New Year’s sport supplement buying drives January retail sales surge
Continuing strong sales from online jewellers after a recent spike in gold prices also helped drive the increase. Image: Guto Macedo / Pexels Source: BBC
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AI Video ‘Jia Zhangke Wishes Everyone Happy New Year’ Emerges Online
An AI-generated video titled “Jia Zhangke Wishes Everyone Happy New Year” has surfaced online and is also circulating widely across social media, featuring a digital recreation of the acclaimed Chinese filmmaker in a scripted, meta-fictional exchange about authorship, technology and artistic control. The short clip, posted on YouTube by COMA — the Chinatown Organization for…
Beyond the Hype: A Week with Google’s Autonomous AI Agent Reveals a Future of Promise and Peril
Introduction Imagine handing your web browser to a digital concierge, trusting it to navigate the complexities of online shopping, travel planning, and ticket purchases. This is the promise of Google’s experimental ‘Auto Browse’ AI agent. After a week of relinquishing control of my Chrome browser to this autonomous software, I discovered a technology that is…
The banality of Jeffery Epstein’s expanding online world
The digital ghost of Jeffrey Epstein is being meticulously reassembled, not in a shadowy corner of the dark web, but in the stark, familiar interface of a Google-style suite anyone can access. Jmail.world, a sprawling online archive, recreates the convicted sex offender’s emails, photos, flights, and purchases with a chilling, banal precision. This immersive facsimile…