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• Now THAT is an award-winning weather animation. Also an effective crowd scaring technique.

  

  Lionel Valdellon

  

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  Weather Channel - Hurricane Florence augmented reality storm surge graphics (Erika Navarro)

  vson8 on YouTube

  Donate to my Patreon: http://patreon.com/vsonBy now, nearly everyone has heard that the incoming Hurricane Florence is going to be one bad storm. But the ama...

• Humans, meet the beginning of reality-bending AI.

  

  Lionel Valdellon

  

  I Used AI To Clone My Voice And Trick My Mom Into Thinking It Was Me

  BuzzFeed - Charlie Warzel

  View this video on YouTube For more on this story, watch the new BuzzFeed News series Follow This on Netflix. For more on this story, watch Follow This on Netflix, a news show from BuzzFeed News.

• Smart home gadgets are yet another way that you can be victimized by an abusive partner.

  

  Lionel Valdellon

  

  For victims of smart home abuse, there's no easy out

  Engadget - Nicole Lee

  It's not as simple as changing passwords. The New York Times recently published a report that revealed a disturbing trend of harassment and domestic abuse via internet-connected devices. In addition to using them to stalk and monitor their victims, abusers are also doing things like changing …

• ““Our study clearly shows that low sperm count by itself is associated with metabolic alterations, cardiovascular risk and low bone mass,” he continued.”

  

  Lionel Valdellon

  

  Dwindling Sperm Counts Have Impacts Beyond Male Fertility

  Inverse - Yasmin Tayag

  In 2017, in the midst of media buzz about the Hulu infertility parable Handmaid’s Tale, life imitated art. Scientists announced in Human Reproduction …

• And you thought they were just squiggly words and fuzzy images. Nope.

  

  Lionel Valdellon

  

  Captcha if you can: how you’ve been training AI for years without realising it

  techradar.com - James O'Malley

  Congratulations are in order. You, yes you, dear reader, have been part of something incredible. Thanks to your hard work, millions of books …