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Lady Gaga’s spot-on, high-tech David Bowie tribute steals the show at Grammys
Lady Gaga channeled the late David Bowie through song and style on Monday night at the 58th Grammy Awards, and thanks to an innovative technological partnership with Intel, her performance also generated the most buzz for creativity. Perhaps because she was born this way, Gaga seemed a rather obvious choice...
Geek of the Week: Marketing exec David Hyslop on Seattle, ‘Shark Tank’, and the pros and cons of a moving workplace
If you’ve ever tried your luck at prospecting, chances are it involved a lot of sifting through rocks with a tin pan and a very little gold to take home in your pockets. David Hyslop’s job is to convince you there’s a better way to make like...
David Bowie, 1947-2016: No longer a space oddity, now hailed by science heroes
Rock superstar David Bowie, who died of cancer over the weekend at the age of 69, became famous as a “Space Oddity” and “The Man Who Fell to Earth” – but his legacy includes real technological innovations...
David Bowie: Legendary artist dies at 69
David Bowie—an icon whose music and swagger influenced the lives of so many people—has died at the age of 69 after an 18-month-long battle with cancer, his son Duncan Jones confirmed on Monday morning.
The news of Bowie's death comes just a few days after the megastar, known for hits that include Space Oddity, Heroes, and The Man Who Sold...
Musician David Lowery sues Spotify for “unlawfully” distributing music
Musician David Lowery, frontman for alt-rock bands Camper Van Beethoven and Cracker, sued Spotify in California District Court (PDF) this week for alleged copyright infringement. Lowery’s complaint accuses Spotify of failing to license musicians’ works before putting them up for streaming.
"Spotify reproduces and/or distributes the Works despite its failure to identify and/or locate the owners of those compositions for payment or to provide them with...
Ars talks with David Braben on the challenges of making games for real VR
Enlarge / "Big moon Horizons on Cobra and SRV," by CMDR [AEDC] Haridas Gopal. (credit: CMDR [AEDC] Haridas Gopal)
Ninety frames per second. That’s the new target for consumer VR gear: you need hardware capable of rendering two HD images with all the trimmings at a steady 90fps, or the whole thing starts to shake...
Ex-Obama adviser David Plouffe on Donald Trump’s campaign: ‘There’s something real behind it’
David Plouffe spent an hour on stage this past Friday in Seattle, talking about how Uber is changing the “future of work” with its technology-fueled ride-hailing platform. But before his fireside chat ended, KCTS 9 reporter Enrique Cerna asked Plouffe — the campaign manager for Barack Obama in 2008 and longtime Democratic Party consultant — for his...
Uber policy advisor David Plouffe calls proposed Seattle ordinance to unionize drivers ‘puzzling’
David Plouffe thinks a proposed ordinance to help Uber drivers unionize is “puzzling,” and one that may cost the City of Seattle a lot of dough if approved by councilmembers next week. Plouffe, a former advisor to President Barack Obama who joined Uber last year as a policy executive and has since transitioned to a strategic advisor role,...