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It was an entirely valid question: “hey so why do the stupid m&m machines have facial recognition?” Below it, two photos posted on Reddit this past February showed an error message on a vending machine screen at the University of Waterloo. It looked like the machine’s facial recognition software wasn’t working. The Reddit thread helped

Talk about a mood booster. Disney and Pixar‘s emotion-laden “Inside Out 2” is the first film of the year to hit $1 billion at the global box office. After 19 days of release, the animated sequel has grossed $469.3 million in North America and $545.5 million internationally for a worldwide tally of $1.015 billion. It’s

Many in the nonprofit arts sector will decry this manifesto as heresy, only validating its necessity. Harrison presents a radical new vision for nonprofit arts organizations in this nonfiction work. Drawing on his 30 years of experience in nonprofit theater, the author breaks down, in easy-to-understand language, the United States tax code and the ways

Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida has given the public some clarity on his veto last week of $32 million in arts and culture grants from next year’s state budget.  According to a story published in the Tampa Bay Times, DeSantis said the cause was Orlando International Fringe Theater Festival, which he characterized as being overtly “sexual” and therefore an inappropriate recipient

Listen to this article 00:00 56:58 Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration. If you want to understand the current crisis at The Washington Post—the still-unfolding ethical scandal threatening the reign of its publisher and CEO, the growing newsroom revolt, the tumult and uncertainty about the paper’s future—you have to start

Morgan Freeman shared a note giving thanks to his fans Friday morning, expressing gratitude for users’ efforts calling out unauthorized AI imitations of the actor’s recognizable voice. The celebrated 87-year-old actor has become legend for his narration in films such as “March of the Penguins,” “The Shawshank Redemption” and “Million Dollar Baby.” The sterling reputation

After months of public outcry and pressure from the City Council, New York City’s libraries are poised to have their budgets fully restored so that branches may resume seven-day-a-week service, including Sundays, according to three people with knowledge of the budget negotiations. Mayor Eric Adams and the City Council are set to announce a handshake

Architecture firm AO never set out to design America’s tallest skyscraper when it began work on the 581-metre Legends Tower planned for Oklahoma City, studio partner Bruce Greenfield tells Dezeen in this interview. Legends Tower recently gained approval from the city to have an unlimited height, and after a series of changes, the skyscraper is

July 2024 Issue [Readings] Art and Artifice Download PDF by Donna Tartt, From an introduction to the audiobook edition of J. F. Martel’s Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice, which was released in May by Hachette Audio. Toward the end of the nineteenth century, the painter James McNeill Whistler shouted out fiercely into posterity,

Characteristics of Arts-Vibrant Rural Areas Our research team identified several characteristics among these top-ranked rural counties that seem to set them apart. While some characteristics reflect broader geographic or socioeconomic factors beyond the control of arts leaders, others are directly tied to the arts infrastructure that communities create and support. Tourist Destinations – Many of

It’s hard to pinpoint when exactly Montreal started becoming unaffordable. Like most major social issues, few people initially noticed, until suddenly, everyone did. Scores of homes were purchased and flipped at inflated rates during the low-interest-rate pandemic buying spree of 2021–2022. Montreal’s Griffintown district, abandoned and dilapidated for decades, now has an abundance of glass

Architecture studios Hassell and Localworks have collaborated with the creative platform To.org to create a performing arts centre for the Bidi Bidi refugee settlement in Uganda. Constructed from earth bricks, the Bidi Bidi Performing Arts Centre is intended as a creative outlet for the community, which is home to more than 250,000 displaced people, making

You can find a lot in a navel. Lint. Grime. The meaning of life. This is the uncanny remainder of the cord that once bound me to my mother? Incredible. Why not gaze at it? Why not let sight spin into its depths the way water twists down the drain that becomes an eye in

View image in fullscreen ‘Culture embarrasses them’: how 14 years of Tory fiascos strangled arts in the UK They came to power promising ‘a golden age for the arts’. Now, 12 disastrous culture secretaries later, they leave it in tatters. What a stunning missed opportunity to capitalise on an asset that was the envy of

The Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra invites applications and nominations for the position of Executive Director, available in Summer, 2024. Founded in 1942, the Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra (SYSO) is one of the largest and most highly regarded youth orchestra training programs in North America. SYSO creates access to music education for more than 1800 young

View image in fullscreen Surprise election forces comedians to tear up Edinburgh festival scripts For this year’s fringe, performers will be rapidly updating their shows to reflect the outcome at the ballot box “Let’s just say, I didn’t make a bet on the election date, and if I had, I would be massively out of

Last month, The New York Times claimed that tech giants OpenAI and Google have waded into a copyright gray area by transcribing the vast volume of YouTube videos and using that text as additional training data for their AI models despite terms of service that prohibit such efforts and copyright law that the Times argues

Listen to this article 00:00 10:03 Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration. It was on the social-media platform some call X that I first encountered the slang term tea, an expression that originated in Black drag culture to mean “gossip” or “secret biographical information”—as in, “She said she didn’t get

Take the next step in your career with Carnegie Mellon University. At the intersection of arts, people, policy, and technology, our innovative program gives students the right skills to lead organizations making an impact on their communities. With experiential learning at the forefront, students collaborate with local and national arts organizations to put learning into

Last week The Guardian ran an article about how some authors are seeking help outside of their in-house publishing teams to promote their books. This is nothing new. There are lots of independent publicists who’ve been working with authors to supplement the work of their in-house teams for years. But this piece seemed to strike