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How do we hold on to what matters in a distracted age?

On the front lines of the attention liberation movement

The irony: Online is where we most need the identity cues that idiosyncratic language used to provide.

Gen Z is using iPhone’s notetaking app to plan outfits and style new looks from their existing wardrobes. How can brands get involved?

If gamification isn’t specific to its subject, it won’t be effective.

Classical statues in the profile? Racism and misogyny in the feed? Tallulah Trezevant looks at the alt-Right and Classics...

Labour’s victory has appeared inevitable for so long that it’s easy to understate how rapid and total the change has...

As Twitter was crumbling under Elon Musk’s new leadership in 2023, various online circles found themselves flocking to alternative platforms. While some may have kept using Twitter (now known as… X), a non-negligible number of communities migrated over to Mastodon and other smaller platforms. Meanwhile, Meta shipped its own textual social media platform, Threads. The

Meet the Richards: The Parisian Couple who Commercialised Fetishism - Editor's Picks - Messy Nessy Chic

Join us at Gray Area on July 26th for a special evening of ambient performances led by Gray Area Incubator Artist Chia Amisola.

We all have a pretty good idea that our finances are being snooped on, but most of us aren't quite able to articulate how. We know that we'r...

C&S Wholesale Grocers is the largest wholesale grocery supply company in the U.S. and an industry leader in supply chain. Founded in 1918, we have a strong

Grocery giant Kroger Company has released a list of hundreds of stores it plans to divest to gain approval for its merger with Albertsons.

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Even simple actions online can take a toll on the environment.

Many companies build their businesses on open source software, code that would cost firms $8.8 trillion to create from scratch if it weren't freely available. Research by Frank Nagle and colleagues puts a value on an economic necessity that will require investment to meet demand.

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TUAW, a site that was shut down 10 years ago, was sold to a private equity firm, then to a company in Hong Kong, and has now stolen its old workers' identities and is running their old work through AI summarizers.

This is quite amazing to me. Never heard of these before. The great northern coast of Russia is inside the Arctic Circle, and the shoreline is hundreds of miles from civilisation almost the whole w…

A Bitcoin mine moved to a small town in Texas. One by one, the residents fell ill.

Geert Hofstede developed the Cultural Dimensions Theory to explain the differences between cultures around the world. Learn more here.

The AI bubble is reaching a tipping point?

Ever wondered how come martech is a US$700bn industry, but the ads you see are still crap? Clue – it's because the data foundations are crap, says Brand Traction's Jon Bradshaw. Following former UM privacy chief Arielle Garcia's takedown of the "garbage" data broking sector, Bradshaw challenges industry to provide proof that data-driven targeting actually makes advertising more effective – or in fact makes it worse. He's spoiling for a debate – and has three deep, recent studies that show: broad reach beats targeting for incremental growth; that the cost of targeting outweighs the return; and that second and third party data does not outperform a random sample. First party data does beat the random sample – but contextual ads massively outperform even first party data. And they are much, much cheaper. Now, says Bradshaw, let's see some counter-evidence from those making a killing.

Yossi Kreinin has a new blog post out about how the push for greater efficiency in organizations leads to negative outcomes, because it leads to teams pursuing local efficiency goals rather than do…

Long before cyberpunk went mainstream in the west, a fever dream from an outsider director catapulted Japanese filmmaking back into international relevance.

It was once a misdemeanor to tip someone in Washington. Now, we have some of the best labor laws for tipped workers. So what's next for the practice of tipping?

Japan still loves cash and vending machines, but new banknotes containing hologram technology won't work in many machines without upgrades.