After years of delays, Neuralink Corp., a startup co-founded by Elon Musk and a small group of scientists in 2016, is set to begin human trials for an implantable brain chip that the tech CEO […]
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Ja Morant Suspension: Adam Silver Says Decision Will Come After Finals
Ja Morant remains indefinitely suspended by the Memphis Grizzlies after a second video of the Memphis Grizzlies player brandishing a gun surfaced last month. When asked about the star guard during a pre-NBA Finals news conference on Thursday, commissioner Adam […]
Beach Fossils: Bunny
When Brooklyn’s Beach Fossils released their self-titled debut in 2010, frontman Dustin Payseur had given little thought to his band’s name, which he’d offhandedly pulled from a notebook. By the time Captured Tracks released the band’s second […]
Asma Maroof / Patrick Belaga / Tapiwa Svosve: The Sport of Love
Peculiar Contrast, Perfect Light, the official film of the Louis Vuitton 2021 fall-winter men’s show, is a suitably opulent and bugged-out curio of high celebrity culture. Saul Williams emerges from a snowy wilderness reciting poetry to himself, Louis […]
HiTech: Détwat
Like many Detroit genres, ghettotech sounds like it could have only been brewed from the sweaty corners of Motor City’s pulsing industrial landscape. A fusion of electro, techno, Chicago’s ghetto house, and Miami bass, ghettotech […]
Twitter’s Head of Trust and Safety Resigns After Just 7 Months
Twitter’s head of trust and safety Ella Irwin resigned on Thursday, Reuters reported. After Elon Musk decimated the social media company’s Trust and Safety Council — which was comprised of about 100 independent civil rights […]
This J-Pop Group Say They Were Doxxed. Did the Internet Go Too Far?
“1, 2, so sweet!” say the three girls dressed in green, pink, and red outfits, waving into the camera. “Hello, we are Sorb3t! We are an idol group based in California, and today we wanted […]
Bill Cosby Faces New Lawsuit Accusing Him of 1969 Rape
Bill Cosby faces yet another sexual assault lawsuit, this time from a woman who accuses the disgraced comedian of drugging and raping her in 1969. Victoria Valentino, a former Playboy centerfold, filed the lawsuit Thursday […]
Drag Is in Peril. These Red-State Queens Are Fighting Back
Drag has been under attack in various parts of the United States, with laws aiming to restrict public performance popping up in Tennessee, Arkansas, Texas, and Kentucky, among many others. Some of these laws have […]
Kari Faux: Real B*tches Don’t Die!
Arkansas, 1957. Elizabeth Eckford walks to school. In her black shades, she emanates coolness. Upon arrival, a vicious crowd barricades the entrance, a moment now immortalized in U.S. history. White mothers, fathers, students, military men contort […]
Dave Matthews Band: Walk Around the Moon
The most famous lyric in “Crash Into Me,” Dave Matthews Band’s breakout love song from 1996, was a mistake. After recording several takes, Matthews added a throwaway line as a joke: “Hike up your skirt a […]
Stuck: Freak Frequency
Stuck are preoccupied with life’s most consistent torment: capitalism. On their wryly-titled debut Change Is Bad, the Chicago quartet captured the nagging anxiety of life under a fucked-up system, pairing political screeds with twitchy, groove-driven post-punk that recalls Protomartyr and Mission […]