AI AI firm pays people to use their faces in deepfaked corporate videos Clive Thompson

Spoken Word with Electronics How to spout gibberish with a phoneme generator Ethan Persoff

Technology In 1974 a man ordered a pizza using a computer voice synthesizer Ellsworth Toohey

Food Behind the scenes: how pre-packaged sandwiches and fish replicas are made Popkin

Science Scientists develop slime that generates electricity when squeezed Ellsworth Toohey

child abuse CPAC performer faces 25 years for alleged child sex crimes Ellsworth Toohey

remote attacks Pagers explode all at once, killing 8 and injuring over 2,700 in Lebanon and Syria [Update] (video) Carla Sinclair

youtube YouTube requires realistic AI to be labeled Rob Beschizza

Science New research finds evidence that sea anemones track the sun Jennifer Sandlin

youtube YouTube: creators must disclose AI use Rob Beschizza

terrorism Hamas terrorists used synthetic amphetamine to "suppress fear and anxiety" during attack, says IDF and US Mark Frauenfelder

deepfakes Deepfake-assisted Keanu Reeves impersonator makes waves on YouTube Grant St. Clair

zoology The wild world of solar-powered sea slugs Rusty Blazenhoff

AI Software lets you design new synthetic voices from scratch Mark Frauenfelder

asahi You are so worth an Asahi synthetic rubber cutting board Andrew Yi

smells This perfume smells like eau de Room 237 Thom Dunn

drugs Drug cartels switching to synthetic drugs Rob Beschizza

milk Is synthetic milk harvested from genetically modified yeast "vegan"? Andrew Yi

drugs Rep. Kevin McCarthy promises to make heroin safer for kids Carla Sinclair

biology This is the world's first synthetic embryo complete with beating heart and brain beginning—no sperm or egg required David Pescovitz