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Image: University at Albany, SUNY The rate at which deepfake videos are advancing is both impressive and deeply unsettling. But researchers have described a new method for detecting a “telltale sign” of these manipulated videos, which map one person’s face onto the body of another. It’s a flaw even the average person would notice: a…

Photo: Jeff Chiu (AP) Elizabeth Holmes and Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, the former key executives of blood-testing startup Theranos, have been indicted by a grand jury on nine counts of wire fraud and two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, The Washington Post reports. The news comes three months after news that both were charged…

Image: CNSA After a 20-day journey, China’s Queqiao lunar communications relay satellite has made it to lunar orbit. Its companion, the Longjiang-2 microsatellite, wasted no time, taking some neat pics of Earth and the lunar surface. Queqiao, meaning Magpie Bridge, is a key component of the upcoming Chang’e 4 lander and rover mission, at which…

Huawei showed at CES Asia in 2018, which runs from 13 to 15 June in Shanghai, its new development. We are talking about the cloud service Huawei Cloud PC, which will allow you to run Windows 10 on smartphones with Android. With Cloud PC, the user can view the desktop of Windows 10 on the…

The opening of the world Cup in Russia, the Chinese company Xiaomi presented to the public its new project — a “smart” ball called Insait Joy Smart Football. At him running a crowdfunding campaign to raise funds. So the smart ball will cost wishing to 299 yuan, accounting for about 47 USD. Deliveries are scheduled…

The team of Odnoklassniki social network launched an archive audiobooks available in a separate section at the music showcase of the social network. In the first phase, the library includes more than 100 famous works. In the library users of Classmates are available over hundreds of audiobooks, among them Russian folklore and fairy tales of…

Game Serious Sam 4: Planet of Badass should be a continuation of the legendary “meat” of the first-person shooter Serious Sam from Croatian Studio Croteam. Demo version of the game shown at E3, and judging by the reviews, the developers weren’t exaggerating when he promised to return the formula of the old school Serious Sam,…

Microsoft will soon cease to provide technical support on the Microsoft Community forums (Microsoft Community) for users of the operating systems Windows 7 and 8, as well as some other issues. It is stated in the official note on the forum. From July 2018, Microsoft will cease to answer questions and to engage in such…