The Morning After: Hollywood studios wanted to use AI-generated likenesses of dead actors without permission

SAG-AFTRA, the union representing Hollywood performers, has reportedly responded to studios’ “last, best and final” offer to end the strike, rejecting clauses letting studios re-use AI-created likenesses of high-demand and deceased performers without consent from their estate or families. “They

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                        Instagram finally begins testing an option to turn off read receipts

Providing read receipts has long been a choice across almost every messaging platform. Now, one of the biggest holdouts, Instagram, is finally testing a feature that lets users hide when they've "seen" a message. Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Instagram head Adam Mosseri both announced the update on their In

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                        The first Grand Theft Auto VI trailer will arrive in early December

We may get official details about Grand Theft Auto VI very, very soon. Following a Bloomberg report that said Rockstar Games would

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                        Black Friday 2023: The best early deals we found from Amazon, Walmart, Target and others

With each passing year, the phrase "Black Friday" becomes more of a misnomer. What was once a day of post-Thanksgiving special offers has become a month of sales promotions from retailers across the web. It's happening again in 2023:

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                        Google wants to help you create new smart home automations with AI-generated scripts

Google is rolling out new features and improvements for Home and Nest, one of which could make it much easier for users to create complex home automations even if they don't know how to code. The company's experimental "

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                        The 12 best gifts under $25 for 2023

The most hyped tech is often also the most expensive: flagship smartphones, ultra-powerful gaming laptops, immersive VR headsets and the like. But it would be wrong to assume that those are the only pieces of technology worth gifting. You don’t have to drain your wallet to get someone a cool gadget that will both be useful and make their lives easier. There are more solid, affordable gadgets out there now more than ever, but that also means you’ll discover some junk a

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                        WhatsApp will let you hide your IP address from whoever you call

A new feature in WhatsApp will let you hide your IP address from whoever you call using the app. Knowing someone’s IP address can reveal a lot of personal information such as your location and your internet service provider, so having the option to hide it is a major privacy win. “This new feature provides an additional layer of privacy and security geared towards our most privacy-conscious users,” WhatsApp wrote in a

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                        PlayStation DualSense controllers fall to $50 in early Black Friday sale

The PlayStation Store at Amazon is selling various colors of the

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                        Google and major mobile carriers want Europe to regulate Apple's iMessage platform

The long fight to make Apple's iMessage compatible with all devices has raged with little to show for it. But Google (de facto leader of the charge) and other mobile operators are now leveraging the European Uni

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                        Meta will mark political and social ads altered by AI starting next year

Meta will require advertisers to disclose whether the ads they submit for its websites have been digitally altered, including through the use of AI tools, if they're political or social in nature. Ads that have been digitally altered will be marked as such on Meta's platforms, in the same way some advertisem

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