Deepfakes in an election year — is Asia ready to handle fake news?

2024 is set up to be the biggest global election year in history. It coincides with the rapid rise in deepfakes. In APAC alone, there was a surge in deepfakes by 1530% from 2022 to 2023, according to a Sumsub report. Fotografielink | Istock | Getty Images Ahead of the Indonesian elections on Feb. 14, … Read more

Jenna Ortega oversized ‘ego’ too hard to handle on ‘Beetlejuice 2’?

Jenna Ortega oversized ‘ego’ too hard to handle on ‘Beetlejuice 2’? Wednesday famed actress Jenna Ortega’s reported bloated ego had somewhat caused a stir on the set of Beetlejuice 2. Well-placed sources told RadarOnline the 21-year-old attitude on the film’s shooting couldn’t be called professional. “Jenna is cocky, confident, and born to do this kind of … Read more

Travis Kelce Reveals How He and Taylor Swift Have Agreed to Handle Publicity About Their Romance

Travis Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs have the biggest game of the year coming up Sunday when they clash with the Baltimore Ravens for a spot in Super Bowl LVIII. But the first question lobbed in his direction was about his girlfriend, Taylor Swift. Kelce approached the podium during Friday’s press conference with reporters in Kansas … Read more

‘Too Hot To Handle’ Emily Faye Miller and Cam Holmes Expecting First Child Together

Fans have grown to love the relationship between Emily Faye Miller and Cam Holmes. The two met on the second season of the hit Netflix reality series “Too Hot To Handle.” Although Cam seemed to waver in his devotion to Emily throughout the season, the two ended the show as a couple and ultimately brought … Read more

With AI upgrade, Salesforce’s Einstein Copilot will handle unstructured data

Salesforce With the term “copilot” gaining popularity in the generative AI space, it may soon achieve the same ubiquity as terms like ChatGPT and AI chatbot. And now Salesforce is giving its own copilot a leg up in this competitive arena. At the Salesforce World Tour New York 2023 event last week, Salesforce unveiled an upgrade for its Einstein Copilot, … Read more

Ember Tumbler review: a high-tech travel mug that can’t handle the heat

My coffee routine is needlessly fussy but fairly predictable. I wander bleary-eyed into the kitchen, add some water to the kettle, and start heating it to 200 degrees Fahrenheit, grind some coffee beans, get out the Chemex, add and rinse a new filter, put the whole thing on a scale, add 40 grams of beans, … Read more

Hydro Dams Are Struggling to Handle the World’s Intensifying Weather

For BC Hydro, which serves 95 percent of British Columbia’s population, heat waves have proven a bigger problem than drought. Rivers and rains remain strong, but the province’s historically mellow springs and summers have warmed up, prompting many people to switch on air conditioners, which jacks up power demand. To keep the ACs humming, BC … Read more

Joe Jonas’ Lawyer Says Sophie Turner Wants UK Judge to Handle Divorce

Joe Jonas and Sophie Turner’s divorce case was front and center in a Miami courtroom Wednesday, and Joe’s lawyer made it clear … there’s gonna be a dogfight over who hears the case — an American judge or a UK judge. The stakes are extremely high … if an American judge hears the case it … Read more

Musk's X seizes @Music deal with. Proprietor is understandably upset

Lower than every week after X snatched the “@X” deal with from a consumer, it has reclaimed “@Music,” too. For the previous 16 years, that deal with belonged to Jeremy Vaught, director of engineering on the nonprofit Life Occurs. “Simply now, Twitter/X simply ripped it away.” Vaught stated in a submit to X on Aug. … Read more