On my radar: Merrill Garbus's cultural highlights
The pop maverick behind Tune-Yards on Roald Dahl, Jean-Luc Godard's Masculin Féminin and vegan Mexican food Tune-Yards' Merrill Garbus: 'I feel lucky to have a global awareness of what's going on.'...
View ArticleThe Marketing Behind The New 'Silent Hill' Game Is Genius
An eerie hallway in the playable trailer, "P.T." I screamed last night. Like…a lot. You wouldn’t think that a single hallway and a couple of rooms could be all that terrifying, but somehow the...
View ArticleApple Will Buy Swell, A Personalized Radio And Podcast App, To Give iTunes A...
Apple is close to acquiring Swell, a personalized radio and podcast application, in a deal worth about $30 million. The news was first reported by Re/code early Monday morning. While the $3.2 billion...
View ArticleHow One Entrepreneur Quit His Job In Entertainment To Make Jerky For A Living
This post is sponsored by Spark Business from Capital One. Quitting your job to open up your own business is risky. Quitting your job to open up a business that only sells jerky ... well, that's even...
View ArticlePandora finds new audience for James Brown biopic 'Get on Up'
Universal Pictures’ new biopic “Get on Up” about the influential performer James Brown has a clear target audience: fans of the Godfather of Soul. But the studio ran into the problem of how to broaden...
View ArticleApple Describes What It Would Be Like To Use Siri On Your Mac
Here's what Siri may look like on your Mac See Also Have you ever wanted to ask your Mac a question? In the future, you may be able to speak aloud to Siri through your Mac if a new Apple patent...
View ArticleDigiTour Brings YouTubers (And Other Social-Media Stars) To Life
YouTube is, as Susan Wojcicki says in our feature story, its own medium. YouTubers create this remarkable connection between themselves and their fans, but the relationship takes place on screen with...
View ArticleQ&A WITH TWITTER CEO DICK COSTOLO: Why Twitter Was Able To Blow Away...
Twitter delivered its first boffo earnings report as a public company for the second quarter. It crushed expectations on revenue, EPS, and most importantly, monthly active users. After doing the...
View ArticleThis App Tells You What To Do When You're Bored, But Now It’ll Help You...
Sosh, the app that acts like your personal concierge by suggesting things to do in your city, is expanding into the dining industry. The startup, which has raised $16.3 million from investors like...
View ArticleA Couple Photographed Each Other All Over The World From Opposite Viewpoints
Creative directors Žužu Gálová and Peter Sedláčik have put a new spin on travel photography with their photo series titled, "Lens Between Us." Gálová and Sedláčik, who are both from Slovakia, captured...
View ArticleLocal rapper tries to make it big on ‘Sisterhood of Hip Hop’
Meet the next generation of female emcees (aka “femcees”) in the new docuseries Sisterhood of Hip Hop premiering at 9 p.m. Tuesday on Oxygen. Brianna Perry, also known by her stage Lil’ Brianna, is one...
View ArticleMack Bolan Book Series, With 200+ Million Copies In Print Worldwide, Now...
Mack Bolan 1984 paperback book cover. (PRNewsFoto/The Story Factory) × Mack Bolan 1984 paperback book cover. (PRNewsFoto/The Story Factory) LOS ANGELES, Aug. 13, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Mack Bolan, the...
View ArticleAn Upcoming iPhone Feature From Apple Will Completely Transform How You Use Apps
Apple's new operating system for mobile phones and tablets, iOS 8, is slated to release in the fall, and one of its features will transform how you use your apps. Apple calls it Extensibility, and it...
View ArticleStars take home Creative Emmys
Orange Is the New Black was one of the big winners at the Creative Arts Emmys 2014 last night. The hit Netflix series won in each of the categories it was nominated in, with Uzo Aduba’s portrayal of...
View ArticleGame of Thrones and Sherlock honoured at Creative Arts Emmy Awards
Game of Thrones and Sherlock have each walked away with four awards at this year’s Creative Arts Emmys. HBO’s fantasy drama Game of Thrones took home prizes for User Experience and Visual Design and...
View ArticleAnger over date site 'experiments'
A dating website has admitted "experimenting" on unsuspecting love-seekers by setting them up with "bad matches" to test its technology. New York-based site OkCupid, which has 30 million worldwide...
View ArticleHere's How To Make Sleazy Tech Guys Respect You More And Hit On You Less
Payal Kadakia is the co-founder of ClassPass and a world-class dancer who runs a separate dance company. There are a lot of gross stories about tech men (and women) in positions of power — like...
View ArticlePrint is down, and now out
(NYTIMES) — A year ago last week, it seemed as if print newspapers might be on the verge of a comeback, or at least on the brink of, well, survival. Jeff Bezos, an avatar of digital innovation as the...
View ArticlePandora turns up new audience for James Brown biopic
Universal Pictures' new biopic "Get on Up" about the influential performer James Brown has a clear target audience: fans of the Godfather of Soul. But the studio ran into the problem of how to broaden...
View ArticleBaauer and Boys Noize announce the North America run X tour
On August 6, after recently releasing two fresh tracks “CLANG” and Soulja” via the UK imprint LuckyMe, Brooklyn based electronic artist Baauer known for the platinum selling single, “Harlem Shake”...
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