Tech-media-tainment

The news media are reluctant to discuss race, ethnicity or immigration status when it comes to crimes, except in instances where the offender is Caucasian and victim is non-white.

Hollywood has taken a renewed interest in the technology industry as a source of subject material for movies and TV series.

“The Odyssey,” the epic film directed by Christopher Nolan, dominated at movie theaters this year and its influence is likely to spread into adult Halloween costumes this year.

Every Halloween season, social media is flooded with fake Spirit Halloween costume memes.

Artificial intelligence programs now write as many online articles as humans, according to digital marketing firm Graphite.

Generative artificial intelligence is pushing the news business to the breaking point.

In the early days of the worldwide web, the New Yorker published a now-famous single-panel comic with the caption: "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog."

With the arrival of Labor Day weekend, summer has unofficially come to an end.

Conservative commentators on X have been speaking out lately about how social media platform TikTok has been deleting videos that talk about the infiltration of Islam into American communities and politics.

I’m not much for mobile games.

In hindsight, consumers never had it so good with home entertainment than with Netflix’s DVDs-by-mail service.

Generative artificial intelligence is having a big impact on the news business.

There are frequent reminders that things on the internet aren’t permanent.

We were promised exhaustive libraries of digital content available anytime and anywhere, but those promises have come up short.

When I started blogging as a pastime in late 2008, Google’s Blogger was a great choice of platforms.

Sharks aren’t the only killer animals on the prowl on movie screens this year.

It wouldn’t be summer cinema without shark-attack movies.

Just as frustrating as the proliferation online of AI-generated fake movie posters are social media posts with photos purporting to be from new movies.

I used to rely on suggestions from social media for new movies to watch, but lately X, formerly known as Twitter, has been awash in posts promoting fake movies using AI-created posters and photos.

Lately I’ve seen a flood of photos on social media platform X that purport to show beautiful female fans of national teams participating in the FIFA World Cup.

The Netflix documentary series “Kylie” provides compelling evidence that Australian pop music superstar Kylie Minogue needs to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Artificial intelligence summaries from the likes of Google Gemini are very enticing.

For many years, news publishers relied on “search engine optimization” techniques to get their articles to rank highly on Google search to drive traffic to their websites.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced its 2026 class of inductees on April 13 and I’m generally pleased with the outcome.

The annual CES technology trade show, still referred to by many as the Consumer Electronics Show, this week said attendance at its 2026 conference Jan. 6-9 in Las Vegas rose 4.2% to 148,392 people.

New Edition currently leads the fan vote for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by a comfortable margin, having surpassed early No. 1 Phil Collins.

Tech-media-tainment currently counts about 600 halls of fame that you can visit in North America.

With spring training underway for Major League Baseball – 150 years after the start of the National League – it’s fun to look at some fringe sports that hope someday to become mainstream and have staying power.

Some sports fans like to see athletes spill blood or suffer concussions and broken bones.

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation on Feb. 25 announced a list of 17 performer nominees to be considered for 2026 induction into the Rock Hall.

The Winter Olympics are underway in Italy and with it the return of some fringe sports that most people only hear about every four years.