The flood of robocalls may soon abate due to a technology named after James Bond’s martini instructions to bartenders, an ethical debate over whether we can revive the dead’s voices to simulate what they said or wrote in life after a documentary filmmaker deep-faked Anthony Bourdain, and dropping fish from planes, Among Us in Irish, and the Hubble, rebooted.

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Links:

• robocalls-scam-fcc.html">How Do You Stop Robocalls? (New York Times)
• National Do Not Call Registry FAQs (FTC)
• Robocall Mitigation Database (FCC)
• A new Android feature tells you why someone’s calling so you know who to ignore (Input magazine)
• Caller ID Authentication May Tame the Scourge of Spam Calls (TidBITS)
• Use the AT&T Call Protect app (AT&T)
• mobile.com/customers/scam-shield">Scam Shield (T-Mobile)
• Screen and automatically block incoming spam calls for free with Call Filter (Verizon)
• An AI Bourdain Speaks From the Grave (Kottke.org)
• A Haunting New Documentary About Anthony Bourdain (The New Yorker)
• What Was Anthony Bourdain Searching For? (GQ)
• Ottavia Bourdain denying she gave approval (her Twitter account)
• Anthony Bourdain’s ex-wife says she didn’t say he’d be okay with recreating his voice for documentary (EW)
• Voice clone of Anthony Bourdain prompts synthetic media ethics questions (Tech Policy Press)
• Helen Rosner on the Bourdain deep-fake audio (Twitter)
• Fred Astaire dances with vacuums in commercials set for Super Bowl debut (AP)
• plane-utah.html">A Plane in Utah Lets the Fish Fly (New York Times)
• Utah’s Division of Wildlife Resources has released footage of an airplane dumping fish from the air into a lake (NPR’s Instagram account)
• Among Us gets an official Irish translation (The Verge)
• NASA Successfully Switches to Backup Hardware on Hubble Space Telescope (NASA)
• Orkestra Obsolete play Blue Monday using 1930s instruments (BBC Arts)
• New Order, olden style: A unique take on Blue Monday (BBC Arts)
• More Cover Songs from the Man Behind Orkestra Obsolete’s ‘Blue Monday’ (Dangerous Minds)

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