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Photo illus­tra­tion by Inès Pag­niez for Bloomberg Busi­nes­s­week. She used Plas­ti­cine, because “its imper­fect, hand­craf­ted qual­ity brings warmth, tex­ture and per­son­al­ity to the illus­tra­tion.” Look closely for some Easter eggs she’s hid­den.

Article○ After sub­mit­ting their story for the Screen­time Issue, Lucas Shaw,

Bloomberg’s man­aging editor for media and enter­tain­ment, and film reporter Thomas Buckley got word that the first week­end of August was the highest-gross­ing in US movie his­tory, thanks to The Odys­sey and Spider-Man.

Article○ Eva Dou, a tech­no­logy journ­al­ist in Wash­ing­ton, DC, learned that CXMT’s founder, Zhu Yim­ing, told investors dec­ades ago that he aspired to build the biggest memory-chip maker in China.

Article○ While report­ing their Screen­time story, Bloomberg reporter Madison Muller read eight romantasy books (for fun) and her col­league Han­nah Miller talked with seven authors at Book­Con.

Article○ Bloomberg News senior invest­ig­at­ive reporter Olivia Carville first wrote about the tra­gic story of Chase Nasca in 2023 and has thought about him often since then.

ArticleSafety test­ing and tragedy on Tik­Tok

being over­whelmed with harm­ful con­tent, the com­pany didn’t roll out the safer ver­sion to every­one, a con­fid­en­tial internal doc­u­ment shows. Instead, to see if the change might reduce the app’s stick­i­ness, the com­pany con­duc­ted an...

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ArticleRomantasy, where magic spells meet heavy breath­ing