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Trusting Tech

When you can’t trust your own eyes and ears to detect deepfakes, who can you trust? Perhaps, a machine. University of Florida researcher Damon Woodard is using artificial intelligence methods to develop algorithms that can detect deepfakes — images, text, video and audio that purports to be real but isn’t. These algorithms, Woodard says, are better at detecting deepfakes than humans.
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Got Frogs?

Technology opens UF's collection of amphibians and reptiles to the world
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iDrive

I-STREET testbed deploys the internet of things for traffic research
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Snap Decisions

When the United Nations, the American Academy of Pediatrics or The Wall Street Journal need insight on sharenting — the term coined...
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Data Prospecting

Not so long ago, a scientist might say she could never have too much data. Even today, in a world drowning in data, it is better to be data-rich than data-poor.
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Musical Marvel

How do you capture the sound of the stars? That was the challenge placed before composer Tina Tallon — for the score...
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‘It makes us feel powerful’

In a small private school in Jacksonville, a teenager put on a virtual-reality headsetfor the first time. Immersed in another...