The world of deepfakes is wonderful and worrying. Apps like Reface can do most of the hard work for you, swapping your face with what’s great in pop culture and creating low-fidelity functional video clips or gifs. On the other end, you have top-notch deepfakes that combine an impersonator with a digital effects artist for the best Tom Cruise clips that they are not Tom Cruise. Or, much more seriously, people can become world leaders seem to say things they didn’t say, creating fake news.
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Somewhere in the middle, there are people who already use them for nefarious purposes and personal gain. In an attempt to expel rivals from her daughter’s cheerleading team, a woman in Pennsylvania sent coaches AI-altered photos and videos of some teenagers, showing them drinking, smoking or naked. She was arrested, according to The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Last year, social networks like Facebook, TikTok and Twitter announced that they had banned deepfakes in an attempt to curb their spread. However, that fake cruise exploded on TikTok before it was shot down.
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It is also bringing the COVID-19 Information Center to Instagram.
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Facebook is launching a tool that will show “when and where you can be vaccinated” for COVID-19 and will also provide a link to help you make an appointment. The goal is “to help bring 50 million people closer to obtaining the COVID-19 vaccines”, according to a post by CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Facebook partnered with Boston Children’s Hospital, which runs the VaccineFinder.org website, to make the tool. It will be available at the COVID-19 Information Center as of today and will offer opening hours, contact information and links for scheduling. It will be supported in 71 different languages and may even appear within Instagram. Keep reading.
The Brazilian sports superstar should arrive on March 16th.
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Fifteen days and football (also known as football) are no strangers to each other, and Epic Games has just provoked that Brazilian sports star Neymar can make an appearance in Fifteen days on March 16 – I can’t wait to see the matches against Ripley. The timing is not good: Neymar has been sidelined due to injuries in recent months. Fifteen days may be Neymar’s only competitive appearance for a period. Keep reading.
It will be the first BMW brand to make the leap.
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German newspaper Der Spiegel reports that the Mini will have only EV in 2030, with its last combustion engine car arriving in 2025. If necessary, that would make the Mini the first BMW emblem to launch gasoline. You have some work to do. Currently, the Cooper SE (also known as Mini Electric) is its only pure EV, with a fully electric version of the Countryman going into production in 2023. Keep reading.
It is also starting a program to help creators use the audio chat app.
The Clubhouse will no longer require access to your phone contacts to invite people to the platform – you just need to add the phone number directly. While this is not as ideal as avoiding phone numbers altogether, it addresses complaints that the Clubhouse was asking for unnecessary information. The head of the company, Paul Davidson, also said that you can ask the company to delete all the contacts it has already loaded and that a tool is under development to allow you to delete the contacts yourself. The audio-only network is also introducing a Creator First accelerator program, which offers producers the resources to carry out their projects. But it is starting very small. In the beginning, only 20 people will be eligible for the initiative. Keep reading.
And that’s not all
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