A manipulated video of President Richard Nixon delivering an Apollo 11 contingency speech is circulating online, with its creators hoping to highlight the disturbing power of the “fake” videos. It took the Massachusetts Institute of Technology more than half a year to create the 7-minute video, which shows actual images …
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Can you recognize a digitally manipulated video when you watch one? It is more difficult than most people think. As the technology to produce realistic deepfakes becomes more readily available, distinguishing fact from fiction will only become more challenging. A new digital storytelling project at MIT’s Advanced Virtuality Center aims …
Read More »Has there ever been a more important duty? (heh … duty) When Apollo astronauts went to the moon in the 1960s, they got there in a spaceship with exactly zero baths. To get to number one, NASA provided them with a rubber tube that the crew could put on like …
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