AI in Hollywood is a tech leap with a vast impact but remains a tool, not a replacement, for creatives; its speed, quality, and cost allow for VFX breakthroughs
but the emerging field is mired in copyright issues Gerui Wang / Forbes : Runway AI Is Changing Animation. How To Use It To Tell Untold Stories Mastodon: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life@mas.to : A fairl...
MrBeast asks whether social media platforms are “ready to handle the rise of AI deepfakes” after a deepfake scam TikTok ad, since deleted, used his likeness
but it turns out that, like Tom Hanks, he was the face of an AI scam Rounak Jain / Benzinga : Is MrBeast Really Giving Away 10,000 iPhone 15 Pros On TikTok? Here's What You Need To Know Threads: Dare ...
Hands-on with the new AI-powered Bing, which, when asked for the 2023 Grammys winners, made a list with citations in a minute; search will never be the same
CEO Satya Nadella explains why Michael Crider / PCWorld : How to try the new AI-powered Bing search Clare Duffy / CNN : I tried Microsoft's new AI-powered Bing. Here's what it's like Microsoft : Reinv...
How AI de-aging VFX are increasingly used on actors, including Harrison Ford in the new Indiana Jones movie, and the possible impact on Hollywood's economics
Stars like Tom Hanks and Harrison Ford are being rendered younger digitally but voices in the industry express concern about where we might be heading
Meta's promised metaverse is going to be boring and is meant to distract us from the world that Facebook helped break
You're not losing your mind: it really does just sound like a worse version of the internet. Chris Vallance / BBC : Facebook's metamorphosis - will it work? Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today : Fa...
Giphy has 100M daily users who share 1B GIFs every day across a range of platforms
Cleveland's Andrew Miller slamming his fist against his glove after getting out of a jam in Game 1 of the World Series against the Cubs. Halloween greetings from David S. Pumpkins, a recent Tom Hanks...
Inside the life of Minecraft creator Markus Persson after the $2.5B sale to Microsoft
Sundays are for exploring the world via … Tweets: Markus Persson / @notch : There are good journalists out there, presumably. But a lot of them don't give a flying duck about the truth, they just wann...
Tom Hanks' Web series to stream on Yahoo
NEW YORK (AP) — Tom Hanks' long gestating Web series is coming to Yahoo. — “Electric City,” an animated futuristic series Hanks has been developing for years, will premiere on Yahoo this spring. Th...
Quick Change in Strategy for a Bookseller
In the movie “You've Got Mail,” Tom Hanks played the aggressive big-box retailer Joe Fox driving the little bookshop owner played by Meg Ryan out of business. — Twelve years later, it may be Joe Fox...
Escaped Inmate Taunts Cops with Facebook Pictures and Status Updates
Remember how, in Catch Me If You Can, fugitive Leonardo DiCaprio kept calling Detective Tom Hanks to taunt him? Here is a convicted burglar doing the same thing, in real time on Facebook. Should we ...