Category: author_name|Daniel Cooper
Is DALL-E’s art borrowed or stolen?
In 1917, Marcel Duchamp submitted a sculpture to the Society of Independent Artists under a false name. Fountain was a urinal, bought from a toilet supplier, with the signature R. Mutt on its side in black paint. Duchamp wanted to see if the society would abide by its promise to…
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Framework’s first major laptop upgrade lets you swap your system’s brain
Framework launched last year with the promise of building laptops that you could upgrade yourself with little more than a screwdriver and some patience. Now, 12 months after making its debut, the company is shipping out its first round of upgrade kits to keep those machines up to date. It’s…
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We’re heading for a messy, and expensive, breakup with natural gas
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has exacerbated a number of fault lines already present within the global energy supply chain. This is especially true in Europe, where many countries were reliant on the superstate’s natural resources, and are now hastily looking to cut ties before the supply is shut off. This…
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‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ races to its conclusion with a spot-on ‘Aliens’ riff
The following article includes significant spoilers for All Those Who Wander. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has never been ashamed to tip its hat to the stories it’s riffing upon, some more obviously than others. This week’s episode, All Those Who Wander, might as well just have been called “Screw it,…
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‘Strange New Worlds’ mixes the maudlin and irreverent
The following article discusses spoilers for The Elysian Kingdom. There’s a genre of writing best embodied by the serial escalation of premises found on forum threads in certain corners of the internet. It’s the sort of energy that imbues this week’s Strange New Worlds as it takes a one-episode detour…
Read More‘Strange New Worlds’ takes a big swing toward something profound
The following article discusses spoilers for Lift Us Where Suffering Cannot Reach, and topics of a sensitive nature. Last week, Strange New Worlds hit something of a groove with a lightweight comedy episode that showed how well this show can work. This week, it takes a hard turn toward the…
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