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Chris Ume was just trying to have some fun when he created those Tom Cruise deepfake videos on TikTok with actor and impersonator Miles Fisher . He didn't expect the clips to go viral or to stir up as much conversation as they did in the past week. "We weren't trying to fool people," the visual effects artist said in an interview. "We were trying to spark their fantasy." In the three videos, which were posted under the TikTok account @deeptomcruise , someone who appears to be Cruise is seen playing golf , doing a magic trick and awkwardly sharing an anecdote . Everything is practically spot on, from the laugh to the gestures to the facial expressions. But in reality, it's just Fisher behind the camera, whose image has been warped by deepfake technology. CNET Culture Entertain your brain with the coolest news from streaming to superheroes, memes to video games. Deepfakes are videos that appear to show people doing or saying things they never did. … [Read more...] about Creator of Tom Cruise deepfakes shares how he made those viral TikTok videos

On April 23, 2005, Jawed Karim uploaded an 18-second video to a site called YouTube that he helped create. We'll get back to that video shortly, but let's take a minute to think about what nine years means in the digital age. The web was a very different place. The title of "social media maven/guru/ninja" was just a twinkle in some charlatan's eye. Twitter was still about a year away from existence, and an early iteration of the Facebook we now know was just gaining traction on college campuses. Heck, we had yet to meet the ubiquitous viral video back in April 2005. And online media had yet to suffer through many hard years before discovering the life-giving secrets of the listicle, heartwarming advertisement and fatuous cat video. In short, the social explosion had yet to make the web the — Epic! Unbelievable! Shocking! — look-at-me, click-on-this cacophony it is today. See also: YouTube's 10 Most-Viewed Ads of 2013 Which brings us back to Karim's video, embedded … [Read more...] about YouTube’s first video is too real for the Internet it hath wrought

"Obi-Wan. Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time…" Disney 's got a whole lot of Star Wars shows coming to its Disney Plus streaming service and one will star a familiar hero: Obi-Wan Kenobi sees Ewan McGregor returning to the role of the venerable Jedi master he played in the Star Wars prequels. Sign up for Disney Plus Disney and Lucasfilm announced the show during August 2019 D23 convention, here are all the details we've learned since. CNET Culture Entertain your brain with the coolest news from streaming to superheroes, memes to video games. When is it out? We don't know yet. The show was meant to start shooting this summer, but McGregor told Graham Norton in October that filming will begin in March 2021 . As a result, the release date is likely to be sometime in late 2021 or early 2022. It'll consist of six hour-long episodes, McGregor said last year , and he told ET that it's planned as a single-season … [Read more...] about Obi-Wan Kenobi on Disney Plus: Everything we know about the upcoming Star Wars TV show

WandaVision arrived at its reality-warping end Friday, with episode 9 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe show hitting Disney Plus . We've come to the season finale, in the wake of Agatha Harkness ( Kathryn Hahn ) realizing Wanda Maximoff ( Elizabeth Olsen ) is the Chaos magic-wielding Scarlet Witch and it sure looks like they're gonna fight on the streets of Westview. Sign up for Disney Plus Wanda's husband, Vision ( Paul Bettany ), is also on his way home, having been filled in on his past by astrophysicist Darcy Lewis ( Kat Dennings ). However, we've learned that this Vision is a magical construct created by Wanda -- shifty SWORD director Tyler Hayward ( Josh Stamberg ) brought his original synthezoid body back online outside the town, but it appears to be a soulless husk. CNET Culture Entertain your brain with the coolest news from streaming to superheroes, memes to video games. Also in play is the newly superpowered SWORD … [Read more...] about WandaVision season finale recap: Marvel show’s ending and postcredits scenes explained

Xiaomi recently launched its much anticipated Redmi Note 10 series smartphones in India. The lineup includes three smartphones -- Redmi Note 10, Redmi Note 10 Pro and Redmi Note 10 Pro Max . The Redmi Note 10 Pro and Redmi Note 10 Pro Max come with almost similar set of specifications and features. The only major difference you can find is in camera. To make things more clear and help you resolve the confusion between the two smartphones, let’s put them side-by-side in our specs comparison table. Follow Gadgets Now on Facebook and Twitter . For the latest news , tech news , breaking news headlines and live updates checkout Gadgetsnow.com … [Read more...] about Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro Max vs Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro: What’s similar what not