thispersondoesnotexist.com generates realistic human faces; refresh for a new one. Most are disturbingly convincing, a warning against trusting images and a whisper of just how gnostically paranoid everything is going to get. But the more you see, the more you learn the little tells.

Advances in machine learning will soon make it possible to sound like yourself with a different age or gender—or impersonate someone else via @techreview

With a few taps of your thumb, you can download a little program called SkinVision that uses the camera to take a picture of moles or other blemishes on your skin.

RT @NYCMediaLab Once you’re wearing a screen you’re not going to be carrying a keyboard

Fast Company talked to the Facebook engineers who turned to the film industry to train the AI behind Portal’s camera.

A decade ago, Steve Jobs wanted Apple to help fix healthcare. Aetna’s new Attain app fulfills that vision, and there could be a lot more to come.

New technology, new problems! Nike’s new Adapt BB smart sneakers are broken for some users after they tried to update them through their companion Android app. Nike says it’s “actively working” to fix them.

RT @WIRED Facebook’s new cryptocoin would leverage the built-in connections of WhatsApp’s more than 1.5 billion users—and potentially billions more should the coin come to Instagram or Facebook itself.

RT @WIRED Researchers published the results of an experiment which showed that they could pull off an insidious trick: They can rent a server from a cloud computing provider and alter its firmware, hiding changes to its code that live on after they return it.

This is crazy! The e-mails from Enron were used to train all sorts of systems via @quartzatwork

Here’s how long it takes companies to make their first $1 billion–and their most recent billion.

Amazon avoids paying federal tax — for the second year in a row, according to a new report.

For now, there isn’t paid discovery for voice search. Because voice oracles dispense answers 1 at a time, they offer less real estate for advertisers. With Alexa, a purchase-ready consumer is right on the other end of the smart speaker. Voice computing seeks to deliver a single correct response to any query. That’s why it’s going to upend our relationship with information.

HT @strategyzer Good case studies on how a big company can experiment with #innovation via @AdExchanger

The industry generates a lot of enthusiasm and little revenue, but that could be changing.

The media company theSkimm is launching its second podcast, Skimm This, a 10-minute daily podcast about the top news stories of the day.

Our interactive dashboard dives into US investment trends for women in VC since the start of 2008, using data sourced from the PitchBook Platform. Users can filter the data to isolate specific trends.

CEO Katrina Lake’s e-commerce retailer uses data science to find you the best-fitting clothes you’ve ever worn

Today in weird retail news.

Target is expanding its third-party offerings with the launch of a new online marketplace called Target+. Unlike its Amazon counterpart that takes applications to sell from any brand or vendor, though, Target+ is an invitation-only affair. It only sells curated items from partner companies the retail giant reached out to, which currently include sports goods maker Mizuno and educational toy maker Kaplan.

It’s kind of funny, since they started this mess!

It points to its Dash Replenishment service — which offers an API for device makers wanting to build internet-connected appliances that can automatically reorder the products they need to function, be it cat food, batteries or washing power. Amazon says “hundreds” of IoT devices capable of self-ordering on Amazon have been launched globally to date by brands including Beko, Epson, illy, Samsung and Whirlpool, to name a few.

“The media is in a state of great disruption, but despite all the change, one thing remains the same: fewer
women report the news than men.”

From streaming video to branded product lines, Bon Appétit, Taste of Home and Meredith Corp. find new ways to derive value from their facilities.

When she opened the Second Shelf, A.N. Devers began to correct the yawning gap between the perceived value of rare books by men versus women.

The two leaders in the educational publishing space are bringing digital content to students via the inclusive access model.

Over the last couple of years, publishing startup Serial Box has experimented with new ways to tell stories, and is moving into the superhero world with a new partnership with Marvel, which will produce new stories about Black Panther, Black Widow, Jessica Jones, and Thor.

RT @NYUPublishing Teen media, then and now: an Instagram account named for former Seventeen magazine EIC Atoosa Rubenstein takes a look at how the tone and message of teen magazines have changed over the years.

11-year-old crochet prodigy Jonah Larson, who taught himself the craft via YouTube at age five, has landed a book deal for his debut release, Hello, Crochet Friends! Wisconsin-based KWiL Publishing will release the book in July, after an article in the La Crosse Tribune about Larson went viral.

RT @WNYC The MTA has approved a new fare hike, raising the weekly MetroCard price to $33 and bringing up the monthly pass to $127. The new fares will go into effect April 21st.

NYC’s library card just got a Moviepass-sized upgrade. NYC library members can now access 33 cultural bastions throughout the city thanks to the new Culture Pass.