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Question: Which of these people are fake? Answer: All of them. Credit: ww.thispersondoesnotexist.com and the University at Buffalo University at Buffalo deepfake spotting tool proves…
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Measuring device of the MUCCnet sensor network set up by Prof. Jia Chen, Chair of Environmental Sensing and Modeling, at the TUM Department of Electrical…
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Picture of a polymer:non-fullerene acceptor solar cell device, for which the polymer was designed by machine learning. Credit: Osaka University Researchers at Osaka University use…
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