In bankrupt Lebanon, locals mine bitcoin and buy groceries with tether, as $1 is now worth 15 cents
Aerial view of the seafront Manara district near downtown Beirut. Bilwander | Getty Images When Georgio Abou Gebrael first heard…
A New York Exhibition on the Salem Witch Trials Explores the Legacy of the Dark Historical Chapter on the Descendants of the Accused
Magic is afoot at the New-York Historical Society, where a new exhibition revisits a dark chapter in U.S. history: the…
Chinese tech giants’ push into U.S., Europe’s markets sets up potential clash with Amazon
TikTok owner ByteDance has launched a women’s fashion website called If Yooou. Pinduoduo launched an e-commerce site in the U.S.…
The World’s Oldest Map of the Stars, Lost for Thousands of Years, Has Been Found in the Pages of a Medieval Parchment
Scholars have discovered part of the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus’s long-lost star catalogue of the—believed to be the first map…
Elon Musk addresses Twitter takeover, possible recession on Tesla earnings call
Tesla reported third-quarter earnings after the bell, and executives addressed a broad range of questions during the earnings call, including…
A Nude That Artemisia Gentileschi Painted for Michelangelo’s House Was Covered Up Because It Was Too Racy. Now It Has Been Revealed
Between now and April, visitors to Florence’s Casa Buonarroti, the house museum of Italian Renaissance great Michelangelo, are in for…
Wall Street’s top analysts bet on these stocks as economic uncertainty increases
Apple CEO Tim Cook presents the new iPhone 14 at an Apple event at their headquarters in Cupertino, California, U.S.…
Google Just Put an A.I. Brain in a Robot [Research Breakthrough]
AI Documentary: https://youtube.com/watch?v=IBe2o-cZncU What happens when you put an A.I. Language model in a physical robot? Lets find out. —…
Tesla struggles with Elon Musk’s strict return-to-office policy
Tesla Inc CEO Elon Musk attends the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, China August 29, 2019. Aly Song…
Germany has worked hard to shore up winter gas supplies — and it’s ahead of schedule
European governments are scrambling to fill underground storage with gas supplies to provide households with enough fuel to keep homes…
What Were the Women in Egon Schiele’s Steamy Portraits Thinking? Novelist Sophie Haydock on How She Brought the Artist’s Muses to Life
Though he died at just 28 from the Spanish Flu in 1918, Egon Schiele remains an enduring figure in art…
EJ Hill Is One of 63 Artists Participating in This Year’s Whitney Biennial. So Why Can’t Anyone Find His Work?
This year’s Whitney Biennial names 63 participating artists and collectives, but unless visitors also buy a copy of the exhibition catalogue,…
IDIQ Names 3 Industry Veterans to Grow Resident-Link Product Offering
—Company adds new executive and sales leadership for product focused on credit reporting of rental payments— Temecula, California, June 14,…
‘A Dazzling and Powerful Force for Good and Change’: Friends and Colleagues Remember the Late Artist and Feminist Trailblazer Paula Rego
Paula Rego, the painter, sculptor, and feminist force, died at her home in North London today, June 8. She was…
What Does It Take to Create the Bronx Zoo’s Animatronic Dinosaur Displays? The Artist Behind Them Gives Us a Walkthrough
Look out New Yorkers! This summer, the Bronx Zoo has been overrun by dinosaurs, and it’s an artist who helped…
Editors’ Picks: 13 Events for Your Art Calendar, From a Gallery for Un-Instagrammable Art to a Curators’ Talk on the Term ‘Latinx’
Each week, we search for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events, both digitally and in-person in the…
‘No One Should Have the Power to Kill Us All’: Artist Pedro Reyes Is Mounting a Global Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
Visiting Frieze New York can feel like an escape from the dark realities of life in 2022—but artist Pedro Reyes…
Snapchat Founder Evan Spiegel and Supermodel Miranda Kerr Will Pay the Student Debt of Otis College of Art’s Graduating Class
New graduates of the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles received a pleasant surprise at their commencement this weekend when…