Here’s a late Christmas gift for you, in case you don’t already own these two absolute classics. Over on the Epic Games Store ...

The recent loss of a legend like Piyush Pandey feels like a marker between two eras of advertising: one defined by instinctive human storytelling, and the emerging one defined by machine-generated ...

Fashion always reflects the zeitgeist, and the rapid development of AI is one of the main cultural conversations in 2025. Brands are deeply split on how to approach it: some are countering it by ...

AI-generated ads have flooded social media and television in the months since the release of tools like Google’s Veo 3 and OpenAI’s Sora, which can generate high-quality videos from text prompts.

Deep in the halls of the engineering school at Columbia University, professor Hod Lipson and his former student Jonathan Blutinger are reimagining how meat is made. In 2022, they developed a device ...

The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. When you arrive to view “The Uncanny Valley,” it is almost as if you are stepping ...

A lot has been written in recent years about a horror-film renaissance that doubled the category’s market share in the decade between 2013 and 2023, from 4.87% to 10.08%. Much of it has focused on the ...

Time for a bit of a throwback: do you remember the 'Creepy King' mascot from Burger King? The one with the uncanny valley face and all those bizarre commercials over the years? Well, it turns out BK ...

On this special episode of Uncanny Valley recorded in front of a live audience in San Francisco, our hosts discuss Silicon Valley's history and future. Earlier this month, we took the show to San ...