- Zeitgeist
Waymo and the Lidar Bet on Autonomous Robotaxis
Waymo is accelerating, Tesla is betting solely on cameras, and Uber is putting ten billion dollars on the table. Behind the race for robotaxis lies a simpler question than it seems: who do we trust with the road?
- Sidelines, Zeitgeist
The Infantino Model: Football Sold Off in Pieces
In New York, after the final, someone will cut up the turf at MetLife Stadium into little souvenirs. You can love it or hate it, but that single detail says everything about how Gianni Infantino runs football.
- Screenplay, Zeitgeist
Every Time Sam Neill Made Us Feel at Home
Sam Neill played the most diverse characters without ever losing the rare ability to make each of them feel strangely familiar.
- Lisztomania, Zeitgeist
Bonnie Tyler, Total Eclipse of the Heart and the immortality of an era
Some icons become immortal because of what they create. In Bonnie Tyler's case, two notes are enough to bring an entire decade back to life.
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David Hockney, or on looking
He died at 88. Platinum hair, round glasses, cigarette in hand. He had painted more swimming pools than anyone else and believed the world was beautiful, if only people bothered to see it.
- Lisztomania, Zeitgeist
So, should Geese be loved or hated?
There’s a band that has almost monopolised musical discussions in recent months. As usual, there’s no room for balance or middle ground in the public debate.
- Zeitgeist
Ferrari Luce has Alpha males rattled
Few things expose fragile masculinity quite like an electric Ferrari with soft curves.
- Sidelines, Zeitgeist
How Kathleen Krüger became the first female sporting director in elite European football
Seventeen years at Bayern Munich, the public admiration of Guardiola and Thomas Müller. Now Hamburg, for a milestone no club in Europe’s five major leagues had ever recorded before.
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Digital detox works like magic, just not for you
Six and a half million minutes spent online every day, on average. And a cultural response called digital detox: unplug, recharge, return. Scientific research has studied what actually happens. The result is more interesting than it sounds.
