Photo: Rick Kern/Getty Images for Vox Media (Getty Images) Silicon Valley’s richest nerds seem dead certain that AI will make our world a better place. Not everyone is so convinced, however. At SXSW this week, a sizzle reel that featured conference panelists talking effusively about the new technology was roundly booed by disgusted audience members. … Read more
Last week, Netflix announced it’d pulled the plug on Shadow & Bone, the YA fantasy show based on Leigh Bardugo’s popular five-book series. Much as fans mourned the show for being unable to tell the full story of the main trilogy, they were also just as devastated (if not more so) to realize this cancellation … Read more
Teenage Engineering, the Swedish design agency that created varied bizarre and exquisite devices like Panic’s Playdate gaming handheld and the the OP-1 music synthesizer, has a brand new machine to ogle. The TP–7 is a subject recorder, meant for capturing audio throughout interviews, sampling sounds out within the wild, recording music performances, or capturing voice notes. It … Read more