8 Music Videos That Show How Fast Deepfakes Are Evolving
If there’s one thing aging nu-metal rap-rockers Limp Bizkit are not, it’s subtle. Naturally, that applies to their recent foray into deep fake videos as well. Last month, the band…
Fire Roars and Penguins Chill in National Geographic’s Photos of the Year
Photo: Riten Dharia c/o National Geographic An Icelandic volcano sends molten rock into the air. An owl silently snares its prey. The glow from mountain climbers’ headlamps travels miles across…
Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube All Appear to Suffer Outages at the Same Time
Photo: Justin Sullivan (Getty Images) Did someone actually break the internet? It sorta seems like it. Users of Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube, some of the web’s biggest platforms, reported…
ChatGPT May Be the Fastest Growing App in History
It’s no secret that ChatGPT, the large language model-powered artificial intelligence from OpenAI, has taken the internet by storm. Everyone is talking about it, everywhere online—Gizmodo included. The AI chatbot…
Meta Is Spending More Than $1 Billion per Month on the Metaverse
Meta has released its final quarterly and full year financial results for 2022, and the results are…mixed for the company formerly known as Facebook. Meta’s revenue slightly exceeded analyst’s expectations,…
Trump allowed to return to Facebook and Instagram
Meta is ending its suspension of Donald Trump on Facebook and Instagram, allowing the former president to start posting again as he eyes a return to the White House via…
Facebook Is Bringing Back Trump
Photo: Joe Raedle (Getty Images) Donald Trump is coming back to Facebook and Instagram. Meta, Facebook’s parent company, made the announcement late Wednesday, a little more than two years after…
Instagram’s Quiet Mode Lets Users Politely Tell Their Followers to Shut the Hell Up
Instagram launched a new “Quiet Mode” this week to help users spend less time on the company’s totally, absolutely not addictive platform.Though any user can use the new features, Meta’s…
Twitter Reportedly Considering Putting Popular Usernames Up for Auction
Elon Musk needs to find ways to have Twitter make more money to justify his $44 billion purchase of the platform.Photo: Press Association (AP) Twitter CEO Elon Musk is desperate…
Instagram starts rolling out scheduled posts
It’s taken a while, but Instagram is finally rolling out a scheduling feature that lets you plan posts more than two months ahead.