Behind the scenes with Lucire founder and publisher Jack Yan, with an appeal for a family in Gaza, the difficulties of becoming an Amazon seller, and the hopelessness of AI-written stories […]
February 26, 2024/9.20
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Five from 1999: a more experimental, optimistic time
January 10, 2023/3.42
Uploading five old articles (originally removed for space reasons when server hard drives were smaller) reminds Jack Yan of the internet culture of the late 1990s […]
Jacinda Ardern at Chatham House: providing greater depth on the Christchurch Call
July 5, 2022/4.28
The Q&A following New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern’s address at Chatham House on Sunday was arguably more insightful, touching on topics ranging from climate change to the geopolitical order, but it is her thoughts on social media that touch our prior concerns here at Lucire […]
Where have the fun fashion magazine websites gone?
February 6, 2021/21.45
Above: The very first site (alphabetically) linked from our Newsstand pages, Annabelle of Switzerland, complete with large lead image and smaller subsidiary ones. I took a look at Lucire’s Newsstand reviews tonight. This section is a relic of the early dot-com days that Lucire came from (in the 1990s), when people exchanged links with […]
Hublot launches Big Bang E smartwatch, with enhanced features
June 5, 2020/9.39
Hublot, an LVMH subsidiary that celebrates its 40th anniversary this year, has showcased its new Big Bang E (officially styled as BIG BANG e) watch, following up from the original Big Bang of 2005 and its first connected version in 2018. The Swiss luxury brand’s latest offering has a black ceramic or titanium case […]
TAG Heuer launches new Connected smartwatches, with Ali Krieger, Ashlyn Harris and Paulina Vega
March 13, 2020/16.07
TAG Heuer has launched the third generation of its Connected timepieces, five years after it launched into the luxury smartwatch segment. The launch event took place in New York on Thursday, hosted by Frédéric Arnault, TAG Heuer’s chief strategy and digital officer, with celebrity guests Ali Krieger, Ashlyn Harris and Paulina Vega. The […]
Kate Spade shows Scallop Smartwatch 2 for spring 2019
January 9, 2019/1.22
Kate Spade New York has announced its Scallop Smartwatch 2 collection for spring 2019, available for pre-sale now, and on display at CES 2019. The touchscreen watch will be available in stores and online from late January. The Scallop Smartwatch 2 is the first developed under Kate Spade’s new creative director, Nicola Glass. […]
Shawn Mendes fronts Emporio Armani Connected autumn–winter 2018–19 smartwatch campaign
July 17, 2018/20.29
Canadian singer–songwriter Shawn Mendes fronts Emporio Armani Connected’s autumn–winter 2018–19 smartwatch campaign. The new watches are now available for ordering (pre-sale) online at armani.com, and hit shelves in early September, at both Armani stores and selected retailers. The latest touchscreen smartwatches have a Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 2100 SoC processor running Google’s Wear OS, and […]
We removed Facebook code from our pages on March 8—how Lucire has been looking out for you
March 26, 2018/21.08
On March 8, weeks before Christopher Wylie’s whistleblowing account of what happened at Cambridge Analytica, I Tweeted the following: Thinking of removing the Facebook “like box” from @Lucire. No one really cares about this any more, do they? I mean, it’s four years after peak Facebook. pic.twitter.com/7vKubtL293 — Jack Yan 甄爵恩 (@jackyan) March 8, 2018 […]
October 20, 2017/11.00
There goes 20 years. Normally when we celebrate a birthday, we do what most magazines do: there’s a story on our founding, some of our best covers, and a nod to the past. I’ll be right up front: despite having thoughts of doing all of that, we haven’t planned anything for this particular day, October […]
