It was the type of disaster that made Americans reconsider the concept of live music sales. An iconic female artist, whose popular love songs …
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Sunday Reads for December 18, 2022
Concert-goers like me will wince as they read about the business model that made Ticketmaster a juggernaut. (Fees average 28% of a ticket’s face value but can go as high as 48%!) Next, one of my favorite Substack writers, Hunter Harris, discusses the World Cup in my terms: with another fun writer and lots of pop culture references. More seriously, Alzheimer’s endures as one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of modern medicine, but there's new thinking about its causes.
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After decades in the shadow of the reigning model for Alzheimer’s disease, alternative explanations are finally getting the attention they …
AI tech makes it trivial to generate harmful fake photos from a few social media pictures. If you're one of the billions of people who have posted …
For consumers, passwords are a relatively recent phenomenon. It wasn’t until the internet and the rise of online commerce and security that we’ve …
For more end of year essays and analysis on VICE, check out 2022 in Review. If you looked around today on any high street in Britain – or on social media – you might find it difficult to place which decade we’re in. The only clue would be that… it’s literally all happening. Every trend, every era, …
We live in undeniably ugly times. Architecture, industrial design, cinematography, probiotic soda branding — many of the defining features of the …
Keeping sounds, stories, and cultural memory alive through years of conflict. Mark Gergis has had what he calls an “obsessive” love of music since he …
