Stephen Johnson

4 days ago | au.lifehacker.com | Stephen Johnson

You've probably already been fooled by an AI video, whether you realize it or not. On May 20, Google released Veo 3, its latest AI video generation tool, showing it off with a video featuring an AI-generated seaman, and the results were either impressive or horrifying, depending on your point of view. Yeah. We're cooked. While this video does have a slightly surreal quality upon close inspection, it's good enough to fool most casual viewers.

5 days ago | yahoo.com | Stephen Johnson

If you’re a grown-ass person confused by the un-grown-ass among us, I hope this week's trip down the rabbit hole of Gen Z and Gen Alpha culture brings you a step closer to enlightenment. Allow me to tell you why man-on-man phone calls are so popular and hilarious right now, the meaning of the word "fambush," and why you're seeing so many disturbing videos of Will Smith eating spaghetti.

5 days ago | au.lifehacker.com | Stephen Johnson

If you’re a grown-ass person confused by the un-grown-ass among us, I hope this week's trip down the rabbit hole of Gen Z and Gen Alpha culture brings you a step closer to enlightenment. Allow me to tell you why man-on-man phone calls are so popular and hilarious right now, the meaning of the word "fambush," and why you're seeing so many disturbing videos of Will Smith eating spaghetti.

2 weeks ago | lifehacker.com | Stephen Johnson

Another week, another "gotcha" video debunked. This time it's "Cop Pulls Over Black Judge and Lives To Regret It," a piece of pseudo-documentary street drama that's been viewed millions of times on YouTube and TikTok (and elsewhere, I'm sure). The video is part of a growing online video genre based on documenting cops' confrontations with public, either through police-worn body camera footage or citizen-filmed footage. Some of these videos are real, but many of them are not.

2 weeks ago | lifehacker.com | Stephen Johnson

Earlier this week, TikTok user CatGPT posted a video of a woman in line at a store seemingly scrolling on a completely transparent phone. The caption reads "I'm sorry, WTF IS THAT???" Check it out: The video quickly took off, with over 52 million people having viewed it on TikTok in only four days. So WTF is it? A techie casually breaking an NDA by openly rocking a prototype transparent phone? The new "Plex from Nokia" (as the top comment suggests)? A casual time-traveler caught in the act?