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Indicator Quiz: May Edition

It's time for The Indicator Quiz! We test you, dear listener, on your knowledge of topics that we've covered on The Indicator! Today's quiz focuses on ch-ch-changes. (That's a David Bowie reference, kids!) We're covering changes in the economy, the environment, the rental market, you get the picture. We're even tossing in a question about an AI-resurrected rapper. Play along with us and see how you do! Are you interested in being a contestant on our next Indicator Quiz? Email us your name and phone number at indicator@npr.org and put "Indicator Quiz" in the subject line.

May 30, 2024
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  • Adrian Ma,
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AI Tupac and the murky legality of digital necromancy

With a few clicks of AI software, anyone can conjure the voice or visual likeness of a dead celebrity — or really anyone. This new world has opened up a bunch of new legal questions about the rights of people and their heirs to control digital replicas of themselves. Today on the show, how a Drake diss track featuring the voice of Tupac made it into the Congressional record, and how it may lead to more regulation of AI.

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May 21, 2024
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  • Adrian Ma,
  • and 2 more
Rapper Tupac Shakur performs at the Regal Theater in Chicago, Illinois in March 1994.

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It was a classic rap beef. Then Drake revived Tupac with AI and Congress got involved

AI can conjure the voice or likeness of a dead celebrity with just a few clicks. This opens a host of legal questions about the rights of the deceased and their heirs to control their digital replicas

May 14, 2024
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  • Greg Rosalsky
Elvis Presley pictured circa 1966.

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  • Pop Culture

Just because your favorite singer is dead doesn't mean you can't see them 'live'

The upcoming immersive "Elvis Evolution" experience in London employs everything from cutting edge AI to a 200-year-old magic trick.

March 15, 2024
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  • Chloe Veltman
Duane Davis first appeared in court at the Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas on Oct. 4 on charges of murdering Tupac Shakur.

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  • Arts & Life

Suspect in Tupac Shakur's murder has pleaded not guilty

Almost 30 years after the rapper's death, Duane Davis appeared in a Las Vegas court Thursday morning. Shakur has now been dead longer than he was alive.

November 02, 2023
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By:
  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
Duane Davis, 60, appeared briefly in a Las Vegas court on Thursday. His arraignment has been delayed a second time until Nov. 2.

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  • Arts & Life

Arraignment delayed again for suspect charged with murdering Tupac Shakur

In a surprise delay, Duane "Keffe D" Davis did not enter a plea in a Las Vegas courtroom Thursday morning, because he didn't have a lawyer. Davis is expected back in court on Nov. 2.

October 20, 2023
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  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
The investigation into the murder of Tupac Shakur (on stage here in 1994) has long evaded closure. But in the last month, an arrest in connection with his shooting on Sept. 7, 1996, has brought the case back into the spotlight.

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  • Music

Can the Tupac Shakur murder trial salvage any justice from a 27-year-old case?

The arrest of Duane Davis in the 1996 shooting of the rapper in Las Vegas is a huge development in a case that has evaded closure, as competing narratives and mythologies have emerged in its place.

October 17, 2023
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By:
  • Sheldon Pearce
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  • Law

A Nevada grand jury indicts witness in killing of Tupac Shakur

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Slate staff writer Joel Anderson about the 1996 murder of rapper Tupac Shakur. This week, a suspect is due in court in Las Vegas, Nevada on a murder charge in the case.

October 02, 2023
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  • Ayesha Rascoe
Rapper Tupac Shakur attends a voter registration event in South Central Los Angeles, Aug. 15, 1996. Las Vegas police said they have made an arrest, Friday, Sept. 29, 2023, for the first time in the 1996 killing of rapper Tupac Shakur.

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Nevada grand jury indicts witness in killing of Tupac Shakur

A Nevada grand jury indicted Duane "Keffe D" Davis, one of the last living witnesses to the fatal drive-by shooting of the rapper in Las Vegas, prosecutors announced in court Friday

September 29, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Rapper Tupac Shakur, pictured here in Los Angeles in August 1996, was fatally injured in a drive-by shooting, a case that's never been solved.

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Las Vegas police investigating Tupac Shakur's 1996 murder have searched a Nevada home

A decades-long investigation into the murder of the rapper appeared to take another turn this week after Las Vegas police searched a home in Henderson, Nev.

July 20, 2023
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By:
  • Emily Olson and
  • Jonathan Franklin

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