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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.

3 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.

1 week ago

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Elon Musk's Twitter lifts rule against Covid misinformation

Twitter said it has stopped enforcing a policy intended to prevent the spread of Covid misinformation, as new owner Elon Musk continues to remake its content moderation policies.

2 years ago
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Twitter owner Musk signals new 'war' against Apple

Twitter owner Elon Musk opened fire against Apple over its tight control of what is allowed on the App Store, saying the iPhone maker has threatened to oust Twitter.

2 years ago
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Musk announces gold, gray and blue badges for Twitter accounts

Twitter billionaire owner Elon Musk announced last Friday that the platform would be launching differently colored badges to distinguish between accounts.

2 years ago
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Elon Musk says Twitter's verified service with colors to start next week

Twitter Inc is planning to roll out its verified service next Friday with different colored checks for individuals, companies and governments, after a botched initial launch led to a surge in users impersonating celebrities and brands on the platform.

2 years ago
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Where to go?: Can Indonesian Twitter users live without the bird app?

As former Twitter employees speak up about the possibility of the social platform's collapse, its users talk about the prospect of moving out.

2 years ago
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Musk announces 'amnesty' for banned Twitter accounts after poll

"The people have spoken. Amnesty begins next week," Twitter's new owner said, responding to his own post asking, "Should Twitter offer a general amnesty to suspended accounts, provided that they have not broken the law or engaged in egregious spam?"

2 years ago
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What would a world without Twitter look like?

After another chaotic week of mass staff departures and policy reversals, Twitter's future seems highly uncertain, with users—and everybody else—increasingly asking one question: What would a world without the so-called bird app even look like?

2 years ago
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Spain’s high-speed rail competition heats up with new entrant

Spain's high-speed rail market is heating up with a new operator starting passenger services on Friday, making the country the first in Europe with three players in the sector.

2 years ago
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All eyes on Trump’s Twitter account after Musk reinstates him

Donald Trump has seemingly rejected returning to Twitter, but as he embarks on a new presidential campaign, will he be able to resist? All eyes were on his account on Sunday for any activity, after it was reinstated by the platform's new owner Elon Musk.

2 years ago
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Twitter fate in doubt as employees defy Musk ultimatum

Musk, also the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, has come under fire for radical changes at the California-based firm, which he bought less than a month ago for $44 billion.

2 years ago
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As recession looms, Airbnb CEO wants your home to make money

After years of trying to expand into other sectors, the CEO of holiday home-giant Airbnb wants to get back to the basics: Helping people make money.

2 years ago
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Billion youth risk hearing loss from headphones, venues: study

The World Health Organization-led study called on young people to be more careful about their listening habits, and urged governments and manufacturers to do more to protect future hearing.

2 years ago
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Earliest proof of cooking shows our ancestors liked well-done fish

Early human ancestors living 780,000 years ago liked their fish well-done, Israeli researchers revealed on Monday, in what they said was the earliest evidence of fire being used to cook.

2 years ago
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Elizabeth Holmes seeks to avoid prison for Theranos fraud

Elizabeth Holmes urged a United States judge not to send her to prison, as the founder of Theranos Inc. prepares to be sentenced this week for defrauding investors in the blood-testing start-up.

2 years ago
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‘Like the Moon’: Astronauts flock to Spanish isle to train

Kneeling on the edge of a deep crater, astronaut Alexander Gerst uses a chisel to collect a sample of volcanic rock which he carefully puts inside a white plastic bag.

2 years ago
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Fact Check: How to spot impostor Twitter accounts

The rollout of Twitter's subscription service has prompted a string of accounts impersonating public figures, sparking concerns about the potential for scams and disinformation.

2 years ago
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Elon Musk 'kills' new Twitter label, hours after launch

The social media platform unveiled its long-awaited Twitter Blue subscription service, which allows users to pay $7.99 per month for a coveted blue tick, as well as a separate gray "official" badge for some high-profile accounts.

2 years ago
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Science confirms: to light up the dance floor, turn up the bass

Researchers have taken a closer look at the relationship between bass frequencies and dancing, thanks to an experiment conducted during a real-life electronic music concert.

2 years ago
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Apple says iPhone production hit by China COVID-19 lockdown

Apple said COVID-19 restrictions have "temporarily impacted" production at the world's largest iPhone factory in central China, warning that customers will now face longer wait times ahead of the holiday season.

2 years ago
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Twitter impersonators will be suspended permanently, Musk says

In a separate tweet, Musk said Twitter previously issued a warning before suspension, but as Twitter is rolling out widespread verification, there will be no warning as well as "no exceptions."

2 years ago
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More advertising woes for Musk's Twitter as brands hit pause

Top global companies, including General Mills and Volkswagen, suspended their advertising on Twitter on Thursday as pressure builds on Elon Musk to turn his platform into a successful business.

2 years ago
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Chaos, confusion reign ahead of Twitter layoffs

Managers have been forbidden from calling team meetings or communicating directly with staff, one senior Twitter employee said, adding that they were being monitored.

2 years ago
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Controversial monkey study reignites animal testing debate

The paper, "Triggers for mother love" was authored by neuroscientist Margaret Livingstone and appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) in September to little fanfare or media coverage.

2 years ago
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Google wants AI in one thousand languages

Google on Wednesday said it wanted to develop artificial intelligence using the world's one thousand most spoken languages.

2 years ago
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How dubious 'local news' sites are feeding US misinformation

When Elon Musk amplified a conspiracy theory about the hammer attack on US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband, he joined the growing ranks of Americans routinely sharing misinformation from dubious "local news" outlets.

2 years ago
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Elon Musk announces $8 monthly charge for verified Twitter accounts

The announcement comes only days after the world's wealthiest man took sole control of the social media giant in a contentious $44 billion deal.

2 years ago
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Final module docks at China's Tiangong space station

Tiangong is one of the crown jewels in Beijing's well-funded programme -- which has landed robotic rovers on Mars and the Moon, and made the country only the third to put humans in orbit -- as it looks to catch up with major spacefaring powers like the United States and Russia.

2 years ago
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Elon Musk, who runs four other companies, will now be Twitter CEO

Musk, who also runs rocket company SpaceX, brain-chip startup Neuralink and tunneling firm the Boring Company, fired Twitter's previous chief, Parag Agrawal, and other top company officials last week.

2 years ago
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New potentially hazardous asteroid discovered

The 1.5 kilometer- (0.9 mile-) wide asteroid, named 2022 AP7, was discovered in area notoriously difficult to spot objects due to the glare from the Sun.

2 years ago
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‘Earth is in our hands’: Astronaut Pesquet’s plea for the planet

From his unique viewpoint hundreds of kilometers above Earth, French astronaut Thomas Pesquet told AFP he felt helpless watching fires rage across the planet below, calling for more to be done to protect this fragile "island of life".

2 years ago