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David Schonauer Friday May 19, 2023
AI is already altering the political process in America: This week we noted that a viral video featuring Vice President Kamala Harris speaking gibberish during a speech was revealed to be a deepfake.
The video footage is originally from a speech by Harris given at Howard University on April 25, but the audio was digitally manipulated. Meanwhile, the White House hosted leaders of top … Read the full Story >>
The Washington Post Thursday May 18, 2023
A spokesman for Prince Harry and his wife Meghan said they were “involved in a near catastrophic car chase at the hands of a ring of highly aggressive paparazzi” on Tuesday, igniting a firestorm of media stories, in no small part because the incident echoed the car chase that killed Harry’s mother, Princess Diana, 26 years ago: But, noted The New York Times, as more details emerged on Wednesday from the accounts of the police and a taxi driver who was briefly involved, the picture became more complicated. “I don’t think I would call it a chase,” NYC cabdriver Sukhcharn Singh told The Washington Post.
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BBC Thursday May 18, 2023
Photographer Simon Mitchell was killed at the recent British Motocross Championships when a rider came off his bike during a jump and the machine crashed through a barrier made of bales. Another man suffered a serious injury at the event, which took place at Foxhill near Swindon and was attended by 10,000 people. An event spokesperson, who has worked in motocross for 25 years, told the BBC it was "very rare in motocross" for a non-rider to be killed and that he could "not remember a fatality that wasn't a rider.”
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Architectural Digest Thursday May 18, 2023
“A bus stop is a place to wait,” Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto tells Architectural Digest. “For the bus, for a friend, for something to come, for your future.” Taking his words to heart, AD surveys a dozen of the most unique bus stops in the world, featuring images from a number of photographers. Among them: Christopher Herwig, who covered more than 30,000 km by car, bike, bus and taxi in 14 former Soviet countries looking for places where people wait for transportation. His work was collected in the book Soviet Bus Stops.
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