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Eau de toilet
With fake products, as with fake news as explained by British journalist Ian Hislop, “people are more likely to believe a lie if they want it to be true.â€
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Interactive history
The full and historical story of Magellan’s Cross is much more interesting. We’re telling it using modern technology and devices.
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I have suffered. But there’s a Bosendorfer here so let’s see what happens.
Late in her life when she was broke and reduced to hiring men for sex and the affections she craved, Nina Simone performed My Baby Just Cares For Me in Montreux. The song was used in commercials for Chanel No. 5 “unfortunately of which I have none,” Simone said before she started her performance. She…
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How AI led me to Carla Bruni
It had to be Edith Piaf, Madeleine Peyroux, or Joan Baez. It could also have been Eva Cassidy, Janis Ian, Sarah Jarosz or Joni Mitchell. More likely, it was my listening to all these artists that led Spotify to recommend Carla Bruni to me earlier this month. I have been listening to her songs since.…
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The case for chatbots
Are you open today? What’s the number of your Ayala branch? Answers to these questions are easy to program as chatbot routines. Instead, here I am, after more than an hour of calling and searching on mobile on my way to and now attending an event, and none the wiser as to whether any of…