Business
Hollywood editors get new AI tool
Avid Technology, the editing software company, is the latest entertainment industry player to introduce AI into its toolbox. The company…
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The Male Feminism Con Job
The loudest voices claiming to support women often belong to the worst men. Source link
Culture
Sharp Claws at “Becky Shaw” and “Cats: The Jellicle Ball”
Still, what distinguishes Gionfriddo is not her ear for cruelty but her ability to see beyond it, and to shift the prism of audience…
Business
This Long Beach startup says it has a patch for California's power problems
Many companies in California struggle to get enough electricity to power their growing businesses. One Long Beach startup just raised $26…
News
Reauthorize FISA Section 702 — Again
Congress should let the executive keep fighting terrorism and give recent reforms more time to work. Source link
Culture
Cory Doctorow on the High Cost of Living with the Ultra-Rich
“Billionaireism,” as defined by the writer and internet critic Cory Doctorow, describes “both the pathology that affects you when you are…
Business
A.I. Has a Message Problem of Its Own Making
OpenAI’s Sam Altman wants to “de-escalate” the rhetoric around A.I. But if you tell people that your product will upend their way of life,…
Business
Snap is cutting 1,000 workers in the latest tech layoff
Snap, the parent company of disappearing messaging app Snapchat, said Wednesday that it’s laying off 1,000 workers to reduce costs. The…
News
JD Vance’s Post-Liberal Populism Reaches the Point of Diminishing Returns
It’s time to cut bait. Source link
Culture
TMZ Turns Its Pitiless Lens on Politicians
Politics has never been TMZ’s focal point, but political issues that aggrieve Levin personally have steered the outlet’s coverage from its…
Celebrity
What Zendaya Leaves Unsaid
Is her professionalism an obstacle to risk? Fatal to artistry? She speaks matter-of-factly about her relative privilege in the industry.…
Fashion
How Waymo and Waze are pitching in to help solve L.A.'s pothole problem
Waze and Waymo are teaming up to help combat Los Angeles’ growing pothole problem. The companies announced a program that will use Waymo’s…
News
The New York Times Can’t Take Left-Wing Violence Seriously
Rebutting such reporting in the detail it deserves would require a book-length argument — which I plan to provide. Source link
News
Eric Swalwell Reaps What He Sows
The California Dem is now claiming to be a victim of the very game he himself chose to play. Source link
Business
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman addresses Molotov cocktail attack on his home and AI backlash
Hours after a Molotov cocktail was thrown at his San Francisco home, OpenAI Chief Executive Sam Altman addressed the criticism surrounding…
Culture
Noah Kahan Makes an Unlikely Home-Town Hero
In 2023, Noah Kahan, a singer and songwriter from Strafford, Vermont, leapfrogged to superstardom following the release of “Stick Season,”…
Culture
Why I Wanted to Keep My Marriage a Secret, by David Sedaris
All these years later, I could still see their room so clearly: its dark, almost black wood panelling, their checkerboard-tiled floor. It…
Culture
A Lesson of Vietnam: Getting in Is Easier than Getting Out
The war was sustained by a seductive delusion: that an unwinnable conflict might still be managed into an outcome short of humiliation.…
Culture
R. Kikuo Johnson’s “Meet-Cute”
For the cover of the April 20, 2026, issue, the cartoonist R. Kikuo Johnson, a new father, tackled an issue that people in his age…
Culture
The Violence in Vermeer
As yet, archival research has failed to substantiate this conversation, although it appears, more or less intact, in the 2003 movie…
Culture
Zara Larsson Gets Her Flowers
“Midnight Sun” is more adult, more sexed, and more camp than Larsson’s past music, which tended toward the subgenre known as tropical…
Business
The Dignity Act Is the Same Bad Deal as Ever
Make no mistake, the proposal grants legal residence to millions of illegal immigrants. Source link
Culture
“Blue Heron” Is an Exalted Drama of Troubled Childhood
The movie’s fluid observational construction conjures drama by compounding micro-incidents; its narrative emerges from the shaping of…