Netflix invents new green-screen filming method using magenta light
7 July 2023
A faster and more accurate method for putting footage of actors in different backgrounds allows directors to see how their shots will appear as they film them
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BBC documentary used face-swapping AI to hide protesters' identities
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Filmmakers used an AI to swap the faces of anti-government protesters in Hong Kong for those of actors to protect the protestors' identities while maintaining their facial movements and emotional expressions
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Silicon Valley, HBO's hit series about the tech industry, has real laugh-out loud moments. But it lets the bosses off lightly when it tries to skewer their dubious moments, says Chelsea Whyte in her latest TV column
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As sci-fi series The Expanse returns for a fourth season, on Amazon Prime, its authors (writing as James S.A. Corey) reveal how real physics and human frailty make for a rich world
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Streaming video services like Netflix, Apple TV+ and Disney+ are on the rise - but so are their carbon emissions
Netflix's Criminal strips police drama down to its raw psychology
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The laboratory-like setting of new Netflix show Criminal provides the perfect foil for stories that focus with clinical precision on the mind, says Chelsea Whyte
What Years and Years gets right about the future
4 June 2019
TV writer Russell T. Davies has taken inspiration from cutting-edge research to imagine the technologies that will influence our lives over the next 15 years
Netflix’s Osmosis creates a world of terror amid the high-tech love
22 May 2019
Netflix’s latest dystopian sci-fi has nanobots crawling over people’s brains to help hunt the perfect partner, writes Chelsea Whyte in her monthly TV column
