by | Jan 16, 2022 | Weirdness
from AFP via Yahoo! News Why thieves are snatching French bulldogs across the US The two thieves who brutally robbed 27-year-old Marieke Bayens at gunpoint on a California street were not after her purse — or her. They wanted the little dog at the end of her...
by | Jan 15, 2022 | Culture Music Art
from The Washington Post Surveillance will follow us into ‘the metaverse,’ and our bodies could be its new data source by Tatum Hunter Erin McDannald joins her colleagues in the office about three days a week by popping on an Oculus headset from Facebook parent...
by | Jan 14, 2022 | Culture Music Art
from Nautilus The Worrisome Rise of NFTs An astrobiologist says non-fungible tokens do not bode well for our species’s future. BY CALEB SCHARF Humans are very good at inventing commodities, and we’ve been at it for a long time. See that pebble over there? Well, that’s...
by | Jan 13, 2022 | Culture Music Art, Los Angeles
from The LA Times A street musician spent years building a one-of-a-kind drum kit on wheels. Then, one morning, it was gone BY KENAN DRAUGHORNE Sheriff Drumman performs in the Target parking lot in Inglewood. (Jason Armond / Los Angeles Times) A few minutes before the...
by | Jan 12, 2022 | Culture Music Art
from The New York Times To Understand the Metaverse, Look to Video Games Produced by ‘Sway’ When it comes to the metaverse, Phil Spencer could give Mark Zuckerberg a run for his money. The head of Xbox and executive vice president of gaming at Microsoft, Spencer says...
