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  • After a Year in Exile, Parler Is Back on the Web. But Why?

    After a Year in Exile, Parler Is Back on the Web. But Why?

    Lucas Ropek

    Parler is back, baby. After a year-long hiatus from the web, the conservative social media site has returned to the internet, and this time its new owners are promising it won’t become the radical rightwing hellscape it was when it left. Parler has been offline since last April when it was bought by a media…

  • From ‘Race Records’ to AI Drake: How Technology Entwines With Hip-Hop

    From ‘Race Records’ to AI Drake: How Technology Entwines With Hip-Hop

    Kevin Hurler

    “There could not be hip-hop without technology,” Bobcat Goldwav told Gizmodo via phone last week. Goldwav is a Baltimore-based hip-hop producer with 15 years of experience working in the genre who has also found success posting his beats, samples, and mashups on TikTok and SoundCloud. As we look back on this revolutionary genre during its…