Facebook says it is banning “deepfake” videos, the false but realistic clips created with artificial intelligence and sophisticated tools, as it steps up efforts to fight online manipulation. The social network said late Monday that it’s beefing up its policies to remove videos edited or synthesized in ways that aren’t apparent to the average person,…

The infinite, triangular loop of arrows that we know as the recycling symbol adorns millions of plastic pop and water bottles we carefully sort in the blue bin. It comforts us with the idea that each one will be recycled over and over again forever.  But unfortunately, most of the time, it’s a lie. Many…

A veteran of Canada’s ailing oilpatch is hoping a new product drawn from deep under Saskatchewan grain fields will provide a natural resource boom for Western Canada. Marlon McDougall, 59, says he wasn’t interested when first approached last year to join a junior exploration company. After 35 years in the oil and gas industry, he had…

Each night when darkness falls, huge swarms of dashing male sea creatures called comma shrimp swim up from the depths of the ocean, looking for love.  It’s a tried-and-true romantic strategy — one the males have been using since dinosaurs roamed the land, recently discovered fossils show. And while many animal lineages have gone through big evolutionary makeovers in…

As the U.S. braces for blowback following its killing of a key Iranian military commander, experts are warning of the possibility of cyberattacks targeting American institutions. Tehran and its proxies are thought to possess some of the most highly developed cyber arsenals in the world — major tools in modern, asymmetrical warfare, where countries and…

Australia continues to burn after more than a month of raging bushfires, and it doesn’t appear the smoke-filled skies will be clearing any time soon. As of Friday, more than five million hectares have burned, 19 people have died and 21 people are missing. Tens of thousands of people were forced to flee their homes. More than eight million more were under…