Signals

On UC Berkeley and UC San Diego campuses, a trendy dating website wants users to do as little of the predate planning as possible. No longer does getting a date require swiping, a clever text exchange, approaching a stranger in a bar, or meeting through mutual friends. With Ditto AI, all users have to do is make a profile. Artificial intelligence... See more

Five tabs sit open in my browser: an article from The New Yorker, an episode of Superstore, a video essay on YouTube about the resurgence of trad wives, a PDF I have to summarize, and a draft for my next blog. I click on links, read a few words, get sidetracked by something more appealing, and promise myself that I'll return to the content later.... See more

Jony Ive wasn’t hired to design another iPhone.

He was hired to design what comes after the iPhone.

Not a device. A dimension.

Not another product. A paradigm.

This isn’t a launch.

It’s a systems design challenge,and there are maybe 3 people alive who’ve done that at scale. And Jony is one of them.

So no, OpenAI didn’t buy a device.

They bought a design... See more

The rise of algorithmically generated playlists and near-constant headphone use means music has often become background noise, something to fill space, not deepen experiences. A 2021 study by audio brand Jabra found that UK headphone users wore them for nearly an hour a day, with 38 per cent doing so specifically to avoid talking to others.

Being online these days is a sensory overload of visual and sonic stimuli that flood our brains through incoherent phrases and soundbites. It’s no surprise that we’re seeing music reflect this chaotic landscape,” says internet expert and Dazed contributing editor Gunseli Yalcinkaya. “Combine this with remix culture, with young people accessing all... See more

Donald Trump on Sunday announced on his Truth Social platform a 100% tariff on all movies “produced in Foreign Lands”, saying the US film industry was dying a “very fast death” due to the incentives that other countries were offering to draw American film-makers.

As young women lean liberal and young men trend conservative, dating across party lines is becoming increasingly uncommon. While older generations, including millennials, appear more willing to bridge ideological gaps, Gen Z is redefining what constitutes a deal-breaker.

Since those deadly fires four months ago, federal clean-up crews have cleared the sites of some 4,000 former properties around LA. But while they are removing the top 6 inches of soil due to the inevitable presence of contaminants, they are controversially not testing the soil that they leave behind—seemingly in an attempt to speed up their work.... See more