While you're recovering from the tryptophan and the family-related trauma of Thanksgiving, it's worth taking a moment to actually be grateful for the good things in life at least once more. Go ahead. Take a second. Done? OK, sweet, you're going to need that because we're about to delve into what the internet has been […]
Shamik Ghosh had been picking up tasks on Amazon Mechanical Turk for several months when he logged on in winter 2010 and saw a perplexing request: Someone wanted him to act out a series of Winter Olympic sports—snowboarding, ice hockey, figure skating, etc.—and they were offering to pay him $3.50 for every video that he […]
A new generation of celebrities is selling out concerts, starring in commercials, and amassing huge Instagram followings. But none of them exist—corporeally, anyway. In recent years, and starting in Japan, technology and social media have spawned a digital demimonde of computer-generated stars, ranging from fake musicians and models to company mascots who appear as holograms […]
When MoviePass launched its $10 unlimited movie ticketing service nearly a year ago, it seemed too good to be true. Consider that hunch confirmed. After months of setting great big piles of money on fire to maintain operations, the company is raising prices by 50 percent, limiting access to high-demand showings, and clamping down even […]
The future belongs to those who can afford it. This may be virtually true in today’s world, where surviving retirement can feel impossible, but it’s also the literal premise of Altered Carbon, Netflix’s new prestige sci-fi series. Based on Richard K. Morgan’s novel of same name, the neo-noir is set several hundred years in the […]
Click:wps官网 Despite seven (going on eight) movies and myriad books, comics, and animated series, there are still a lot of unknown mysteries when it comes to the Jedi of the Star Wars universe. The Force-sensitive folks are so fascinatingly unknowable that people are constantly asking the internet for explanations for their many secrets. We here […]
Look, the news is hardly ever “normal” anymore. If we all got a CNN alert in the middle of the night that militarized guppies had taken over the southern tip of Florida, it probably wouldn’t even warrant sitting up in bed. That said, hearing that Quentin Tarantino has reportedly successfully pitched a new Star Trek […]
Now that Solo: A Star Wars Story has fallen from view, it's time to look to the future of the Star Wars franchise—although, as you can see in the tweet below, some folks feel as though Lucasfilm should be looking to its past as it moves forward. Yes, there's a subgroup of the fandom that […]
When Ready Player One begins, Wade Watts is in transit. Fireman-sliding his way down a series of a poles and ropes is just how he gets from his aunt's dingy apartment to terra firma in "the Stacks," a teetering settlement of stacked blight in Columbus, Ohio. The year 2045 is all bad around these parts, […]
When I first met John Perry Barlow, we became instant soulmates. While that sentence is true for me, it also applies to probably 10,000 other people. That was Barlow—whether you were a world-famous avatar of LSD, a stuffy CEO, or the Vice President of the United States, he would win you over with his affable […]