Category: English
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How Archivists Could Stop Deepfakes From Rewriting History
Graphic: Jim Cooke (Photo: Getty) History is rife with fakes. In 1983, the German magazine Stern announced that it had acquired previously undocumented diaries written by Hitler, a find British historian Hugh Trevor-Roper initially heralded as “an archive of great historical significance.” In reality, however, an illustrator named Konrad Kujau had penned the volumes himself.…
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Something Bricked Twitter’s Notifications System
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People Still Weird About the Flu Shot
Photo: Darron Cummings (AP) While the flu is no picnic for anyone, it can be especially risky and sometimes deadly for young children. But a new survey suggests many people still avoid the flu shot because of misconceptions about how it works, including that the vaccine actually can give you the flu. The nationally representative…
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FCC Butts Heads With Wireless Carriers Over Hurricane Michael Response
A dog with the Maryland Task Force urban search and rescue team searches for victims of Hurricane Michael on October 16, 2018 in Mexico Beach, Florida. Photo: Getty The head of the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday slammed wireless carriers over what he described as unsuitably slow progress in restoring communications in the aftermath of…
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Google, Burned by $5 Billion Fine, Tells Europe That Phone Makers Will Have to Pay to Preload Apps
Photo: AP In response to the record-setting $5 billion fine recently levied against Google by the European Union, the search giant is making some changes. On Tuesday, it announced that manufacturers will soon have to pay a licensing fee to ship devices into the European Economic Area (EEA) with Google apps pre-installed. Google’s Android operating…
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A Man’s Love of Squirrel Meat Might Have Given Him a Horrifying, Fatal Brain Disease
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Flagship smartphone Huawei Mate Mate 20 and 20 Pro officially presented
Huawei unveiled today at an event in London a new generation of its flagship smartphone Mate Mate 20 and 20 Pro (review). They boast a triple Leica and other innovations. Smartphone Huawei Mate is equipped with a 6.53 20-inch TFT display with a resolution of Full HD (1080 x 2244 pixels) and a keyhole, while…
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Fujifilm offers a camera for 309 thousand rubles
Fujifilm has revealed details of the release on the Russian market of high-end mirrorless medium format camera Fujifilm GFX 50R. The new design of the camera resembles a rangefinder camera, but a rangefinder it is not. The model is lightweight for its class — 775 grams. The camera has a large sensor with a resolution…
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The new flagship Xiaomi will get 10 GB of RAM and support for 5G
Donovan sun (Donovan Sung), Director of product and marketing, Xiaomi, has published in his Twitter account a new teaser. He hints that next flagship, the Xiaomi Mi 3 Mix, will support cellular communication of the fifth generation, and 10 GB of RAM. Earlier, Xiaomi had announced the date of the announcement of its flagship smartphone-slider…
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Four-legged Boston Dynamics robot dances better than you
The company Boston Dynamics, known for their funny two-legged and four-legged robots, held a new demonstration of the robot-dog Spot Mini. In a new video four-legged Spot Mini dances better than many people. Music Bruno Mars Uptown Funk robot demonstrates the wonders of dance skills in various styles, including the “moonwalk” and twerk. Boston Dynamics…