Media
Invader turns traveling into an art-installation quest
Who needs the digital art of AR to gamify your life when Invader has been creating the real thing for the past 24 years.
Articles by David Vendrell
Culture
The updated American Dream may be fractional home-ownership
A handful of startups hope to make your (fractional) home-ownership dreams come true by making down payments actually affordable.
Culture
New York closes the Bitcoin mine
A new bill heading to Governor Kathy Hochul’s desk would halt issuing new permits to Bitcoin mining facilities within the state.
Entertainment
TikTok gets into subscription programming with Finding Jericho
Pearpop debuted its new comedy series Finding Jericho last week on TikTok LIVE, making it the first pay-subscription show on the platform.
Culture
Cruise first to cross finish line in California for driverless-taxi rollout
Autonomous taxis are officially a go in California, with Cruise scoring the first-ever commercial permit in the state.
Culture
Researchers experiment with how to hide your voice to protect your privacy
Privacy advocates and researchers want to save your voice from fraud and non-consensual voice and medical monitoring.
Culture
What’s on Sheryl Sandberg’s mind?
With her exit from Meta, Sheryl Sandberg leaves an outsized (and controversial) legacy.
Media
The Jonas Brothers want to text you with Scriber
The Jonas Brothers are investing in a newly-launched subscription media startup dubbed Scriber.
Entertainment
Twitter changes course from all the extras
Twitter is reportedly slowing down its ambitions in every feature, but its OG tweet stuff (and advertising, always advertising).
Technology
Decentralized identities could give people a verifiable online life
Using passwords to log in to a website or bringing multiple forms of identification to renew a driver’s license may one day become a thing of the past.