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Deepfakes, videos manipulated by face-swapping technology, are showing up on the wildly popular 60-second video app TikTok

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Business & Technology

Deepfakes, videos manipulated by face-swapping technology, are showing up on the wildly popular 60-second video app TikTok

6 years ago Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Photo caption: TikTok Avishek Das/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Deepfakes, a type of face-swapping technology, is showing up on the...

Technology and the empathy void: narcissism on the rise

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Health & Technology

Technology and the empathy void: narcissism on the rise

6 years ago Curated by Theresa Wysocki

To say technology has changed the world is an understatement. The post-industrial era – a term coined by French sociologist...

The Technology 202: Twitter, Facebook investigate apparent hack of NFL accounts

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Science & Technology

The Technology 202: Twitter, Facebook investigate apparent hack of NFL accounts

6 years ago Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Photo caption: A detailed view of the National Football League logo on the goal post stanchion before the AFC Championship...

YouTube moderators must sign contract acknowledging job could cause PTSD – report

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Health & Technology

YouTube moderators must sign contract acknowledging job could cause PTSD – report

6 years ago Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Photograph: Igor Stevanovic/Alamy Content moderators for YouTube have received legal warnings the job may negatively affect their mental health and...

A startup company took billions of photos from Facebook and other websites to create a facial-recognition database, and hundreds of law-enforcement agencies are using it

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Business & Technology

A startup company took billions of photos from Facebook and other websites to create a facial-recognition database, and hundreds of law-enforcement agencies are using it

6 years ago Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Photo caption: Facebook logos are seen on a mobile phone in this picture illustration taken December 2, 2019. Reuters/Johanna Geron/Illustration...

Scientists finally have something hopeful to tell us about monarch butterflies

Nearly Every House Republican Votes for Amendment That Would Slash Medicare, Social Security

Iran War Shows Why Farmers Need an Off-Ramp from Their Fertilizer Dependence

Scientists Find Soil Fungus That Can Freeze Water and It Might Be Key to Engineering the Weather

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