Deepfake Videos Are Getting Real and That’s a Problem | Moving Upstream
Computer-generated videos are getting more realistic and even harder to detect thanks to deep learning and artificial intelligence. As WSJ’s Jason Bellini finds in this episode of Moving Upstream, these so-called deepfakes can be playful, but can also have real, damaging consequences for people’s lives.
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October 15, 2018
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Markets Analysis: Three Reasons the Fed Is Raising Interest Rates
President Trump has put the Federal Reserve at the middle of the latest drop in the markets, saying the "Fed has gone crazy." WSJ global economics editor Jon Hilsenrath explores three reasons why the Fed is raising interest rates. Photo: Getty Images.
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October 12, 2018
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How China's Rich and Famous Disappear
A film star, the head of Interpol and one of China's wealthiest investors have gone missing after apparently falling afoul of the Communist Party. The message to Chinese citizens is clear: No matter who you are, the party can get you. Photo composite: Crystal Tai
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October 12, 2018
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What We Know About the Missing Saudi Journalist Jamal Khashoggi
Turkish officials say a team of alleged Saudi assassins apprehended and likely killed a Saudi journalist in Istanbul. The Saudis have denied any involvement but Jamal Khashoggi has not been seen since he entered the Saudi Consulate on Oct.2. Photo: Getty Images
October 11, 2018
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What's Google+ and How Do I Know if I Have an Account
Google is shutting down the consumer version of its Google Plus social network after the WSJ revealed it had exposed the data of hundreds of thousands of users. Here's how to check if you have an account and what to do about it.
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October 11, 2018
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Where Will Nikki Haley Go From Here?
Nikki Haley will leave her United Nations post at the end of the year. The WSJ's Gerald F. Seib explains what might come next for the United States Ambassador to the United Nations. Photo: AP
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October 10, 2018
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Indonesia Liquefaction: 'The Ground Was Swirling'
“Even us who experienced it find it hard to believe," recounted a victim of liquefaction, a phenomenon that was triggered by the recent earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia. WSJ reporters investigated on the ground. Photo: Reuters
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October 10, 2018
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Brazil's Election: Who Is First-Round Winner Jair Bolsonaro?
Paratrooper-turned-politician Jair Bolsonaro won the first round of Brazil's election. His statements on dictatorship, torture, women and gay people make him a divisive candidate for the presidency. Photo: Getty
October 08, 2018
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Turn Your Phone Into a Universal Remote
The best remote control you have is the one in your pocket. As long as you have the right apps—and you'll need a lot of them—you can control almost everything on your TV right from your iPhone or Android smartphone. WSJ's David Pierce shows you how to set it all up. Photo/Video: Emily Prapuolenis/The Wall Street Journal
October 08, 2018
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Sen. Susan Collins Will Vote to Confirm Judge Kavanaugh
Sen. Susan Collins of Maine announced she will vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, giving him the support needed to win the lifetime appointment. In her speech to the Senate, she defended Judge Kavanaugh while acknowledging Christine Blasey Ford's "sincere, painful and compelling" testimony and the legitimacy of the "#metoo" movement. Photo: AP
October 05, 2018
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This Gene-Edited Calf Could Transform Brazil's Beef Industry | Moving Upstream
Gene-edited beef could be coming to dinner plates around the globe. In this episode of Moving Upstream, WSJ's Jason Bellini travels to Brazil to meet the world's first cow that’s been engineered for warmer climates.
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October 04, 2018
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Apple Watch Series 4 Fall Detection Tested By a Hollywood Stunt Double
The newest watch can detect hard falls and alert emergency contacts. WSJ’s Joanna Stern enlisted a pro to trip, slip and flip through some serious testing. Don’t try this at home.
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October 03, 2018
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WSJCoin: To Understand Cryptocurrencies, We Created One
In an original WSJ documentary, markets reporter Steven Russolillo ventures to Japan and Hong Kong to explore the universe of cryptocurrencies. His mission: create WSJCoin, a virtual token that could save the newspaper industry -- or not.
October 03, 2018
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How to Spend Money on Politics Like a Billionaire
The 2018 midterm elections are here, and wealthy donors are spending millions on U.S. politics. How are they able to give so much? We help Marcy, a made-up donor, navigate campaign finance laws to spend $5 million. Illustration: Heather Seidel/The Wall Street Journal
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October 02, 2018
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The Race to Replace Your Keyboard
QWERTY keyboards have been around for over a century, but a new era in tech needs a new kind of input. WSJ’s David Pierce tries out the keyboards of the future. Photo/Video: James Pace-Cornsilk for The Wall Street Journal
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October 01, 2018
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How Kavanaugh's Confirmation Process Might Impact Future Confirmations
The Kavanaugh nomination process has seen a lot of dramatic turns. The WSJ's Gerald F. Seib explains how the current tumult might affect confirmation processes in the future. Photo: Getty
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September 28, 2018
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Key Moments From the Ford-Kavanaugh Hearing
Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused him of sexual assault, Thursday testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Here are some key moments. Photo: Getty Images.
September 27, 2018
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Who Is Rachel Mitchell, the Prosecutor Tapped for Kavanaugh Hearing?
At Thursday's hearing, veteran sex-crimes prosecutor Rachel Mitchell will question Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who has accused him of trying to rape her when they were teenagers. Here's what you need to know. Jack Kurtz/Associated Press
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September 27, 2018
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Big in China: Tiny Electric Cars
Small, slow and super cheap: China's low-speed electric vehicles, or LSEVs, are bringing the thrill of driving to the masses—and hampering the government's efforts to develop an upscale EV industry. Image: Crystal Tai
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September 26, 2018
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LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman: How I Work
LinkedIn's co-founder Reid Hoffman talks to The Wall Street Journal about the best way to run a meeting, his biggest business challenge, and which of the "PayPal Mafia" would win at Settlers of Catan. Photo: Chloe Aftel for The Wall Street Journal
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September 26, 2018
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For more than 40 years, @nikoninstruments has sponsored an annual competition that aims to elevate the world of microscopic photography to an art form.⠀
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1) A portrait of Sternochetus mangiferae, a mango seed weevil. The image was taken by Pia Scanlon of the Government of Western Australia's Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development.
2) A fern sorus, which produces and contains spores. These are usually on the underside of a fern frond. The photo was taken by Rogelio Moreno using ultraviolet light.⠀
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4) Crystals of amino acids, magnified four times in an image taken by Justin Zoll, are the building blocks of proteins.⠀
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What's it like to tour America in an RV that's basically a five-star hotel?⠀
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For affluent and adventurous retirees (and soon-to-be retirees), hitting the road in luxury motorhomes provides plenty of comforts—from full kitchens and entertainment centers to fireplaces.⠀
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In the world of motorhomes, Class A models that measure 40 to 45 feet are among the most lavish. New, fully loaded Class As off the lot start at about $250,000, and customized coaches can reach $3 million.⠀
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Consumers between 55 and 74 years old are the sweet spot for the RV industry, and manufacturers are already seeing a baby-boomer bump in sales. A record 504,600 recreational vehicles were shipped to dealerships last year, a 17.2% increase from 2016.⠀
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Hurricane Michael roared ashore Wednesday as one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the U.S., toppling houses, trees and power lines in its path through the Florida Panhandle.⠀
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Packing maximum sustained winds of 155 miles an hour, Michael ranked as the strongest storm to hit the Panhandle since at least 1851, when record-keeping began, according to the National Hurricane Center.⠀
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The storm's remnants began plowing into South Carolina early Thursday after killing at least two people and knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of people.⠀
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What do punk rock, a beer keg and a Ford Model T have in common? This 1927 T bucket roadster, owned by @Gearhead_Brand CEO Michelle Haunold Lorenz and her tattoo-artist husband Bill Lorenz of @sacramentotattoo.⠀
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The Elk Grove, Calif., couple's souped-up ride—which boasts a a beer keg for a gas tank and a Jack Daniel's bottle for radiator overflow—marks an intersection of the punk rock and hot-rodding movements, which came about in the same way, Ms. Haunold Lorenz explains.⠀
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The interior is lined with old license plates, the steering wheel was taken off of a hatch door from a ship, and anywhere Mr. Lorenz could put a skull, they did.⠀
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The couple calls the car Lydia, after a punk-rock musician who Mr. Lorenz had a crush on when he was a teenager. When they cruise, they often take one or two of their corgis with them—as long they bring a bag of hot dogs to keep them calm.⠀
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More than once, police have pulled us over, says Ms. Haunold Lorenz. But they just want to talk about the car. We have not gotten any tickets yet.⠀
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A glut of timber has piled up in the Southeast. There are far more ready-to-cut trees than the region’s mills can saw or pulp. The surplus has crushed timber prices in Mississippi, Alabama and several other states.⠀
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How did this happen? At the depths of the 1980s farm crisis, the Reagan administration offered farmers annual payments for each acre they planted with trees or grasses through the Conservation Reserve Program. By 1994, more than 2.2 million acres of farmland in the South had been converted to pine plantation. ⠀
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Timber, meanwhile, gained popularity as an investment idea. People reasoned that trees would grow, and thus gain value, no matter what the stock market did.⠀
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We figured we’d plant trees and come back and harvest it in 30 years and in the meantime go into town to make a living doing something else, says Clayton George, who planted loblolly pine on his Mississippi farmland in the 1980s, seen above.⠀
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Timber has also been a big loser for some financial investors, among them the country’s largest pension fund. @CalPERS spent more than $2 billion on Southern timberland, and harvested trees at depressed prices to pay interest on money borrowed to buy. Calpers sold much of its land this summer at a loss. ⠀
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President Trump on Monday held a ceremonial swearing-in for new Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, where the president apologized to him for a fraught confirmation process in which he faced multiple allegations of sexual misconduct and assault.⠀
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“I want to apologize to Brett and the entire Kavanaugh family for the pain and suffering you have been forced to endure,” Mr. Trump said. “You, sir, under historic scrutiny, were proven innocent.”⠀
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Justice Kavanaugh, in remarks after taking the judicial oath, called the Senate confirmation process “contentious and emotional” but said he takes the office “with gratitude, and no bitterness. He also thanked Mr. Trump for his “steadfast” and “unwavering” support during the confirmation process.⠀
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The collapse of @ToysRus has its rivals fighting over billions of dollars in holiday toy sales now up for grabs, and is also likely to make it harder for last-minute shoppers to get their hands on some of the year’s hottest items.⠀
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@Walmart, @Target and other chains are setting aside more floor space for toys in hundreds of their stores. @PartyCity, a chain that usually operates Halloween pop-up shops, is opening dozens of temporary Toy City stores. Even @Amazon is planning to distribute toy catalogs to shoppers visiting its @WholeFoods stores, according to toy manufacturers.⠀
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While other general retailers are looking to increase their toy sales, no store can completely replace Toys R Us in providing the broad selection of toys and reliable supply of hot products on shelves in the days before Christmas, said toy makers and analysts.⠀
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This year more than ever, getting the right toys in the right stores at the right quantities at the right time is going to be the game, @Mattel Chief Commercial Officer Steve Totzke said. The companies that do it best—the manufacturers and retailers—are going to win the season.⠀
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@sensusancollins of Maine will deliver the key 50th vote for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, ensuring he will have enough support to get confirmed this weekend.
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The vote from Sen. Collins, the last undecided Republican senator, means that @senlisamurkowski of Alaska is expected to be the sole Republican to oppose him. I believe he is a good man, Sen. Murkowski said Friday, but in my view, he's not the best man for the court at this time. ⠀
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@joemanchin, a West Virginia Democrat facing a tough re-election, will be the only Democrat to vote yes. That leaves the nominee with a 51-49 advantage.⠀
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At these multimillion-dollar campus homes, the housing is free.⠀
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One of the most lucrative perks of becoming a college or university leader in the U.S. is living gratis in luxury residences that also double as social hubs for the schools.⠀
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During their time in charge—an average of 6.5 years as of 2016—many presidents get to live in some of the grandest and most historic properties in the country. And for many, the value of their free accommodations is not taxed as income.⠀
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I've already penned a letter to my successor, said Jonathan Brand, president of Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa. 'Get ready. We're not leaving.'⠀
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In the fierce competition for seats in gifted programs at New York City public schools, some parents of 3- and 4-year-olds pay up to $400 an hour for months of tutoring for the test that determines admission.⠀
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This is the Olympics of kindergarten admissions in New York City, said the founder of one tutoring service, which charges $100 to $400 an hour for private sessions, with some tutors boasting doctorates in child psychology.⠀
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Many customers see gifted programs in elementary grades as more challenging and orderly than the regular offerings in their neighborhood schools. But critics of the admissions process say it unjustly favors savvy families with the resources to pay for test prep, exacerbating inequities in public schools from an early age.⠀
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Growing up, Jeni Yeakel-Swanson's father, Fred Yeakel, raced a 1957 Corvette. She would go to races with him, and he taught her all about how the car worked. When she was old enough, she started driving on the racetrack as well. ⠀
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In 2007, Jeni's father found the 1964 Corvette pictured above in an ad in @vintagemotorsportmag. It was painted red at the time, and the owner had it in storage outside Milwaukee. When they bought the car, it came with documentation on its history as a race car in the 1960s. ⠀
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Using old photos, Jeni's father restored the Corvette to its former glory, and she became its primary driver. Her name is painted on the car next to the original sponsor from the 1960s—Tero Corvette of Rolling Meadows, Ill.⠀
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The two started going to races up and down the West Coast, from San Diego to Portland, Ore. Jeni and her father trailered their cars together, had their pits side by side, and sometimes even raced against one another. Along the way, a family friend gave the Corvette its nickname: Nuclear Carrot. ⠀
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Last year, under her father's supervision, Jeni, a real-estate lawyer in San Diego, rebuilt the 327 V8, along with new rods, pistons—the works. Their next race will be at Sonoma Raceway in the spring. To get the car ready, she will drive from San Diego on Saturdays to Anaheim, where the car resides. Sometimes her husband, daughter and best friend, Leslie Verfaillie, will come, and her father will be there. ⠀
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I love to race and I love working on this car, but what I love most is doing those things with my family, says Jeni.⠀
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Storms are getting deadlier and causing more damage as more Americans live on the coasts. Since 1980, the U.S. has had 40 hurricanes identified as billion-dollar disasters, using 2018 inflation-adjusted dollars, with a cumulative damage estimate of $862 billion, according to @NOAA's U.S. Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters analysis. ⠀
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Hurricanes Harvey, Maria and Irma in 2017 combined to cost $268 billion, 31% of the damage since 1980, making it the most expensive year in 38 seasons. ⠀
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Relatively weak storms are among the costliest, as wind strength isn’t the only factor that determines how damaging a storm will be. Florence made landfall in the Carolinas over the summer as a Category 1 hurricane, but the devastating effect of Florence, like Harvey in 2017, was primarily related to flooding.⠀
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Another important factor contributing to increasing damage is the slowing speed of North Atlantic hurricanes as they cross over land. These weather systems have slowed by 17% from 1949 to 2016, says Jim Kossin, atmospheric scientist at NOAA. All things being equal, if you slow a storm’s forward speed by 17%, you will increase the rain in the area by 17%, resulting in substantially more freshwater flooding, he says.⠀
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