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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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Online hell: Cyberbullying in Indonesia remains vicious and rampant

Shocking details aside, the death of a bullied student in Tasikmalaya last July goes to show how widespread cyberbullying remains here.

3 years ago
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Twitter says Musk making up excuses to breach deal

Twitter said the notion Elon Musk was "hoodwinked" into inking a $44 billion buyout deal defies reason and the facts.

3 years ago
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SpaceX debris discovered in Australian sheep paddock

A charred chunk of space junk found jutting from a paddock by an Australian sheep farmer was part of one of Elon Musk's SpaceX missions, authorities confirmed on Thursday.

3 years ago
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Scientists revive cells and organs in dead pigs

Scientists announced Wednesday they have restored blood flow and cell function throughout the bodies of pigs that were dead for an hour, in a breakthrough experts say could mean we need to update the definition of death itself.

3 years ago
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Webb telescope captures colourful Cartwheel Galaxy

Located around 500 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Sculptor, the Cartwheel gained its shape during a spectacular head-on collision between two galaxies.

3 years ago
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S.Korea develops nanotech tattoo as health monitoring device

South Koreans may soon be able to carry a device inside their own bodies in the form of a bespoke tattoo that automatically alerts them to potential health problems, if a science team's project bears fruit.

3 years ago
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Gluttonous cosmic 'black widow' is heaviest-known neutron star

Astronomers have observed the most-massive known example of an object called a neutron star, one classified as a "black widow" that got particularly hefty by gobbling up most of the mass of a stellar companion trapped in an unhappy cosmic marriage.

3 years ago
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First nationwide data journalism conference kicks off

The Data and Computational Journalism Conference Indonesia (DCJ-CI), which runs from Wednesday to Saturday and features 16 seminars and six workshops, covers new media technology and data-driven journalism.

3 years ago
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String theory: NASA Mars rover discovers mystery object

Is it tumbleweed? A piece of fishing line? Spaghetti? An object discovered by NASA's Mars rover has intrigued space watchers.

3 years ago
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Facebook's Meta posts first-ever revenue drop

Facebook-parent Meta reported its first quarterly revenue drop as the social media powerhouse battles a turbulent economy and the rising phenomenon of TikTok.

3 years ago
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European satellite firms eye tie-up to create ‘global champion’

French satellite-operator Eutelsat said on Monday it was in talks with British counterpart OneWeb for a tie-up to create a "global champion" in broadband internet, rivaling United States services like Elon Musk's Starlink.

3 years ago
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Will AI-based recruitment process lead to gender discrimination?

Do artificial intelligence-assisted recruitments lead to gender-based bias?

3 years ago
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String theory: NASA Mars rover discovers mystery object

But the most plausible explanation is more prosaic: it's likely remnants of a component used to lower the robotic explorer to the Martian surface in February 2021.

3 years ago
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Instagram top news source among UK teens: study

Nearly three in 10 teenagers used Instagram as their news source in 2022, with TikTok and YouTube both on 28 percent.

3 years ago
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YouTube vows to remove abortion misinformation

YouTube on Thursday said it will start removing videos containing false or unsafe claims about abortion in a crackdown on misinformation about the medical procedure.

3 years ago
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Webb telescope may have already found most distant known galaxy

Known as GLASS-z13, the galaxy dates back to 300 million years after the Big Bang, about 100 million years earlier than anything previously identified, Rohan Naidu of the Harvard Center for Astrophysics told AFP.

3 years ago
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Job seekers in Africa easy prey for online scammers

From careers in banking to roles in globe-spanning agencies, social media in Africa is awash with lucrative job offers.

3 years ago
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Court battle to open in Musk, Twitter buyout fight

Elon Musk and Twitter will face off Tuesday in the first court hearing over the Tesla chief's move to abandon their $44 billion buyout deal.

3 years ago
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Webb begins hunt for the first stars and habitable worlds

Here is a look at two early projects that will take advantage of the orbiting observatory's powerful instruments.

3 years ago
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Netflix partners with Microsoft to offer cheaper streaming plan

Netflix will work with Microsoft to launch a cheaper subscription plan that includes advertisements, the firms said on Wednesday, as the streaming giant fights to attract customers.

3 years ago
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Scientists find oldest Martian meteorite's original home

The meteorite NWA 7034, nicknamed Black Beauty, has fascinated geologists since it was discovered in the Sahara Desert in 2011.

3 years ago
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Webb Telescope: What will scientists learn?

Here are some of the things scientists now hope to learn.

3 years ago
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Cosmic cliffs and dancing galaxies: Webb begins era of discovery

"Every image is a new discovery," said NASA administrator Bill Nelson. "Each will give humanity a view of the universe that we've never seen before."

3 years ago
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Webb telescope reveals clearest infrared image of early universe

The James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful observatory to be placed in orbit, has revealed the "deepest and sharpest infrared image of the early universe" ever taken, going back 13 billion years, NASA said on Monday.

3 years ago
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Webb telescope reveals deepest image of early universe

The James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful to be placed in orbit, has revealed the clearest image to date of the early universe, going back 13 billion years, NASA said Tuesday.

3 years ago
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Oldest European human fossil possibly found in Spain

A jawbone fragment discovered in northern Spain last month could be the oldest known fossil of a human ancestor found to date in Europe, Spanish paleontologists said Friday.

3 years ago
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James Webb Space Telescope opens its eyes on the Universe

Distant galaxies, bright nebulae and a faraway giant gas planet are among the observatory's first targets, US space agency NASA said Friday.

3 years ago
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Nigerian soccer joins video game big league as local stars get avatars

After three years of tinkering and hundreds of lines of code, Nigerian Victor Daniyan launches what he believes is the first African soccer game — Vikseen Virtual.

3 years ago
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Apple to release new 'Lockdown Mode' as it battles spyware firms

Apple Inc. said on Wednesday it planned to release a new feature called Lockdown Mode this fall that aimed to add a new layer of protection for human rights advocates, political dissidents and other targets of sophisticated hacking attacks.

3 years ago
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TikTok sued in US after girls die in 'Blackout Challenge'

Video-sharing sensation TikTok is being sued in California after children died while taking part in a "Blackout Challenge" that makes a sport of choking oneself until passing out.

3 years ago