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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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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
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Yearender: 2022’s five exceptional local applications

A list of must-download local apps that answer everybody’s unique needs, from financial management to veterinary services.

2 years ago
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Google rivals join forces in online maps

Google rivals on Thursday unveiled a project to make freely available datasets for map features to be built into online offerings.

2 years ago
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Australia takes aim at Apple, Microsoft over child protection online

An Australian regulator, after using new powers to make the tech giants share information about their methods, accused Apple Inc AAPL.O and Microsoft Corp MSFT.O not doing enough to stop child exploitation content on their platforms.

2 years ago
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No joke: Across globe, satire morphs into misinformation

Satire, parody and jokes packed with absurdity typically draw laughter, but around the world they are too often mistaken as real, prompting fact-checkers to debunk what they call a leading source of misinformation despite pushback from their publishers.

2 years ago
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Activists file case against Meta over Tigray hate posts

An Ethiopian man whose father was murdered has joined a lawsuit against Meta that is seeking $1.6 billion from Facebook's parent company for allegedly fanning hate speech in Africa.

2 years ago
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Musk’s new debut for Twitter Blue checkmarks

Elon Musk's latest attempt to get Twitter users to pay for perks began rolling out on Monday, seeking to avoid an impersonation debacle that scuttled the platform's verification system last month.

2 years ago
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Japanese startup launches historic Moon mission

A Japanese startup's spacecraft was launched to the Moon on Sunday in the country's first-ever lunar mission and the first of its kind by a private company.

2 years ago
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On-again, off-again Twitter subscription service to be relaunched

After several false starts, Twitter announced on Saturday it would relaunch its subscription service, including a system for authenticating accounts on the platform.

2 years ago
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Japanese billionaire Maezawa picks K-pop star TOP, DJ Steve Aoki to join SpaceX moon trip

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa on Friday revealed that K-pop star TOP and DJ Steve Aoki will be among the eight crew members he plans to take on a trip around the moon next year, hitching a ride on one of Elon Musk's SpaceX rockets.

2 years ago
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Apple beefs up iCloud data defense against snooping

Apple said on Wednesday it was beefing up security for data that users stored in the cloud, a move that could thwart authorities as well as hackers.

2 years ago
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TikTok hit by US lawsuits over child safety, security fears

TikTok was hit on Wednesday in the United States with a pair of lawsuits from the state of Indiana, which accused it of making false claims about the Chinese-owned app’s safety for children.

2 years ago