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Barack Obama through the display on a video camera

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AI can make high-definition fake videos from just a simple sketch

AI can now make incredibly realistic fake videos, known as deepfakes, in high definition.  The tool is freely available meaning anyone can make convincing fakes

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A ghostly figure

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Flashing checkerboard patterns let us see a picture that doesn’t exist

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The ultraclean icicle and the droplet, after melting.

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World’s cleanest drop of water reveals why nothing is ever truly clean

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a robot hugs a person

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Artificial stupidity could help save humanity from an AI takeover

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Facebook logo reflects in someone's glasses

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Facebook bans hundreds of accounts linked to Russia and Iran

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A man with a fog net

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Nanofibre net draws drinking water from the air for drought-hit people

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A pile of batteries

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Paper batteries use electron-harvesting bacteria to make electricity

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Six pictures drawn by AI.

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This AI will draw whatever you want - but it's utterly terrible

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A statue of William Shakespeare

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AI creates Shakespearean sonnets - and they're actually quite good

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Two statues at US congress

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Amazon face recognition mistakes US politicians for crime suspects

A face recognition service sold by Amazon falsely identified 28 members of Congress - and disproportionately black legislators - as people arrested for a crime

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Cracking down on illegal cannabis with edible barcodes and blockchains

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This mind-controlled robotic arm lets you do two things at once

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Is North Korea really scrapping its nuclear weapons programme?

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Face recognition screens egg donors so your child will look like you

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