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One Tech Tip: How to spot AI-generated deepfake images

LONDON (AP) — AI fakery is quickly becoming one of the biggest problems confronting us online. Deceptive pictures, videos and audio are proliferating as a result of the rise and misuse of generative artificial intelligence tools.   With AI deepfakes cropping up almost every day, depicting everyone from Taylor Swift to Donald Trump, it's getting harder to tell what's real from what's not. Video and image generators like DALL-E, Midjourney […]

todayMarch 21, 2024 14

Entertainment

Musk abruptly cancels ‘The Don Lemon Show’ on X after he sits for the program’s first interview

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Elon Musk abruptly canceled “The Don Lemon Show" on his social media network X after the former CNN anchor recorded an interview with the billionaire for its as-yet unaired first episode.   Musk owns X, formerly known as Twitter, and frequently proclaims himself a “free speech absolutist.” In a post on X, the San Francisco-based company said only that after careful consideration, it "decided not to […]

todayMarch 14, 2024 19

Entertainment

Musk abruptly cancels ‘The Don Lemon Show’ on X after he sits for the program’s first interview

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Elon Musk abruptly canceled “The Don Lemon Show" on his social media network X after the former CNN anchor recorded an interview with the billionaire for its as-yet unaired first episode.   Musk owns X, formerly known as Twitter, and frequently proclaims himself a “free speech absolutist.” In a post on X, the San Francisco-based company said only that after careful consideration, it "decided not to […]

todayMarch 14, 2024 12

Economics

Yeezy shoe sales lead Adidas to plan to donate $150 million to anti-hate groups

LONDON (AP) — Adidas said Wednesday that it's donated or is planning to give away more than $150 million to groups fighting antisemitism and other forms of hate from the sales of Yeezy shoes last year after it severed ties with Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West.   The German sportswear brand had 1.2 billion euros ($1.3 billion) worth of popular Yeezy sneakers piled up in warehouses after […]

todayMarch 14, 2024 10

Education

At Florida’s only public HBCU, students are wary of political influence on race education

  By SHARON JOHNSON Associated Press TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A core mission of Florida A&M University from its founding over a century ago has been to educate African Americans. It was written into the law that established the school along with another college, in Gainesville, reserved for white students. At Florida's only public HBCU, some students now fear political constraints might get in the way of teaching parts of […]

todayJanuary 25, 2024 24

Entertainment

Colman Domingo will play Joe Jackson in ‘Michael,’ the Michael Jackson biopic

NEW YORK (AP) — Fresh off his Oscar nomination, Colman Domingo has joined the upcoming Michael Jackson biopic "Michael" to play the pop star's domineering father, Joe Jackson. Lionsgate announced Thursday that Domingo has been cast in Antoine Fuqua's currently-in-production film. On Tuesday, Domingo was nominated for best actor by the Academy Awards for his performance as the civil rights activist Bayard Rustin in "Rustin." Joe Jackson, who died in […]

todayJanuary 25, 2024 22

Education

A Texas school’s punishment of a Black student who wears his hair in locs is going to trial

By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press ANAHUAC, Texas (AP) — A judge has ordered that a trial be held next month to determine whether a Black high school student in Texas can continue being punished by his district for refusing to change his hairstyle. Darryl George has been kept out of his regular classroom at his Houston-area high school in Mont Belvieu since August. The Barbers Hill school district says […]

todayJanuary 25, 2024 31

Art and Culture

Why do people have different tastes in music? A music education expert explains why some songs are universally liked, while others aren’t

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jane Kuehne, Auburn University (THE CONVERSATION) Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to curiouskidsus@theconversation.com. Why do we have a certain taste in music, different than others? – Shirya R., age 11 When you turn on the radio, you might hear […]

todayJanuary 22, 2024 33

Entertainment

In ‘Origin,’ Ava DuVernay and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor seek the roots of racism

NEW YORK (AP) — Ava DuVernay kept hearing she had to read “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.” She had Isabel Wilkerson’s book in galleys before it was published in 2020. Oprah Winfrey kept telling her to read it. But she put it off. It seemed an imposing read. Copies kept proliferating in her home. “At one point, a high-profile director said to me, ‘I heard you got the book,’” DuVernay says. […]

todayJanuary 19, 2024 39

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