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“If you're even a little bit online, the odds are you've seen an image or video that was AI-generated. I know I've been fooled before, like I was by that viral video of bunnies on a trampoline. But Sora is taking AI videos to a whole new level, making it more important than ever to know how to spot AI. Sora is the sister app of ChatGPT, made by the same parent company, OpenAI. It's named after its AI video generator, which launched in 2024. But it recently got a major overhaul with a new Sora 2 model, along with a brand-new social media app by the same name. The TikTok-like app went viral, with AI enthusiasts determined to hunt down invite codes. But it isn't like any other social media platform. Everything you see on Sora is fake; all the videos are AI-generated. Using Sora is an AI deepfake fever dream: innocuous at first glance, with dangerous risks lurking just beneath the surface.”

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“Nobody likes to see the view being spoiled by power lines, but they're often a necessary part of modern infrastructure. Perhaps if they could be turned from an eyesore into a focal point, even the staunchest opponents could accept them. Such is the thinking behind this creative project that transforms power line pylons into giant animal sculptures. The concept, called Austrian Power Giants, comes from the Austrian Power Grid and is developed in partnership with GP designpartners and Baucon. The idea is that each of Austria's nine federal states would feature its own style of pylon in the form of an animal symbolic of the region's identity. ‘This nature-inspired design is ultimately intended to become a symbol for nature-friendly infrastructure projects, strengthen the economic and tourism location in the regions and ultimately lead to increased acceptance of grid expansion projects by the general public,’ explains Austria Power Grid, which is in charge of securing the country's power supply.”

“An unusual technique for catching scallops that was stumbled upon accidentally by scientists could potentially reduce some of the damage caused to our seabeds by fishing. The marine scientist Dr. Rob Enever and his team at Fishtek Marine, a fisheries consultancy based in Devon, designed small underwater ‘potlights’ to help protect fish stocks by replacing the need to use fish to bait crab and lobster pots. The lights were supposed to attract crabs into the pots. But quite unexpectedly, scallops, which can have up to 200 eyes, were more attracted to the LED lights. ‘It’s like a scallop disco — illuminate the trap and they come in. It’s astonishing that no one else has discovered this before. It’s quite an exciting find,’ said Enever.”

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