New Realities
Deepfaking Trump with Harry Shearer
We speak to virtual production studio Mod's Michela Ledwidge about the tech that brought Harry Shearer's Donald Trump satire to freakish life.
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New media platforms constantly transformed
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Elliot Page to star in a Gamergate comedy? We have concerns...
‘Pitch Perfect with esports and Gamergate’ just feels offensive to the very real and ongoing suffering of those involved.
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We owned a bit of Quibi too?
This week we realise we're talking about two troubled apps the Australian government owned in whole or in part: COVIDSafe and Quibi.
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007, take the bloody streaming deal or risk losing it all
No Time To Die may have no time at all if it doesn't take a chance and go the streaming route before everyone has given up on it.
Attention, distraction and Quibi
It will go down in history as one of the great failures of the digital age. Almost $2 billion spent on a Hollywood-backed, highly-polished, mobile-only, episodic streaming video service that will be long forgotten with no sense of loss whatsoever. We talked about Quibi on the Byteside podcast a lot
Culture
Your excitable history lesson on Netflix's Blood of Zeus
Our resident historian goes deep on what Greek myths the new Netflix anime looks like it will be digging into.
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Rhianna Pratchett and Neil Gaiman react to the first trailer for The Watch
The BBC America take on Terry Pratchett's City Watch has a trailer now and some rather important Discworld true believers aren't pleased.
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Star Trek: Lower Decks is the most human Star Trek yet
Let go of your lofty Starfleet ideals and come spend some time on the lower decks in this fun, adorable adult cartoon.
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Returning to the cinema is such a joy
The pleasure of switching everything off and letting a big screen extravaganza take you away from it all for a few hours once again.
Industry bit rot
More Australian media job losses in tech and gaming show a fading of local nuance as global dominance grows.
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All your next favourite movies are being delayed so stop worrying
Dune. The Batman. 007. All the upcoming blockbusters are being delayed and reshuffled so just get used to disappointment.
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Twitter denounces hoping a powerful white man dies
Hoping for someone to die isn't scary in the way that the social platforms have failed to do anything about real death threats.