Conversational AI tools such as ChatGPT and Google Gemini are now being used to create deepfakes that do not swap faces, but in more subtle ways can rewrite the whole story inside an image. By changing gestures, props and backgrounds, these edits…
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780,000 galaxies revealed in JWST’s largest science operation
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Worm towers are all around us
Biologists estimate that four out of five animals on Earth are nematodes (AKA…
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A Spiking Neural Network Chip for Smarter AI Sensors
By mimicking the way the brain operates, neuromorphic processors can expend dramatically less energy than conventional technology for certain applications. Now, Dutch firm Innatera has launched what it calls the world’s first commercially…
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Scientists perplexed to find chimpanzees can ‘catch’ yawns – even from robots
Chimpanzees can “catch” yawns from an android robot imitating human facial expressions,…
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Strange signals are reaching us from a dead galaxy. Here’s what we know…
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are among the greatest cosmic enigmas of our time. First discovered in 2007, these fleeting flashes of radio waves have been puzzling astronomers ever since.
Despite detecting thousands of them, we still don’t know…
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A Neuromorphic Chip for Smarter AI Sensors
By mimicking the way the brain operates, neuromorphic processors can expend dramatically less energy than conventional technology for certain applications. Now, the Dutch firm Innatera has launched what it calls the world’s first commercially…
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Methods to recognize the Amazon’s isolated peoples: Interview with Antenor Vaz
- Mongabay interviewed Antenor Vaz, an international expert on recognition methodologies and protection policies for Indigenous peoples in isolation and initial contact (PIACI), about the importance of confirming and…
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Climate strikes the Amazon, undermining protection efforts
Fires raged across the Amazon rainforest, annihilating more than 4.6 million hectares of primary tropical forest—the most biodiverse and carbon-dense type of forest on Earth….
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