Innholdsfortegnelse for April 21, 2023 i Newsweek International

2014 “It’s the ultimate fulfillment of Big Brother paranoia,” wrote Newsweek. “Over the past decade, face recognition has become a fast-growing commercial industry, moving from its governmental origins—programs like Optic Nerve—into everyday life...[but] legal boundaries for the technology have not been set.” Recently, New York City’s Madison Square Garden used facial recognition technology to ban lawyers working for a firm suing the building’s owners, sparking controversy. Today, without a federal law, regulation of the use of such technology varies from state to state. 1988 “Today’s business world has generated corrosive ways to wear down bodies and spirits,” Newsweek said. “The buzz around the modern water cooler is full of anxiety and paranoia.” The American Institute of Stress found that a million Americans a day in 2022 missed work due to…

TETRIS, NOW STREAMING ON Apple TV+, is a biographical drama about the origins of the mesmerizing video game. On its way to the screen, though, the film nearly became, among other things, a fantasy epic about magicians. “It was a project about some kind of interesting magic team,” remembers Alexey Pajitnov, the Russian software engineer who created the game in 1984. Pajitnov and his Tetris Company co-founder Henk Rogers are the executive producers of the Apple TV film. Jon S. Baird directed. The film focuses on Rogers (played by Rocketman’s Taron Egerton), a Dutch game designer and entrepreneur, and his adventures and misadventures bringing Pajitnov’s game from the Soviet Union to the world. Russian stage actor Nikita Efremov plays Pajitnov. Back in 2014, movie company Threshold Entertainment announced it would…

“My plea to them is to start thinking about safety now.” ▸ P.16 ON A TUESDAY AFTERNOON IN MARCH, HOLLY Harris slid onto a long wooden bench inside a downtown Las Vegas courtroom. Cradling a colorful stack of papers, she braced for what seemed inevitable. A hearing officer would soon decide whether to evict the 31-year-old and her four children from their apartment. Outside, in the family’s silver minivan, her mother watched two of her babies as Harris flipped through the pages of eviction notices, maintenance requests and paystubs documenting the most recent months of her tenancy. Things had started falling apart in October, when, overwhelmed by anxiety and depression, Harris found simple tasks, like combing her hair, to be insurmountable. Feeling broken, she took three months of unpaid leave…

“NOT GUILTY.” —Former President Donald Trump at his arraignment on 34 felony counts “The concept of beauty needs to evolve and include diverse and inclusive faces and forms.” —VOGUE PHILIPPINES EDITOR BEA VALDES ON FEATURING 106-YEAR-OLD TATTOO ARTIST MARIA OGGAY ON ITS COVER “All four astronauts will represent the best of humanity as they explore for the benefit of all.” —JOHNSON SPACE CENTER DIRECTOR VANESSA WYCHE ON THE CREW OF NASA’S NEXT MOON MISSION “When I was a child, I asked my Dad what did you want to be when you grew up? He simply said, ‘I wanted to be a man.’” —ACTOR MARLON WAYANS ON HIS LATE FATHER “KIDS ARE BORN DIGITAL, THEY’RE DIGITAL KIDS NOW.” —Apple CEO Tim Cook “My mom wants me to wear it, so I’ll…

Culture PARTING SHOT CHARACTERIZING KERI RUSSELL’S NEW SHOW THE DIPLOMAT (NETFLIX, April 20) is difficult, but that’s part of its charm. “The drama of politics, the absurdity of that kind of politics, the pomp and circumstance mixed in with a complicated marriage.” Sounds intense, but in fact “it’s a bit saucy.” Russell plays Kate Wyler, a career diplomat “plucked from the Middle East to go and host tea parties and talk to stylists” as the new U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom amid an international crisis. The tone of the show blends high-stakes drama with the humor of being a fish out of water, which is “part of the joke and the fun.” The seamless blend in tone is credited to the show’s creator, Debora Cahn. “I don’t think…