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The SpaceX Starship lifts off from the launchpad during a flight test from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, on April 20, 2023.
The SpaceX Starship lifts off from the launchpad during a flight test from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, on April 20, 2023.
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Musk's dreams for Starbase city in Texas hang on vote

Tech billionaire Elon Musk's dream of gaining city status for his SpaceX spaceport in the southern US state of Texas could become a reality on Saturday, with voters set to green light Starbase as a new municipality.

1 day ago
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Rediscovering the beauty of travel through the Trip.com light and music show

Vibrant colors and luminous light reflections coming together, the Trip.com light and music show awakes the magical desire of wanderlust with its picturesque graphics projected into a cascading waterfall.

2 days ago
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Oldest-known ant preserved in 113 million-year-old Brazilian fossil

This ant is roughly 13 million years older than the previous oldest-known ants, specimens found in France and Myanmar that were preserved in amber, which is fossilized tree sap.

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Vidio reveals 15 original series for first half of 2023

Local streaming platform Vidio reveals 15 original series that will be released in the first leg of 2023.

2 years ago
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ChatGPT: the promises, pitfalls and panic

The potential impact of ChatGPT on society remains complicated and unclear even as its creator Wednesday announced a paid subscription version in the United States.

2 years ago
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Clickbait or creativity? The art world wrestles with AI

Tech companies tout their inventions as a liberating force of art for all, but purists argue that the artist is still the central cog in the machine.

2 years ago
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ChatGPT owner launches 'imperfect' tool to detect AI-generated text

In its public beta mode, OpenAI acknowledges the detection tool is very unreliable on texts under 1,000 characters, and AI-written text can be edited to trick the classifier.

2 years ago
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Boeing celebrates 747 at final commercial delivery of 'jumbo jet'

Boeing marked its final commercial delivery of the 747, "the Queen of the Skies" on Tuesday at a ceremony commemorating an aircraft that democratized flying and serves US presidents.

2 years ago
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Is there life on Mars? Maybe, and it could have dropped its teddy

The beaming face of a cute-looking teddy bear appears to have been carved into the surface of our nearest planetary neighbor, waiting for a passing satellite to discover it.

2 years ago
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Asteroid to come 'extraordinarily close' to Earth: NASA

Asteroid 2023 BU, which was recently discovered by an amateur astronomer, will zoom by the southern tip of South America at around 4:27 pm PST on Thursday (0027 GMT Friday), according to NASA.

2 years ago
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IBM to cut 3,900 jobs as it reorganizes business

IBM will slash some 3,900 jobs, slightly more than one percent of its workforce, related to businesses it has divested.

2 years ago
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NASA, Pentagon developing nuclear-powered rocket for Mars voyage

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said Tuesday that the US space agency will team up with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to "develop and demonstrate advanced nuclear thermal propulsion technology as soon as 2027."

2 years ago
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Earth's inner core may have started spinning other way: study

Earth's inner core, a hot iron ball the size of Pluto, has stopped spinning in the same direction as the rest of the planet and might even be rotating the other way, research suggested on Monday.

2 years ago
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Microsoft invests billions in ChatGPT firm OpenAI

In a company blog post tweeted by CEO Satya Nadella, the tech giant announced a "multiyear, multibillion dollar investment to accelerate AI breakthroughs" that would be "broadly shared with the world."

2 years ago
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Elon Musk takes stand in Tesla tweet fraud trial

The multi-billionaire's tweets sent the Tesla share price on a rollercoaster ride and Musk was sued by shareholders who say the tycoon acted recklessly in an effort to squeeze investors who had bet against the company.

2 years ago
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Spotify to cut 6% of workforce, some 600 employees: CEO

Swedish music streaming giant Spotify said Monday it was cutting six percent of its roughly 10,000 employees.

2 years ago
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Bird statue fetches $100,000 as Musk auctions Twitter HQ items

Elon Musk auctioned off furniture, decorations, kitchen equipment and more from the tech firm's downtown San Francisco headquarters.

2 years ago
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Scientists use laser to guide lightning bolt for first time

Scientists said they have used a laser beam to guide lightning for the first time, hoping the technique will help protect against deadly bolts -- and one day maybe even trigger them.

2 years ago
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Jakarta aims to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050

Both Jakarta’s government and its people join hands to reduce carbon emissions in the city.

2 years ago
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TikTok in talks with Jordan to lift month-long ban

Jordanian authorities on December 16 suspended use of the app in the kingdom, after a senior police officer was killed and others were injured during protests over fuel prices in the country's south.

2 years ago
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AI, do my homework! How ChatGPT pitted teachers against tech

Alarm among educators has reached fever pitch in recent weeks over ChatGPT, an easy-to-use artificial intelligence tool trained on billions of words and a ton of data from the web.

2 years ago
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'The Last of Us' a new test for video game adaptations

The series has already won a slew of positive reviews, with a score of 97 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, and is on track to be the streaming world's first success of 2023, 10 years after the "The Last of Us" game first debuted on PlayStation. 

2 years ago
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OpenAI, creator of ChatGPT, casts spell on Microsoft

Microsoft has integrated Dall-E 2 into several of its applications and now wants to graft ChatGPT to its Bing search engine to take on Google.

2 years ago
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Space junk, not meteorites, remains biggest threat to spacecraft

Russian announced on Wednesday a February mission to the International Space Station to pick up crew members left stranded after a strike damaged the capsule that was to take them home.

2 years ago
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Indonesian artist Diela Maharanie helps keep NFTs in the public spotlight

Indonesian nonfungible token (NFT) artist Diela Maharanie continues to prove that the cryptocurrency driven art form is alive and kicking, in defiance of skeptics, naysayers and pessimists predicting the field’s imminent demise.

2 years ago
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Once in 50,000-year comet may be visible to the naked eye

The comet is called C/2022 E3 (ZTF) after the Zwicky Transient Facility, which first spotted it passing Jupiter in March last year.

2 years ago
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From bees to bullets, CES tech show gives gamers the feels

At the CES tech show, the video game industry is showing off just how lifelike gaming can be made with new vests, head cushions and other simulation products.

2 years ago
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From tracking moods to putting on a show, it's AI-everything at CES

Like hundreds of other exhibitors at CES, the world's biggest tech expo, French engineer Perzo is selling the merits of an object that depends on the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence.

2 years ago
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Elon Musk's Twitter lifts ban on political ads

The company tweeted on Tuesday it would relax its advertising policy for "cause-based ads" in the United States and align its ad policy with TV and other media outlets.

2 years ago
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AI infused everything on show at CES gadget extravaganza

More than ever, cars now come with operating systems so much like a smartphone or laptop computer, Accenture expects that by 2040 about 40 percent of vehicles on the road will need software updated remotely.

2 years ago
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AI-powered technology sees big improvements in UK stroke treatment: Analysis

Artificial intelligence (AI) technology has tripled the number of United Kingdom stroke patients recovering to a point where they can perform daily activities, according to new research released on Tuesday.

2 years ago
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Planet spiralling into star may offer glimpse into Earth's end

In a new study published this week, a team of mostly US-based researchers said they hope the doomed exoplanet Kepler-1658b can help shed light on how worlds die as their stars get older.

2 years ago
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Twitter to ban users from promoting rival social platforms

Twitter announced Sunday it would no longer allow users to promote their accounts on several rival social media platforms including Facebook and Instagram.

2 years ago