Deepfakes worries YouTubers. Vidcon offers a way to push back

[ad_1] VidCon fans in 2016 celebrated online video star Joey Graceffa with a mask on her face. Getty Not far from a frenzy of screaming tweers looking for online video stars, in a glass building overlooking Disneyland, VidCon will present a new celebrity to its pantheon: fake video known as deepfakes. But the ability to … Read more

The Voyager team is working to keep the 42-year-old probes operational

[ad_1] <! – To conserve NASA's Voyager probes, launched 42 years ago to study giant gaseous planets in the solar system, operating as long as possible in interstellar space, mission scientists make difficult decisions to push the spaceship even further. However, achieving this goal is not easy. It is a project that forced mission managers … Read more

Fatal overdoses of opioids decrease by 24% in Nassau and Suffolk, officials say

[ad_1] The deadly overdoses of opioids combined in Nassau and Suffolk fell by nearly 24% last year, officials said Tuesday. Figures pointing to increased access to treatment, stronger anti-drug measures and anti-drug programs have stalled an epidemic that has claimed thousands of lives since 2010. Naloxone, the life-saving drug used to treat overdoses, has also … Read more

Satellites in space spot the largest proliferation of algae on Earth

[ad_1] NASA's Earth Observation satellites have spotted the world's largest seaweed overgrowth, a seaweed belt spanning 8,850 kilometers from Africa. the West up to the Gulf of Mexico. Brown algae, called the Great Sargassum Atlantic Belt, have floated on the surface of the tropical Atlantic Ocean for eight years. By 2018, more than 20 million … Read more