Art and Culture

The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. A trip to the Taj Mahal is a must for any tourist visiting India. Each year, millions travel to the town of Agra in the state of Uttar…
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“With breaking making its first Olympic appearance at the Paris Games later this year, pole dancers feel it could soon be their turn to be in the limelight, although it could come at the cost of losing the spirit of the…
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The Motion Picture Association (MPA) is going off on piracy again. During CinemaCon in Las Vegas, MPA CEO Charles Rivkin announced that the organization plans on working with Congress to pass rules blocking websites with pirated…
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Staff at technology company Meta discussed buying publishing house Simon & Schuster last year in order to procure books to train the company’s artificial intelligence tools, it has been reported.According to recordings of internal…
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(Spoiler alert: It’s YouTube.)You think you know YouTube. It’s where billions of people learn how to change a tire, follow a favorite yoga workout or catch footage of Monday’s solar eclipse.But maybe you don’t know that YouTube is also…
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TikTok began life as Musical.ly, an app to film oneself lip-syncing to songs. Interacting with pop music was a core function of TikTok. Fans and artists shared music they loved, grafting it onto videos showing their lives and ideas. It…
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When I stand in front of Caravaggio’s “Madonna di Loreto” (c. 1605–6) in Rome’s Basilica of Sant’Agostino, I feel woozy, my cup of joy overflowing. The dramatic chiaroscuro matching the gloom of the church, sliced by…
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Ever more powerful systems developed by OpenAI, Google and others require larger oceans of information to learn from. That demand is straining the available pool of quality public data online at the same time that some data owners are…
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By now, it’s widely known that Universal Music Group has removed most or all of its catalog from TikTok, as well as apparently every song that includes at least one songwriter affiliated Universal Music Publishing Group. It’s a…
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Under the new policy, more than 60 percent of tracks will not rack up any royalties. ADVERTISEMENTLast week Spotify officially demonetised all tracks with under 1,000 streams annually – a new policy that could see nearly…
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