The world is awash in deepfakes — video, audio or images that make people appear to do or say things they didn’t, or be somewhere they weren’t. Many are devised to give credibility to falsehoods and damage the reputations of politicians and other people in the public eye. But most deepfakes are explicit videos and … Read more
To hear the United Auto Workers’ fiery new president, Shawn Fain, tell it, Detroit’s largest automakers enjoyed years of lavish profits thanks to concessions made by its workers through the lean years before and after the 2009 recession. So as the UAW’s contract with the Big Three automakers expired in mid-September, the UAW authorized strikes … Read more
September 4, 2023 at 6:00 PM EDT Updated on September 5, 2023 at 5:41 AM EDT China has taken a series of incremental steps to boost its economy after a run of disappointing data showed the government is increasingly at risk of missing its growth target of about 5% for this year. But Beijing isn’t … Read more