A couple of months back, Xiaomi faced a lot of criticism on the part of users due to its forced incorporation of ads in its MIUI skin. While the Chinese company suggested that it won’t remove the ads, it has now contradicted itself as it will now allow users to do so. You will be […]
With algorithmically-generated fabricated videos, otherwise called deepfakes, on the rise, Facebook is teaming up with Microsoft and seven academic institutions in the US for a Deepfake Detection Challenge. The contest — meant to develop technology for detecting deepfakes and prevent people from falling prey to misinformation — is expected to from late 2019 until spring of
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Zuck wants to help you find love (Copyright: Getty) Facebook has launched a dating service and we’re too childish not to make an obvious joke about Zuck-buddies. The social network announced the new service in a blogpost published this afternoon. It said dating will be be a ‘separate, opt-in experience’ you will have to enable.
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An illustration of the ‘starved dragon’ black hole sucking in gas and other material (Image: University of Science And Technology Of China) The awe-inspiring power of black holes is so flabbergasting it’s often hard to put into words. So we’re very glad that Chinese astronomers have issued their own startling description of these cosmic monsters.
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Would you want a computer to be able to launch nuclear weapons? In The Terminator, a computer system called Skynet tries to wipe out humanity in a nuclear holocaust. So you might think it would be a very bad idea to hand over control of our nuclear weapons to artificial intelligence. But that’s exactly what
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To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Bugatti, the luxury subdivision of Volkswagen, has just announced that one of its cars has managed to hit over 300mph on the Ehra-Lessien test track in Germany. That’s quite a feat of engineering. It means that, flat
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A view of the Hera mission’s spacecraft arriving at Didymos (Image: ESA) As much as we all go on about hating humanity, there’s little doubt we’re the best thing about Planet Earth. So it would be a dreadful shame if a whopping great space rocket smashed into our homeworld and send us into extinction. Luckily,
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The European Space Agency’s Aeolus Earth observation satellite (Image: ESA) A European Space Agency satellite narrowly dodged a collision with the SpaceX Starlink ‘constellation’ today. ESA had to perform an emergency ‘collision avoidance manoeuvre’ to stop its Aeolus Earth observation craft from smashing into one of the SpaceX satellites. The two spaceships were on the other
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IoT devices are growing in number by the day and the contemporary Wi-Fi and cellular networks aren’t efficient at sustaining the increasing number of devices. According to a study, there will be as many as 75 billion IoT devices by 2025 and we need a faster and power-efficient network to make them work. Enter researchers
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The Kalibr missile in action (Provider: Reuters) Russia has revealed the devastating destructive power of a new cruise missile capable of carrying nuclear warheads. The Black Sea Fleet’s Vyshny Volochek, a guided missile corvette ship, carried out a test of the new ‘high precision’ Kalibr missile. A sabre-rattling video of the test shows a Kalibr
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