Billions under the Pacific Ocean: Apple-sized metal-rich rocks that could power the future of electric cars

Billions under the Pacific Ocean: Apple-sized metal-rich rocks that could power the future of electric cars |

Roughly four kilometres below the surface of the central Pacific Ocean, scattered across a stretch of seafloor the size of the continental United States, lie hundreds of billions of apple-sized rocks. They are dark, lumpy, and almost impossibly slow-growing, a few millimetres every million years. Some of the ones sitting on the seabed today began…

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Optical illusion personality test: Lion or monkey? The animal you see first reveals if you are a born leader or highly creative

Optical illusion personality test: Lion or monkey? The animal you see first reveals if you are a born leader or highly creative |

Photo credit: The Brightside If you are active on social media, you would have come across tricky images that claim to reveal your true personality within seconds. Such images are aptly called optical illusion personality tests and they are generally based on psychological principles. And so, these visual puzzles aren’t just for fun; they’re a…

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Fraudsters creating deepfakes to bypass facial authentication: I4C

Fraudsters creating deepfakes to bypass facial authentication: I4C | India News

NEW DELHI: Facial authentication, considered by most gadget users as the gold standard for identity verification, is now being bypassed by fraudsters, who gain unauthorised access to facial data through social media platforms and use artificial intelligence to create deepfake videos and synthetic identities.Sharing this latest modus operandi in a public advisory on Wednesday, Indian…

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Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari retains Bhabanipur, the seat where he defeated Mamata, over Nandigram

Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari retains Bhabanipur, the seat where he defeated Mamata, over Nandigram | India News

Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari NEW DELHI: West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari on Wednesday decided to retain the Bhabanipur seat and vacate Nandigram after winning from both constituencies in the recently concluded West Bengal assembly elections.Suvendu had contested from his stronghold Nandigram as well as Bhabanipur, the constituency long considered a bastion of former chief…

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