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March 21, 2021 | 1:43 pm EDT by Shelly Palmer Shelly Palmer: “Whenever I’m asked about the fate of the television business, I always answer, ‘As goes the next NFL deal, so goes TV.’ Well, as everyone with even the slightest interest in the subject already knows, the NFL/TV deal is done—but times have changed. The NFL deal makes it very clear that it is time for the FCC to think seriously about reclaiming the spectrum gifted to the local broadcast industry. It is also time for Congres...

Article content Get the year’s best books through the Brantford Public Library’s pickup service and eBook and audiobook apps. During the provincial COVID-19 shutdown, the library is offering a pickup service at both the main and St. Paul branches. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Library offers pickup services during pandemic shutdown Back to video To reserve books, call 519-756-2220, ext. 2, or use an online account, which is available through...

There was a quiet but serious shift in mainstream thought about technology underway this year, even before everything went to hell. Most years, the release schedule for tech books is brimming with startup hagiographies, founder profiles, tech guru memoirs, and business and management tomes, with a few “critical” titles thrown in — your exposés and polemics and kids-are-using-their-phones-too-much tirades. This year, which I observed from my high and mighty perch as editor of OneZero’s...

The 7 new books that helped me escape this year Todays best articles Daily business briefing Solving COVID newsletter I have a readers confession to make: When quarantine was first announced, part of me was … excited. The mayor is telling me to stay inside and not interact with other people? It seemed like the perfect scenario for getting through a healthy chunk of my massive to-read pile. But the appeal sputtered out almost immediately. Any time I opened a book, Id get distracted. I had...

MCD / WIRED Its been a year for glumly refreshing live blogs and breaking news websites. But we have managed to get some reading done too. Here, our writers and editors have picked out our favourite books released in 2020 across the broad range of areas that WIRED covers. Uncanny Valley, by Anna Wiener In this memoir, New Yorker tech correspondent Anna Wiener recounts her experiences as a millennial diving into San Francisco’s tech startup scene. Disillusioned with her job in publishing, Wi...

Author: Anna Wiener Unsparing and incisive, Uncanny Valley is a cautionary tale, and a revelatory interrogation of a world reckoning with consequences its unwitting designers are only beginning to understand. In her debut memoir, Anna Wiener recounts how, at age 25, she abandoned her drab job at a New York literary agency for a high-paying customer support role at a Silicon Valley startup. “At its heart, it is a feminist coming of age tale and instead of telling the sugar-coated version of ev...

Follow us on Twitter I Never Met a Straight Line I Didnt Like by Mary Gaudin and Matthew Arnold. Photo / Supplied What The Viva Team Are Reading This Summer Books to buy, borrow and be lost in Wednesday Dec. 23, 2020 "Im looking forward to sitting down with I Never Met a Straight Line I Didnt Like, the second book from Mary Gaudin and Matthew Arnold (and featured in Viva Volume Two). A collector’s tome in the making, it documents the modern architectural ...

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A book review rarely leads to a segment on The 11th Hour with Brian Williams, but that’s what happened to Nate Marshall last month. I love how he combines a traditional review with a personal essay—a hybrid form that has become my favorite subgenre of criticism. “The presidential memoir so often falls flat because it works against the strengths of the memoir form. Rather than take a slice of one’s life to lay bare and come to a revelation about the self or the world, the presidential m...

Print If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Even under quarantine, it isn’t always possible to get through all the books you want to read — not with so much Zoom schooling and doom-scrolling to do. As the holidays start creeping up and leisure time starts to stretch, it’s the perfect time to give the right person just the right book, or five or 10. Herewith, a carefully curated list of the most en...