Deepfakes are taking over TikTok — here’s how you can spot them

Jul20
by on July 20, 2022 at 2:27 pm
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One of the world’s most popular social media platforms, TikTok, is now host to a steady stream of deepfake videos. Deepfakes are videos in which a subject’s face or body has been digitally altered to make them look like someone else – usually a famous person. One notable example is the @deeptomcriuse TikTok account, which has posted dozens of deepfake videos impersonating Tom Cruise and attracted some 3.6 million followers. Deepfakes gained a lot of media attention last year, with videos impersonating Hollywood actor Tom Cruise going viral. In another example, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg seems to be confessing to…

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Engineers in Japan to build artificial gravity habitat on the Moon by 2050

Jul19
by on July 19, 2022 at 6:47 pm
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It sure looks like a lot of fun when we see videos of astronauts floating around in zero-gravity environments. But did you ever stop to think what prolonged weightlessness does to the human body? We’ll spare you the details, but suffice to say it isn’t pretty. And that means any crewed missions to the Moon, Mars, or anywhere else beyond the Earth’s gravitational field have an undeniable time limit on them. Until we solve the whole gravity problem, permanent off-world colonies are pretty much a non-starter. And, despite what a century of science fiction may have led you to believe,…

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Social media platforms score alarmingly low in LGBTQ community protection

Jul18
by on July 18, 2022 at 2:49 pm
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LGBTQ media advocacy organization GLAAD recently published its 2022 Social Media Safety Index, which claims that some of the major social media platforms are failing to safeguard users of the community. GLAAD evaluated the companies using 12 LGBTQ-specific indicators of online safety in regard to privacy, freedom of expression, and explicit protections. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, and TikTok, all scored poorly on the group’s scorecard — less than 50% out of 100%. Here are the detailed scores from highest to lowest: Instagram: 48.38% Facebook: 46.3% YouTube: 45.11% Twitter: 44.7% TikTok: 42.51% Among the most alarming concerns pinpointed by the report…

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