Best Golf Tech to Elevate Your Game
[ad_1] Golfers love gadgets. That’s why there are gizmos galore promising radical improvement in all facets of a player’s game. But here’s the thing, there’s no device that will magically give you Tiger Woods’ skill on the course. A golfer’s abilities are earned with practice, hard work, and experience. Players have to invest in and […]
Overshare: are there any good films about social media? | Movies
[ad_1] There are several elements of Mainstream, Gia Coppola’s dark satire of YouTube stardom released in theaters this month, that resemble a stick-figure rendering of internet fame. The film, written by Coppola, supposes that a technophobic, shady drifter named Link (Andrew Garfield) morphs, under the guidance of aspiring film-maker Frankie (Maya Hawke) into a messianic, […]
‘Some people feel threatened’: face to face with Ai-Da the robot artist | Culture
[ad_1] She, if it can be called a she, began her career with abstract art but has now moved to self, if they can be called self, portraits and they are alarmingly good. “She is getting better all of the time,” said Aidan Meller, the force behind Ai-Da, the world’s first ultra-realistic robot artist, who […]
Amazon in talks to buy Hollywood studio MGM for $9bn | Amazon
[ad_1] Amazon is in talks to acquire MGM, the Hollywood studio behind the James Bond and Rocky franchises, in a $9bn (£6.3bn) deal. MGM, which put itself up for sale in December, is one of the few Hollywood studios with “crown jewel” franchises not to have been snapped up in the recent wave of mega […]
Daniel Kahneman: ‘Clearly AI is going to win. How people are going to adjust is a fascinating problem’ | Science and nature books
[ad_1] Daniel Kahneman, 87, was awarded the Nobel prize in economics in 2002 for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making. His first book, Thinking, Fast and Slow, a worldwide bestseller, set out his revolutionary ideas about human error and bias and how those traits might be recognised and mitigated. A new book, […]
The 15 greatest video games of the 70s – ranked! | Games
[ad_1] 15. Pong (1972, Atari)It wasn’t the first video game; it wasn’t even the first ping-pong game – Table Tennis on the Magnavox Odyssey got there earlier. Pong was, however, the game that kickstarted the video arcade and home console industries, the profitability of its hardware and the simplicity of the gameplay – just two […]
Why I am deleting Goodreads and maybe you should, too | Books
[ad_1] I can’t remember the last time I enjoyed reading a book where my enjoyment wasn’t tied to the euphoric sense of achievement I got from finishing it. This is not because I don’t love reading, or would rather watch television. No, it’s because of a little app on my phone called Goodreads. Home to […]
David Hockney on joy, longing and spring light: ‘I’m teaching the French how to paint Normandy!’ | David Hockney
[ad_1] ‘I think it looks terrific,” says David Hockney. “It’s all on one theme, isn’t it? And there’s not many exhibitions like that, really, a show all about the spring.” The 83-year-old artist is taking a look around his new exhibition at the Royal Academy in London for the first time. He seems happy with […]
‘I couldn’t be with someone who liked Jack Reacher’: can our taste in books help us find love? | Books
[ad_1] “He mentioned in his bio that he liked Virginia Woolf and I was like, ‘Ah! The dream boy,” says Francesca, 34, who met her boyfriend Andy on Tinder. They spent two years as friends, exchanging books and chatting about Mrs Dalloway, until one day Francesca had a revelation during lockdown: “I was like, I […]
Gaming in colour: uncovering video games’ black pioneers | Games
[ad_1] In the 1970s, in the fledgling days of the video games industry, an engineer named Gerald “Jerry” Lawson designed one of the earliest game consoles, the Channel F, and also led the team that invented the game cartridge, a defining innovation in how games were made and sold. His son, Andersen Lawson, recalls that […]
