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At first glance, images circulating online showing former President Donald Trump surrounded by groups of Black people smiling and laughing seem nothing out of the ordinary, but a look closer is telling.Odd lighting and too-perfect details provide clues to the fact they were all generated using artificial intelligence. The photos, which have not been linked to the Trump campaign, emerged as Trump seeks to win over Black voters who polls show remain loyal to President Joe Biden.The fabricated images, highlighted in a recent…

A video of a bus conductor in a private bus in Tamil Nadu has gone viral lately on social media. The video that is circulating on the internet shows an alert bus conductor who saves a woman from falling out of a moving bus. The video was recorded on a CCTV camera that was installed inside the bus. The accident happened in a private bus that does trips between Erode and Mettur. In the video, we see a girl standing on the floor of the bus. The conductor is standing at the front door of the bus looking outside. The woman…

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) warned about the risks the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) could have on the working class and called for federal policy that would give workers power over decisions about AI in an op-ed published Thursday in The New York Times.   Khanna, who represents a district that includes Silicon Valley, wrote that while AI will “undoubtedly bring benefits” to the economy, the “real challenge” is figuring out how to “center the dignity and economic security of working-class Americans during the…

The unrelenting solar activity on the Sun is not just affecting the Earth but all the nearby planets as well. In October, it was reported that an intense coronal mass ejection (CME) cloud hit Venus and the strong electromagnetic fluctuation resulted in eroding some of its atmosphere which released into space. Now, a full halo CME is set to hit Mars and trigger a solar storm on December 11, as per data from a NASA model. It too will have a similar effect on the red planet and it is expected to disintegrate a small amount…

HCl solubility in different liquids. Credit: Nature (2023). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05683-0 A wildfire can pump smoke up into the stratosphere, where the particles drift for over a year. A new MIT study has found that while suspended there these particles can trigger chemical reactions that erode the protective ozone layer shielding the Earth from the sun's damaging ultraviolet radiation.…

The coffee giant reported $8.41 billion in revenue for the three months ended Oct. 2, up about 3% from the comparable year-ago period and above expectations of analysts polled by FactSet. The company said Thursday its same-store sales globally increased 7% year-over-year, and Interim Chief Executive Howard Schultz said global demand for Starbucks’s coffee was strong. The company’s net income for its fiscal fourth quarter dropped by roughly 50% to $878 million, compared with the $1.76 billion…