the morality and the legality of deepfakes are murky issues.th the fact that we can't trust what we read, very soon we will need to confront the fact that we can't trust anything we see or hear either. hello, and welcome to the week in tech. it was the week that google's dedicated health farm announced it has created an algorithm that can predict high blood pressure, as well as risk of heart attacks or strokes, simply by scanning a person's eyes. as boston dynamics keep on showing us how intelligent robots are becoming, experts this week warned that artificial intelligence in the wrong hands is ripe for exploitation. drones turned into missiles, fake videos manipulating public opinion and automated hacking are just three of the threats they identified. and amazon ceo jeff bezos is getting a new clock. but it's not one you can pick up from a shop. costing a huge m2 million — or £30 million — it is designed to run for 10,000 years and construction began this week inside a hollowed—out mountain in texas. the vice president of facebook‘s adverts fo

the morality and the legality of deepfakes are murky issues.e are wrestling with the fact that we can't trust what we read, very soon we will need to confront the fact that we can't trust anything we see or hear either. remember nintendo's switch, its hugely successful console that's both mobile and which plugs into a tv? well, the japanese gaming giant has now created a host of rather unusual new peripherals which wildly alter how the machine is used. and marc cieslak has been getting all bent out of shape over it. he plays a musical scale. you may be forgiven for thinking that this cardboard is the packaging for the new peripherals for the nintendo switch console. called labo, it's a range of devices which includes things like a piano, motor bike handlebars, fishing rod and even a robot suit. straps on the shoes... i might look like i'm stomping around in a slightly weird way. but this game asks you to really get into the character of a giant robot. and, if i pull down my visor, i activate first—person mode. for precision destruction! gelled

have you heard of deepfakes? it's a technique that's been used inevitably for pornography videos, where the face of an actor or actress is replaced with that of a celebrity. now the company that hosted many of these videos has announced that it's tracking them down and deleting them from the internet. here's what we're talking about. the programme — the software — has been downloaded 100,000 times in the month since its release. don't worry, i'm not going to show you pornography, because the programme is also used with non—pornographic content, so here's our example. this is germany's chancellor angela merkel — take a look and see if you can make out whose face has been super—imposed. if you could make that out, it was donald trump's face. well, to find out how these videos are causing so much harm, i spoke with our technology desk editor, leo kelion. that's right. what these are is basically a computer—generated video of a subject's face that is then merged with a real video clip. and the way this works is that

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