The Shade Room pioneered a unique, if somewhat loose-lipped, brand of digital media when it launched in 2014, merging elements of fan culture around the machine of celebrity news. Across the next decade, Angie Nwandu, its founder, flipped her Instagram-only celebrity tabloid into a media company with a 40-person staff …
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The Yao Ming of penguins has been born and is thriving in an Australian aquarium. You’ve got to see Pesto the penguin, a baby King Penguin at Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium. You are not prepared for the height and girth of this absolute unit. Feast your eyes like Pesto feasts …
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Palworld, colloquially known to fans as “Pokémon with guns,” is in hot water. Nintendo and The Pokémon Company announced Thursday that they’ve filed a patent infringement lawsuit in Tokyo against Pocketpair, the company behind the game, claiming Palworld “infringes multiple patent rights.” The lawsuit isn’t completely unexpected. In Palworld, players …
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The internet loves cute animals. (Shocking, I know.) But more than a fact of life, it’s practically a pillar supporting the weight of the online world’s entire infrastructure. Some of the earliest internet moments — Keyboard Cat, for instance — centered on critters. And that hasn’t changed, even as the …
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At Made on YouTube on Wednesday, Sept. 18, in New York, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan announced various new AI tools for creators on the platform. SEE ALSO: YouTube to add tools to detect AI-generated faces and voices The AI tools aim to “support creators at every step of the journey” …
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I’m not normally a fan of idealizing the past — there are just as many horrors to be found in looking backwards as there are in looking ahead — but I can think of one good reason why life might have been a little bit better when computers were really …
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It’s hard not to feel the ripple effect when big shifts happen. One such shift came Wednesday when Lionsgate—the studio responsible for the John Wick, Hunger Games, and Twilight franchises—announced it had teamed up with artificial intelligence firm Runway for a “first-of-its-kind partnership” that would give the AI firm access …
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A new survey found that parents significantly underestimate their teen’s use of generative artificial intelligence. The technology, popularized by the conversational platform ChatGPT, allows users to ask pretty much any question of an AI bot and receive a specific and detailed original response. The survey, conducted this spring by the …
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The Vaporwave album Conditions at Hickory begins with static, as if you’re tuning in to a 1940s radio broadcast. First and second tracks “Foothills” and “Daily Commute” start out humdrum and benign enough. Then, the mood shifts. Sounds come like warnings, cautions of something sinister to come. Beeping sounds and …
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“Northumberland Zoo hits different,” a white-haired employee of the establishment says in a resigned tone over TikTok. He then proceeds to make a “Gen Z hand heart” — created using your middle and index fingers — with his fellow white-haired colleague. The video garnered nearly 8 million views and over …
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