Cornell Detecting Deepfakes Lights Noise-Coded Illumination
Photo credit: Sreang Hok/Cornell University
Video used to be a window to reality, a reliable record of events. Now with deepfakes, that trust is crumbling. Anyone with a decent computer can create a video of world leaders saying things they never said or events that never happened. It’s getting worse and worse, but a team at Cornell has come up with a way to fight back. Their solution is called noise-coded illumination and it uses something as ordinary as light to watermark videos in a way that’s almost impossible to fake.

Custom Handheld Gaming PC NVIDIA RTX 4090
A Chinese modder named Qingchen DIY has built a handheld gaming PC that’s a fever dream for gamers who want raw power. This custom built device is made from the guts of a high end gaming laptop and leaves commercial handhelds in the dust. With a 12.5 inch 4K touchscreen and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Laptop GPU it’s a experiment of what happens when you don’t compromise on specs for portability.

Neuromuscular Aimbot Electric Assist
Inventor Nicholas, the mastermind behind the YouTube channel Basically Homeless, unveils his latest project, a neuromuscular aim-assist system that involves wiring his arm to a computer that shocks his muscles into action. This setup basically makes his hand snap to targets in milliseconds, rivaling the reaction times of professional gamers.