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The seven eerie 'signs' researchers claim could prove a loved one is trying to contact you from the afterlife

Daily Mail - Science & tech

Leaked transcript of UNAIRED 60 Minutes interview exposes REAL reason'callous' CBS star Scott Pelley'deserved to be fired' Urgent recall for 1.1m vehicles over fears they could spontaneously CATCH FIRE even when parked Disgraceful texts'hot' teacher sent boy, 17, who she had illegal sex with where she moaned about her HUSBAND Everyone always said I cleared my throat a lot. But then I developed shoulder pain and doctors discovered the sinister cause... the world's deadliest cancer. Don't leave it too late like I did Obama judge delivers brutal blow to Trump's bold $100K immigrant visa move White couple gave birth to'non-Caucasian' baby. 'Great' mom, 32, tried to gas herself and her three young kids to death after inviting them to'popcorn sleepover' in car, prosecutors allege Karmelo Anthony's parents seen leaving the courtroom in tears just before son's defense team pulls shock move Gaming influencer Alex Cimo dies'very suddenly' aged 32 just a month after'refusing to accept his fate' The porn-fuelled fantasy middle-class husbands are desperate to try with their wives... and it almost always ends in divorce: JANA HOCKING Medical student, 24, died by suicide in his white coat a day after he was suspended for alleged'inappropriate' behavior towards female patient, lawsuit alleges, as his heartbreaking goodbye note to parents is revealed Furious dad films his partner in bed with his 19-year-old son: You've seen the viral video - now all three tell the Daily Mail what REALLY happened in the scandal gripping Australia Girl, 13, mistakenly told she was DYING after Oregon hospital staff made jaw-dropping surgical mistake, parents' $17m lawsuit alleges Parents were told son, 7, had ADHD... not realizing he was battling terrifying disease that has now left him BLIND Mother's final words before she was shot dead'by new husband' in front of her two young children All the backstage gossip from Miami Swim Week: Insider exposes'catty' VIP's diva demands... STEALING... and'morbidly embarrassing' celeb moment everyone is whispering about The seven eerie'signs' researchers claim could prove a loved one is trying to contact you from the afterlife MORE: I speak to dead people in the afterlife. These are just some of the eerie experiences grieving relatives claim is a sign their dead loved-one is trying to contact them.


Clues in 'Majestic-12' UFO files the FBI claimed were fake prove secret alien unit was real, researcher claims

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Horrifying next twist in the Alexander brothers case: MAUREEN CALLAHAN exposes an unthinkable perversion that's been hiding in plain sight Hollywood icon who starred in Psycho after Hitchcock dubbed her'my new Grace Kelly' looks incredible at 95 Alexander brothers' alleged HIGH SCHOOL gang rape video: Classmates speak out on sick'taking turns' footage... as creepy unseen photos are exposed Model Cindy Crawford, 60, mocked for her'out of touch' morning routine: 'Nothing about this is normal' Kentucky mother and daughter turn down $26.5MILLION to sell their farms to secretive tech giant that wants to build data center there Tucker Carlson erupts at Trump adviser as she hurls'SLANDER' claim linking him to synagogue shooting NFL superstar Xavier Worthy spills all on Travis Kelce, the Chiefs' struggles... and having Taylor Swift as his No 1 fan Heartbreaking video shows very elderly DoorDash driver shuffle down customer's driveway with coffee order because he is too poor to retire Amber Valletta, 52, was a '90s Vogue model who made movies with Sandra Bullock and Kate Hudson, see her now Nancy Mace throws herself into Iran warzone as she goes rogue on Middle East rescue mission: 'I AM that person' Clues in'Majestic-12' UFO files the FBI claimed were fake prove secret alien unit was real, researcher claims MORE: Mystery as UFO vault with 3.8 million files is wiped clean A trove of controversial UFO documents describing a secret government group tasked with recovering alien spacecraft may be authentic after all. A researcher claims the long-debated Majestic-12 (MJ-12) papers, dismissed for decades as fake by the FBI, contain official intelligence filing numbers that match real CIA records from the same era. The documents allege that a group of 12 high-ranking military and scientific officials secretly spent more than two decades investigating crashed alien craft, studying non-human technology and attempting to communicate with extraterrestrials . The anonymous investigator said the breakthrough came after comparing administrative stamps and file numbers on the MJ-12 papers with those found on publicly released CIA documents from the 1940s and 1950s. According to the theory, the numbering systems and classification markings used on the controversial UFO papers match formats once used by the US intelligence community.


Researcher claims he's found Plato's grave after using AI to decipher ancient Herculaneum scrolls

Daily Mail - Science & tech

An Italian researcher has claimed to have found the long-lost burial place of the famed Greek philosopher Plato who died around 348 BC. Graziano Ranocchia used AI to decipher the Herculaneum scrolls, charred papyrus found buried by the Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79AD, revealing new text that pointed to an exact location in Athens. The analysis showed Plato was buried in'The Academy,' a famous school founded by the philosopher in 387 BC, near the so-called Museion - a small building sacred to the Muses that no longer stands among the ruins. Ranocchia and his team uncovered 1,000 words, corresponding to 30 percent of the text, using the'bionic eye' - and believe they will have the papyrus completely analyzed by 2026. The analysis showed Plato was buried in'The Academy,' a famous school founded by the philosopher in 387 BC, near the so-called Museion - a small building sacred to the Muses The team uncovered 1,000 words, corresponding to 30 percent of the text, using the'bionic eye' - and believe they will have the papyrus completely analyzed by 2026 'Compared to previous editions, there is now an almost radically changed text, implying a number of new and concrete facts about various academic philosophers,' Ranocchia said in a statement.


Researchers reveal Tesla jailbreak that could unlock Full Self-Driving for free

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Researchers say they have found a hardware exploit with Tesla's infotainment system that could unlock paid upgrades for free, including Full Self-Driving (FSD) and heated rear seats. They used a technique called voltage glitching, which involves tinkering with the supply voltage of the infotainment system's processor. "If we do it at the right moment, we can trick the CPU into doing something else," Christian Werling told TechCrunch. "It has a hiccup, skips an instruction and accepts our manipulated code. That's basically what we do in a nutshell."


Why Tinder can make it HARDER to find love: Excessive swiping creates 'partner choice overload'

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With Valentine's Day on the horizon, many singletons might be swiping on their dating apps with a little more urgency than normal. Unfortunately, a new study from the University of Vienna has found that this excessive searching could be doing more harm than good in the quest for love. Psychologists surveyed 464 young people on their dating app use, including how much they swipe and how they decide whether to go left or right on a profile. They were also asked if they compare themselves to others or become overwhelmed when browsing profiles, as well as about their feelings towards being single. A correlation was found between excessive swiping and a fear of being alone forever, feeling bad about one's life and so-called'partner choice overload'.


Robot dogs could be taught to mimic behaviours of real canines to make them more lovable

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The number of photos on social media of puppy dog eyes and'zoomies' just goes to show how much we love everything our furry friends do. So much so that robot dogs could be taught our favourite canine quirks in order to make them more realistic - and loveable. Researchers at the University of Glasgow and Western Sydney University have identified seven categories of dog behaviours that owners perceive as important for bonding with their pets. These include'Physical Touch' and'Enthusiasm', with examples like resting their head on their master and giving them'kisses' when they come home. Neuroscientist Professor Emily Cross said: 'We know that human and pet connections have great benefits, knowing what qualities lead to these positive outcomes could help with the development of robots that can also portray these qualities.


Text To Image AI Has Created Its Own Secret Language, Researcher Claims

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Here's something reassuring to think about: researchers using machine-learning artificial intelligence (AI) often don't know precisely how their algorithms are solving the problems they are tasked with. Take for instance the AI that can identify race from X-rays where no human can see how, or the Facebook AI that began to develop its own language. Joining these may be everyone's favorite text-to-image generator, DALLE-2. Computer Science PhD student Giannis Daras noticed that the DALLE-2 system, which creates images based on a text input prompt, would return nonsense words as text under certain circumstances. "A known limitation of DALLE-2 is that it struggles with text," he wrote in a paper published on pre-print server Arxiv.


Researchers claim biometric deepfake detection method improves state-of-the-art

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Biometrics can effectively be used to detect deepfakes, according to a paper from a team of Italian and German researchers reported by Unite.AI, and could be a less "unwieldy" method of doing so than detecting synthetic artefacts and other methods. The framework for the method specifies the use of at least ten genuine videos of the subject to train the biometric model, the researchers from the University of Federico II in Naples and the Technical University of Munich write. The research into'Audio-Visual Person-of-Interest DeepFake Detection' has been posted to Arxive, and describes what the authors say is a new state-of-the-art in deepfake detection. In testing against well-known datasets, the researchers improved area under curve (AUC) scores by 3 and 10 for accuracy identifying genuine high and low-quality videos, respectively, and 7 percent for deepfake videos. Interestingly, on high-quality videos, the worst-performing system delivered deepfake detection accuracy of above 69 percent.


Synthetic Data Does Not Reliably Protect Privacy, Researchers Claim

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A new research collaboration between France and the UK casts doubt on growing industry confidence that synthetic data can resolve the privacy, quality and availability issues (among other issues) that threaten progress in the machine learning sector. Among several key points addressed, the authors assert that synthetic data modeled from real data retains enough of the genuine information as to provide no reliable protection from inference and membership attacks, which seek to deanonymize data and re-associate it with actual people. Furthermore, the individuals most at risk from such attacks, including those with critical medical conditions or high hospital bills (in the case of medical record anonymization) are, through the'outlier' nature of their condition, most likely to be re-identified by these techniques. 'Given access to a synthetic dataset, a strategic adversary can infer, with high confidence, the presence of a target record in the original data.' The paper also notes that differentially private synthetic data, which obscures the signature of individual records, does indeed protect individuals' privacy, but only by significantly crippling the usefulness of the information retrieval systems that use it.


Researchers claim that AI-translated text is less 'lexically' rich than human translations

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Human interpreters make choices unique to them, consciously or unconsciously, when translating one language into another. They might explicate, normalize, or condense and summarize, creating fingerprints known informally as "translationese." In machine learning, generating accurate translations has been the main objective thus far. But this might be coming at the expense of translation richness and diversity. In a new study, researchers at Tilburg University and the University of Maryland attempt to quantify the lexical and grammatical diversity of "machine translationese" -- i.e., the fingerprints made by AI translation algorithms.