Podcasts are on the rise as more people choose to delve beyond flashy headlines. Four professional journalists who report news will host a panel that will focus on what it means to tell investigative stories in a podcast format and how it’s similar and different from telling those stories in a more traditional medium. With […]
For two days, SXSW will be overrun by 2020 hopefuls and other prominent politicians at the ACL Theater. Partnered with the Texas Tribune, this late-addition to the schedule puts a huge focus on what America’s future holds. All in all, six 2020 prospective Democratic nominees, and one announced Republican candidate, will be speaking on Saturday […]
Shahbaz Khan is the Senior Manager of Digital Content for the Minnesota Timberwolves and Lynx. He has worked for the National Basketball Association for five years where he has learned all you can know about managing social content for a professional sports team. As the discussion about social media begins to expand on many levels, […]
Our panel is hopefully like trying to start a conversation about what it would look like to create a community in which the barrier to entry, to the creative use of this technology, isn’t so exclusive just to people who have really large audiences or access to a lot of money and I think that’s just a matter of time but also a matter of conversation and talking about what ways can labels and other media outlets partner with artists to to create new art, new work, new material, new things for people, new experiences for people. – Rob Lowe
As the late great Massimo Vignelli once said, “Design is utilitarian, art is not.” The design track at SXSW reinforces that message exactly. While there are a plethora of design sessions across all disciplines, the tope five design sessions below express the best this industry has to offer when it comes to the intersection of […]
Kasia Chmielinski will moderate and participate in a panel discussing ways to eliminate bias in machine learning. They areproject lead of the Data Nutrition Project, a part of the Assembly program at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University & MIT Media Lab. Tackling bias in the datasets used to build AI is key to […]
Second patient cured of HIV A London patient is the second to be considered cured of HIV. In may, 2016 he received a stem cell transplant from a donor with a rare CCR5 mutation that allows for HIV resistance. He also underwent chemotherapy and until September 2017 took antiretroviral medication. Luke Perry dead at 52 […]