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How to protect your students from ‘fake news’ 

It can be scary to see bad information spread so easily among young people, but there are ways to equip your students with media-savvy skills. At “Recognizing and Dismantling Disinformation with Secondary Students,” a workshop at the AFT TEACH conference, attendees got a tangible road map to ensure everyone is better insulated from “fake news.”

‘Judeo-Christian’ roots will ensure U.S. military AI is used ethically, general says

A U.S. Air Force general said Thursday the Pentagon's artificial intelligence ethics are better than adversaries' because « our society is a Judeo-Christian society. »

Instagram boss says 'Android's now better than iOS'

Instagram head Adam Mosseri's best tech "hot take"? He believes Google's Android platform has surpassed Apple's iOS.

Man Found Guilty of Child Porn, Because He Ran a Tor Exit Node (The Story of William Weber)

Guns. Drugs. TOR. Child pornography. The long and twisted tale of LowEndTalk's famous member William goes deep.

Fervo Energy Says it Has Achieved Geothermal Energy Tech Breakthrough

An enhanced geothermal system expands the range of sites able to be tapped for geothermal energy, and Fervo’s demo is the first time a company has shown it can be done on this kind of commercial scale.

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Artificial intelligence can seem more human than actual humans on social media, study finds

A new study suggests that OpenAI's GPT-3 can both inform and disinform more effectively than real people on social media. The research, published in Science Advances, also highlights the challenges of identifying synthetic (AI-generated) information, as GPT-3 can mimic human writing so well that people have difficulty telling the difference. ...

Three new atlases reveal a new dimension of the human body

An international consortium analyzes the cell-by-cell architecture of the placenta, intestine and kidneys, moving closer to achieving the dream of creating the first map of the entire organism