Elizabeth Hernandez found out about the decade-old murder from a flurry of tips sent to her newsroom in August last year.
The tips were all reacting to a YouTube video with a shocking title: “Husband’s Secret Gay Love Affair with Step Son Ends in Grisly Murder.” It described a gruesome crime that apparently took place in Littleton, Colorado. Almost two million people had watched it.
“Some people in fact were saying, ‘Why didn’t The Denver Post cover this?’” Hernandez, a reporter at the paper, told me. “Because in the video, it makes it sound like it was a big news event and yet, when you Google it, there is no coverage.”
The reason for the lack of coverage was pretty clear to her. … The murder was fake, and the video was made using generative AI. — Read More
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Brain implant that could boost mood by using ultrasound to go under NHS trial
A groundbreaking NHS trial will attempt to boost patients’ mood using a brain-computer-interface that directly alters brain activity using ultrasound.
The device, which is designed to be implanted beneath the skull but outside the brain, maps activity and delivers targeted pulses of ultrasound to “switch on” clusters of neurons. Its safety and tolerability will be tested on about 30 patient in the £6.5m trial, funded by the UK’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency (Aria).
In future, doctors hope the technology could revolutionise the treatment of conditions such as depression, addiction, OCD and epilepsy by rebalancing disrupted patterns of brain activity. — Read More
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