listening to call center workers, telling […]
“The store did have a surprise visitor last night, entering through the front door. After the deer left, the manager and store team performed a thorough cleaning of the area,” Kroger said in a statement. The deer ran down aisles as surprised shoppers grabbed their phones to record videos, sending the deer into viral stardom […]
“In 2015, a rumor began circulating that a ghost ship found by the Cuban coast guard was actually the SS Cotopaxi. Barnette decided to set the record straight, so he posted a video online saying that the real Cotopaxi was at the bottom of the Atlantic. Soon after he posted that, Science Channel contacted him, […]
Chani Nicholas is an Instagram astrologer with over 100,000 followers. What sets her apart from other practitioners of the intuitive arts is her focus on social activism in her horoscopes, rather than the usual psychic fare of loves lost and found, whether the stars are auspicious for financial transactions, and so on. “Nicholas’s popularity owes […]
“You might think that women who leave money management up to their spouses is a 1950s stereotype, but according to a recent report from UBS Global Wealth Management, more than half of women today still defer to their male partners when it comes to money. And, surprisingly, the stats are even greater for younger women: 56 […]
The Apollo Masters plant in Banning, Calif., burned down on Feb. 6, eliminating the sole U.S. source of the blank lacquer master disks engineers cut on special lathes to create vinyl records. Manufacturing with the volatile lacquer used in the record business has become a concern of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and it’s unknown […]
“As a source of subsistence, let alone prosperity, work is now insufficient for whole social classes. In the U.K., almost two-thirds of those in poverty – around 8 million people – are in working households. In the US, the average wage has stagnated for half a century,” according to Andy Beckett for the Guardian. “As […]
While conducting a major renovation of the U.K. House of Commons in London, workers exploring the premises found a wall panel that opens to display a small hidden room. At one end of the room is a bricked-up wall that experts have determined was once a passageway used in the 17th century to secretly enter […]