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In South Korea, deepfake porn wrecks women's lives and deepens gender conflict
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Three years after the 30-year-old South Korean woman received a barrage of online fake images that depicted her nude, she is still being treated for trauma. She struggles to talk with men. Using a mobile phone brings back the nightmare.
"It completely trampled me, even though it wasn't a dire ... (full story)
Michael Jordan's 23XI and a 2nd team sue NASCAR over revenue sharing model
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Two NASCAR teams — one of them owned by Michael Jordan — filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against the stock car series and chairman Jim France claiming the new charter system limits competition by unfairly binding teams to the series, its tracks and its suppliers.
23XI Racing and Front R ... (full story)
DreamWorks Animation at 30: Painting a bright path forward with 'The Wild Robot'
Filmmaker Chris Sanders had finally cracked "The Wild Robot."
Peter Brown's middle-grade book, about an intelligent robot living in the wilderness, had been sitting on the shelf at DreamWorks Animation for a bit. No one had quite figured it out. Then Sanders, the man behind beloved animated features from "Lilo &am ... (full story)
Sell my stinkers?
Q: Should I sell my loser stocks instead of waiting for them to recover? -- B.R., Fort Wayne, Indiana
A: If a losing stock faces long-term problems, selling makes sense. Don't think too much about how much you're ahead or underwater on any given stock, though. Instead, figure out whether you're confident that it can grow from he ... (full story)
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Sex workers find themselves at the center of Congo's mpox outbreak
KAMITUGA, Congo (AP) — It's been four months since Sifa Kunguja recovered from mpox, but as a sex worker, she said, she's still struggling to regain clients, with fear and stigma driving away people who've heard she had the virus.
"It's risky work," Kunguja, 40, said from her small home in eastern Congo. "Bu ... (full story)
Google's search engine's latest AI injection will answer voiced questions about images
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google is injecting its search engine with more artificial intelligence that will enable people to voice questions about images and occasionally organize an entire page of results, despite the technology's past offerings of misleading information.
The latest changes herald the next step in an AI-driven ... (full story)