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This image shows the newly discovered Costa Rican ghost shark (Rhinochimaera costaricana) at the Museum of Zoology of the University of Costa Rica's Center for Research in Biodiversity and Tropical Ecology in San Jose, Costa Rica, on July 3, 2026.

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New species of ghost shark may have been found in Costa Rica

Three species of ghost shark, a type of fish that is related to sharks, have been discovered elsewhere, in waters off South Africa, Taiwan, Australia, Japan and in the Atlantic between Greenland and Brazil.

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Meta lashes Australia's bid to make tech giants pay for news

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New York Times publisher slams AI companies' 'brazen theft' from news outlets

AI companies' "hijacking of the public square is made possible by the original sin that animates their A.I. products -- a brazen theft of intellectual property that has occurred at an unprecedented scale," said A.G. Sulzberger, according to his published remarks. ...

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Will AI really destroy humanity?

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

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NASA finds key building block for life in a moon of Saturn

The finding was based on a review of data collected by NASA's Cassini probe, and was published Wednesday in the prestigious journal Nature.

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'Final Beatles record' out this year aided by AI

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Apple unveils Vision Pro, its $3,500 headset

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AI poses 'extinction' risk, say experts

A one-line statement signed by dozens of specialists, including Sam Altman whose firm OpenAI created the ChatGPT bot, said tackling the risks from AI should be "a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war".

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Elon Musk's Neuralink says cleared for human test of brain implants

Neuralink said clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its first in-human clinical study is "an important first step" for its technology, which is intended to let brains interface directly with computers.

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In this photo illustration taken on April 21, 2022, the icon of an video sharing mobile phone application TikTok is pictured on a mobile phone used by an Afghan youth in Kabul.

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TikTok sues to stop ban in US state of Montana

The unprecedented ban, set to start in 2024, violates the constitutionally protected right to free speech, TikTok argued in the suit.

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Humans have been kissing for at least 4,500 years: study

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US 'space symphony' puts stunning NASA images to music

It could be the ultimate blend of art and science -- a new seven-suite "space symphony" inspired and illustrated by NASA's latest mind-boggling images.

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Audio book narrators say AI is already taking away business

As people brace for the disruptive impact of artificial intelligence on jobs, those in the world of audio books say their field is already being transformed.

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New Twitter CEO says she is excited to help to transform Twitter

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Apple to launch first online store in Vietnam

Apple will launch its first online store in Vietnam next week, hoping to cash in on the country's young and tech-savvy population.

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Astronomers puzzled by 'largest' ever cosmic explosion

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New study finds prehistoric migration from China to Americas

A new genetics study published Tuesday in Cell Reports finds that some of the first arrivals came from China during two distinct migrations: the first during the last ice age, and the second shortly after.

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Musk says video and audio calls coming to Twitter

"Coming soon will be voice and video chat from your handle to anyone on this platform," Musk said in a tweet.

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FILE PHOTO: Elon Musk Twitter account verification badge is seen in this illustration taken November 4, 2022. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo

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Musk says Twitter to soon allow calls, encrypted messaging

Last year, Musk flagged plans for "Twitter 2.0 The Everything App", which he said would have features such as encrypted direct messages (DMs), longform tweets and payments.

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The why of AI: LinkedIn’s subscription revenue has increased 8 percent after it adopted explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) that not only predicted clients at risk of canceling, but also explained how it arrived at the conclusion.

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LinkedIn cuts over 700 jobs

LinkedIn, which has 20,000 employees, has grown revenue each quarter during the last year, but it joins other major technology companies including its parent in laying off workers amid a weakening global economic outlook.

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This handout image obtained September 14, 2021 courtesy of Apple Inc. shows Apple CEO Tim Cook unveiling the new iPhone 13 during a special event at Apple Park.

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Rising iPhone sales help Apple beat forecasts

Apple said iPhone sales powered quarterly earnings that beat forecasts, despite inflation pressure and the slowing global economy.

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BuzzFeed, Vice woes signal crisis in digital-only media

With the closure of BuzzFeed News and bankruptcy looming at Vice, the once promising world of free digital media finds itself at a crossroads.

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A handout artist impression released by NSF's NOIRLab on May 3, 2023, shows a star devouring one of its planets as astronomers, using the Gemini South telescope in Chile, operated by NSF’s NOIRLab, have observed the first compelling evidence of a dying Sun-like star engulfing an exoplanet. The “smoking gun” of this event was seen in a long and low-energy outburst from the star — the telltale signature of a planet skimming along a star’s surface. This never-before-seen process may herald the ultimate fate of Earth when our own Sun nears the end of its life in about five billion years.

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Star swallows planet in first glimpse of Earth's likely end

But when the Sun finally does engulf Earth, it will cause only a "tiny perturbation" compared to this cosmic explosion, the US astronomers said.

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The SpaceX Starship explodes after launch for a flight test from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, on April 20, 2023.

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Conservation groups sue US regulator over SpaceX launches

US conservation groups announced they are suing the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for not doing enough to protect the environment from SpaceX's Starship program.

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Samsung bans use of ChatGPT for mobile, appliances staff

Samsung Electronics is banning employees in its mobile and appliances division from using generative AI services such as ChatGPT.

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This illustration photo created in Los Angeles, on April 14, 2023 shows a video played on Tik Tok where the user warns about the return of National Rape Day, a hoax that has resurfaced on TikTok for the second time. The hoax that rape was legal for a day was knocked down by fact-checkers two years ago. But it went viral again this year on TikTok, illustrating what researchers call “zombie“ misinformation. The stomach-churning falsehood that groups of men have declared April 24 as “National Rape Day,“ giving them free rein to commit sexual violence, crept its way to TikTok fame in 2021, sparking alarm in countries including the United States and Britain.

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'Zombie' misinformation: 'Rape Day' hoax resurfaces on TikTok

In a sea of videos, many with millions of views, terrified women declared plans to lock themselves in their rooms all day and men vowed to protect them against imaginary assailants.

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A handout picture released by the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities on April 27, 2023 shows a statue of Buddha uncovered in Egypt's ancient seaport of Berenice, now known as Medinet el Haras, shedding light on the ancient trade ties with India under the Roman empire.

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Buddha statue found in Egypt points to ancient India links

A Polish-US mission discovered the statue "dating back to the Roman era while digging at the ancient temple in Berenice", an antiquities ministry statement said on Wednesday.

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History through history: Rony Zakaria, a current photographer with ‘The Jakarta Post’, uses a light box in the office library on March 31, 2023 to view negatives taken by the newspaper’s photojournalists in the 1990s. (JP/Radhiyya Indra)

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Marking 40 years of Indonesia's history, in images from the 'Post'

Looking back over 40 years of The Jakarta Post, each photograph captures the emotions behind the country’s events and experiences.

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Twitter's blue ticks start vanishing

Twitter began the mass removal of its blue ticks on Thursday, as the symbol previously used to signify a verified account vanished from users including the Pope, Donald Trump and Justin Bieber.

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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 rocket successfully blasted off at 8:33 am Central Time (1333 GMT). The Starship capsule had been scheduled to separate from the first-stage rocket booster three minutes into the flight but separation failed to occur and the rocket blew up.

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SpaceX Starship, world's biggest rocket, explodes during first flight test

The uncrewed rocket disintegrated four minutes after successfully blasting off at 8:33 am Central Time (1333 GMT) from Starbase, the SpaceX spaceport in Boca Chica, Texas.

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In this file photo taken on May 2, 2022 Elon Musk arrives for the 2022 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

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Musk says he is out to create 'truth-seeking' AI

Elon Musk is out to counter Microsoft and Google artificial intelligence efforts with "truth-seeking AI" that shuns political correctness.

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In this file photo taken on September 17, 2013, the headquarters for National Public Radio (NPR) in Washington, DC.

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US broadcaster NPR quits Twitter as Musk admits 'many mistakes'

US radio broadcaster NPR said it was quitting Twitter, in the first significant defection by a major news outlet since Elon Musk's tumultuous takeover of the platform.

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