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Deepfakes: When Contemporary Content Creation Goes Too Far

Google officially launched in 1998, and the world hasn’t been the same since. It has become part of our vocabulary, a ‘verb’ we find ourselves doing every day. The first page of a Google search result is the most powerful position on the internet. It gets 95% of web traffic, leaving only 5% for the other pages. Most online surfers won’t even get past the fifth page unless they’re looking for less-known answers. To compete for this coveted spot, webmasters are coming up with new ways to get your attention. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) revolutionized digital marketing by analyzing algorithms…

Elon Musk explains why the SN10 exploded, as starship SN11 is in the works

Following the surprising explosion of Space Exploration Technologies Corp.’s (SpaceX) Starship SN10 prototype, the company’s chief executive officer and chief engineer Mr. Elon Musk took to Twitter to provide details behind the accident. SpaceX is busy testing the upper-stage prototypes for its next-generation launch vehicle dubbed Starship – which Mr. Musk hopes will fulfill the company’s foundational aim of making humanity a multi-planetary species. Elon Musk has detailed just what went wrong with the SpaceX SN10 Starship, after the latest prototype landed only to promptly explode earlier this month. At first, all seemed to be going unexpectedly well for the…

Russian modder upgrades RTX 3070 with 16 GB GDDR6 Memory, runs twice as much as reference card & fully operational

One of the quickest and easiest ways to boost your computer’s overall performance is to upgrade the memory subsystem. In many instances, it can take fewer than five minutes to remove your old memory and swap in a new kit that is faster and / or offers more capacity. It’s no wonder, then, that this is often among the first upgrades to consider when sprucing up an older system. What Russian modder VIK-on has accomplished in his latest video series, however, is many levels beyond a basic memory upgrade. The hardware tweaker took a Palit-branded GeForce RTX 3070, removed the…

Russia and China join hands to create a lunar research station

China and Russia just signed an agreement to construct and work on an “International Scientific Lunar Station” orbiting the Moon, according to statements from both countries’ space agencies on Tuesday. Russia is preparing to sign a memorandum of understanding with China to cooperate on a vision for an international lunar research station. The station is envisioned as a “complex of experimental research facilities created on the surface and/or in the orbit of the moon,” according to a statement from Roscosmos. “Roscosmos has completed domestic proceedings to harmonize the Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of the Russian Federation and the…

Qualcomm leaks out a potential competitor to Apple’s M1 core for notebooks

Snapdragon 8cx Gen2 processor for Windows 10 on ARM debuted in 2020 and Qualcomm is already working on a successor codenamed “SC8280XP”. A processor going by the aforementioned name has appeared in developer samples and Apple M1-rival is early in development, judging by the information available in internal documents. The unnamed Snapdragon chipset could be the first where Qualcomm moves away from a combination of high-performing and energy-efficient cores. Instead, there might be future SoCs where all we get are high-performance cores running at different clock speeds. On this occasion, WinFuture reports that the Snapdragon SC8280 is currently being tested…