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Flight Culture and the Human Experience
Introduction to Russian Culture
Revolutionary Russia, 1880–1930

Flight Culture and the Human Experience

TSA now wants to scan your face at security. Here are your rights.

Next time you’re at airport security, get ready to look straight into a camera. The TSA wants to analyze your face. The Transportation Security Administration has been quietly testing controversial facial recognition technology for passenger screening at 16 major domestic

Stalinism: Culture and Civilization

Russia builds “Stalin centres” to restore reputation of dictator

“Stalin centres” are popping up across Russia as Vladimir Putin tries to rehabilitate the reputation of the Soviet dictator. The centres are being built in Russia’s biggest cities to reposition Joseph Stalin as “a great man of history” and boost

History of Video Games

Forty years ago, one addictive computer game pioneered a subgenre

In 1985, the idea of mashing buttons next to your friend while two digital characters pummeled each other wasn’t exactly commonplace. While 1976’s arcade game Heavyweight Champ and 1984’s Karate Champ came first, the idea of a fighting game being

technology : culture : society

OpenAI’s new ChatGPT Agent can control an entire computer and do tasks for you

OpenAI is going all in on the most-hyped trend in AI right now: AI agents, or tools that go a step beyond chatbots to complete complex, multi-step tasks on a user’s behalf.

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