Tag: pop culture

• Deepfake porn is now mainstream. And major sites are cashing in

  August 31, 2020

  Hundreds of explicit deepfake videos featuring female celebrities, actresses and musicians are being uploaded to the world’s biggest pornography websites every month, new analysis shows. Up to 1,000 deepfake videos… more ›

• Memers are making deepfakes, and things are getting weird

  August 31, 2020

  The rapidly increasing accessibility of the technology raises new concerns about its abuse. Grace Windheim had heard of deepfakes before. But she had never considered how to make one. Within… more ›

• Fake real

  August 17, 2020

  “If you don’t like it – it’s fake. If you do like it, it’s faux.” The subtle and hilarious distinction was made by the author Joseph Pine in a famous TED Talk… more ›

• AI Magic Makes Century-Old Films Look New

  August 15, 2020

  Denis Shiryaev uses algorithms to colorize and sharpen old movies, bumping them up to a smooth 60 frames per second. The result is a stunning glimpse at the past. https://www.wired.com/story/ai-magic-makes-century-old-films-look-new/ more ›

• How the Coronavirus Spread QAnon

  August 9, 2020

  Anecdotal examples bolster what the data shows. Internet communities that hadn’t previously done so are now associating with far-right conspiracies like QAnon, impending mass arrests of elites for running pedophile… more ›

• How the Uffizi Gallery Is Highlighting Black Figures in Renaissance Art

  July 8, 2020

  Many of the images widely associated with the Italian Renaissance—think Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, Sandro Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus and Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam—are dominated by white… more ›

• Spotify’s Daniel Ek Has a Plan to Harness Hollywood for Podcasts and Create “the World’s No. 1 Audio Platform”

  December 1, 2019

  Having helped transform the music industry, Ek and content chief Dawn Ostroff set their sights (and your ears) on spending hundreds of millions on exclusive podcasts and recruiting Jordan Peele,… more ›

• Ludmilla Teixeira, la riposte à Bolsonaro

  November 21, 2019

  PortraitFéministes ! (4/6). Sa lutte contre le président brésilien, « mysogine de la pire espèce », l’a propulsée comme figure de proue de la contestation citoyenne. A travers les réseaux sociaux,… more ›

• Museum of the Future: The building designed by an algorithm

  October 31, 2019

  Even in a city building as quickly, and as much, as Dubai, the Museum of the Future is known as one of the most challenging construction projects ever attempted.In Dubai,… more ›

• Moneta Sleet: The great black photographer you’ve never heard of

  October 28, 2019

  It’s 50 years since photographer Moneta Sleet became the first African American to win a Pulitzer prize for journalism. Has his work received the recognition it deserves? https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-50186270 more ›