The Amazing Art and Toys We Loved at DesignerCon 2023
A few examples of the awesomeness found at DesignerCon.Photo: io9/Germain Lussier Every year, there are a few dates I immediately look forward to on the calendar. My birthday, of course.…
2023 Was the Weakest Year for Memes in History
For the last two decades, some of the weirdest and most creative things on the internet played out in images and GIFs. There have always been terrible memes, but for…
Taylor Swift Is Shadowbanned From Google’s 2023 Year In Trending Searches List
Taylor Swift is so popular that seismologists measured recent tour dates in Seattle as a magnitude 2.3 earthquake. You wouldn’t know if from the latest edition of Google’s annual annual…
Fortnite Festival Brings an Ounce of That Old Rock Band Magic Back From the Dead
Is Rock Band back? Well, kinda, maybe, eventually. Epic Games revealed the new Fortnite experience Fortnite Festival, a new update that lets players take their persona out of the battle…
Wikipedia Readers Were Thinking About AI and Atom Bombs in 2023
Image: Getty Images If you want to know what average online folks are trying to learn about, then perhaps the total view counts on Wikipedia might offer us a glimpse…
Weird Al Uses His Spotify Wrapped Video to Dunk on Spotify
Photo: Michael Tullberg (Getty Images) Spotify Wrapped went live today, giving users a detailed roundup of the music they listened to in the past year, which makes us all ask,…
Taylor Swift’s Concert Doc Coming to Streaming in December
Taylor Swift arrives for the Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour world premiere in Los Angeles, California on October 11, 2023. Photo: Valerie Macon/AFP (Getty Images) December is a month that’s…
Ticketmaster Hiding Bogus Fees Behind Logins, Menus
Live Nation Ticketmaster might have found yet another way to torment its users. After previously vowing to scrap hidden fees altogether, the live event ticketing company appears to be hiding…
AI This Week: One of the Music Industry’s Biggest Labels is Suing Anthropic
Headlines This Week Major newspapers are trying to carve out a deal with AI firms, as an argument brews over the copyrighted material that said firms have used to train…
Best Buy CEO Blames Taylor Swift for Sales Slump and ‘Funflation’
It’s Taylor Swift’s world, and we’re all just living in it. In an economy racked with corporate greed-induced hyperinflation and a population evermore saddled with student loan debt, younger generations…