by | Jan 19, 2022 | Culture Music Art
from The Observer Microsoft to Purchase Activision Blizzard for $68.7 Billion Microsoft says the acquisition will help “provide building blocks for the metaverse.” By Isabella Simonetti Activision is currently implicated in a workplace sexual misconduct...
by | Jan 18, 2022 | Culture Music Art
from TMZ ANDRE LEON TALLEY DEAD AT 73 Fashion icon Andre Leon Talley has died at 73 … TMZ has learned. A source with direct knowledge tells us Vogue’s former creative director and one-time editor-at-large passed away Tuesday at a hospital in White Plains,...
by | Jan 17, 2022 | Culture Music Art
from The New York Times Crypto Enthusiasts Meet Their Match: Angry Gamers By Mike Isaac and Kellen Browning “I just hate that they keep finding ways to nickel-and-dime us in whatever way they can,” said Matt Kee, a gamer, about a game studio’s push into...
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...
