Tag: Arts & Entertainment
Phoenix Springs offers breathtaking beauty in a desolate neo-noir world
Take me to Phoenix Springs. I didn’t make it all the way to the remote desert oasis and its mysterious community of misfits while playing the Phoenix Springs demo at Summer Game Fest, but after spending a brief time in Iris Dormer’s neo-noir world, I’m desperate to get there. I…
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LinkedIn’s AI job coach can write your cover letters and edit your resumé
Last year, LinkedIn began experimenting with AI-powered tools for job seekers on its platform. Now the company has added a bunch of new capabilities for its premium subscribers who are #OpentoWork, including personalized resumé, AI-assisted cover letters and more conversational job searches. The changes are meant to speed up some…
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News on social media is a fractured mess, Pew study indicates
Pew Research and the Knight Foundation just put out a pair of lengthy reports on how Americans are experiencing news and politics on social media. There are a number of noteworthy stats in the research but, for me, it mostly underscores that news distribution is kind of a mess. It’s…
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Apple redesigned the Photos app in iOS 18 to intelligently organize your memories
Apple’s iOS 18 update — which the company described as the “biggest ever” — will bring major changes for the Photos app. The company previewed the redesigned, which, among other things, automatically organizes all your photos around memorable moments like trips and events. The new version will ditch the app’s…
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Empire of the Ants will let you explore a photorealistic bug’s life this November
Empire of the Ants, a real-time strategy game with dazzlingly photorealistic insects and other critters, arrives on November 7. Although the game doesn’t sound like it’s exactly a remake, it comes from the same publisher (and draws from the same source material) as the 2000 RTS game of the same…
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Doctor Who: Rogue review: Just kiss already!
The following contains spoilers for “Rogue.” Doctor Who has always been gay. From the get-go, many of its key creative figures were queer, and a large proportion of its fans are too. As Tat Wood explained in his essays in show guide About Time 6, the mix of science, fantasy…
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