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Humans snapping photos of themselves with melting skin, blood smeared faces and mutated bodies, while standing in front of a world that is burning is what the DALL-E AI believes will be the last selfies taken at the end of times. DALL-E AI, developed by OpenAI, is a new system that can produce full images when fed natural language descriptions and TikToker Robot Overlords simply asked it to 'show the last selfie ever taken.' The nightmarish results each show a human holding a phone and behind them are scenes of bombs dropping, colossal tornados and cities on fire, along with...

When the MP3 player took off in the late 1990s, the format itself entered the public consciousness in a way not many others have — with perhaps the Word document being an exception. But what is an audio format, anyway, and why should you care?This guide will cover some of the most popular formats used by audio streaming services today and explain their differences.What is an audio file format?A digital audio file is how recorded content gets saved on a computer, media player, smartphone, or other device. Digital audio is, at its most basic level, a series of numbers that...

U.K. satellite operator OneWeb plans to join forces with European rival Eutelsat in a deal the two companies hope will help them take on Elon Musk’s SpaceX. The all-stock merger will see Eutelsat issue 230 million new shares and exchange them for all remaining shares of OneWeb, according to a press release Tuesday......

America First Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene posed the question as to how children are becoming infected with the sexually transmitted monkeypox virus after the CDC announced that it had confirmed America’s first two childhood cases of the disease. Monkeypox, an African virus reported to cause painful lesions on the genitals of those infected, has been almost unheard of in the Western World but began spreading through Europe, the United States, and other Western nations after it was widely transmitted at a pair of gay sex parties.

A group of Republican attorneys general are warning Google of potential legal action if the tech company buckles to leftist pro-abortion pressure to target pro-lifers. Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares and Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron are leading a group of 17 Republican attorneys general across the U.S. who are uniting against Google’s reported censorship of pro-life center search results. Democrat lawmakers and the leftist Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) have demanded that Google sic its activist censors against pro-lifers. The attorneys general warned Google of potential legal action in the letter, as Daily Wire reported. The pro-abortion leftists...

Close to 77 million customers were impacted by a massive hack last year. T-Mobile has agreed to a $350 million settlement in a class action suit that alleged it allowed sensitive information from millions of current, past and prospective customers to be stolen by hackers last year. If approved, the deal will be the second-largest data-breach settlement in US history, after Equifax's agreement to pay $700 million in 2019. The mobile carrier has not acknowledged any wrongdoing but in a statement shared with CNET, T-Mobile said it was "pleased to have resolved this consumer class action filing." "Customers are first...

Google, Microsoft, Meta and Amazon launched a public effort Monday to scrap the leap second, an occasional extra tick that keeps clocks in sync with the Earth's actual rotation. US and French timekeeping authorities concur.Since 1972, the world's timekeeping authorities have added a leap second 27 times to the global clock known as the International Atomic Time (TAI). Instead of 23:59:59 changing to 0:0:0 at midnight, an extra 23:59:60 is tucked in. That causes a lot of indigestion for computers, which rely on a network of precise timekeeping servers to schedule events and to record the exact sequence of activities...

The truth has become hate speech on Twitter. There are no conversations anymore," Moms for Liberty's Tiffany Justice told The Post Millennial. ... Twitter has been on a banning spree, suspending or banning accounts that call out "grooming" behavior on the site. Author and mathematician James Lindsay was banned for saying "ok, groomer," YouTuber Tim Pool was locked out of his account for saying "Twitter actively protects and supports pedophilia," and now Moms for Liberty has been suspended, pending appeal, for speaking against the medical gender transition of children. ... The truth has become hate speech on Twitter. There are...

A chess robot broke a 7-year-old boy's finger during a match in Russia last week. Video posted to social media of the incident shows the robot, which is playing three simultaneous matches against various opponents using a large mechanical arm, playing the young victim. The boy, reaches to move one of his pieces and the robot grabs his finger. The robot did not appear to make any severe twisting or other movements after grabbing the finger, however. Several adults rushed in soon after the incident and freed the boy's hand. "The robot broke the child’s finger," Sergey Lazarev, president of...

On Thursday night, PBS Amanpour and Company guest host Bianna Golodryga welcomed President and CEO of Planned Parenthood Great Planes Emily Wales to blame pro-lifers for their own falsehoods about various states’ new pro-life laws. Wales immediately followed a Texas woman who was on to share her story of denied care for a miscarriage. But instead of blaming the doctor for not being able to read, Golodryga simply asked her, “How do you respond to that?” After describing the story as “devastating,” Wales took aim at other states, “You know, before we lost access to care in Oklahoma. We were...

YouTube has updated its policies to restrict certain kinds of supposed misinformation about abortion, as pro-abortion pressure on tech companies continues. YouTube will now remove content around the world that supposedly “‘promotes or provides instructions’ for unsafe or alternative abortion methods not supported by science or approved by medical professionals,” Axios reported Thursday. It is unclear whether information about pro-life alternatives such as pregnancy centers, which some leftists have dubbed “anti-abortion fake clinics,” will fall under this new rule. Axios said that YouTube will also start removing supposedly “false claims” about abortion, including evidence linking abortion to infertility or cancer....

In the hour-long CNN Special Report: DEEP IN THE POCKETS OF TEXAS airing Friday, June 24 at 10pmET, Ed Lavandera reveals how a handful of influential billionaires steer the politics of school boards, city councils and the state legislature in Texas. Texas is one of only 10 states with no limitations on campaign donations to candidates, and as a result, a few wealthy donors with strong religious views have an outsized influence on the government for approximately 30 million people. In a state known for its independence, Texas is usually at the forefront of legislation – and its conservative Republicans...

Two players leverage quantum rules to achieve a seemingly telepathic connection It only looks like telepathy, but a quantum game harpoons our usual sense of reality. ==================================================================== The Moon isn’t necessarily there if you don’t look at it. So says quantum mechanics, which states that what exists depends on what you measure. Proving reality is like that usually involves the comparison of arcane probabilities, but physicists in China have made the point in a clearer way. They performed a matching game in which two players leverage quantum effects to win every time—which they can’t if measurements merely reveal reality as...

Researchers from MIT and elsewhere have found a material that can perform much better than silicon. The next step is finding practical and economic ways to manufacture it.Silicon is one of the most plentiful elements on Earth, and in its pure form, the semiconductor material has become the foundation of much of modern technology, including microelectronic computer chips and solar cells. However, silicon’s properties as a semiconductor are actually far from ideal.One reason is that although silicon allows electrons to readily flow through its structure, it is much less accommodating to “holes” — electrons’ positively charged counterparts —and harnessing both...

Have you ever wanted to create your own search engine? Of course you have! Well in today’s video, NetworkChuck is not only going to show you how to make your own search engine using Searx, he’s going to show you how to create your own private and secure search engine so you can keep these pesky tech giants like Google, Microsoft, and Facebook from creating profiles based on your search history! 18 minute Video

Planned Parenthood has freshly scrubbed its website in light of the media’s attempts to convince women that ectopic pregnancy treatments and other lifesaving procedures are actually abortions. Induced abortion, however, is the intentional killing of a human being before birth. What did Planned Parenthood purge? A sentence that read, “Treating an ectopic pregnancy isn’t the same thing as getting an abortion.” The clear distinction that abortion is not necessary to treat dangerous ectopic pregnancies was present on the Planned Parenthood website in 2020, 2021, and most of this year — even as late as July 14, 2022. Since the Supreme...

A beauty YouTuber has claimed that she was forced to carry her dead fetus inside of her for two weeks after Texas doctors refused to remove it because they said she needed 'additional evidence' to prove it didn't have a heartbeat amid abortion bans in the state. Marlena Stell, 42, from Houston, recalled being ecstatic when she learned that she and her husband, Ab DeSilva, were expecting their second child together last year. However, the makeup guru's excitement soon turned to heartbreak when she found out around nine weeks into the pregnancy that she had tragically lost the baby. She...

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The Secret Service may have violated federal records laws by failing to preserve data - including information related to the Jan. 6 Capitol attack - after it had been requested by investigators, the House committee investigating the riot said Wednesday. The condemnation came after the panel subpoenaed the agency following an allegation from the inspector general at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees the Secret Service, that it had “erased” the texts during a device replacement program. “We have concerns about a system migration that we have been told resulted in the erasure of Secret Service cell phone...