Latest articles Monday November 23, 2020

1. Featured Story: Online dating: Who are you really talking to?

   It can be daunting to take the leap of faith into the world of online dating, not really knowing who is on the other end of your messages. How would you feel knowing that you may not even be talking to the same person throughout your entire correspondence?

   By Ilona Cabral

1. Parler users are still trying to convince everyone they're leaving Twitter

   Since the U.S. election, Parler downloads have skyrocketed as millions of users have signed up to escape a perceived “anti-conservative” bias among mainstream social media platforms.

   By Aimee Pearcy

   From the Twitter desk

2. AI can now produce passable parody song lyrics

   The coronavirus pandemic has caused many outbursts of creativity, but few have the potential to be as meaningful as Mark O. Riedl’s lockdown project. The academic at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s school of interactive computing has spent the last several long months producing an artificial intelligence system that’s able to produce lyrics for parody songs, similar to those produced by Weird Al Yankovic.

   By Chris Stokel-Walker

   From the Culture desk