Last week, both Microsoft and Google gave demos of their new artificial intelligence–powered search assistants. Microsoft’s Bing Chat sits inside its Bing search engine and Edge web browser, while Google’s Bard chatbot will do its thing on the same page where Google’s standard search results appear.
If you suspect that 21st-century technology has broken your brain, it will be reassuring to know that attention spans have never been what they used to be. Even the ancient Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger was worried about new technologies degrading his ability to focus. Sometime during the 1st century CE, he complained that ‘The multitude of books is a distraction’. This concern reappeared again and again over the next millennia. By the 12th century, the Chinese philosopher Zhu Xi saw himself living in a new age of distraction thanks to the technology of print: ‘The reason people today read sloppily is that there are a great many printed texts.’ And in 14th-century Italy, the scholar and poet Petrarch made even stronger claims about the effects of accumulating books ....
IT'S BEEN ages since we featured food-related things here, but recently happened upon this pretty sweet Salted Caramel Buttercream & Chocolate Cake by hint of vanilla on tumblr and thought it might be perfect for Valentine's Day...
A KITCHEN in Puglia with concrete counter tops and sink; and a beautiful cake adorned with dusky-coloured roses are two things on our mind at the moment. Plus, five more things in this instalment of Things We Loved this Week, including Italian Greyhounds, Ina Garten’s favourite cheese shop, vegetable embroidery, and more...
THIS INSTALMENT OF 10 IMAGES features the wonderfully whimsical work of Celine Rousseau @celineyrs, who splits her time between Seoul, Tokyo and Paris. Hers is a love of food and the first image that drew us to her work is her cherry tomato and basil thin-crust pizza ...
ONE OF THE BEST things about the changing of the seasons is all the different fruits and vegetables that signal each one. Summers in Spain meant sandía in the mornings and springtime means lots of sweet, dark cherries. Right now, in early autumn, it's apples, hanging heavy from all the trees scattered about the countryside, and my most favourite of all, fig season ...
A compilation of all of our favourite recipes from the past six years, from classic Victoria Sponge cake to Creamy Pasta with Prosciutto and Basil and Ricotta and Sage Filled Beet Ravioli
Grain-free, refined-sugar-free, dairy-free chocolate layer cake with chocolate ganache and grain-free almond butter brownies
TIME AGAIN for another instalment of 10 Things We Love this Week, and this week, we're looking at beautiful paintings, garden picnics and abandoned theme parks in Japan; tassel earrings and wool sweaters, Macramé bag DIYs and much more...
London’s Trailer Trash Tracys are releasing their first album in five years as Althaea comes out August 11th on Double Six Records. Lead singer Susanne Aztoria’s vocals are dreamy and gorgeous, underpinned by delicate, shuffling beats and shimmering little bursts of bright sounds on their new single “Siebenkäs”. Meanwhile, the Latin percussion gives the tune its forward motion and makes this music stand way out from the rest of the dream pop pack.
This installment of ten things we love lately includes a hotel renovation with the help of Karl Lagerfeld (devastatingly chic with lots of...
It’s mid-week and summertime, and here are ten things that we love lately, from charming coastlines with white sand and azure waters...
“I had originally gone to fine art school to study set design, but then dance took over. And now it’s fondant and cake. I am so pleased that the kitchen and I found each other. I’m where I was meant to be.” --Ron Ben-Israel
one. IT’S THE (LONG) WEEKEND! and we’re back with 5 New Recipes to Try, from a pretty pastel pink Hasen Buttercreme...
one. Today was bright, and the late-winter sun golden, and we’re looking forward to cortado and carrot cake dates and spending...
