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Deepfake is an AI-based technique which allows users to combine and superimpose images onto others via a machine learning system called a generative adversarial network. YouTuber “Ctrl-Shift Face” is notorious for creating entertaining videos in which he swaps the faces…
Cosmic rays reach our planet Earth, crashing into the atoms in the upper layers of the atmosphere, causing them to burst further, with particles from the explosion triggering a snowballing chain reaction that even goes through human bodies. Cosmic rays…
Elon Musk’s aerospace company, SpaceX, on Thursday launched the first flight of its Starhopper rocket, a prototype of its next-generation launch system, intended to be used to carry passenger flights to the moon and Mars within the next half-decade. The…
This story is part of a group of stories called Uncovering and explaining how our digital world is changing — and changing us. The Reddit community /r/The_Donald is a perpetual online rally in support of President Trump, but last month,…
A new Marist poll testing the popularity of a bunch of progressive ideas leads to a slightly tedious truth: Some are popular and some are not popular, and there’s not much of a pattern determining which are which. The latest…
Universal basic income. A 15-hour workweek. Open borders. These ideas may strike you as wild, fantastical, maybe even utopian. But that’s exactly the point. Imagining utopia, writes Dutch historian Rutger Bregman, “isn’t an attempt to predict the future. It’s an…
