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Enlarge (credit: Artur Debat | Moment) An Australian man who pretended to be a famous teenage YouTuber has been sentenced to 17 years for orchestrating what police are calling “one of the worst sextortion cases in history.” Twenty-nine-year-old Muhammad Zain…
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) On Tuesday, researchers from Google and Tel Aviv University unveiled GameNGen, a new AI model that can interactively simulate the classic 1993 first-person shooter game Doom in real time using AI image generation…
Enlarge / Does Mono fit between the Chilean cab sav and Argentinian malbec, or is it more of an orange, maybe? (credit: Getty Images) Microsoft has donated the Mono Project, an open-source framework that brought its .NET platform to non-Windows…
Enlarge / There’s a reason the Ariel Nomad works so well in open-world games like Forza Horizon. Now Ariel has developed an electric version. (credit: Ariel) The low-volume British carmaker Ariel got its start with a reimagining of the iconic…
Enlarge / Telegram CEO Pavel Durov at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, on Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2016. (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg) Telegram CEO Pavel Durov is heading to court for a possible indictment after being released from police…
Artists often captivate us with their ability to translate the world around them into stunningly realistic drawings. But what cognitive processes enable such skill? A recent study sheds light on this question, revealing that art students possess a unique flexibility…
Enlarge / A view of the Pantanal wetlands in Brazil. New research shows a large chunk of global methane emissions are from rotting vegetation in tropical wetlands. (credit: Carl de Souza/AFP via Getty Images) A 2021 pledge by more than…
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) As far back as 2016, work on AI-based chatbots revealed that they have a disturbing tendency to reflect some of the worst biases of the society that trained them. But as large language…
Hairs on the toes of Mexican free-tailed bats fluoresce under UV light, a new study reports. The function of the toe glow is unknown.
Enlarge / A screen capture of landing video of a Falcon 9 rocket just before it tips over on Wednesday morning. (credit: SpaceX) Early on Wednesday morning, at 3:48 am ET local time, a Falcon 9 rocket booster making its…
