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Inside Silicon Valley’s New Boys Club: The Testosterone-Testing ‘T Party’
By
Zara Stone
· Sept. 1, 2023 9:00 AM PDT ·
28 comments
Early one Saturday morning in August, a dozen men—a mix of startup founders, software engineers, designers and one professional Dungeons & Dragons dungeon master—gathered inside a small San Francisco condo to get their blood drawn. Testosterone levels had been in steep decline globally, the men had learned, and they wanted...
Early one Saturday morning in August, a dozen men—a mix of startup founders, software...
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The Cult of Notion: A Productivity App Becomes a Sensation for Creators
By
Kalley Huang
· July 22, 2023 6:00 AM PDT ·
10 comments
In May, hundreds of people queued outside an auditorium in the San Isidro district of Lima, Perú. They had to wait another two hours before the event began, with the line nearly wrapping around the block and storm clouds looming in the late evening sky. As they killed time, the crowd buzzed in anticipation: “Notion! Notion!...
In May, hundreds of people queued outside an auditorium in the San Isidro district of Lima,...
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culture
The Hullabaloo of Zuzalu: Inside the Secret Pop-up City of Vitalik Buterin’s Dreams
By
Margaux MacColl
· June 2, 2023 9:24 AM PDT ·
6 comments
Until it reached its planned obsolescence last week, the mythical city of Zuzalu was an intellectual wonderland. Days at Zuzalu began shortly after dawn at the edge of the Adriatic Sea. In the pursuit of an infinite life, Zuzalans (as they self-identify) enjoyed submerging themselves in the frigid waters of Montenegro at 8 a.m.—and again...
Until it reached its planned obsolescence last week, the mythical city of Zuzalu was an...
While Hollywood Writers Fret About AI, Visual Effects Workers Welcome It
By
Scott Alan Lucas
· May 20, 2023 6:00 AM PDT ·
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entertainment
While Hollywood Writers Fret About AI, Visual Effects Workers Welcome It
By
Scott Alan Lucas
· May 20, 2023 6:00 AM PDT ·
7 comments
Is there anybody here who is afraid of AI taking their job?” Visual effects veteran James Blevins, whose credits include “The Mandalorian,” “Icarus,” “Air Force One” and “Space Jam,” was speaking last Wednesday to a crowd of several hundred people at the Hollywood offices of FYI, the...
Is there anybody here who is afraid of AI taking their job?” Visual effects veteran James...
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‘Your Dreams Are No Longer Safe’: The Washington Crowd Gets an Alarming Crash Course in AI
By
Nancy Scola
· March 10, 2023 9:00 AM PST ·
5 comments
Frank Luntz, the famed Republican pollster and communications guru, stood in awe listening to himself. “It sounds like I had a stroke,” Luntz called out from the back of a banquet room at the National Press Club on a blustery evening in downtown Washington. He and around 100 other attendees at the invitation-only gathering were...
Frank Luntz, the famed Republican pollster and communications guru, stood in awe listening to...
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Andreessen Horowitz Takes Tinseltown
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Erin Woo
· Aug. 25, 2022 12:32 PM PDT ·
6 comments
Andrew Chen, a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, was waiting outside The Bungalow, a bar in Santa Monica, Calif., before heading to an after-party when he noticed that his colleague Connie Chan had her head buried in her phone. “Stop sending emails,” he joked. “You’re not in SF anymore.” Chen, Chan and 15,000 of their fellow techies and...
Andrew Chen, a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, was waiting outside The Bungalow, a bar in...
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crypto
culture
‘The Last Great Party’: With Crypto Winter Coming, NFT Lovers Try to Stave Off Reality
By
Margaux MacColl
· June 24, 2022 2:30 PM PDT ·
9 comments
Ten days before NFT.NYC began last Monday in New York, I interviewed the conference’s founder, Jodee Rich, about how the crypto market’s collapse would impact this year’s gathering. It seemed like an obvious topic of discussion: $400 billion in cryptocurrencies’ market value had just vanished in a matter of weeks; heavyweights like Coinbase had...
Ten days before NFT.NYC began last Monday in New York, I interviewed the conference’s founder,...
Boomer Bankers Bow to Blockchain Billionaires on the Beach in the Bahamas
By
Akash Pasricha
· May 4, 2022 1:00 PM PDT ·
1 comment
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Boomer Bankers Bow to Blockchain Billionaires on the Beach in the Bahamas
By
Akash Pasricha
· May 4, 2022 1:00 PM PDT ·
1 comment
“I wanna draw something for you, OK, just ’cause you’ll remember it. “This is LaGuardia airport. It was built in the 1920s,” said Anthony Scaramucci, doodling rectangles on a pad of paper in front of me. I was sitting with the SkyBridge Capital founder and one-time Trump White House communications director at the Grand Hyatt in the Bahamas,...
“I wanna draw something for you, OK, just ’cause you’ll remember it. “This is LaGuardia airport....
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crypto
culture
Dining With Apes: A Visit to the World’s First NFT-Themed Restaurant
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Brandon Reynolds
· April 22, 2022 1:30 PM PDT ·
1 comment
In Southern California, it is requisite to compare any food item remotely resembling a hamburger to an In-N-Out burger. So when I visited Bored & Hungry, the world’s first NFT-branded hamburger joint, on Tuesday afternoon, I had In-N-Out on my mind. The new place, formerly a Louisiana Fried Chicken, is at a busy intersection of Long Beach,...
In Southern California, it is requisite to compare any food item remotely resembling a hamburger...
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At the Shoptalk Conference in Las Vegas, E-Retailers Have a Lot of Problems, and the Metaverse Isn’t One of Them
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Malique Morris
· April 1, 2022 12:00 PM PDT
“The metaverse is a big fat distraction,” declared Julie Bornstein, CEO of mobile-first fashion marketplace The Yes. Sitting in a stuffy conference room at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino’s convention center in Las Vegas, Bornstein is on the frontlines of how shoppers, especially younger ones, are buying goods online. And right now, she said...
“The metaverse is a big fat distraction,” declared Julie Bornstein, CEO of mobile-first fashion...
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culture
crypto
In Austin, a Coronation for Crypto, a Celebration of Doodles, and Confusion for Nicolas Cage
By
Kaya Yurieff
· March 17, 2022 10:05 AM PDT ·
1 comment
South by Southwest, the annual tech and arts festival in Austin, Tex., kicked off this year against the backdrop of a Russian invasion of Ukraine, record inflation, skyrocketing gas prices and a two-year pandemic hangover. It also coincided with a sudden dip in the price of cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens. But all the bad news didn’t...
South by Southwest, the annual tech and arts festival in Austin, Tex., kicked off this year...
In Denver, an Ethereum Conference Overflows With Burning Man Vibes and Anti-VC Sentiment
By
Kate Clark
· Feb. 24, 2022 10:00 AM PST ·
4 comments
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culture
In Denver, an Ethereum Conference Overflows With Burning Man Vibes and Anti-VC Sentiment
By
Kate Clark
· Feb. 24, 2022 10:00 AM PST ·
4 comments
“You can’t help but walk around here and go, ‘What the fuck is this?’” John Paller is sitting in a small, white-walled meeting room somewhere inside the century-old Denver Sports Castle, a six-floor, 35,000-square-foot former Chrysler showroom that’s overdue for a renovation. The longtime Denver entrepreneur says that the venue is a “total pile...
“You can’t help but walk around here and go, ‘What the fuck is this?’” John Paller is sitting in...
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Meet the Couple Who Got Surprise-Married at Peter Thiel’s Hereticon Conference
By
Margaux MacColl
· Jan. 22, 2022 7:00 AM PST ·
8 comments
This year, Peter Thiel’s Hereticon conference changed lives. Some attendees left with fresh tattoos and piercings, others with a newfound belief in UFOs. But Delian Asparouhov and Nadia Eghbal arguably made the greatest leap of all: Between speeches about sex rings and sessions on hypnosis, the couple squeezed in a wedding. From the start,...
This year, Peter Thiel’s Hereticon conference changed lives. Some attendees left with fresh ...
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crypto
culture
Minting Takes Manhattan: An NFT Gallery Sells Millions Even Before the Art Is Made
By
Margaux MacColl
· Dec. 11, 2021 6:00 AM PST ·
6 comments
The art was worth at least $7 million, and it hadn’t even been created yet. It was the opening night of non-fungible token artist Tyler Hobbs’ show “Incomplete Control” at the Bright Moments gallery in Soho. The gallery, lit by candles and LCD screens, hosted a crowd of about 100crypto influencers, venture capitalistsand traditional art...
The art was worth at least $7 million, and it hadn’t even been created yet. It was the opening...
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