Over 1 million people from around the world are expected to attend the annual ball drop celebration in New York City's Times Square. The tradition has been held annually since December 31 ...
In a time when the internet is teeming with content and hyperfragmented, how do you determine which memes, viral videos and ideas actually matter? The Times Opinion writer Jessica Grose sits down ...
The New York City ball drop has been a tradition for over 100 years. The signal of a new year is a ball for New York and the East Coast, but those in the rest of the country have another hour, maybe ...
RENO, Nev. (AP) — Opponents of the nation’s largest lithium mine under construction want U.S. officials to investigate whether the project in Nevada already has caused a drop in groundwater ...
Dubbed “AI slop”, there is no hiding from the manipulated images and videos, with their prominence even leading to the Oxford University Press (OUP) naming “slop” as a contender for its ...
As I stared into the dead-eyed visage of “Carter,” one of Meta’s new AI posters, I remembered a line from Dawn of the Dead. “When there’s no more room in hell, the dead will walk the ...
And 2024 was the year we started calling this (generally poor-quality) media what it is: AI slop. This low-stakes way of creating AI slop means it can now be found in pretty much every corner ...