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When TikTok creator Franchesca Ramsey pops onto people’s for-you-pages, ukulele in hand, most people expect to hear a short but gospel tinged song about a fictitious political party themed on vicious and face-eating leopards. But this satirical song has a real-life story behind its rise on TikTok — and it …

Earlier this week, Colossal Biosciences claimed that they’d brought the dire wolf back from extinction after some 12,000 years. They debuted photos of five-month-old Romulus and Remus, two fluffy, snow-white wolves that the company claims represent their first successful effort in “de-extincion.” The wolves, with longer, thicker, lighter-colored coats than …

For more than a week, conservative news outlets and right-wing corners of social media have championed Stephanie Turner, 31, a fencer who took a knee and removed her mask to forfeit a tournament duel against Red Sullivan, 19, a transgender woman. But most discourse around the incident — in which …

In the escalating arms race between AI models like ChatGPT and human beings trying to determine if what they’re reading was machine-generated, there is no easy or surefire way to spot the bot — or is there? “I — keep — seeing — weird — long — dashes — in …

At $250 billion a year and growing, the creator economy is a well-established industry — one that can rake in hundreds of thousands of dollars a month for some of the most popular creators. In Netflix’s new docuseries Bad Influence: The Dark Side of Kidfluencing, audiences are introduced to one …

Angel Studios, the faith-based media company that distributed the breakout hit Sound of Freedom in 2023, is facing a lawsuit for breach of contract. It’s yet another example of creative partners claiming that the streaming and entertainment giant, which went public last fall at a valuation of $1.6 billion and …

It’s been a crowded television season, with audiences’ attention divided between campy hits like 9-1-1 and Doctor Odyssey, newcomers like The Pitt, and the established prestige offerings of Severance and White Lotus. But one of the hottest new shows online isn’t a television show at all — it’s a series …

F rom certain angles, the white canids on the video call, chewing on branches in the grass, look like Samoyeds: huge, white, fluffy faces and big black noses. Just when you start considering what it might feel like to wrap your arms around them and bury your face in the …

T he difference between coca leaves and cocaine, a Peruvian friend once quipped, is the difference between traveling by mule and jet plane. A clever line, but one that misses an essential point. The effects of the leaves and the drug are not comparable. To equate coca with the raw …

A group of creatives stood slightly dazed in a Four Seasons hotel conference room in Houston, staring at three random ping-pong tables. A few were still bleary-eyed and jet-lagged after flying in from Iceland, Prague, London, and other parts of the world. Over the past few months, they had been …