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We tried AI headshot generators to see if you should use them

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Imagine your perfect headshot. The blotches on your face, gone. Dark circles under your eyes? None here. Your hair falls perfectly into place, your smile conveys just the right sentiment, and your threads are sleek and sophisticated. Let’s say you could get this headshot with a click of a button. But there’s one catch: The photo is not really you, and that moment — the clothes, the hair, the smile — never really happened. Read More...

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This ought to tell you something about the twisty, illogical, and unpredictable nature of the film business. Seth Grahame-Smith, co-author, along with Jane Austen — yes, long-dead British Jane Austen, the one and the same — of “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” actually wrote “Zombies” long before he wrote “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.” Oh yes — he’s responsible for that bit of literary gold as well. Since “Abraham Lincoln” was published, it was optioned and adapted into a movie starring Benjamin Walker as the union-preserving, vampire-conquering 16th president of these United States. Read More...

In pictures: Mammoths of the ice age

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Image caption, Unlike dinosaurs and other prehistoric mammals, mastodons and mammoths lived side by side with humans for thousands of years. The last mammoths survived on the remote Wrangel Island in the Arctic Sea until just 4,000 years ago. Mammoths and mastodons proved to be a source of food for early people as well as artistic inspiration. This depiction of a mammoth, painted on the walls of Rouffignac cave in France, dates back 15,000 to 20,000 years ago. Read More...