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30 May

AI machine learning TikTok filters are causing errors in

The uncanny latest generation of filters uses GAN technology to regenerate every pixel on a face In case you’ve been on TikTok recently, you may have come face-to-face with a scarily yassified version of yourself. The Daring Glamour TikTok filter, which has now been utilized in 46.8 million videos, is a heavy contour make-up filter that changes in response to who’s using it, and never glitches. It is only one example of the brand new generation of filters which use AI and machine learning to be eerily lifelike and undetectable. Others include the Teenage Look filter, which de-ages users, and the Lite Foundation filter, which removes moles, beauty marks and pimples spots, giving...

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30 May

The Rise of the Newsletters

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Digital disruption has felled many legacy media brands — independent local newspapers are on the endangered list and a flurry of print magazines, once fat with ads, have gone digital or shuttered entirely. However the proliferation of social media and streaming services means there's more content than ever. It’s the gatekeepers who've modified, morphing from beetle-browed newspaper editors to journalist influencers who, in lots of cases, have fled or been pushed from legacy publications. And the recent bloodbath at digital native brands including BuzzFeed and Vice has not quelled a growing crop of latest media newsletter startups. With modest overhead — skeleton staffs, few brick-and-mortar offices and a paucity of medical health insurance plans — and seed money from enterprise...

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30 May

Le Labo Opens First China Store in Shanghai –

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Le Labo Opens First China Store in Shanghai –

SHANGHAI — Le Labo‘s first China store opened last week in a stand-alone shikumen constructing in Xintiandi, a retail hot spot in downtown Shanghai. The 2-story constructing, a former historical Shikumen “Open House” Museum that showcased the life-style of Old Shanghainese within the Twenties, was transformed by the Estée Lauder Cos.-owned fragrance brand right into a Le Labo flagship, which showcases a big selection of Le Labo products and likewise boasts a vegan bakery and café. Staying consistent with Le Labo’s vintage-inspired wabi-sabi retail aesthetic, the shop preserves the constructing’s original picket ceiling and embellished window panels while displaying curiosities reminiscent of an old rotary telephone, a vintage protected and a typewriter. On the primary floor, purposely distressed tiled partitions, vintage cabinets and a...

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30 May

Brad Pitt’s Le Domaine Skin Care Is Now at

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Brad Pitt’s Le Domaine Skin Care Is Now at

Le Domaine has found its first U.S. retail partner. The brand, cofounded by Brad Pitt, will enter Bluemercury online and in 20 doors on Tuesday. It includes 4 products — a cleanser, a serum and creams in two weights — and costs range from $209 to $242. Despite the megawatt name behind it, Tracy Kline, Bluemercury’s head of merchandising, spa and provide chain, said it’s the brand’s science-backed formulations that differentiated it within the crowded skincare market. “They hit all the good points: the story, the ingredients, being environmentally conscious, patent-pending ingredients. The art and science and having this story of the vineyards and the wineries for the last 20 years to deliver this great product — we predict it’s going to be...

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