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Fake Monet for $600,000. Artificial intelligence identified 40 fake paintings on eBay

Researchers used AI to analyze images of paintings sold on eBay and found almost 40 fakes. Among them are counterfeit "Monet" and "Renoir", which were trying to be auctioned for between $150,000 and $600,000. "At the beginning, we analyzed several im...

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Indians who paid $1,000 each to pre-order a Tesla in 2016 didn't get the car - but it's not easy to get their money back, either

In April 2016, Tesla opened a pre-booking website in India, but has not been selling electric vehicles in the country yet, which is the world's third largest car market. One of the first to pay for the car reservation was Vishal Gondal, the CEO of th...

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North Yorkshire authorities will ban apostrophes on road signs to avoid confusion in computer systems

Local authorities in the British region of North Yorkshire have announced a ban on the use of apostrophes on street signs due to digital databases and potential search problems. In the English language, an apostrophe before "s" indicates possession, ...

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Musk advised Joanne Rowling to post "interesting and positive" content on X/Twitter instead of posts about transgenderism

Both a billionaire and a writer have often been criticized for their views and statements on transgender issues. In the comments to one of J.K. Rowling's posts, Elon Musk advised the author of "Harry Potter" to publish more "interesting and positive ...

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Bitcoin trader lost $70 million after sending cryptocurrency to the wrong address

The discussion is about a popular scam type with "address poisoning" - when scammers create fake accounts with a fake cryptographic address that contains similar first and last characters to a real one. One of such cases was recently discovered by t...

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British police posted a bizarre generated sketch of a suspect on X Twitter - users picked up candidates

In the town of Tunbridge Wells near London, a burglar broke into the home of a 90-year-old resident. In order to find him, the Kent County Police released a computer-generated photofit image of the suspect. However, it seems that finding someone base...

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Priest spent nearly $40k of parish funds on mobile games - he faces formal charges

Mobile games can require a lot of time and money. This was once again proved by a Catholic priest who was recently arrested and accused of stealing over $40 thousand from his former parish. He spent this money not on good deeds, but on worldly pleasu...

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Google Phone now has Audio Emoji - sound effects (from laughter to farts) that can be inserted into conversations

Google has updated the Google Phone app and added sound effects to the dialer for Android. This allows the user to press one of the six Audio Emoji buttons during a phone call to play a short sound signal for both participants. As a result, the user...

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The director of the movie "Alien: Romulus" showed a model of the face grabber - the alien ran on the floor

Fede Alvarez, the director of the film "Alien: Romulus", shared behind-the-scenes video of the facehugger, which turned out to be not just a passive prop, but was quite naturally running around the set with radio control. In the nearly 20-second clip...

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Are you sure you're not a robot? The new era of CAPTCHA is here - and here's why we've been "failing" these tests lately

"Is it me or have the 'I am not a robot' tests become harder?" joked British comedian Jack Whitehall in his recent Netflix special, complaining about his inability to correctly identify traffic lights. CAPTCHA is a computer test of the challenge-resp...

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Artificial intelligence helped a PE teacher compromise a school principal - who was investigating his embezzlement of funds

Physical education teacher and former athletic director of a middle school in Pikesville, Maryland, USA, was arrested and charged with using artificial intelligence to clone voices to frame the school principal. Baltimore County police believe that a...

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Do you like "loud" cars? Psychologists say it indicates a tendency to sadism

A psychologist Julie Aitken Shermer from the University of Western Ontario in Canada surveyed and analyzed the responses of over 500 people to explore the relationship between "dark" personality traits and love for loud cars with modified exhaust sys...

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Harvey Weinstein's rape conviction overturned by court 4 years after conviction

In the past, one of the most influential Hollywood producers first faced allegations of rape back in 2017, when The New York Times revealed serious disclosures of his misconduct. After that, more and more people claimed to have been sexually exploit...

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Durov: Apple demands to ban some channels in Telegram for users with Ukrainian SIM cards

Telegram founder Pavel Durov revealed that Apple has requested the blocking of certain Telegram channels for Ukrainian users. Although the platform community typically opposes such blockages, companies still have to listen to such requests in order f...

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Who will pay? Florida resident turned to NASA for compensation - his house was damaged by debris ejected from the ISS

In March, a one-kilogram piece of metal punched through the roof and floor of a two-story house belonging to Florida resident Alejandro Otero. It turned out to be space junk — specifically, a support beam for a battery pallet weighing 2630 kg, which ...

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