As anti-Olympic protestors gathered and select personnel streamed into an otherwise fan-less stadium for the opening ceremony, Japan took one step closer to the official start of the Tokyo Olympic Games.
Day: July 23, 2021
The opening ceremony for Tokyo 2020 will get underway at 7 a.m. ET, and promises to be a more subdued affair compared to years past as these Games open amid an ongoing global pandemic.
Deepfake technology — the use of algorithms to create realistic copies of people in video, audio, or photography — is once again in the spotlight. That’s after Morgan Neville’s documentary Roadrunner used the technology to copy the voice of the late Anthony Bourdain. MIT Technology Review’s senior A.I. editor, Karen Hao, breaks down the risks for how we perceive our reality.
For Canadian athletes in Tokyo, the focus is finally shifting to the field of the play. After a year-long delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic, most Canadian athletes will begin their Tokyo 2020 competition after the Olympic flame is lit on Friday night in Japan.
Team Canada’s chief medical officer says no members of Canada’s delegation in Japan has tested positive for COVID-19, just hours away from the Olympics opening ceremony.