Silicon Valley’s top pundit dishes on her memoir Burn Book, immature billionaires, and whether she’s actually mean. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2024-02-15 11:00:00 UTC ]
Our reverence towards stars and celebrities was not borne of the 19th century’s cinematic revolution, but rather has been a resilient aspect of our culture for millennia. Ancient tales of immortal gods rising again and again after fatal injury, the veneration and deification of social and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2023-04-04 18:00:30 UTC ]
Adobe’s suite of photo and video editing software has long leveraged the assistance of machine intelligence to help its human users do their jobs, having employed the Sensei AI system for more than a decade to power features like Neural Filters in Photoshop or Acrobat's Liquid Mode. On Tuesday,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2023-03-21 13:00:34 UTC ]
Bethanne Patrick's February picks include new work from Salman Rushdie and Zadie Smith, plus fresh insights into friendship, Silicon Valley and wolves. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2023-01-31 14:18:02 UTC ]
In Bit Flip, readers find a Silicon Valley corporate thriller that sparks a change of heart. (Sponsored) Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-08-29 04:00:00 UTC ]
In roughly five hours of testimony on Thursday, Penguin Random House CEO Markus Dohle jousted with government lawyers over PRH's market share, his commitment to allow PRH and S&S editors to bid on the same books if the merger is completed, and other issues tied to what the impact of a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-08-05 04:00:00 UTC ]
With engaging stories and little-known details, Sebastian Mallaby defends the role of VC firms. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-02-04 13:00:25 UTC ]
Ethnographer Carolyn Chen draws on research conducted in the Silicon Valley to argue why the workplace is increasingly replacing houses of worship and how some tech giants have appropriated religious language and culture in her new book, ‘Work, Pray, Code.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-12-08 05:00:00 UTC ]
A memoir of life in Silicon Valley, a capitalist satire, a novel that envisions a better future, and more: Your weekly guide to the best in books Continue reading >> [ Source: The Atlantic | 2021-04-23 14:30:00 UTC ]
The prankish device is the subject of a new audiobook that pokes serious fun at Silicon Valley’s culture of disruption. We spoke with its inventor. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2020-08-31 12:00:00 UTC ]
The bestselling author returns with season two of his ‘Against the Rules’ podcast, shifting focus from the decline of referees in society to the proliferation of coaches. Since his first book was published back in 1989, Michael Lewis has been famous for explaining complex concepts and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Fast Company | 2020-05-05 06:00:31 UTC ]
The debut novel intersperses the story of a tech reporter in Silicon Valley with Facebook posts, tweets, Google results and other fragments. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-03-27 13:00:00 UTC ]
Two new memoirs reveal harassment, discrimination and intimidation, among other abuses, at large tech companies. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-03-02 17:47:51 UTC ]
As Bloomberg reports, J. D. Vance, bestselling author of Hillbilly Elegy, Yale graduate, and venture capitalist has teamed up with Peter Thiel, Eric Schmidt, and Marc Andreessen of Silicon Valley to establish a venture capital firm in Ohio called Narya Capital. If “Narya” sounds familiar to you,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-01-10 20:12:30 UTC ]
Anna Wiener’s memoir captures the dreams, delusions and general absurdity of Silicon Valley in indelible detail. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-01-03 10:00:08 UTC ]
Welcome to Ad Age’s Wake-Up Call, our daily roundup of advertising, marketing, media and digital news. If you're reading this online or in a forwarded email, here's the link to sign up for our Wake-Up Call newsletters. You can get an audio version of this briefing on your Alexa device; sign up... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2019-10-25 10:25:54 UTC ]
The latest novel from the man behind Lemony Snicket is a satire that’s missing some key ingredients. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2019-08-30 13:00:00 UTC ]
This week: a swampy urban legend, plus Silicon Valley and the remaking of America. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2019-07-05 04:00:00 UTC ]
The killing of 49 people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, was engineered to be viewed and shared on the world’s largest technology platforms, taking full advantage of Silicon Valley’s laissez-faire approach to content moderation. It began with a racist manifesto uploaded to the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Baltimore Sun | 2019-03-16 00:05:00 UTC ]
The killing of 49 people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, was engineered to be viewed and shared on the world’s largest technology platforms, taking full advantage of Silicon Valley’s laissez-faire approach to content moderation. It began with a racist manifesto uploaded to the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Baltimore Sun | 2019-03-16 00:05:00 UTC ]