Новости за 18.10.2021

Arguing about whether or not Sex and the City was feminist or not is a pointless endeavor, because any shred of feminism one might find in Carrie Bradshaw and pals’ paean to New York and the single life circa the early 2000s is very much in the eye of the beholder. However, if you are the sort of person who requires…

Unless you’ve been offline for the last year, then you know that the Team Jolie v. Team Aniston of 2021 is Team Munn v. Team Tendler.

Researcher Henry Ajder has spent the last three years monitoring the landscape of deepfakes, where artificial intelligence is used to swap people’s faces into videos. He spends a lot of time “going into the dark corners of the internet,” as he puts it, in hopes of keeping tabs on the malicious uses of synthetic…

The Chicago Sky closed out a four-game series against the Phoenix Mercury on Sunday night, denying the Mercury their fourth championship in franchise history. It was a history-making moment for Candace Parker, who returned to her hometown of Chicago for the sole purpose of winning this championship. Chicago has now…

Never have I wanted to be a charcuterie board as badly as I did on Sunday night’s season three premiere of Succession.

Finally, some nice news for some people I don’t personally know, but feel like I do: Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker are engaged, and I am as happy as I would be if it were one of my many sisters! Love is alive, or something resembling “love” is, and I’m thrilled that these two crazy kids are making this shit…

Dolls aren’t inherently frightening, though there is something about the way their blank stare seems to follow you around the room as you walk. Their eyes aren’t real, of course, merely paint and a little bit of pathos. But in the right light, under the correct circumstances, a child’s toy becomes a horrifying vessel…