The future of your face
Isobel Thompson traces the backlash against facial recognition. From police biometrically mapping faces to nationwide watch-lists, will the balance between citizens and the state soon topple?
Isobel Thompson traces the backlash against facial recognition. From police biometrically mapping faces to nationwide watch-lists, will the balance between citizens and the state soon topple?
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The Studio Ghibli film turns 30 this week, but continues to reverberate with a relevant message of what happens when we overextend ourselves at work.
The beloved actor and jazz musician reminisces on his teen years smashing… the ivories in Pittsburgh.
The actor is in a new film called The Mountain, a slow burn about a doctor and his assistant who travel across the country and perform lobotomies.
Sweatlife sees 6,000 fitness junkies descend upon London’s Tobacco Dock for a high-intensity weekend. It’s a mecca for fitness devotees in the age of Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop.
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Grindr has been championed as a cure for gay loneliness and a symbol of sexual liberation. In its 10th year, Tom Faber weighs in on the app that transformed the landscape of gay sex and dating.
Photo of the day: Solo exhibition Our Beautyfull Future acts as a visual diary of the late photographer’s world before his death in 1997.
A brash, funky and raw blend that’ll have you pining for the club.
For the past three nights Skeppy’s been offering up a utopia within a dystopia at Manchester International Festival. No phones, no socials. All love and AI.
Penitents take part in the Virgen del Carmen brotherhood procession during Malaga’s Carmen day celebrations on 16th July. Every year, an image of the Virgin, the patron saint of seafarers, is placed on a boat, which sails down the coast.
A cryogenic prison, self-driving cars, and some solid gold forecasting that not even the highest calibre sci-fi came close to predicting.
Author Lisa Taddeo on her decade of research on desire and writing the year’s most talked-about book.
It’s been 50 years since the Apollo 11 moon landing and space tourism is blowing up. Welcome to the new-age space race.
Have you ever felt the urge to ask The Birdman what trick he’d pull in Trump’s White House? Yeah, us too.
Young boys take a rest after swimming at Qargha lake in Kabul in Afghanistan on 18th July.