Month: September 2021

Archive PhotosGetty Images Every ’90s kid with even a passing interest in fashion remembers where they were when Cher’s digital closet in Clueless made its onscreen cameo. Like a hoverboard for the Nordstrom Brass Plum set, this technological leap implanted fever dreams in all of us—of an ever-rotating, constantly trackable wardrobe, something a number of
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MP3 vs vinyl, digital photography vs film, texting vs catching up down the pub. There’s no denying technology has made many of life’s little details more convenient, but the problem is that it all too often tears the heart out of them in the process. Clothes shopping is another prime example. Thankfully there is still
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“I peeked around my camera and saw people running and screaming,” says Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times photojournalist Ruth Fremson, who took the above photo. “I thought, just stay calm—then it registered that the people running were police officers.” RUTH FREMSON Within minutes, they were at the scene—or what was left of it—battling falling debris
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On a hot tennis court one afternoon in Houston, former magazine editor Francine Ballard found herself the center of her friends’ attention, though not for her racket skills. In her hand was a Lucite cube containing a QR code, which itself contained an original work of digital art that corresponded to a gold ring of
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Colin Anderson Productions pty ltdGetty Images If you described your car as a smart device, everyone but Elon Musk might look at you askance. But the modern car really is one, points out Ivan Poupyrev: “It has internet, a map, artificial intelligence, and people you can talk to.” Poupyrev, Google’s director of Engineering, Advanced Technology
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