Nathan Hubbard has always been on the leading edge of figuring out how to leverage new technologies and music industry ecosystem shifts to turbocharge artists’ careers. After a stint as a musician, he switched gears in the early 2000s and joined the startup Musictoday, which was figuring out how to use the emerging internet to get music and sports merch to fans.
When Hubbard was tapped to run Ticketmaster in the mid-2000s, he did so with the goal of determining how to use the
Consider Christmas. No, really—think about it. What comes to mind is probably something like pine trees and wreaths, family and friends, or high-wattage house lights and commercials with cars wrapped in red ribbon. For anyone in the target demo of the film Jingle Smells, however, Christmas is apparently about one thing above all others: sticking it to the libs.
The first sound that audiences hear in Jingle Smells, a film that manages to be even more juvenile and low-effort th
Look ye, KISS fans, as flesh becomes franchise.
Saturday night was supposed to be the end for rock icons KISS—the final night of the final tour, the end of the End of The Road World Tour, a swan song so long and so deafening that it had reverberated across five continents and hundreds of stadiums, spanning 58 months and nearly killing the band’s frontman, Paul Stanley, in the process.
As midnight neared in Madison Square Garden, the ascending minor chords of
From Taylor Swift and Beyoncé’s historic tours to the launch of the Sphere, 2023 has been the long-awaited comeback year for live events. The resurgence of in-person gatherings has brought with it a sense of euphoria over the simplicity of collectively sharing an experience. At the same time, poor live event etiquette has sparked fraught social media debate over what behavior is acceptable in public.
Attendees have gone so far as to throw items onto stages, including a c
No one hates change like app users, and the latest changes that Google has made to the colors in its Google Maps app are ruffling users’ feathers all over the web. Google Maps users on Reddit have called the new colors “godawful” and expressed how they “hate” the changes. Even Google Maps alum Elizabeth Laraki, who helped design the service in 2007, chimed in on X to say that she believes the new design “feels colder, less accurate and less human.
We used to worry about AI becoming “sentient,” or that something called the “singularity” would occur and AIs would begin creating other AIs on their own. The new goal posts are something called artificial general intelligence, or AGI—a term that’s being subsumed into the realm of AI marketing and influence-pushing.
Here’s what you need to know.
How do we define AGI?
AGI usually describes systems that can learn t
It’s official: November is now synonymous with shocking OpenAI announcements. Last year it was the launch of ChatGPT and this year, it was the firing and rehiring of its CEO, Sam Altman. And now, the latest chapter: Microsoft has secured itself a (nonvoting) seat on the OpenAI governing board.
It’s hard to believe that the tech industry can still be subjected to collective shock, but Altman’s unexpected departure did just that. How did the industry respond? Repo
Montana’s first-in-the-nation law banning the video-sharing app TikTok in the state was blocked Thursday, one month before it was set to take effect, by a federal judge who called the measure unconstitutional.
The ruling delivered a temporary win for the social media company that has argued Montana’s Republican-controlled Legislature went “completely overboard” in trying to regulate the app. A final ruling will come at a later date after the legal challen
Back when I was in the age range that Gen Z is now, it seemed impossible to imagine that I, too, would one day be old. I couldn’t even visualize what an old me would look like. Jump forward to 2023, and those who are young now don’t even need to try to visualize what they will look like in the years ahead thanks to a new viral TikTok filter.
In recent days, Gen Z has become obsessed with what is colloquially known as the “aged” filter on TikTok. The offic
In late November, the board of OpenAI, creator of the popular ChatGPT and DALL-E artificial intelligence tools, fired Sam Altman, its chief executive officer.
Chaos ensued as investors and employees rebelled. By the time the mayhem had subsided five days later, Altman had returned triumphantly to the OpenAI fold amid staff euphoria, and three of the board members who had sought his ouster had resigned.
The structure of the board—a nonprofit