Deepfake-generating camera can undress people automatically - Fast Company

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“Nuca is a new deepfake camera and art project that shows how AI can undermine reality and privacy—by "nudifying" its subjects.”

PFAS Is an Almost Impossible Problem to Tackle—and It's Probably in Your Food - Inside Climate News

Via: Hal A. Lujah  •  News & Politics  •  2 Comments  •  2 Likes  •  3 weeks ago

“That's why a watchdog group and five Texas farmers have filed a petition to take the EPA to court for allegedly failing to protect the public from...”

Pastor Under Fire For Claiming Women In Shorts Deserve To Be Assaulted

Via: Hal A. Lujah  •  News & Politics  •  7 Comments  •  2 Likes  •  2 months ago

““If you dress like that and you get raped, and I’m on the jury, he’s going to go free,” Leonard said, adding later, “I’m right, you know, because a...”

A pastor in North Carolina has apologized for remarks he made during a sermon where he said women’s clothing choices are responsible for sexual assault. During a sermon recorded last August that recently went viral, the Rev. Bobby Leonard of Bible Baptist Tabernacle in Monroe, N.C., said...

Synthetic antibody could be key to a universal antivenom

Via: Hal A. Lujah  •  News & Politics  •  4 Comments  •  3 Likes  •  2 months ago

“A universal snake-bite antivenom is within reach, with scientists making an antibody that protects against lethal strikes from a range of elapids....”

Bill Maher Axed Kanye West Podcast Interview Due to Antisemitism

Via: Hal A. Lujah  •  News & Politics  •  4 Comments  •  5 Likes  •  2 months ago

“"The problem, I think, is that he appeals mostly — of course he's a rock star — to young people. They don't know much and they surely don't know...”

AI-generated news anchors show off superhuman abilities

Via: Hal A. Lujah  •  News & Politics  •  11 Comments  •  4 Likes  •  4 months ago

“There's a new global news network launching in 2024 which completely ditches humans for AI-generated newsreaders - and they're showing off some...”

Moms for Liberty Official Is Registered Sex Offender

Via: Hal A. Lujah  •  News & Politics  •  2 Comments  •  5 months ago

“Phillip Fisher Jr., who works with the Philadelphia chapter, once pleaded guilty to aggravated sexual abuse of a minor boy, but he still claims...”

Man dies after eating raw octopus that was still moving and got stuck in his throat

Via: Hal A. Lujah  •  News & Politics  •  39 Comments  •  5 Likes  •  6 months ago

“The 82 year old man, passed away choking on a piece of octopus, known as san-nakji, with its tentacles still moving in the southern city of...”

Pictorial: Nissan's "Urban EV GoKart" 20-30 Concept

Via: Hal A. Lujah  •  Health, Science & Technology  •  11 Comments  •  6 Likes  •  7 months ago

“Today EVs represent 16% of Nissan's total sales in Europe, part of a total electrified sales mix of 50%, which in the coming three years is...”

Nissan has released the first imagery of its 20-30 Concept, a sporty Micra-sized EV with bold sports styling. The plan is that by 2028, Nissan EVs will have solid-state batteries, reducing the cost of electrical energy storage by 65%, and enabling pocket rocket hot hatches just like this. While...

Inventor ponders ethics of wiring human brain tissue into computers

Via: Hal A. Lujah  •  Health, Science & Technology  •  23 Comments  •  5 Likes  •  7 months ago

“Cortical Labs is an Australian company doing some mind-boggling work integrating human brain tissue, grown from stem cells, into silicon...”