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Deepfakes may ruin the world. And they can come for you, too

Thinking about deepfakes tends to lead to philosophical head-scratchers. Here’s one: Should you worry about your face being grafted into hard-core pornography if deepfakes are bent on sabotaging global power? Deepfakes are video forgeries that make people appear to be doing or saying things they never did. Similar to the way Photoshop made doctoring images a breeze, deepfake software has …

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AT&T’s 5G E network helps it take crown as fastest US carrier

Maybe it really is evolving? AT&T’s wireless network was named the fastest in the US, it announced Wednesday, based on an analysis of speeds over the first quarter of 2019 by Ookla’s Speedtest. It noted that AT&T’s speeds improved by more than 15% during that period, while the other carriers plateaued. AT&T’s speeds jumped from 34.3 megabytes per second (MBPS) …

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