Kwame Opam | Vox Our world has too much noise and too little context. Vox helps you understand what matters. 2019-03-06T11:05:18+00:00 https://www.vox.com/authors/kwame-opam-2/rss https://platform.vox.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/08/vox_logo_rss_light_mode.png?w=150&h=100&crop=1 Nicola Fumo Kwame Opam <![CDATA[Vogue and Apple: A love story unraveling]]> https://www.vox.com/2016/4/29/11586542/vogue-and-apple-a-love-story-unraveling 2019-03-06T05:37:22-05:00 2016-04-29T08:47:38-04:00

To the world at large, Vogue is fashion and Apple is tech. Each represents the premium in their space: Vogue with over a century in print and access to A-list everyone, Apple with the slickest must-have gadgets on the planet. Whether we subscribe to the magazine or own an Apple device personally is moot — they’re mega-brands with mega-influence.

The two have united this year to produce the annual spring Costume Institute exhibit and its corresponding over-the-top event, the red carpet blowout known as the Met Gala. The exhibit, “Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology,” loosely covers the intersection of both industries. What a marriage.

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]]> Kwame Opam <![CDATA[Apple Is Working on a TV Series About App Developers]]> https://www.vox.com/2016/3/24/11587252/apple-is-working-on-a-tv-series-about-app-developers 2019-03-06T05:16:26-05:00 2016-03-24T15:31:25-04:00

Apple has plans to make original TV beyond the scope of music. According to the New York Post, the tech giant is working with Will.i.am and producers Ben Silverman (who executive produced “The Office”) and Howard T. Owens to launch a new unscripted series about app developers.

“We’ve been focused on a lot of content around Apple Music,” Eddy Cue told the Post. “Video is a big part of it and we’ll do more of those [shows]. This was another opportunity right up our alley with apps.”

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]]> Kwame Opam <![CDATA[The NBA’s Highlight-Making Machine Goes Live Today]]> https://www.vox.com/2015/12/7/11621232/the-nbas-highlight-making-machine-goes-live-today 2019-03-06T05:38:50-05:00 2015-12-07T11:02:21-05:00

The Internet is taking sports highlights to new heights. Take Steph Curry, arguably the NBA’s best shooter of this or any generation. When he scores 41 points in a single game or even hangs out with Drake, it’s quickly posted to YouTube or GIF’d for Twitter, where it racks up hundreds of thousands of views. Curry is a viral phenomenon, and he’s not alone.

The NBA is happy to reap the benefits online. During this year’s NBA Finals, the league says it saw 336 million video views on NBA.com and the NBA mobile app, as well as 98 million views on Facebook. Those numbers are growing, and the league sees a massive opportunity in creating more content for fans looking for highlights from not just superstars like Curry, but from any player in any game. To accomplish that, the league is collaborating with Israeli company WSC Sports to do what human curation can’t. The tech is called AVGEN, and starting today it’ll allow NBA teams and media outlets to automatically create highlights in near-real time.

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]]> Kwame Opam <![CDATA[Gmail Will Soon Alert Users About Unencrypted Emails]]> https://www.vox.com/2015/11/13/11620638/gmail-will-soon-alert-users-about-unencrypted-emails 2019-03-06T05:37:52-05:00 2015-11-13T08:43:34-05:00

Google is taking security threats for Gmail users seriously. To help alert users about the risk in opening unencrypted email, the search company is currently working on warnings that will pop up when messages from unencrypted sources are received.

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]]> Kwame Opam <![CDATA[Serial’s Adnan Syed Granted Motion to Show New Evidence at Upcoming Hearing]]> https://www.vox.com/2015/11/7/11620442/serials-adnan-syed-granted-motion-to-show-new-evidence-at-upcoming 2019-03-06T06:05:18-05:00 2015-11-07T07:00:10-05:00

Adnan Syed, the subject of last year’s wildly popular podcast Serial, was just granted a motion to re-open conviction proceedings for his murder case. The motion will allow Syed to present evidence concerning his alibi and cell tower records, and brings him one step closer to potentially overturning his conviction.

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]]> Kwame Opam <![CDATA[A New Star Trek Series Will Premiere on CBS in 2017]]> https://www.vox.com/2015/11/2/11620264/a-new-star-trek-series-will-premiere-on-cbs-in-2017 2019-03-06T05:43:39-05:00 2015-11-02T08:31:55-05:00

Star Trek fans clamoring for a new TV series rejoice. CBS has just confirmed that a new Trek series is being developed and will debut in January 2017 both on CBS and later exclusively on CBS All Access for streaming subscribers. The promised show will be the first new series to hit TV screens since the cancellation of “Star Trek: Enterprise” in 2005.

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]]> Kwame Opam <![CDATA[Hackers Dump Data for 2.3 Million Patreon Users Online]]> https://www.vox.com/2015/10/2/11619154/hackers-dump-data-for-2-3-million-patreon-users-online 2019-03-06T05:41:53-05:00 2015-10-02T11:15:27-04:00

Crowdfunding site Patreon revealed earlier this week that it had recently been hacked, compromising the email addresses, usernames and shipping addresses of its users. Since then, the hackers have dumped the data online, revealing the personal information of about 2.3 million users in the process.

The data was made available for anyone to download.

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