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Google have announced a newly redesigned desktop version of their popular mapping service Google Maps, set for release later this year. [...]

“One side of my family is from Sudan, one side of my family is from Washington, DC. So I grew up experiencing two cultures that mental illness was kind of… something they would love to pretend didn’t exist.” DMV rapper and producer Oddisee sits down with SoulCulture to discuss cultural and family attitudes to mental [...]

Continuing our Mental Health awareness campaign #OKNotToBeOK, we sat down with Grammy Award-winning R&B singer-songwriter Chrisette Michele to discuss the effect changing her diet had on her mental health, keeping a journal, the effect the creation and release of her Audrey Hepburn: An Audiovisual Presentation mixtape had on her emotions and the importance of art [...]

On January 16, 2013 my mother committed suicide. She was 55 years old, just two months shy of her 56th birthday. The suicide was her second attempt in three months following an eleven-month illness that several physicians and specialists failed to correctly diagnosis until eight weeks before her more successful suicide. While her physical illness [...]

That’s right, the Doggfather Snoop Dogg has launched his own photo-sharing app. Available for iOS and Android devices, the Snoopify Sticker Camera lets users take photos and turn them into “Snoop-themed masterpieces,” with a number of unique sticker packs to make any photo ‘more gangsta or Rasta’. [...]

Despite reports that she had settled her tax bill for the full outstanding amount early today, news has just broken that Lauryn Hill has been sentenced to three months in jail for tax evasion, as she failed to pay taxes on about $1.8m of earnings between 2005-2007. [...]

Hotmail, the pioneering e-mail client has finally come to an end. [...]

Popular photo-sharing app Instagram has introduced a new feature that allows users to (finally) tag friends in photos. [...]

In June of 2010, I was scheduled to interview two artist friends of mine on camera on a rooftop in SoHo. The morning of the shoot, I went to the gym to run like I did every other morning before that day. I pulled my hamstring on the elliptical; it hurt, but it didn’t disable [...]

If you are a depressed artist, the following may be helpful. Conversely, if you are not depressed then, I would imagine, you are either not an artist or are a fortunate exception. [...]