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Save $20 on Our Favorite Gaming Headset
While there are a ton of gaming headsets to choose from, with their own strengths and weaknesses, one has stood out among the crowded field. My favorite gaming headset for most people, the SteelSeries Arctis Nova 3, is currently marked down as low as $90 at Amazon, a $20 break from the full price. SteelSeries read more
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Butter Art Fair Expands to Los Angeles During Frieze Week
Butter, the Indianapolis-founded art fair that returns 100 percent of sales proceeds to artists, will make its Los Angeles debut this week, expanding for the first time beyond its Midwest base as the city fills with collectors and dealers for Frieze week. Founded in 2021 and organized by Indianapolis-based cultural development firm GangGang, Butter positions read more
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Life in Cuba Under Trump's Pressure Campaign: No Electricity, No Oil, and Impossible Choices
Now, Trump has declared that those shipments will stop. Cut off from its main source of crude oil, Cuba finds itself exposed, a circumstance that the US president wants to take advantage of as he decrees the death of Castroism. He has also decided to impose tariffs on other countries that provide Cuba with oil, read more
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Snow Day in the Art World
New York Newsletter From Helene Schjerfbeck to Glenn Ligon, here’s what to read — and where to go when the snow clears. Sometimes you can’t help but talk about the weather —like when a blizzard rolls through town, bringing with it almost two feet of snow. It’s a time to stay indoors, to turn inward read more
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Louvre Director Laurence des Cars Resigns After Heist and Internal Turmoil
After a prolonged period of internal turmoil that has included a widely publicized heist, striking workers, two structural leaks, and a ticketing scam, the Louvre has lost its director. On Tuesday, French President Emmanuel Macron said he had officially accepted the resignation of Laurence des Cars, who had led the Louvre since 2021. “Ms. Laurence read more
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The Disappearing Art of Iberian Democracy
Art Review The varied, confrontational works on view at Madrid’s La Casa Encendida are reminders of the intense labor required to protect liberty. Installation view of Inquietud. Libertad y Democracia at La Casa Encendida, Madrid. Center: Jimmie Durham, “St. Frigo” (1996) (all photos Lauren Moya Ford/Hyperallergic) MADRID — On April 25, 1974, Portuguese soldiers and read more
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MOCA Los Angeles Reveals 158 Newly Acquired Works, Including Acclaimed Kara Walker Sculpture
An acclaimed Kara Walker sculpture, abstractions by beloved painters of the past and present, and a video about two lizards in Covid-era New York are among the 158 artworks acquired last year by the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, which revealed the newest pieces to enter its holdings on Tuesday. Fifty of the artists read more
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Ukraine's startups keep building | TechCrunch
When edtech company Preply became a unicorn earlier this year, employees in its Kyiv office celebrated with cake — because that’s what you do, even in the middle of a war. In the four years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of their country, Ukrainian startups have done more than survive: They are still building and growing. read more
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Four Suffer Minor Injuries After Michael Joo Sculpture Is Damaged in New York
A large sculpture by Korean American artist Michael Joo collapsed after an accident, reportedly caused by a careless visitor, during the February 20 opening of his exhibition “Sweat Models 1991–2006,” at New York’s Space ZeroOne. The collapse of the piece Saltiness of Greatness (1992) injured four, who were taken to the emergency room via ambulance, read more
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Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock to Star in Blockbuster Exhibition at the Met
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York will host a major exhibition for two major artists who have never been subject to such treatment by the institution before: Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock. The famously married artists each established a legacy that stands on its own. This show, to open in October and run read more
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Tim Cook Reflects on Joining Apple and Steve Jobs
In an August 2024 letter published by The Steve Jobs Archive today, Tim Cook reflected on joining Apple and what he learned from working with Steve Jobs. Jobs convinced Cook to join Apple in 1998, to help turn around the company: I’ll never forget that first conversation with Steve. At the time, Apple had been read more
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Undulating Coasters and Slide Complexes Loom in Alex Hutton's Paintings
Considering Alex Hutton’s fascination with rollercoasters and monumental waterslides, he doesn’t actually ever climb aboard. “Heights and the sinking feeling during free-fall bother me too much to enjoy them,” he tells Colossal. In a way, that adds even further dimension to the enigmatic, unpeopled atmosphere of his meticulous oil paintings, which focus on rollercoasters, waterslides, read more
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Allica Bank to become UK’s latest fintech unicorn, following $155M funding round, according to report
UK challenger business bank Allica Bank is to become the latest UK fintech unicorn, following a$155m (£111m) Series D funding round, according to a report. Allica is expected to announce tomorrow that its new valuation will hit$1.2bn (£890m), following the Series D round, Sky News says. It will mean that Allica will join the likes read more
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The Last Mystery of Antarctica’s ‘Blood Falls’ Has Finally Been Solved
There is a corner of Antarctica that looks like something out of a David Cronenberg movie. It’s located in the dry valleys of McMurdo, an immense frozen desert where, periodically, a jet of crimson liquid suddenly gushes from the dazzling white of the Taylor Glacier. They’re called the Blood Falls, and since their discovery in read more
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Verley closes €32M Series A to advance next-generation functional whey ingredients
French foodtech startup Verley has raised €32 million in a Series A financing round, only four years after its inception. Verley develops functional whey protein ingredients, more precisely beta-lactoglobulin (BLG), designed to deliver the nutritional and functional performance expected by food and nutrition manufacturers. Verley has built its approach to integrate seamlessly into existing food read more
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Sonos Planning Another App Overhaul With Live Activities Support
Sonos is preparing a major update to its app that aims to simplify navigation and introduce iPhone Lock Screen controls using Live Activities, part of a broader effort to rebuild confidence after the company’s troubled 2024 software overhaul, Bloomberg reports. Sonos plans to roll out a series of optional changes to its iPhone and Android read more
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MacRumors Turns 26: Heres What Our Readers Thought About the iPod, iPhone, and More
MacRumors turns 26 today, and we want to take the opportunity to thank everyone who has read and supported our website over the years. MacRumors was founded by Arnold Kim on February 24, 2000, while he was a medical student, and it has since become one of the world’s most popular Apple news websites. Kim read more
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Dutch AI inference chipmaker Axelera AI raises $250M
A Dutch chipmaker which designs and manufactures chips for AI inference use has raised more than $250m, with backing from new investor BlackRock. Innovation Industries, the European VC fund, is the lead investor in the round inAxelera AI. The round also features new investors BlackRock and SiteGround Capital as well as existing investors, including Bitfury, read more
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Power Protocol reaches $15.4M total funding to expand gaming ecosystem
London-based Power Protocol, a blockchain infrastructure platform for gaming and digital entertainment, has secured a $3 million investment from BITKRAFT Ventures, bringing total ecosystem funding to $15.4 million. Power Protocol is a Web3 gaming ecosystem designed to connect games, studios, players, and digital assets through shared infrastructure. Powered by the $POWER token and developed by read more
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Quantcore raises £2.5M to build UK's sovereign manufacturing capability
Glasgow-based Quantcore has secured £2.5 million in seed funding to develop a sovereign supply chain for quantum hardware, as the UK seeks to strengthen domestic capacity in technologies linked to national security and economic competitiveness. The round was co-led by PXN Ventures, Blackfinch Ventures, and Scottish Enterprise, with additional backing from Quantum Exponential and STAC. read more
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