While ChatGPT took two months to hit the 100 million user mark and video-sharing app TikTok took nine months, Instagram itself took two and a half years to reach that mark after its 2010 launch.

This strange world, which is more than 260 light years from Earth, reflects 80 percent of the light from its host star, according to new observations from Europe's exoplanet-probing Cheops space telescope. 

That is the conclusion of scientists whose findings are offered as proof that rapid expansion of human appetites and activity so radically altered natural systems as to tip Earth into a new geological epoch called the Anthropocene, or the "era of humans".

When Swift brings her acclaimed "Eras Tour" to Singapore next March, Lukman will be one of the 300,000 fans - called "Swifties" - in the audience for one of the six shows in the city state.

As companies strive to minimize their environmental impact and embrace sustainable practices, the demand for qualified sustainability and ESG professionals has skyrocketed.

Threads is a text-based sidekick of Instagram, the image-heavy social network that Facebook bought more than a decade ago and became the world's most popular app for photo sharing.

"In terms of where Tesla is at this stage, I think we are very close to achieving full self-driving without human supervision," Musk said via video link at the opening ceremony of an artificial intelligence conference in Shanghai.

Vietnam is investigating "an incident" involving the organiser of a Blackpink concert in Hanoi after its website was found to feature a map showing China's territorial claims in the South China Sea.

Threads is the biggest challenger yet to Elon Musk-owned Twitter, which has seen a series of potential competitors emerge but not yet replace one of social media's most iconic companies, despite its epic struggles.

The Online News Act, adopted by parliament last month, requires digital giants like Google and Meta to make commercial deals to compensate Canadian news outlets when users access articles through their products, or face binding arbitration.

Japan is waging a concerted campaign to calm controversy before it begins releasing treated water from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea.

Zuckerberg's Meta group, which owns Facebook, has listed a new app in stores as "Threads, an Instagram app", available for pre-order in the United States, with a message saying it is "expected" this Thursday.

Time stops for no one, or so they say. For most of us, certain special places evoke a world of reminiscence, calling forth precious times in our lives. And when one of those places is removed, a part of ourselves goes away too. 

Einstein's theory of relativity predicts that because space is expanding, "we should see the distant universe run in slow motion," said Geraint Lewis, an astrophysicist at the University of Sydney and the lead author of a new study.

The social media firm, bought by billionaire Elon Musk last year, has been thrashing around for ways to make a profit, cutting staff and ramping up its paid-for subscriptions.

The mini rotorcraft, which hitched a ride to the Red Planet with the Perseverance rover in early 2021, has already survived well beyond its initial 30-day mission to prove the feasibility of its technology in five test flights.

Verified accounts were initially limited to reading 6,000 posts a day, Musk said, adding that unverified accounts will be limited to 600 posts a day with new unverified accounts limited to 300.

Leading fiber, pulp and paper producer APRIL Group has declared a Fire Danger Period across its own and managed concession areas in Riau, Sumatra, including its concessions under the Restorasi Ekosistem Riau (RER) program, lasting from July 1 to Sept. 30.  

The launch is planned from Cape Canaveral in Florida at 11:12 am local time (1512 GMT) on a Falcon 9 rocket of the US company SpaceX.

US rapper Travis Scott will not face criminal charges over the death of 10 people killed in a crush during a Texas concert in 2021.

The Online News Act became law last week, aiming to support a struggling Canadian news sector that has seen hundreds of publications close in the last decade.

The breakthrough -- made by hundreds of scientists using radio telescopes in North America, Europe, China, India and Australia after years of work -- was hailed as a major milestone that opens a new window into the universe.

The 29-year-old, best known as the lead of recent Netflix series "Hollywood," will take on the iconic role for "Superman: Legacy," due in 2025 from Warner Bros.

But what are these disaster scenarios and how are machines supposed to wipe out humanity?

The California singer-songwriter joined AFP on a sunny riverside in Paris to talk about their joint single "Odyssey" and upcoming dates in North America. 

What is it? says John Wyse. —A nation? says Bloom. A nation is the same people living in the same place. —By God, then, says Ned, laughing, if that’s so I’m a nation for I’m living in the same place for the past five years.

The remains of the Titanic rest on the seabed in the North Atlantic at a depth of some 3,800 meters.