Art and Culture

They’re keeping the competition on their toes. Hundreds of young ballet dancers simultaneously perched on their tippy toes — holding the grueling pose for more than a minute to set a new world record at the Plaza Hotel in…
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MBW’s Stat Of The Week is a series in which we highlight a data point that deserves the attention of the global music industry. Stat Of the Week is supported by music data analytics firm Chartmetric. Epidemic Sound, the music production…
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“More and more, we’re seeing AI used to replicate someone’s likeness and voice in novel ways without consent or compensation.” – Politico Source link
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“Noise” is a fuzzy word—a noisy one, in the statistical sense. Its meanings run the gamut from the negative to the positive, from the overpowering to the mysterious, from anarchy to sublimity. The negative seems to lie at the root:…
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This is not just a Bay Area problem. Film festivals all over the world are hurting, no matter how well-established. The two biggest film festivals in North America, Sundance and Toronto, have each experienced a dramatic drop in revenue,…
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We geezers who were college students in the late Sixties felt a rush of déjà vu at the sight of today’s front-page photos in the NY Times and Wall Street Journal showing confrontations between student demonstrators and police. I came of…
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Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav saw the value of his 2023 compensation package rise to $49.7 million, compared with $39.3 million in 2022 when the Discovery-WarnerMedia merger had closed. The entertainment…
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I ask Liang whether the prominence of AI in meetings might make humans less likely to attend. Knowing that there will be a summary available seems a disincentive to actually showing up. Liang himself says that he attends only a fraction…
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It’s rare that a week goes by without a new book finding its way onto my overcrowded shelves. This is partly an occupational hazard, as someone who reads and reviews books professionally; they often come to me unbidden, mailed…
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Colorado Public Radio has a vision to be the state’s top, free news source. Getting there has created some controversy. – WestWord Source link
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