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Nigerian Afrobeats star Davido (David Adeleke) has demonstrated himself to be a master of showboating. He is able to milk every situation to the maximum. And he did not disappoint with the recent trailer for his fourth studio album, Timeless, released on March 31. It’s drenched with signifiers of the tragic loss of his three-year-old son in a drowning accident last year. The trailer is clear about his resolve to get over grief and dance again, and it leaves no one in doubt about his battle readiness: “If dem wan turn Goliath, I be David for life!” Davido sold his previous album, A Better Time, as a better album than the preceding A Good Time. There’s barely any suggestion, in my opinion as a scholar of Nigerian music, that this…
COMEDIAN Nick Cannon says he wants to have a baby with Taylor Swift. The 42-year-old already has 11-year-old twins Monroe and Moroccan with ex-wife Mariah Carey; Powerful Queen, 2, and six-month-old Rise with Brittany Bell; 20-month-old twins Zion and Zillion and five-month-old Beautiful Zeppelin with Abby De La Rosa; Legendary Love, seven months, with Bre Tiesi; Onyx Ice, six months, with LaNisha Cole; and most recently welcomed Halo Marie with Alyssa Scott in December, one year on from losing their son Zen to brain cancer. Now, The Masked Singer host has admitted he would like to welcome a child with country superstar Swift, 33, because he thinks they would “relate” to each other. Asked by host Howard Stern on The Howard Stern Show if he would like to have a…
Eric Dane has joined the cast of Bad Boys 4. The Euphoria actor is set to play a villain in the latest instalment of the buddy cop franchise. Dane plays Cal Jacobs in the teen drama series and also had a part in the TV show Grey’s Anatomy. Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are reprising their roles as detectives Marcus Burnett and Mike Lowrey, respectively, while Vanessa Hudgens, Paola Nunez and Alexander Ludwig are all returning after featuring in the 2020 film Bad Boys for Life. The plot is being kept under wraps, but Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah will be behind the camera again, directing from a script by Chris Bremner. Lawrence revealed last year that he was confident that another movie would materialise after the success of…
Television writer Lee Sung Jin had only briefly stalled at a green light when the person behind him began to honk aggressively. As Lee jolted alert, a white BMW SUV pulled up beside him. The driver rolled down his window, screamed some choice words and drove away. Ordinarily, Lee might have brushed off the incident. But he and the BMW both turned out to be taking the same exit in Santa Monica, California. It occurred to Lee that, by simply going home, he was now following the angry driver. He wasn’t doing it on purpose. But what if he had been? He began to wonder about the sorts of assumptions we project onto others: What compelled the driver to blow up at him? Did Lee seem to be a more…
Artificial intelligence, metaverse, and algorithm are all terms that most of us have heard but might not fully understand. I had a conversation with my 19-year-old son about artificial intelligence (AI) and what it all means and found myself utterly blown away, yet still somewhat baffled, by how it will impact, and in some cases already is impacting various industries. So what is AI? According to Wikipedia artificial intelligence is intelligence demonstrated by machines, as opposed to the intelligence of humans. AI uses techniques like machine learning, deep learning, and natural language processing to enable machines to learn from experience, adapt to new situations, and improve on their own. You’re probably wondering what this futuristic-sounding technology has to do with the fashion industry. While many think fashion is simply about…
A real-time special effect has flooded TikTok in recent weeks, chiselling chins, plumping lips and serving Kardashian-style make-up contours for anyone with a smartphone. While it’s being touted as a remarkably convincing beauty filter, AI researchers say the effect leaves no clues to its presence, giving it unprecedented capacity to manipulate people inside and outside an app that has elicited scrutiny from governments around the world. Bold Glamour, which has been downloaded more than 16 million times since its release in February, offers one of the most convincing effects that any person with a smartphone can use to create an enhanced version or avatar of themselves in real-time, says independent filter creators, researchers and creative technologists. Unlike other photo filters, Bold Glamour doesn’t falter when there’s too much motion or…
