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The First AI Video Awards Just Crowned Its Winners. The Work Is Better Than You Think.
A Pac-Man came to life. Gorilla Glue hired a Chief Tough Officer. And a Vans ad that never aired won an award in a category that didn’t exist a year ago. On…
Is RentAHuman.ai Legit? What Users Should Know About the New Booking Marketplace
Artificial intelligence was supposed to eliminate the middleman. Instead, it may be renting one. Across a growing corner of the internet, a website called RentAHuman.ai has begun prompting users to verify their…
DATA Review: Theater Finally Catches Up to the Tech Era
Talent is not protected in tech culture. It is harvested At the Lucille Lortel Theatre, DATA does something theater has largely avoided: it stages the emotional, ethical, and psychological conditions of modern…
The Billion-Dollar Insurance Hack You’ve Never Heard Of: Infineo’s Plan To Put Life Insurance On-Chain
Infineo Global calls itself a FinTech. The scale of what it is attempting places the company inside a larger conversation about money, trust, and the future of state blockchain compliance. Chief Revenue…
Women Take the Wheel: Silvina Moschini’s Unicoin Ignites the Great Wealth Shift
In July 2025, the White House released a digital‑assets roadmap promising to usher in a “Golden Age of Crypto.” On July 30, 2025 the President’s Working Group on Digital Asset Markets —…
From Holograms to Smart Jewelry: Inside Pepcom’s 40-Brand Tech Showcase in New York
At this year’s Pepcom-hosted Holiday Spectacular in New York, technology brands shifted the narrative beyond specs and gaming into the realm of creative tools, personal safety, and smart living. The event gathered…
Who Killed Progress? Carl Benedikt Frey on AI, Power, and the Next Collapse
In this landmark work, Oxford economist Carl Benedikt Frey traces how progress unravels when power consolidates faster than ideas can spread. Described by early reviewers as “a masterwork of economic history and…
Conflict and Coltan: The Hidden Costs of Technology
Eastern Congo, home to one of the world’s richest deposits of coltan, enduring conflict in the name of consumer profits remains largely overlooked amid global crises. This mineral, essential for manufacturing tantalum…
From Blue Fairy to AI Friend: Can Microsoft’s Copilot Truly Deliver Human Connection and Inclusivity
Originally published October 2024, following Microsoft AI’s Copilot reveal in New York. Lightly edited for republication; the quotes and observations below reflect the October 2024 demo and interview. In A.I. Artificial Intelligence,…
PLAUD’s Productivity Promise to “Free Your Intelligence”
By Amanda Smith for New York Edge News Notetaking and transcribing needs have existed as long as humans. The mechanism of recording conversations has evolved over time, but the essence of the…
Ashanti Abdullah Knew Artists Were Bleeding Cash. So He Did Something About It
By New York Edge News Ashanti Abdullah’s path into software design didn’t follow the typical Stanford or Harvard cookie-cutter mold-his path was far less conventional. Abdullah, a former DJ-turned-manager, spent years watching…