Month: March 2023

How You Can Tell the AI Images of Trump’s Arrest Are Deepfakes

Doctored images of the former US president went viral on Twitter. These are the telltale signs that they aren’t what they seem. Source

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Future Apple Watches could automatically accessorize with their bands

Imaging swapping out a hot pink Apple Watch band for an earth-tone green one, and having your watchface automatically change to a matching color, cutting out the (more annoying than it should be) manual customization process. According to a patent filing spotted by Patently Apple, we may actually get something…

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Instagram has started putting ads in search results

More ads are coming to Instagram, and this time, they’re invading the platform’s search results. In a post on its blog, Instagram says it has started letting companies slip ads into the feed that appears when you tap into a post in Instagram’s search results. The change is just a…

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Is Duolingo building a new music-learning app? We interpret the signs

Not one to be restricted to just teaching languages, a recently discovered job posting indicates Duolingo is working on a new music app. The company is keeping its cards close to its chest at the moment as the description doesn’t say much about what the software is planning. According to…

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ChatGPT comes for radio

This is Hot Pod, The Verge’s newsletter about podcasting and the audio industry. Sign up here for more. It’s been pretty slow in the audio world for the past few weeks — except when it comes to AI, which seems to be progressing at a clip.  Today, ChatGPT comes to radio, NPR…

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Oops, Windows’ screenshot tool may be saving stuff you cropped out, too

You know how researchers recently discovered that the Pixel’s built-in cropping tool didn’t actually get rid of the data you removed and that a little digging let you see the parts of the image that had been supposedly cut out? One of those researchers is now reporting that Microsoft’s Snipping…

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