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A misleading seven second clip of President Biden could reshape Facebook’s misinformation policies ahead of the 2024 election, but the platform — and the American electorate — are running out of time. The Oversight Board, the external advisory group that Meta created to review its moderation decisions on Facebook and Instagram, issued a decision on Monday concerning a doctored video of Biden that made the rounds on social media last year. The original video showed the president accompanying his granddaughter Natalie…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeMargot Robbie has admitted that she once faked her own death to play a trick on a babysitter.The Australian actor stars as Barbie in Greta Gerwig’s highly anticipated film about the popular Mattel doll line. One trailer for the film sees Barbie ask her other doll friends about death.Appearing on Zoe Ball’s BBC Radio 2 show on Thursday (20 July), Robbie, 33, recalled how she had once…

A man lies flat on his stomach on the floor of an apartment high above the La Brea Tar Pits.He isn’t moving. His hands are tied behind his back and his eyes are open and still. His face rests in a pool of blood spilling from his neck.A glass candle-holder is shattered on the ground nearby and a chair is knocked over, signs of a struggle in the otherwise neat apartment.On the wall is a corkboard dotted with cutouts of articles, court papers and photographs. Red string leads between related incidents along with…

The pressure to publish or perish has led some desperate researchers to pay for fake papers to pad their resumés.Worse still, some of these sham papers are getting published in official scientific journals.A computer program designed to detect these made-up studies suggests far too many are slipping past peer review.The study was published as a preprint paper and still awaiting peer review itself, but if the results are confirmed, it's seriously concerning.Using artificial intelligence, researchers trained a computer to…

via Warner Bros. Just when you thought things couldn’t go any worse for Shazam! Fury of the Gods, which is already in danger of falling off a cliff at the box office in its very first weekend in amongst some of the worst reviews the DCU has ever seen, director David F. Sandberg has been accused of faking the superhero sequel’s biggest cameo. It’s hardly a spoiler to state given that the marketing revealed the “top-secret” guest appearance well ahead of time, but Gal Gadot’s Wonder Woman swings by Zachary Levi’s…

When astronomer Tyler Nordgren first got involved in astrophotography in the ’90s, he noticed something very off about the postcards, posters, and other photos he’d see when living and traveling in the American Southwest.“One of the big things that struck me at that time was the number of pictures I’d see that show the buttes in Monument Valley with a full moon rising behind them,” Nordgren recalls. Nordgren had been to that exact location in Monument Valley, and he knew the Moon didn’t rise in the position shown in the…

Fully intent on being the next Skynet, OpenAI has released GPT-4, its most robust AI to date that the company claims is even more accurate while generating language and even better at solving problems. GPT-4 is so good at its job, in fact, that it reportedly convinced a human that it was blind in order to get said human to solve a CAPTCHA for the chatbot.OpenAI unveiled the roided up AI yesterday in a livestream, and the company showed how the chatbot could complete tasks, albeit slowly, like writing code for a Discord…

The video, released by Tesla in 2016, shows a Tesla dropping off its passenger before driving and parking on its own. Gif: Gizmodo/TeslaTesla’s Autopilot is a prime example of overpromising and underdelivering, but there’s a new wrinkle in the feature’s history: A Tesla engineer is now says that a 2016 video showing the car’s ability to drive and park itself was staged.Reuters is reporting that Ashok Elluswamy, an autopilot engineer at Tesla, alleged in a deposition that the video illustrating one of the company’s…

The experiment was meant to simulate life on the ISS.Image: ESAThe Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) says a team of researchers fabricated the results of an experiment, led by one of its astronauts, that sought to simulate daily life on board the International Space Station (ISS). JAXA stated that it would subject astronaut Satoshi Furukawa to disciplinary action over data tampering, Japanese media reported. The experiment in question, conducted between 2016 and 2017, involved 40 participants who were confined to…

Sacheen Littlefeather, the activist who famously stood in for Marlon Brando to refuse the best actor Oscar in 1973, faked Native American ancestry, her family have said.In an article in the San Francisco Chronicle, Littlefeather’s sisters Rosalind Cruz and Trudy Orlandi said that their sister’s claim to have Apache and Yaqui ancestry through her father was “a lie” and “a fantasy”.Orlandi told the Chronicle: “It’s a lie. My father was who he was. His family came from Mexico. And my dad was born in Oxnard .” Cruz added: “It…