Trending in TN: Can a sound engineer replace Theresa May as UK PM\, Anurag Kashyap bets on Jagan Mohan\'s life story and Experts use deepfake technique to make ‘Mona Lisa’ talk

British PM Theresa May recently announced that she would be stepping down next month. While speculations grow over who would be the next in line, Twitterati have already set their sights on a possible candidate. It turns out that the candidate is none other than a sound engineer, who was tasked with setting up the microphones before May addressed the press. One Twitter user said, “The leader we need in these trying times. The way he set up those mics shows he has the “I’ve a job to do and do it I shall” mentality we need. #Trexit.” 

Filmmaker Anurag Kashyap finds the rise of Andhra Pradesh CM-in-waiting Jaganmohan Reddy captivating and says it could be of interest to moviegoers. In a tweet, Anurag referred to a news article tracking Jaganmohan’s life and said, “This is a brilliant film waiting to be made.” The YSR Congress chief has led his party to a near clean sweep in both LS and Assembly polls. Going by the likes that Anurag’s tweet has received, it seems that a lot of audience would want to see Jagan’s story on the big screen.

What if Leonardo Da Vinci’s famous “Mona Lisa” painting could speak? Well, experts at the Samsung AI research centre in Moscow have claimed they used deepfake techinique to create a video in which they made they Mona Lisa talk. If their claims are true, then deepfakes, which essentially refers to the morphing of video clips, could even be created with still images. This has generated a debate on Twitter, with several expressing their fear that the technology could be misused.