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In Collaboration with Indigenous Artisans Around the World, PET Lamp Emphasizes Sustainability
Every year, a plastic called polyethylene terephthalate, commonly referred to as PET, is used to produce around 600 billion bottles and other packaging. Think juice containers, detergent jugs, soft jars, and shampoo bottles, plus myriad other items like carpeting, synthetic fabrics, and industrial applications. Tons upon tons of these single-use plastics end up in landfills read more
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First Art Basel Qatar Closed with Institutional Acquisitions, Mid-Market Strength, and Measured Sales Momentum
Art Basel Qatar closed its inaugural edition this week with numbers that suggest Doha has quickly established itself as a serious market platform. Getting there required patience. Selling in Doha was always going to unfold differently. The Qatari royal family was given a private walkthrough on Monday, the day before VIP preview began. Sorces toldARTnewsthat read more
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Birth of A Movement: The Art of Robert Williams – Hi-Fructose Magazine
In 1986, another in a long string little bands from the strip asked Williams for cover art. They wanted to use his 1979 painting “Appetite for Destruction.” “I told them what would happen,” says Williams. There were protests. A media frenzy. Chain stores refused to carry Guns N’ Roses. And, after the artwork was moved read more
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Databricks CEO says SaaS isn't dead, but AI will soon make it irrelevant | TechCrunch
On Monday, Databricks announced it reached a $5.4 billion revenue run rate, growing 65% year-over-year, of which more than $1.4billion was from its AI products. Co-founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi wanted to share these growth numbers because there’s so much talk about how AI is going to kill the SaaS business, he told TechCrunch. “Everybody’s read more
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Five Shows to See in New York City Right Now
We tell ourselves stories in order to live.Joan Didion, a New Yorker, famously said this. The exhibitions we recommend you trek out to see —and it’s a high bar, given these subfreezing temperatures —center that age-old practice. A show on storytelling at the Morgan Library & Museum, with a 3,000-year scope, should prime you well read more
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MrBeast's company buys Gen Z-focused fintech app Step | TechCrunch
YouTube megastar MrBeast announced on Monday that his company, Beast Industries, is buying Step, a teen-focused banking app. Step, which raised half a billion in funding and has grown to over 7 million users, offers financial services geared toward Gen Z to help them build credit, save money, and invest. The company has attracted celebrity read more
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Political Bribery Investigation in South Korea Involving Lee Ufan Painting Draws to a Close
A bizarre saga involving a painting attributed to Lee Ufan and Kim Keon-hee, the wife of South Korea’s impeached and jailed former president Yoon Suk-yeol, may be drawing to a close. Kim Sang-min, a former chief prosecutor, had previously been accused of purchasing Lee’s From Point No. 800298 in 2023 for around 140 million won read more
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Long Misidentified, Object in Museum Is Oldest Drilling Tool Found Yet in Egypt
A small metal object excavated almost 100 years ago has been identified as the oldest known drilling tool yet found in Egypt. The news was reported by Archeology Today. The artifact came from a predynastic cemetery at the archeological site of Badari in Upper Egypt and dates to the late 4th millennium BCE. Part of read more
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ChatGPT rolls out ads | TechCrunch
OpenAI on Monday announced it’s beginning to test ads in the U.S. for users on its Free and Go subscription tiers. The newer Go plan is a low-cost subscription at $8 per month in the U.S.and was introduced globally in mid-January. Subscribers to OpenAI’s paid plans, including its Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Education tiers, read more
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How Liminalism Became the Defining Aesthetic of Our Time
Giorgio de Chirico, “The Red Tower” (1913), oil on canvas, held by the Guggenheim Museum (photo public domain via Wikimedia Commons) Had Century III Mall in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania not closed seven years ago, the shopping center —the third-largest in the world when it opened, with 200 tenants — would be approaching its 50th anniversary. read more
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Ai Weiwei Says London’s Royal Academy Sought to Eject Him After Post–October 7 Tweet about Jews
In a new interview with The Guardian in advance of his forthcoming book On Censorship, artist Ai Weiwei talked about experiencing censorship not just in his native China but also in the West—including an incident involving his membership in London’s Royal Academy. After chronicling some of his storied challenges and acts of defiance against China’s read more
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Art Books That Serve Up Beauty and Depth
Books Newsletter Our favorite art books for February, the writings of Claude Cahun, and an imaginative history of Michelangelo and Titian. What do Kaylene Whiskey and Pyaari Azaadi have in common? Both are women of color whose art can be visually breathtaking and conceptually powerful, with feminist underpinnings — and the subjects of recent art read more
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Apples Regent Street Store Reopening Soon After One-Month Closure
Apple has announced that its flagship Regent Street store in London, England reopens on Saturday, February 14, at 10 a.m. local time. The store has been temporarily closed for “refurbishment” since Monday, January 12. The extent of the changes remains to be seen. It is not yet clear if Apple made any changes that will read more
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Exclusive: Hacktivist scrapes over 500,000 stalkerware customers' payment records
A hacktivist has scraped more than half-a-million payment records from a provider of consumer-grade “stalkerware” phone surveillance apps, exposing the email addresses and partial payment information of customers who paid to spy on others. The transactions contain records of payments for phone-tracking services like Geofinder and uMobix, as well as services like Peekviewer (formerly Glassagram), read more
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So, what's going on with Musicboard? | TechCrunch
Musicboard, an app for music discovery and recommendations, has been struggling, according to its users. Over the past several months, users said the app experienced outages, the website went offline, and the Android app disappeared from the Play Store. This has concerned its devoted, if small, user base. (The app has been downloaded around 462,000 read more
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Hacked, leaked, exposed: Why you should never use stalkerware apps | TechCrunch
There is a whole shady industry for people who want to monitor and spy on their families. Multiple app makers promote and advertise their software — often referred to as stalkerware — to jealous partners who can use these apps to access their victims’ phones remotely. Yet, despite how sensitive this personal data is, an read more
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Lyft opens its ride-hailing app to teens | TechCrunch
Lyft launched teen accounts on Monday, a product that allows minors as young as 13 to hail a ride without an adult in 200 U.S. cities, including Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, and New York. The official launch comes two weeks after Lyft CEO David Risher announced on X plans to open the ride-hailing service to teenagers. read more
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ChatGPT Now Has Ads for Free and Go Tier Users
U.S. ChatGPT users who have a free account or a low-cost Go subscription will start seeing ads starting today, according to OpenAI. Ads will be limited to the Free and Go subscription tiers, and will be shown to logged-in adult users. OpenAI does not plan to show ads to minors, and the company claims that read more
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Ex-Googlers are building infrastructure to help companies understand their video data | TechCrunch
Businesses are generating more video than ever. From years of broadcast archives to thousands of store cameras and countless hours of production footage, most of it just sits unused on servers, unwatched and unanalyzed. This is dark data: a massive, untapped resource that companies collect automatically but almost never use in a meaningful way. To read more
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Anthropic closes in on $20B round | TechCrunch
Anthropic is in the final stages of raising $20 billion in new capital at a valuation of $350 billion, Bloomberg reports, with investor demand leading the company to raise twice the funding it set out to obtain. The company raised $13 billion in equity funding just five months ago, but intense competition between frontier labs read more
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