The Guardian: ‘Google says I’m a dead physicist’ — is the world’s biggest search engine broken?

For decades, we've trusted Google search to answer all our questions. But is the platform losing its edge – and can we still trust it to tell us the truth?

Financial Times: The golden age of AI-generated art is here. It’s going to get weird

Tom Faber's investigates how software that can create almost any image from a few words will change human creativity.

New York Times: Finding Community, and Freedom, on the Virtual Dance Floor

On any given weekend, there are dozens of parties happening on VRChat, a platform where users assume fantastical avatars of their own design.

Financial Times: What Cameo knows about celebrity

Tom Faber explores the app which lets you pay celebrities to record personalised video messages, uncovering surprising truths about 21st-century fandom.

Kinfolk: Can we fight the influence of the algorithm?

A conversation about the influence of invisible algorithms in every facet of our daily lives online.

The Guardian: The global panic over the millennium bug, 25 years on

Planes were going to drop out of the sky, nuclear reactors would explode. But then … nothing. What really happened with Y2K? People still disagree …

Dazed: The wild rise of NPC streamers

From background characters in video games to centre-stage on TikTok, what's behind our obsession with these avatars of the uncanny?

Financial Times: Electric Dreams exhibition at Tate Modern — when artists embraced the power of technology

Early computer art shows the creative possibilities of the marriage of man and machine.

Financial Times: Dance with deer at Manhattan game exhibition Group Hug

Artists’ experiments with video games challenge ideas of form, presentation and playability.

Financial Times: How virtual reality can help make us more human

Works on show at the London Film Festival shed light on conditions such as ADHD, aphasia and breast cancer.

Financial Times: In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats is a thrilling VR immersion in acid-house culture

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery hosts a recreation of 1989 club life which really takes you there.

The Guardian: ‘Google says I’m a dead physicist’ — is the world’s biggest search engine broken?

For decades, we've trusted Google search to answer all our questions. But is the platform losing its edge – and can we still trust it to tell us the truth?

Financial Times: Your home console can become a gaming museum

The video game industry has a problem with its heritage: an interactive documentary provides an answer.

Kinfolk: Distant Dreams

The ups and downs of a digital nomad.

Kinfolk: Annie Rauwerda interview on the depths of Wikipedia

What the depths of Wikipedia can tell us about community.

New York Times: Finding Community, and Freedom, on the Virtual Dance Floor

On any given weekend, there are dozens of parties happening on VRChat, a platform where users assume fantastical avatars of their own design.

Dazed: Are social media's beauty filters changing how we see ourselves?

For teens today, filters can be a fun way to try on new identities and stay in touch. But are we at risk of letting the algorithm decide what's beautiful?

Financial Times: The golden age of AI-generated art is here. It’s going to get weird

Tom Faber's investigates how software that can create almost any image from a few words will change human creativity.

The Guardian: Rapper’s delight or weapons-grade nonsense? The app that uses AI to help MCs bust a rhyme

New tech is promising to take rap artists to new lyrical heights. But will its algorithm be able to handle our novice writer’s rubbish rhymes?

Financial Times Podcast: How Cameo is changing celebrity

This weekend, we delve into the world of celebrity via the app Cameo. What does it mean that we can now pay celebrities to send us personalised video greetings? And how has our interaction with famous people shifted over the last decade?

Financial Times: What Cameo knows about celebrity

Tom Faber explores the app which lets you pay celebrities to record personalised video messages, uncovering surprising truths about 21st-century fandom.

Financial Times: Why gamers are turning their backs on NFTs

Developers see new revenue streams but players are suspicious of more in-game purchases.

Kinfolk: Can we fight the influence of the algorithm?

A conversation about the influence of invisible algorithms in every facet of our daily lives online.

The Guardian: ‘In the game, I knew myself as Hannah’ — the trans gamers finding freedom on Roblox

37m people use the gaming platform every day in search of adventure – and for teenagers exploring their gender identity, it is also a place of liberation.

Resident Advisor: What Twitch Means For Dance Music

From Disclosure to Addison Groove, Amazon's livestream platform has offered artists a way to build audiences and make money during the pandemic—but will it last? Tom Faber investigates.

Financial Times: VTubers and the women behind the masks

Anime avatar video hosts are becoming wildly popular and offer female streamers, often the subjects of vicious online harassment, unexpected protections.

Kinfolk: The Tricky Ethics of 'Sharenting'

Parents of older children fret over how to regulate their online presence. But for the vast majority of millennial offspring, social media begins much earlier. Tom Faber considers the ethics of “sharenting.”

Pitchfork: Decolonizing Electronic Music Starts With Its Software

With the release of two free programs that encourage experimentation with global tuning systems, the musician and researcher Khyam Allami is challenging the Western biases of music production software.

Financial Times: The futuristic visions of multimedia artist Lawrence Lek

The film-maker on melding video games, music and political theory — and exploring our anxieties about a changing world.