the olympics
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Fake Tom Cruise Movie About the Paris Olympics Tied to Russian Disinformation
Have you seen clips from a new documentary narrated by Tom Cruise called Olympics Has Fallen, a play on the title of the 2013 movie Olympus Has Fallen? The new film claims to document the corruption in the upcoming Olympic Games in Paris, France. But it’s fake. Cruise’s narration was created with artificial intelligence and…
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The Winter Olympics As We Know Them Could Be Over
Maddie Phaneuf, an Olympic biathlete (she does a combination of cross-country skiing and rifle shooting) from Upstate New York has watched this year’s Winter Games with mixed enthusiasm. She’s saddened — but not surprised — that the event has had to use fake snow, as snowfall is becoming harder to predict around the world.
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What’s the Oldest Sport?
Hello and welcome to the third instalment in Giz Asks’ ongoing investigation into Firsts. Having opened with the first recreational drug, progressed to the oldest disease, and moved from there to the earliest music, we now turn our attention to the oldest sport. Unlike drugs, diseases, and music, sports are not something I have much…
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Incredible Never-Miss Auto-Aiming Bow Puts Robin Hood to Shame
At this point, Shane Wighton of the YouTube channel Stuff Made Here has gone from being another talented maker sharing their creations on the internet to potentially the next Thomas Edison. Their latest invention, an auto-aiming bow is so accurate it can even shoot a tiny apple off the head of a Lego minifigure.