Month: March 2022
Facebook removes ‘deepfake’ of Ukrainian President Zelenskyy
On Wednesday, Facebook’s parent company, Meta, removed a deepfake video of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy issuing a statement that he never made, asking Ukrainians to “lay down arms.” The deepfake appears to have been first broadcasted on a Ukrainian news website for TV24 after an alleged hack, as first reported…
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Examining AMC’s ‘embarrassingly stupid’ investment in a literal gold mine
AMC threw both its analysts and memestock shareholders for a loop this week after the company announced it was acquiring a 22 percent stake in a mining company. Not a crypto mining company — a company that mines actual silver and gold. It’s a baffling investment for a movie theater…
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Netflix knows you’re sharing your account and may start charging you
Audio player loading… You know how all your friends and your away-from-home college students are currently using your Netflix credentials? Netflix knows it, too, and is testing a new way of allowing account sharing, but for a new fee. The streaming giant is currently testing a pair of new features…
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GTA Online’s next-gen version is prettier and easier to get into
With this week’s launch of the next-gen versions of GTA Online for the Xbox Series X and PS5, Rockstar has made it easier and faster to jumpstart your life of crime in the best-looking and best-playing version of its online open-world mode. All of the same graphical and quality-of-life changes…
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This Steve Jobs-inspired iPhone costs $27,000 – and it’s surprisngly cheap
Audio player loading… Caviar can be relied on to make wild custom iPhone and iPad designs, and then actually put them on sale. We’ve seen it make phones with bits of dinosaurs, phones with parts of the original iPhone, phones with meteors in them. But these new iPhone 13 Pro…
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Why today’s Wordle answer is so hard, according to the experts
Audio player loading… Other Wordle tips Another day, another irksome Wordle conundrum. Like puzzle #265 before it, today’s Wordle is proving a particularly tricky beast for players around the world to reckon with – but not for the same reasons as its predecessor. Once again, TechRadar spoke to Dr Matthew…
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