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October 19, 2021, by
Issue #34 – Playing With Reality

Book Real Fake, TikTok Tics, Future Wake, Voice Clone Steals 35 Million Dollars and Amplified Propaganda

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October 12, 2021, by
Issue #33 – Playing With Reality

Justin Bieber Got Fooled By A Deepfake, Do We Need A Chief Metaverse Officer, Autonomous NFTs and Wearing People's Faces

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July 6, 2021, by
Issue #19 – Playing With Reality – Kroppspress, Birds Aren’t Real and the Postmodern Singularity 🚀🔮🌟

It’s official: the full title of our upcoming book is “Real Fake - Playing with Reality in the Age of Artificial Intelligence”.

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June 29, 2021, by
Issue #18 – Playing With Reality – Fandoms, Factory TikTok, Deepfakes and the Metaverse🚀🔮🌟

“Playing with Reality” is the title of our upcoming book on synthetic media and the follow-up to our 2008 book “Me the Media”. Playing with Reality is about how humans continuously manipulate reality and how new digital technology tools enable us to go one step further in this ancient game.

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June 28, 2021, by
Issue #17 – Playing With Reality – The Year of the Avatar 🚀🔮🌟

Playing with Reality is about how humans continuously manipulate reality and how new digital technology tools enable us to go one step further in this ancient game.

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June 21, 2021, by
Issue #16 – Playing With Reality – The Reality Privileged, crypto and fandoms, the future of memes, Voilá, NFTs and the Metaverse 🚀🔮🌟

Playing with Reality is about how humans continuously manipulate reality and how new digital technology tools enable us to go one step further in this ancient game.

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June 15, 2021, by
Next level data augmentation

How to create synthetic training data for computer vision with Machine Learning.

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June 7, 2021, by
Issue #14 – Playing With Reality – Is Reality Broken? 🚀🔮🌟

“Playing with Reality” is the title of our upcoming book on synthetic media and the follow-up to our 2008 book “Me the Media”. Playing with Reality is about how humans continuously manipulate reality and how new digital technology tools enable us to go one step further in this ancient game. This includes modern phenomena like...

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May 24, 2021, by
Issue #12 – Playing With Reality – The Great Online Game 🚀🔮🌟

New York Times is already talking about the YOLO FOMO LOL Economy. The big question behind this all: Are we all playing a great online game?

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May 17, 2021, by
Issue #11 – Playing With Reality – The Metaverse 🚀🔮🌟

In this week’s newsletter we look at some of the initiatives that are now happening in the metaverse.

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May 12, 2021, by
How to survive the Zombie-IoT-Apocalypse

Connected devices make our lives easier but are now turning against us. Zombie-IoT is walking around the Internet lately. Before delving deeper into its meaning, let’s look at the origin of the word Zombie.

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May 10, 2021, by
Issue #10 – Playing With Reality – The YOLO FOMO LOL Economy 🚀🔮🌟

Erin Griffith, a tech journalist, coined the term “The YOLO FOMO LOL Economy” in two of her articles. We think it perfectly describes today’s meme society. In this #10 issue you will probably experience some fear of missing out yourself.

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May 3, 2021, by
Issue #9 – Playing With Reality 🚀🔮🌟

Researchers have shown that deepfake technology can be used to manipulate satellite imagery to produce real-looking — but totally fake — overhead maps of cities.

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April 29, 2021, by
From Systems of Systems (SoS) to Models of Models (MoM)

n this blog (part of a series) you will read about the technology that we need, in order to restrain this exponential growth of test cases.

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April 26, 2021, by
Issue #8 – Playing With Reality – The New Renaissance 🚀🔮🌟

It’s the digital reincarnation of Albert Einstein, who you can ask all kinds of scientific questions.

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April 19, 2021, by
Issue #7 – Playing With Reality – Twerk Hero, Ponzi Career, Beauty Filters, Monkey Mindpong, NFT and Deepfake Porn🚀🔮🌟🤳

It’s a long newsletter this time. A lot of things have happened last week. From monkeys playing video games with their mind, to Paris Hilton promoting NFT’s, to congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez performing sexual acts in deepfake videos.

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April 12, 2021, by
Issue #6 – Playing With Reality – The Birth of the Virtual Economy 🚀🔮🌟

Sometimes the Internet makes you feel like a boomer. Why should you buy virtual clothes for your avatar?

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April 9, 2021, by
Top 5 SogetiLabs blogs from March 2021

Take a look at our most read and shared blog posts from March 2021.

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April 6, 2021, by
Playing With Reality – Issue #3 🚀🔮🌟

This week we focus on deepfake technology. For starters, the FBI warned in an alert that malicious actors “almost certainly” will be using deepfakes to advance their influence or cyber-operations in the coming weeks.

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March 31, 2021, by
Issue #5 – Playing With Reality – How Generation Z Is Changing The Way We Do Business 🚀🔮🌟

The giant container ship Ever Given that has blocked traffic in the Suez Canal for the last week, bringing a key global trade route to a standstill and capturing the world’s attention, was partially refloated as we’re writing this newsletter.

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