From beautiful celestial metaphors to a virtual simulacrum of an entire galaxy, our critics suggest popular culture inspired by the wonders of astronomy It looks as if the universe was designed by a Romantic painter. Great glowing clouds of smoke and mist hang in the void with twinkling stars spangled within them. Instead of lonely …
Astral peaks: music, books, art and more about the majesty of space Read More »
Collectible and cartoonish, these digital multiples, traded in cryptocurrency, confer membership of an exclusive club – sometimes literally. But do they have any aesthetic value? A critic weighs in In January, a clip from The Tonight Show featuring Jimmy Fallon and Paris Hilton went viral: not because either had said anything particularly interesting or scandalous, …
The term embraces the comforts of depravity and a direct departure from the ‘cottagecore’ influence of early pandemic days At some point in the stretch of days between the start of the pandemic’s third year and the launch of world war three, a new phrase entered the zeitgeist, a mysterious harbinger of an age to …
Slobbing out and giving up: why are so many people going ‘goblin mode’? Read More »
Feature-packed phablet has stylus, long battery life and unrivalled camera zoom, now made of recycled materials With the Galaxy S22 Ultra superphone, Samsung has brought back its popular Note line in all but name, equipping it with a built-in stylus and the competition-beating camera with both 3x and 10x optical zoom from last year’s S21 …
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The ads, some offering loans delivered ‘faster than a pizza’, appear to deliberately target those in financial trouble Google is profiting from ads promoting “instant” cash and loans delivered “faster than pizza” despite a pledge to protect users from “deceptive and harmful” financial products. The ads were served to people in the UK who searched …
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Once regarded as a useful but dull tool for professional networking, the service has added features such as video profiles to attract a younger audience. But will it work? If you heard that there’s a social network attracting 200 new users every minute, has its users making 9,000 new connections, and which says that the …
Elizabeth Williamson’s book on the 2012 elementary school shooting is a near-unbearable, necessary indictment of Facebook, YouTube and the conspiracy theories they spread Even in a country now completely inured to the horrors of mass shootings, the massacre at Sandy Hook remains lodged in the minds of everyone old enough to remember it. Ten years …
Sandy Hook review: anatomy of an American tragedy – and the obscenity of social media Read More »
The LA-based photographer on the sunbather he stumbled across on a walk to Beachwood Canyon during the pandemic If you looked through Bradley Meinz’s living room window, you’d see the Hollywood sign. The photographer lives in LA’s Beachwood Canyon, and in February 2020 he was taking daily hikes to the landmark and back. News of …
‘There was this lone, shirtless guy on the street’: Bradley Meinz’s best phone picture Read More »
Videos of the heists are all set to one song – Simon Latorre’s Chutero Yo Soy – which is now an anthem for those in the trade High in the Bolivian Altiplano, Challapata is where the road from La Paz splits: one way to Potosí and the other to Uyuni and the salt flats. It …
‘Risky, profitable, exciting’: TikTok fuels Bolivia’s contraband car craze Read More »
Change comes after high court ruling that Uber should be regarded as a contractor, not an agent Uber fares across the UK are to rise sharply from Monday night when VAT of 20% will be applied to rides booked via the app. The change comes after a high court ruling last December that Uber could …
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