Science magazine: As Samuel West combed through a paper that found a link between watching cartoon violence and aggression in children, he noticed something odd about the study participants. There were more than 3000 — an unusually large number — and they were all 10 years old. “It was just too perfect,” says West, a Ph.D. student in social psychology at…
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Can Artificial Intelligence Restore 85-Year-Old Popeye Cartoons?
A Slashdot reader shared an anonymous tip about “new consumer-grade artificial intelligence employed to restore 85 year-old Popeye cartoons, using only the available digital copies as sources for the remastering.” It’s eerie to see vintage cartoons like Popeye the Sailor meets Sindbad the Sailor upgraded to high resolution. It’s apparently the work of Cartoon Renewal Studios, a group “Dedicated to the…
South Park Creators Have New Political Satire Series With AI-Generated Deepfakes
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: Trey Parker and Matt Stone, best known for their cartoon South Park, have created a new comedy deepfake series called Sassy Justice. The star of the show, Fred Sassy, is a local news reporter from Cheyenne, Wyoming, with the face of US President Donald Trump. Other notable characters include, erm, “Dialysis King”…
WSJ: ‘Quit Chrome. Safari and Edge Are Just Better Browsers’
The Wall Street Journal’s senior personal tech columnist just published an article urging readers to “quit Chrome. Safari and Edge are just better browsers.” It begins with the reporter pretending to break up with Chrome, adding “I’d say I’ll remember the good times — your speed, your superb handling of Gmail — but your RAM hoovering, battery draining and privacy disregarding…
Images of bizarre bright ‘painted’ fish go viral
The team behind a Japanese fishing YouTube channel recently posted up images of their latest peculiar catch. Looking more like something out a cartoon… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/337839/images-of-bizarre-bright-painted-fish-go-viral…
TIOBE Suddenly Ranks ‘Scratch’ as the 20th Most Popular Programming Language
Python knocked C++ out of the top 3 on TIOBE’s index of the most popular programming languages this month, while C# rose into the #5 position, overtaking Visual Basic. But the biggest surprise was when last month’s #26 most popular programming language suddenly jumped six spots into the #20 position, writes the CEO of TIOBE Software. “At first sight this…
Producing solar power at night
Scientists have developed a new prototype of nighttime solar cells that can produce electricity at night through a radiative cooling mechanism. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/solar-power-photovoltaic-production-at-night…
Tom Gauld is documenting his process in three volumes
Tom Gauld’s weekly cartoon Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2234286-tom-gauld-is-documenting-his-process-in-three-volumes/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Twisteddoodles plots the graphs that appear in the news
This week’s cartoon from Twisteddoodles Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2234281-twisteddoodles-plots-the-graphs-that-appear-in-the-news/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Ice makes strange sounds in bizarre new video
Dropping a chunk of ice down a 450ft borehole can produce weird sounds resembling cartoon ricochets. In a recent Twitter post, isotope geochemist John… Source: https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/334658/ice-makes-strange-sounds-in-bizarre-new-video…