Tag: Arts & Entertainment
Record labels sue AI music generators for ‘massive infringement of recorded music’
Major music labels are taking on AI startups that they believe trained on their songs without paying. Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and Sony Music Group sued the music generators Suno and Udio for allegedly infringing on copyrighted works on a “massive scale.” The Recording Industry Association of America…
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Elden Ring DLC’s fearsome Dancing Lion boss is just two big dudes in a suit
Elden Ring‘s giant Shadow of the Erdtree expansion dropped on Friday and it didn’t take long for players to poke under the hood and discover some fascinating things. The first big bad of the DLC is the Divine Beast Dancing Lion, a fearsome creature that uses wind, lightning, ice and…
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Deepfakes of Elon Musk are pushing crypto giveaway scams on YouTube Live
A YouTube Live broadcast that ran for five hours today used a deepfake of Elon Musk to push a cryptocurrency scam. The video, which has has since been taken down, showed a clip of Musk that was meant to look like a livestream from a Tesla event, with an AI-generated…
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Doctor Who: Empire of Death review: Take your dog for a walk
The following contains spoilers for “Empire of Death.” “Empire of Death” is the typical Russell T. Davies series finale: It’s bombastic, dense and totally uninterested in resolving its own story. The episode bounces around for the requisite amount of time before leaping to its climax with an arresting visual of…
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You can now restrict Instagram Lives to Close Friends
Instagram is rolling out another way for users to engage with a smaller group of friends and followers starting today. Close Friends on Instagram Live does what it says on the tin: you’ll be able to limit the viewership of livestreams to just your list of Close Friends. Up to…
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Tales of the Shire is a cozy village sim where you can’t run, but you can skip
The march of big-budget Tolkien fantasy has hit gaming yet again. While ignoring Gollum’s misadventures, another game, Tales of the Shire, offers a gentler, low-stakes way to play in the universe of Bagginses, lembas bread, and Gandalf. Set somewhere between the end of The Hobbit, but before it all kicked…
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