Slick Tom Cruise Deepfakes Signal That Near Flawless Forgeries May Be Here
By: NPR March 11, 2021 In a crop of viral videos featuring Tom Cruise, it’s not the actor’s magic trick nor his joke-telling that’s deceptive — but the fact that it’s not actually Tom Cruise at all. The videos, uploaded to TikTok in recent weeks by the account @deeptomcruise, have raised new fears over the […]
China Creates a Digital Vaccine Passport
By: New York Times March 10, 2021 China on Monday introduced a digital vaccine passport to track its citizens’ medical history as they begin to travel abroad. The health certificate, which runs on Tencent’s WeChat messaging app, will include a user’s Covid-19 test and vaccination history, and is intended to enable international travel, according to a […]
America Grapples With Regulating Surveillance Technology
By: The Economist March 9, 2021 AMONG THE most pernicious aspects of the range of surveillance technologies available to the average police force is how they can render the visible invisible. For instance, you would notice if a police officer walked down your street every day, writing down the licence plates of every car. A police […]
How to Make a Social Safety-Net for the Post-Covid World
By: The Economist March 6, 2021 Governments must remake the social contract for the 21st century After the Depression and the second world war, voters and governments in rich countries recast the relationship between the state and its citizens. Now the pandemic has seen the old rules on social spending ripped up. More than […]
‘The East Is Rising’: Xi Maps Out China’s Post-Covid Ascent
By: New York Times March 3, 2021 Xi Jinping has struck a confident posture as he looks to secure China’s prosperity and power in a post-Covid world, saying that the country is entering a time of opportunity when “the East is rising and the West is declining.” But behind closed doors, China’s Communist Party leader […]
Sunak to Reform Stock Market to Shore Up City of London’s Position
By: The Guardian March 2, 2021 Changes come amid fears that London will be overtaken by Amsterdam, New York and Hong Kong as a financial hub Rishi Sunak will pave the way for sweeping reforms of the stock market to attract more fast-growing companies to list in the UK, amid the growing risk […]
The Growing Threat Of Disinformation And How To ‘Deprogram’ People Who Believe It
By: NPR One March 2, 2021 Disinformation isn’t new. But in the last decade, the growth of social media has made it easier than ever to spread. That coincided with the political rise of Donald Trump, who rose to power on a wave of disinformation and exited the White House in similar fashion. NPR’s Tovia […]
Twitter Targets Covid Vaccine Misinformation With Labels and ‘Strike’ System
By: The Guardian March 1, 2021 Twitter is expanding its use of warning labels on tweets that contain misleading details about coronavirus vaccines. The move, announced in a blogpost on Monday, is designed to strengthen the social network’s existing Covid-19 guidance, which has led to the removal of more than 8,400 tweets and challenged 11.5m […]
The Artificial Intelligence Influencers That You Should Be Following
By: City AM March, 2021 Artificial intelligence (AI) is the ultimate manifestation of the promise of technology to improve our lives. Within our lifetimes AI will become omnipresent across every segment of economic activity and within every field of human endeavour. But AI is not a single genus but a constellation of technologies that […]