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A new device uses quantum optics to filter out starlight in real time — bringing scientists closer to directly observing Earth-like worlds.
NYPD divers searched the lake in Central Park on Saturday, looking for the weapon used in the deadly shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, sources say.
Artists and writers are up in arms about generative artificial-intelligence systems—understandably so. These machine-learning models are capable of pumping out only images and text because they ...
Making images of Morgan Freeman is easy because there are probably hundreds of photos of him in the data set used to train Stable Diffusion. It already knows what Morgan Freeman looks like.
Eliot Higgins, the founder of the open-source investigative outlet Bellingcat, was reading this week about the expected indictment of Donald Trump when he decided he wanted to visualize it. He ...
"In the information war surrounding the Israel-Gaza conflict, fakery is taking many forms" — even video-game images presented as battle footage. And this kind of misinformation is about to be ...
Images of Bashar al-Assad and his family were emblematic of the dynasty’s grip on Syria. Though remnants linger after the regime’s ouster, the removal of the once ubiquitous relics has offered ...
So, it’s better for brainstorming and rapid-fire visualizations than edits of the source image. The company describes Whisk as “a new type of creative tool.” ...
People who have turned to X for breaking news about the Israel-Hamas conflict are being hit with old videos, fake photos, and video game footage at a level researchers have never seen.
Over 170 images and personal details of children from Brazil have been repurposed by an open-source dataset without their knowledge or consent, and used to train AI, claims a new report from Human ...
Mychelle Johnson described the sickening abuse through a series of photos showing scratches to her face, her bloody ear, bruises along her arm, back, and legs.