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Opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not reflect the views of Rolling Stone editors or publishers. Technology at its best serves as a helpful aid to businesses, entrepreneurs and everyday people looking to improve the way they function day to day. But simply using technology won’t affect much change. Those who really succeed are those who know how to leverage technology intentionally, incorporating it into thoughtful practices that could eventually turn into innovation for their business or even their industry as a whole. Below, a panel of Rolling Stone Culture Council members share some of the ways in which they’re leveraging technology to improve the success of their businesses in their space. To Bring Art to the Masses Art and tech are interwoven, and it’s important to not only utilize it in the creation of the art, but also in bringing awareness of the art to the masses. Vivid imagery, curated virtual galleries and an overall collector-based …

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Opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not reflect the views of Rolling Stone editors or publishers. While the Covid-19 pandemic hit the entertainment industry hard, it hit indie artists even harder, especially when it came to them protecting their revenue-dependent consumer fanbase. When musicians and producers took to social media to keep their careers alive, hosting virtual concerts and regular content drops, it wasn’t long before platforms like Facebook and Spotify began implementing guardrails . This posed a challenge for the many struggling artists out there just needing to stay afloat. With concerts returning, indie artists have some catching up to do, beginning by leveraging technology like blockchain and crypto to stay ahead. Music-related non-fungible tokens , or NFTs, have proved to be a new way for both the artist and, finally, their fans to connect. An NFT is an electronic ID that authenticates the existence of a digital asset, usually in …

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Earlier this month, Rosalia, a dancer in Las Vegas, decided to hop on a trend popular on StripperTok showing off how much she makes in a few busy days. In the video, captioned, “What a weekend looks like as a Vegas stripper,” Rosalia shows off her earnings with Bia’s “Whole Lotta Money” in the background, displaying the grand total on a whiteboard: $33,700 in three days. “I just happened to have a really good night on the third night,” she tells Rolling Stone. “So it went viral,” racking up more than 48 million views. Then Rosalia noticed people commenting on her page saying they were going to report her to the IRS, or worse, that they were going to rob her. That’s when she saw her video had been reposted by Ethan Keiser, a babyfaced, moderately balding TikTok creator with more than 840,000 followers. In the video, Keiser includes a screengrab from the IRS “Whistleblower Office,” telling his followers that anyone can report someone and earn 30 percent of their money if they are …

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Deep into their September 4th set at New York’s Irving Plaza, as DJ Shadow bent over his spread of turntables, cueing the next sequence of beats, his partner in spin, Cut Chemist , gingerly lifted a piece of 12-inch vinyl from one of his decks and held it aloft, like a round, black equivalent of the Ten Commandments. He had, in fact, just played a religious object: an original demo pressing of “Looking for the Perfect Beat,” the hallowed flipside of “Planet Rock,” the 1982 hip-hop breakthrough single by Afrika Bambaataa and the Soul Sonic Force . Like everything else that went under the needle during Shadow and Chemist’s propulsive 90-minute spree of old-school breakbeats and frenetic scratches, the disc came from Bambaataa’s fabled 42,000-piece record collection. That house of wax is part of an even bigger archive that Bambaataa, now 57, donated in 2013 to the Hip Hop Collection at Cornell University, where he is a visiting scholar. But every thump, riff and shout that …

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Products featured are independently selected by our editorial team and we may earn a commission from purchases made from our links; the retailer may also receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes. If you’re hosting or your fridge simply doesn’t have a built-in ice maker, you might want to consider stocking your kitchen with a countertop ice maker. In addition to being a great appliance for your kitchen, the best countertop ice makers also work well in an RV, a dorm with only a mini-fridge or an area of the house that’s far from the kitchen, like a wet bar. Even if your freezer does have an ice machine, adding one of these to your countertop ensures you never run low on ice. The best part? None of these require any installation or hookup to your fridge or faucet. Countertop Ice Maker Buying Guide From the machine’s capacity to the type of cubes you can make, here’s what to look for when buying your ice maker. Capacity: How much ice do you typically need? …

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“Today’s sermon is going to be on Unitopian Anarchy and Autonomy,” Unicole Unicron says in the opening of a sermon on YouTube . Clad in an ethereal white veil, against a background of dizzying black-and-white swirls, the leader of the self-described cult Unicult proceeds to spends the next 51 minutes detailing thoughts on the Covid-19 vaccine and why the cult’s leader is not encouraging followers to get the vaccine. “Only you have autonomy over your own body,” says Unicron, who uses xe/xim pronouns . “Do what is right for you. Perform no medical rituals that are against your own strong intuitive knowledge of your personal health.” Unicron then explains why xe believes contracting the virus would not get xim sick, saying, “I have ascended to the point where I am confident that my own experience of my own internal state and my own vibration of harmony is enough to protect me.” In the sermon, Unicron also promoted the erroneous belief that the Covid-19 vaccine does not reduce …

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Yahoo Friday named Jim Lanzone , a veteran tech and media executive, CEO of Tinder and former head of CBS Interactive , as its new chief executive effective September 27. He succeeds Guru Gowrappan, who becomes senior advisor to the private equity business of Apollo Global Management, which acquired Yahoo and other media assets from Verizon in May for $5 billion. Verizon retained a 10% stake. Apollo said Lanzone will help Yahoo accelerate the growth of its properties as a privately held company and draw on his deep media experience “to drive the next generation of innovation” across its content and advertising platforms. It said Yahoo intends “to invest significantly” in the user experience and new offerings that can build on its brands in sports, finance, news and technology. Lanzone joins Yahoo from Tinder, where he has been CEO. Prior to that, he led the digital operations of CBS Corp. as chief digital officer and chief executive officer of CBS Interactive, …

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Match Group has named former CBS Interactive chief Jim Lanzone CEO of its flagship dating app Tinder starting August 3, reporting to parent Match Group chief executive Shar Dubey. Lanzone joins Tinder from investment firm Benchmark Capital where he served as an executive-in-residence. Until 2019, he was chief digital officer of CBS Corp. (now ViacomCBS) and President and CEO of CBS Interactive. He joined the company in 2011and led a digital transformation, launching streaming subscription service CBS All Access and free, ad-supported services CBSN, CBS Sports HQ and ET Live. Previously he was founder-CEO of video search and programming guide Clicker Media and chief executive of Ask.com. Viacom and CBS merged in December, 2019. “Tinder is an iconic brand and an essential part of the dating experience,” Lanzone said in a statement. “We have an enormous opportunity to deliver on our mission, bring more people to the product and reimagine the user experience across …

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Apple has been found to “hide critical information from consumers and illegally stifle consumer choice,” a judge ruled in the company’s legal battle with Epic Games , but the mixed decision will leave App Store fees in place. U.S. District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers did not find that Apple fully fit the legal definition of a monopoly. In her ruling (read it HERE ), she said Apple must now let developers tell consumers how to make purchases outside of apps. That lessens the control Apple can exert over the process, and could limit the revenue it derives from the store. Services as a division of Apple, which includes the App Store, has been gradually becoming a top corporate priority, given the financial stability of services compared with the more volatile hardware arena. Apple next week will host a “California Streaming” event, at which it is expected to unveil a new iPhone and a host of other products. In her ruling, Rogers did not go easy on Apple, …

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After his labored and pointless remake of The Magnificent Seven five years ago and a sequel, The Equalizer 2 , two years later, director Antoine Fuqua has repackaged yet another pre-existing entity in The Guilty . The highly pressurized and claustrophobic thriller is based on a Danish original that was the debut feature by Gustav Moller, who co-wrote it with Emil Nygaard Alberton. After its 2019 Sundance Film Festival premiere, Den Skwas was picked up by Magnolia and went on to a good art house career. This new American version is also set in just one location, a Los Angeles 911 dispatch call center from where cops try to calm down crazies and troublemakers over the phone, and it’s justified by the opportunity for Jake Gyllenhaal to deliver a tour de force performance; he’s essentially the whole show. Watch on Deadline Shot in 11 days during Covid, this tightly wound drama from Netflix that is world premiering at the Toronto Film Festival is the sort …

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