Today we kicked off 2023 Spotify Wrapped, our annual campaign that celebrates fans and creators worldwide. And as the good vibes keep coming, we look back on a successful year of EQUAL, which included speaking events, festivals, and both local and global playlists featuring a large roster of talented EQUAL ambassadors. We’re thrilled to announce
“She is living proof of how important you can be and how long you can last if you’re talented and you work hard and you truly love people,” the country singer Tanya Tucker said in an email. Lee inducted Tucker into the Country Music Hall of Fame in October, and people are still talking about
She left her husband for the shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, largely giving up performing in the process. When Onassis eventually married Jackie Kennedy instead, Callas was alone and bereft, without either the vocation that had given her purpose or the man who had replaced it. Living mostly in seclusion, though always harboring hopes of returning
In 1830, when French-Monégasque inventor Hercule Florence was 26 years old, he wrote a long entry in his diary about the future he sensed approaching. Soon, he predicted, people from nations that had never seen each other would meet, and do so frequently. The inventions devised by Florence and many others in the 19th and
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Before now, writing a biography of Francis Ford Coppola has been like aiming at a moving target. Where would this unique American film achiever go next? Was he (this year) a billionaire or a bankrupt?
The role of digital signage has evolved exponentially over the last decade. While previously only seen in boardrooms and airport directories, use cases now expand far beyond, from quick serve restaurant drive-throughs to digital out-of-home (DOOH) locations like stadiums and malls. Due in part to its flexibility and versatility, traditional technology like whiteboards in the
This image taken in ESA’s Columbus laboratory on the International Space Station is a snapshot of the many opportunities in space research and exploration. In the centre is the Biolab facility, a fridge-sized unit that hosts biological experiments on micro-organisms, cells, tissue cultures, small plants and small invertebrates. Performing life science experiments in space identifies
The rapid adoption of AI could reduce wages, but so far is creating, not destroying jobs, especially for the young and highly-skilled, research published by the European Central Bank showed on Tuesday. From a report: Firms have invested heavily in AI leaving economists striving to understand the impact on the labour market and driving fears
BRUSSELS, Belgium (CelebritryAccess) — A coalition of European artists and label groups have joined forces to urge legislators in the European Union to craft a legislative solution to the economic fallout stemming from the European Court of Justice’s 2020 ruling in the Recorded Artists Actors Performers (RAAP) case. The
Hip hop beats, solvent fumes and graffiti-covered walls would once have been considered bad news in any city centre. These days, they are sponsored by the council and praised by the local Tory MP. My hometown of Southend’s City Jam 2023 – the biggest street art festival in Europe – saw in excess of 200