South Korea has got its third unicorn startup after Viva Republica, the company beyond popular payment app Toss, announced it has raised an $80 million round at a valuation of $1.2 billion. This new round is led by U.S. firms Kleiner Perkins and Ribbit Capital, both of which cut their first checks for Korea with this […]
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In State Tectonics, an explosive ending for the future of democracy
An omnipotent data infrastructure and knowledge-sharing tech organization has spread across the planet. Global conspiracies to disseminate propaganda and rig elections are ever present. Algorithms determine what people see as objective truth, and terrorist organizations gird to bring down the monopoly on information. Malka Older faces a problem few speculative science fiction authors face in […]
View More In State Tectonics, an explosive ending for the future of democracy‘Emergency Contact’ is a YA novel about falling in love in the age of texting
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Writer Mary H.K. Choi has a theory about texting:
“The person who is allowed to text you at 1 a.m. in the morning without that ‘you up’ shit, that’s a fucking steamy situation. That’s somebody you care about. Similarly, your ‘good morning’ texting person — not your blanket ‘Hey bitches, are you up’ but your first ‘good morning’ person — that’s a special person.”
It was with this in mind that Choi — who is a journalist with stories published in Vice, Wired, and more — wrote Emergency Contact, a YA novel about two people in crisis who are brought together and develop a relationship via text. Read more…
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Sean Penn is writing about #MeToo and we can only process this through angry gifs
Sean Penn’s debut novel, out in April, is apparently going to be a loaded allegory. Among other things, it will contain references to prominent social movements and a questionable president, as well as the #MeToo movement.
For some background, Penn w…
Who wants to live forever, asks the book Benedict Cumberbatch is bringing to the screen
The world’s richest man made a $42 million investment in a vast clock, now under construction, that is designed to tick away for 10,000 years. Elon Musk sent a car to space that should orbit the sun for millions of years, containing a miniature libra…
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Prep for National Novel Writing month with these online writing courses
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November is National Novel Writing Month and if you’ve been kicking a novel idea around for a while this is your official invitation to just write …