Photo essay · Six frames A tiled cloister at noon, an empty campo near midnight, a beer garden in the twenty minutes when the sky still holds its blue. Portugal · Italy · France · Germany · Spain…
The thing that beat virtual reality was not better graphics or a cheaper chip. It was a weight budget, and the fact that nobody wants to look like that in public. For about a decade the industry…
Nine years ago the fastest way to draw a crowd at a tech conference was a folding table, a box of phone-slot headsets and a pile of over-ear cans. People queued for it. Samsung’s Gear VR, with Oculus…
Two days after Mohammed bin Salman, Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Shehbaz Sharif signed the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement, a drone hit Aramco’s refinery at Jizan and started a fire. The Saudi energy…
Every few weeks another AI licensing deal gets announced, and every few weeks a certain number of independent publishers read the headline and wonder when their turn comes. It’s worth being blunt…
For two years the argument about AI summaries in search was a forecasting argument. Publishers said the clicks would go away, Google said the fear was overstated, and neither side had much history to…
Last autumn NBCUniversal was warning its viewers that its channels might go dark on YouTube TV. This July it agreed to put Peacock inside YouTube itself. The distance between those two positions is…
There is a $6.2 billion television company sitting inside America’s largest station group that its owner is forbidden to touch. Five months after Nexstar Media Group closed its acquisition of Tegna,…
On 14 August, Paramount Skydance announced that its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery had satisfied every regulatory clearance the deal requires. Eight months of review across 68 jurisdictions,…
The photograph is CeBIT, Hanover, 2015. A suspended ring of blue neon the size of a small building, two levels of stand, screens promising to depict the future of a city with technologies, and a crowd…