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5 Ways To Shoot Night Exteriors
In Depth Cine looks at some of the most common approaches by cinematographers to shooting moonlit night exteriors, and one less common but innovative solution used at the highest levels of production.
This model is not a real person: how AI is shaking up fashion – video
From digital twins to models ‘sculpted’ by programmers, generative AI has been popping up all over the fashion industry. When an Australian e-commerce retailer started using AI-generated models to sell products, lifestyle editor Alyx Gorman had to see if the garments were more than mere pixels.
Billionaires Are Funding 'Anti AI' Content
Have you noticed your social media feeds suddenly flooding with terrifying content about AI existential risk? From TikTok clips warning about "AI psychosis" to viral YouTube shorts claiming chatbots are pushing people to the brink, the anti-AI movement has taken over the internet... But what if these "anti-AI" influencers aren't actually what they seem?
The Secret Language of Camera Angles
What are camera angles, really? Joseph Mascelli's The Five C's of Cinematography has been the go-to guide for cinematographers since 1965 — and in this episode, we break down the first C: camera angles.
How The Callisto Protocol's Audio Team Designed Its Terrifying, Immersive Sound | Ars Technica
Ars Technica brings you back to Striking Distance Studios with Dead Space creator Glen Schofield and his team as they work on designing the dynamic, immersive, and precisely timed audio components of their upcoming release 'The Callisto Protocol.'
Is It Time to Ditch Your Smartphone?
On this week’s episode of “Galaxy Brain,” Charlie Warzel talks with his Atlantic colleague Kaitlyn Tiffany about what our phones are doing to us. Tiffany recently wrote about swapping her iPhone for a flip phone as part of a movement called “Month Offline.” Kaitlyn talks through her personal experience: the joys and inconveniences of a dumbphone and the difficulty of unplugging completely. Warzel and Tiffany talk about the growing smartphone backlash, legal cases against “big tech,” and how, even if many people are convinced that their phones are a problem, the science remains far from conclusive regarding direct harm.
Atlantic Reads: Screen People with Megan Garber
In Screen People, Atlantic staff writer Megan Garber examines how the internet — once brimming with democratic promise — has quietly reshaped human behavior through the architecture of its platforms. From social media algorithms designed to provoke outrage, to the subtle habit of treating real people like fictional characters, Garber traces what went wrong and why. But she's not without hope: if we ask the right questions about who we want to be, a better internet is still within reach.
Did a human write this?
What happens when the majority of content on the internet tips over into AI slop? On this episode of Galaxy Brain, Charlie Warzel talks to Max Spero, a co-founder of Pangram, an AI-detection company. They discuss how AI-detection tools work and how effective they can be at identifying what’s made by humans and what comes from a chatbot. They explore the cultural concerns around authenticity in the large-language-model era, and whether detection can keep up as models improve.
Why Rich People Post Differently
Is your Instagram "low class"? While we like to think of the internet as a universal playground, a new digital class war is emerging. From the way you use filters to the number of emojis in your bio, your digital habits are increasingly signaling your socioeconomic status to the world. In this episode of Power User, Taylor Lorenz sit down with etymologist and cultural commentator Adam Aleksic to decode the hidden semiotics of "Low Class Instagram."
Why becoming a YouTuber is not what you think
In this essay, Andres Acevedo examines why YouTube’s dominance, and the power of its parent company Google, is a problem for viewers, creators, and the open internet. YouTube is the world’s second most visited website and perhaps the closest thing the world has ever had to a global broadcaster. But it exists inside one of the most powerful corporate empires ever built: one that has systematically crushed competitors, exploited users, and now faces antitrust proceedings on both sides of the Atlantic. The essay features Acevedo’s interview with Nicholas Shaxson, investigative journalist, Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, and co-author of Google’s Hidden Empire.
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