Monthly Archives: July 2022

A digital human could be your next favorite celebrity—or financial advisor

When one of China’s biggest celebrities, Simon Gong—also known as Gong Jun—released a new music video in June 2022, it quickly attracted 15 million views on the country’s Twitter-like microblogging site Weibo. But the event also stood out for a different reason—one that only eagle-eyed fans might have noticed. The singer in the video was not…

‘A lump of generic subscriber bait’ – critics are not sold on Netflix’s new action-spectacular

Netflix’s new and supremely expensive blockbuster, The Gray Man, arrives on the platform tomorrow (July 15) and the critics’ reactions are in. The movie, which has cost a reported $200 million to make, is based on Mark Greaney’s book series of the same name. It follows Ryan Gosling’s CIA agent Court Gentry – aka Sierra…