September 29, 2021 ‘Speaking Portraits’ Make It Unsettlingly Easy to Turn Still Photos Into Animated Deepfakes Earlier this year, social media was briefly taken over by seemingly everyone using MyHeritage’s Deep Nostalgia feature to bring old photos to life. The…
September 29, 2021 YouTube bans vaccine misinformation Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge In a new attempt to stem the flow of anti-vaccine misinformation, YouTube said Wednesday that it won’t…
September 29, 2021 Disney’s New Encanto Trailer Is Pure, Heartfelt Chaos When we got our last look at Disney’s upcoming movie Encanto, we met the Madrigals, the magical house that gave the intergenerational Colombian family…
September 29, 2021 U.S. Declares Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, 22 Other Species Extinct The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will propose removing 22 animals and one plant from the endangered species list on Wednesday, declaring them extinct….
September 29, 2021 Jeep’s Grand Cherokee plug-in hybrid will arrive in early 2022 As promised, Jeep has detailed its first Grand Cherokee plug-in hybrid. The company has confirmed the Grand Cherokee 4xe will arrive in North American…
September 29, 2021 Blue Origin ‘gambled’ with its Moon lander pricing, NASA says in legal documents Jeff Bezos, Blue Origin’s founder, unveiling his space company’s Blue Moon lunar lander in 2019 in Washington, DC. | Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via…
September 29, 2021 I Miss the Dial-Up Modem Sound If you were born after wifi, the dial-up modem noise is what electronics used to sound like: dated, from the era of the fax…
September 29, 2021 League of Legends’ biggest stars turn into anime heroes in Worlds 2021 music video Every year ahead of the League of Legends World Championship, developer Riot tries to get everyone excited with a new song. This year’s anthem…
September 29, 2021 YouTube bans all content containing vaccine misinformation YouTube has banned all videos that contain misinformation about vaccines that are currently administered and have been approved by local health authorities or the…
September 29, 2021 Don’t be fooled — Amazon’s Astro isn’t a home robot, it’s a camera on wheels Photo by Dan Seifert / The Verge Yesterday, Amazon announced its “home robot” — a wheeled device named Astro that has a display, an…