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This artist's impression shows a group of archaic humans hunting in a forest roughly 1 million years ago in China's Hubei Province.
This artist's impression shows a group of archaic humans hunting in a forest roughly 1 million years ago in China's Hubei Province.
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Ancient skull from China may shake up timeline of human evolution

The findings are based on a reconstruction of a crushed skull discovered in China in 1990, and have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.

2 days ago
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Music industry group says AI firms guilty of 'wilful' copyright theft

"The world's largest tech companies as well as AI-specific companies, such as OpenAI, Suno, and Udio, Mistral, etc. are engaged in the largest copyright infringement exercise that has been seen," John Phelan, director general of the International Confederation of Music Publishers (ICMP), told AFP.

1 week ago
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Southeast Asia's smoke-dried bodies could be world's 'oldest mummies': study

While the bandage-bound bodies of ancient Egypt date back perhaps as far as 4,500 years ago, the oldest previously known examples of mummification are from ancient Chilean societies.

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Germany's biggest publisher warns AI could 'replace' journalism

German media giant Axel Springer warned on Tuesday that journalists risked being made obsolete by artificial intelligence.

2 years ago
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Twitter lays off 10% of current workforce

The layoffs on Saturday night impacted product managers, data scientists and engineers who worked on machine learning and site reliability, which helps keep Twitter's various features online, the NYT report said, citing people familiar with the matter.

2 years ago
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Core collection: Apple archive goes under the hammer

A collection of nearly half-a-century's worth of Apple computers that traces the evolution of one of the world's most influential companies is going under the hammer in California next month.

2 years ago
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Homo sapiens in Europe used bow-and-arrow 54,000 years ago: study

The research, published on Wednesday in the journal Science Advances, pushes back the age of archery in Europe by more than 40,000 years.

2 years ago
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Webb spots surprisingly massive galaxies in early universe

Since becoming operational last July, the Webb telescope has been peering farther than ever before into the universe's distant reaches -- which also means it is looking back in time.

2 years ago
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Meta subscriber plan risks digital divide, say critics

Years after Facebook removed a slogan that declared the site was "free and always will be", parent company Meta announced a paid-for subscription service that has already been widely criticised.

2 years ago
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Big Tech defends landmark law in US Supreme Court

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday will consider a law that since 1996 has protected tech companies from lawsuits related to content posted on their platforms. 

2 years ago
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Turkey quake fuels conspiracy posts on US antenna station

Scientists have for years been refuting claims that the High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP), with its Alaska facility boasting 180 radio antennae, is a US government-backed programme to weaponise the atmosphere and subjugate the population.

2 years ago
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Users say Microsoft's Bing chatbot gets defensive and testy

Microsoft's fledgling Bing chatbot can go off the rails at times, denying obvious facts and chiding users.

2 years ago
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App allows Mexicans to reach out after death

Providing a welcome voice from beyond the grave, a Mexican app stores messages and last wishes for users to share with loved ones after their death.

2 years ago
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ChatGPT frenzy sweeps China as firms scramble for home-grown options

While residents in the country are unable to create OpenAI accounts to access the artificial intelligence-powered (AI) chatbot, virtual private networks and foreign phone numbers are helping some bypass those restrictions.

2 years ago
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Sexting chatbot ban points to looming battle over AI rules

The General Data Protection Regulation is the bane of big tech firms, whose repeated rule breaches have landed them with billions of dollars in fines, and the Italian decision suggests it could still be a potent foe for the latest generation of chatbots.

2 years ago
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Mars rover finds rippled rocks caused by waves: NASA

"This is the best evidence of water and waves that we've seen in the entire mission," said Ashwin Vasavada, Curiosity's project scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California.

2 years ago
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Twitter service stumbles as paying users get more room

Thousands of Twitter users on Wednesday reported problems using the platform as the Elon Musk-owned social network began letting paying users post tweets as long as 4,000 characters.

2 years ago
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Japan rolls out 'humble and lovable' delivery robots

Proponents hope the machines could eventually help elderly people in depopulated rural areas get access to goods, while also addressing a shortage of delivery workers in a country with chronic labour shortages.

2 years ago
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Small asteroid 'serendipitously' detected using James Webb telescope

The asteroid measuring between 300 and 650 feet (100 to 200 meters) in length is the smallest object observed to date using the telescope, the US space agency NASA said Monday.

2 years ago
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Google to release ChatGPT rival named Bard

Google said it will release a conversational chatbot named Bard, setting up an A.I. showdown with Microsoft which has invested billions in the creators of ChatGPT.

2 years ago
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'Upending the world': Swiss teachers take on ChatGPT

The release in November of ChatGPT, which uses artificial intelligence to convincingly mimic human writing, has sparked concerns in schools worldwide of a looming cheating epidemic.

2 years ago
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TikTok took down ‘ngemis online’ content

TikTok took down all things related to "ngemis online," in which people perform tricks for money, from their platform at the request of the Communications and Information Ministry.

2 years ago
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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