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How blockchain technology could revolutionize the art market

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4T_xt_ncB0

The technology underpinning blockchain is a powerful decentralizing network architecture that could revolutionize many industries. Now, some artists are leveraging blockchain to help guarantee the authenticity of their work — and ensure that they get paid. PBS NewsHour science correspondent Miles O’Brien reports on how digital documentation is putting power back into artists’ hands, even […]

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Why ‘deepfake’ videos are becoming more difficult to detect

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OIFVm0dPLw

Sophisticated and inaccurate altered videos known as “deepfakes” are causing alarm in the digital realm. The highly realistic manipulated videos are the subject of a House Intelligence Committee hearing on Thursday. As PBS NewsHour science correspondent Miles O’Brien reports, the accelerating speed of computers and advances in machine learning make deepfakes ever more difficult to […]

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How cutting-edge engineering borrows nature’s innovations

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neUKzwYDB_c

In the never-ending hunt for new designs that jump, pump, or run faster and better, scientists are finding inspiration in nature. The field of biomimicry blurs boundaries between living things — like the butterfly’s proboscis or the flea’s powerful legs — and the inanimate to spur new problem-solving technologies. PBS NewsHour science correspondent Miles O’Brien […]

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Want to learn about junk news? Here’s all our award-winning reporting.

UPDATE 6/13/19: This series won a 2019 Mirror Award for Best Story on Social Media in the Crosshairs, tied with a BuzzFeed News series focusing on the same topic. After the 2016 U.S. presidential election, it became clear to a lot of people, including me, that the issue of fake news on the internet merited […]

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Revisiting the Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian, with MyRadar | Miles O'Brien Productions

Revisiting the Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian, with MyRadar

After Dorian, Bahamas' path to recovery is obscured by uncertainty | Miles O'Brien Productions

After Dorian, Bahamas’ path to recovery is obscured by uncertainty

What rising temperatures in the Gulf of Maine mean for the state’s lobster industry | Miles O'Brien Productions

What rising temperatures in the Gulf of Maine mean for the state’s lobster industry

The danger of coal ash, the toxic dust the fossil fuel leaves behind | Miles O'Brien Productions

The danger of coal ash, the toxic dust the fossil fuel leaves behind

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