Most, if not all, travel in the United States almost always requires a car, even for something as mundane as buying food or going to the convenience store. Anyone that has no access to a car will have to brave the pedestrian-unfriendly, untraversable urban landscape. It isn’t uncommon for many city-dwellers to face this problem […]
Gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman and Precita Eyes Muralists founding director Susan Cervantes have organized a GoFundMe campaign to raise money to restore "The Hope for the World Cure" mural in San Francisco's LGBTQ Castro district.
Gay District 8 Supervisor Rafael Mandelman and Precita Eyes Muralists founding director Susan Cervantes have organized a GoFundMe campaign to raise money to restore "The Hope for the World Cure" mural in San Francisco’s LGBTQ Castro district.
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SEATTLE, Washington, April 22, 2021 (ENS) – A fire in New York’s Central Park seems to appear as a smoke plume and a line of flames in a satellite image. Colorful lights on Diwali night in India, seen from space, seem to show fireworks exploding. But they are false images that demonstrate “location spoofing.”
The two photos – created by different people, for different purposes – are fake but they look like genuine images of real places. And with the more sophisticated artificial intelligence, AI, technologies available today, researchers warn that such “deepfake geography” could become a growing problem.