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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: As you're hunting through real estate listings for a new home in Franklin, Tennessee, you come across a vertical video showing off expansive rooms featuring a four-poster bed, a fully stocked wine cellar, and a soaking tub. In the corner of the video, a smiling real estate agent narrates the walk-through of your dream home in a soothing tone. It looks perfect -- maybe a little too perfect. The catch? Everything in the video isAI-generated. The real property is completely empty, and the luxury furniture is a product of virtual staging. The realtor's voice-over and expressions were born from text prompts. Even the camera's slow pan over each room is orchestrated by AI, because there was no actual video camera involved. Any real estate agent can create "exactly that, at home, in minutes," says Alok Gupta, a former product manager at Facebook and software engineer at Snapchat who cofounded AutoReel, an app that allows realtors to turn images from their property listings into videos. He said that between 500 and 1,000 new listing videos are being created with AutoReel every day, with realtors across the US and even in New Zealand and India using the technology to market thousands of properties. This is one of many AI tools, including more familiar ones like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini, that are quickly reshaping the real estate industry into something that isn't necessarily, well, real. "People that want to buy a house, they're going to make the largest investment of their lifetime," said Nathan Cool, a real estate photographer who runs an educational YouTube channel. "They don't want to be fooled before they ever arrive."

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The Brooklyn native became a household name with her winning upbeat songs that teenagers knew all the lyrics to by heart. She went on to star on Broadway.

Nicholas Prest, 71, and Anthea Prest, 70, have walked free after Paul Marsden, 47, died at Pilstone House in Llandogo, Monmouthshire, on April 24, 2020.

Building steady 15 minute walks into your day could help slash the risk of heart disease and even an early death, a study has suggested.

The crash which took place at Highcliffe Care Home, Sunderland, on July 10 contributed to the death of two elderly residents and hospitalized eight people after a ceiling collapsed.

Bionca Ellis, 34, was told she would never be eligible for parole at her sentencing in Cleveland, Ohio, on Monday for the June 2, 2024, murder of Julian Wood.

The former EastEnders star, 49, looked effortlessly chic in a white Primark cardigan which featured a stylish black knit trim while out with her pet dog in East Molesey.

The anti-monarchy protester - from the campaign group Republic - shouted questions about the Prince and convicted sex trafficker Epstein as the King visited Lichfield Cathedral in Staffordshire.

Tyler Robinson, 22, is accused of murdering conservative commentator Charlie Kirk. He spoke off-camera during his hearing on Monday.

Maria Whitefield had been travelling to a hospital appointment on October 17 but found herself in a 20-minute standoff with two passengers.

An anonymous reader shares a column: As the AI boom develops, consultants are in a tricky spot. The pandemic, inflation and economic uncertainty have encouraged many of their big clients to tighten expenditure. The U.S. government, one of the biggest spenders, has been cancelling multiple billion-dollar contracts in an effort to conserve cash. In March, 10 of the largest consultants including Deloitte, Accenture, Booz Allen Hamilton, IBM and Guidehouse were targeted by the Department of Government Efficiency to justify their fees. As a result, the largest listed players' shares have collapsed by up to 30% in the past two years, against the S&P 500's 50% jump. AI is, in some respects, a boon. In September, Accenture said it had helped it cut 11,000 jobs, and CEO Julie Sweet is set to augment that with staff that cannot be retrained. Salesforce recently laid off 4000 customer support workers. Microsoft has halted hiring in its consulting business. Unfortunately, big clients are cottoning on to the advantages too. One finance chief of a large UK company outlined the issue for Breakingviews via an illustrative example. Say an outsourced project costs the client $1 million to do themselves, and Accenture and the like have historically been able to do the same job for $200,000. With the advent of machine learning, companies can do the same work for just $10,000. This gives clients considerable leverage. If consultants won't lower their prices to near the relevant level, the client can find one who will. Or just do the job itself.

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A man who lost half of his face when a drunk driver collided with him as he cycled with friends has been given a confidence boosting lifeline - a 3D printed prosthetic.

How many 1080p screens can you fit on a pinhead? These German physicists reckon about one

Micro-OLED displays with 1080p (1920x1080) resolution have been around for a few years now, but a group of German researchers has taken things to the next level. They've engineered an OLED pixel so small that an entire 1080p display could fit into a single square millimeter, potentially changing the game for wearable displays.…

Employees are using AI to generate fake expense receipts. Leading expense software platforms report a sharp increase in AI-created fraudulent documents following the launch of improved image generation models by OpenAI and Google. AppZen said fake AI receipts accounted for 14% of fraudulent documents submitted in September compared with none last year. Ramp flagged more than one million dollars in fraudulent invoices within 90 days. About 30% of financial professionals in the US and UK surveyed by Medius reported seeing a rise in falsified receipts after OpenAI released GPT-4o last year. SAP Concur processes more than 80 million compliance checks monthly and now warns customers to not trust their eyes. The receipts include wrinkles in paper, detailed itemization matching real menus and signatures. Creating fraudulent documents previously required photo editing skills or paying for such services. Free and accessible image generation software has made it possible for anyone to falsify receipts in seconds by writing simple text instructions to chatbots.

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The exact date Sean Combs will be freed from prison has been shared on the Bureau of Prison's website.

The Miami-based content creator died 'extremely suddenly' after missing a dinner date, his girlfriend Reem confirmed on social media over the weekend.

The Swedish actor passed away on Saturday from cancer, Kristina Lindstrom, who directed a documentary about his life, said, adding they had 'learned about it from his daughter'.

Strictly star Amber Davies was 'unfazed' by photos of her pro dance partner Nikita Kuzmin kissing her on the forehead, sources revealed to the Daily Mail.

Alan Carr and Paloma Faith's Celebrity Traitors feud has deepened after the comedian snubbed her pregnancy announcement. 

Council agrees plans for new skate park which will be 'real asset for the youths'