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Came out of reviewer hibernation to return to my old stomping grounds at Resident Advisor - the excellent new album of Dutch bubbling music from De Schuurman on Nyege Nyege 10th anniversary gets the RA seal of approval. Read it here: ra.co/reviews/36159

Back on my gaming beat at the Financial Times talking about how two new puzzle titles play with perspective. One is the tile-shifter Arranger, where you play a girl who can't move. The other is SCHiM, where you're an adorable shadow-hopping ghost frog. Take a peak 👀 ft.com/content/8b0019…

For this weekend’s Financial Times I strapped on a VR headset to travel to a 1989 acid house rave in the experimental music documentary ‘In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats’. Such a rush and one of the best uses of VR tech I’ve seen to date. Read it here: ft.com/content/1fcfa4…

Yesterday I hopped on Australian national radio to talk about why Google thinks I'm a dead physicist and the slow death spiral of search engines in the age of AI. Have a listen here around the 1hr27 mark 🎧 abc.net.au/listen/program…

For FT Weekend I looked into the rising popularity of Arabic-language music in Europe and North America—a testament to the region's abundant talent, creativity and diversity. ft.com/content/c5c878…

I jumped on the FT Weekend podcast with Lilah Raptopoulos today to chat about the global rise of Arabic language pop music. Check it out for some key context and, more importantly, essential recommendations for your playlists 🎧 link.chtbl.com/lifeandart

I reviewed Floating Points’ new album Cascade for Resident Advisor - a selection of organic, shimmering club tracks which are great fun but lose a little of what makes his best music so singular. ra.co/reviews/36202

For the Financial Times I interviewed Slawn, the 23 year-old artist who has infiltrated London's art scene. Is he the real deal or just an influencer who knows how to hustle? ft.com/content/e0d88a…

For Financial Times, I reviewed an exhibition in New York making the connections between video games and fine art. "These artists are forging a space for games to move beyond entertainment to stake a place as mysterious art objects in their own right." ft.com/content/1b3c4c…

In today's Financial Times I wrote about an intriguing new exhibition of early tech and computer art at Tate, which shows the way artists are wrestling with modern technologies today actually has a history stretching back 50 years. ft.com/content/4fdf26…

“We are Ukrainians who are making a Ukrainian game. It’s not a political statement, it’s just a good game. But we want people to know that this game you’re enjoying is not made by Russians. It’s made by us — and we matter.” Tom Faber speaks to the makers of Stalker 2: Heart of

"We are Ukrainians who are making a Ukrainian game. It’s not a political statement, it’s just a good game...It’s made by us—and we matter.” I spoke to the creators of Stalker 2: Heart of Chornobyl about finishing their epic game amidst the war with Russia. ft.com/content/13433b…

From background characters in video games to centre-stage on TikTok, NPCs are an obsession of the social media age. I spoke to some of the biggest creators about what it takes to make a living as a digital doll for this winter's Dazed Read it here: media.journoportfolio.com/users/28571/up…

25 years ago today, people woke up to realise they were safe from the dangers of Y2K. I revisited that moment for The Guardian and discovered big questions around Y2K are still hotly debated, revealing much about our present anxieties around technology. theguardian.com/technology/202…

‘Great Rewiring’ or moral panic: are young people really the ‘anxious generation’? Loved this thoughtful & nuanced piece from Tom Faber observer.co.uk/culture/books/…

In The Anxious Generation, Jonathan Haidt argues that social media is harming kids at an industrial scale. I'm not so sure: yes there's a problem, but aren't there benefits, too? For The Observer I challenged Haidt on the nuances of this tricky debate. observer.co.uk/culture/books/…

"We need to work out how to regulate big tech so that the bullying stops and the hate is not amplified." Prof Sonia Livingstone (Sonia Livingstone) talks to Tom Faber at the The Observer about young people's social media and smartphone use. 📱 observer.co.uk/culture/books/…