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Prevention: A person looks at a smart phone with a Facebook App logo displayed in the background in this photo illustration taken on Aug. 17, 2021, in Arlington, the United States. Last year, Facebook announced that it will add labels such as “satire page” to posts containing jokes and parody to help users differentiate them from real information.
Prevention: A person looks at a smart phone with a Facebook App logo displayed in the background in this photo illustration taken on Aug. 17, 2021, in Arlington, the United States. Last year, Facebook announced that it will add labels such as “satire page” to posts containing jokes and parody to help users differentiate them from real information.
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Meta content moderator cuts over 2,000 jobs in Spain

The move comes as Mark Zuckerberg's company has cut its third-party fact-checking in the United States and overhauled its content moderation policies.

2 days ago
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Musk's dreams for Starbase city in Texas hang on vote

Tech billionaire Elon Musk's dream of gaining city status for his SpaceX spaceport in the southern US state of Texas could become a reality on Saturday, with voters set to green light Starbase as a new municipality.

4 days ago
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Rediscovering the beauty of travel through the Trip.com light and music show

Vibrant colors and luminous light reflections coming together, the Trip.com light and music show awakes the magical desire of wanderlust with its picturesque graphics projected into a cascading waterfall.

5 days ago

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US-Russia tensions spill into space, but ISS safe for now

The outpost was the subject of a menacing Twitter thread by Russian space agency head Dmitry Rogozin, who warned Thursday that US sanctions could "destroy our cooperation" and said the research platform would plummet to the Earth without his nation's help.

3 years ago
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Ukrainians can lock Facebook pages after 'kill list' fears

People in Ukraine can lock down their Facebook pages as a security measure, the platform said, following warnings Russia was creating lists of Ukranians to kill after its invasion.

3 years ago
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Dubai adds to striking architecture with Museum of Future

Dubai opened its Museum of the Future on Tuesday, a structure it touts as the world's most beautiful building.

3 years ago
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China denies making space junk set to crash into Moon

Astronomers initially thought the wayward object was a chunk of a SpaceX rocket that blasted off seven years ago and was abandoned in space after completing its mission.

3 years ago
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Trump's new social media app has rocky rollout

Donald Trump's new social media app has started its gradual rollout but thousands of would-be users encountered glitches or found themselves placed on a waitlist.

3 years ago
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British-Belgian teen aims to follow sister's record with solo world flight

British-Belgian teenager Mack Rutherford is hoping to become the youngest male, at 16, to fly around the world solo in a light aircraft, just months after his sister became the youngest woman to do so.

3 years ago
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‘Life-changing’ or scam? Axie Infinity helps Philippines’ poor earn

A blockchain-based play-to-earn game finds popularity in the Philippines but some warn that it may be a fraudulent scheme.

3 years ago
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Rocket set to hit Moon was built by China, not SpaceX, say astronomers

A rocket will indeed strike the lunar surface on March 4, but contrary to what had been announced, it was built not by Elon Musk's company, but by Beijing, experts now say.

3 years ago
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How we can do better: PeduliLindungi should be doing more

"How We Can Do Better" is a new column that takes a close look at various innovations and developments across different industries and the ways they could be improved. In our inaugural installment, we delve into the official COVID-19 tracking app, PeduliLindungi.  

3 years ago
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Webb telescope spots its first star and takes a selfie

The steps are part of the months-long process of aligning the observatory's enormous golden mirror that astronomers hope will begin unraveling the mysteries of the early Universe by this summer.

3 years ago
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Musk 'confident' of Starship orbital launch this year

Addressing an audience at the company's Starbase facility near Boca Chica, south Texas, the tycoon merely said: "I feel at this point highly confident that we'll get to orbit this year," while hinting at a potential pivot to launching from Florida if the company encounters regulatory hurdles.

3 years ago
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Dozens of SpaceX internet satellites lost to geomagnetic storm

Geomagnetic storms are caused by ejections of the solar corona into space, resulting in disturbances to the Earth's upper atmosphere and increased drag on objects in low orbits.

3 years ago
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Study places Homo Sapiens in Europe earlier than thought

Up to now, archaeological discoveries had indicated that Neanderthals disappeared from the European continent about 40,000 years ago, shortly after the arrival of their "cousin" Homo sapiens, barely 5,000 years earlier and there was no evidence of an encounter between these two groups.

3 years ago
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Lockheed Martin wins NASA contract to bring Mars samples back to Earth

The "small, lightweight rocket" will be the first to take off from another planet, bringing back "rock, sediment and atmospheric samples from the surface of the Red Planet," NASA said in a statement.

3 years ago
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Facebook slump reignites debate over attracting younger audiences

Facebook has tried to replicate TikTok's Reels function and borrowed inspiration from Instagram's Stories function, but neither addition has stopped the slump.

3 years ago
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Facebook usage dips for first time. Will Instagram follow?

One forecaster, Insider Intelligence, does not expect Meta Platforms's Instagram social media service to lose users in the next three years. But its November estimates show Instagram's growth in monthly users will fall to 5.8 percent this year and 3.1 percent by 2025 from 16.5 percent last year.

3 years ago
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Facebook parent Meta sheds $200 billion in stock plummet

In addition to costs of big investments on its metaverse vision for the internet and trouble for its core ads business, the firm predicted slower growth and even reported its first dip in daily users globally on the signature Facebook platform.

3 years ago
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Spotify boss defends Joe Rogan deal as stock plunges

The comments were published Thursday as the firm's stock went into freefall.

3 years ago
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New 'highly virulent' HIV strain discovered in the Netherlands

Their analysis, published Thursday in the journal "Science," showed that patients infected with what they call the "VB variant" had 3.5 to 5.5 times higher levels of the virus in their blood than those infected with other variants, as well as a more rapidly fading immune system.

3 years ago
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Judge dismisses lawsuit over Apple iPhone water resistance claims

Apple's advertisements had made various claims about the iPhone's resistance to damage when submerged or otherwise exposed to water, including that some models could survive depths of 4 meters (13.1 feet) for 30 minutes.

3 years ago
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World's first trial to deliberately infect young adults with COVID found to be safe

The data supports the safety of this model which could theoretically provide a "plug and play" platform for testing therapies and vaccines using the original COVID-19 strain as well as variants of the virus, Open Orphan, which carried out the study, said in a statement.

3 years ago
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Hitchhiking in Earth's orbit, asteroid may be with us for 4,000 years

An asteroid that was discovered riding along in Earth's orbit is about three-quarters of a mile (1.2 km) wide and might remain as a hitchhiker with our planet for at least 4,000 more years while posing no danger.

3 years ago
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‘New York Times’ buys ‘Wordle’

The New York Times announced Monday it had bought Wordle, a phenomenon played by millions just four months after the game burst onto the internet, for an "undisclosed price in the low seven figures."

3 years ago
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Thai cafe serves up crypto advice with coffee and cake

A cafe in northeast Thailand has become home to cryptocurrency traders, adding banks of screens showing the latest market moves and dishing out investment advice alongside coffee and cake.

3 years ago
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Apple hits revenue record despite chip shortage

Apple reported record $124 billion quarterly revenue on Thursday, despite a global chip pinch and shifting impacts of the pandemic that have weighed down other big tech players.

3 years ago
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Scientists amazed by blinking star's 'totally unexpected' behavior

Scientists have detected what appears to be an incredibly dense star behaving unlike anything else ever seen – and suspect it might be a type of exotic astrophysical object whose existence has until now been only hypothesized.

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NASA aims to make observations from SpaceX junk collision with Moon

The rocket was deployed in 2015 to put a NASA satellite into orbit and its second stage, or booster, has been floating in the cosmos ever since, a common fate for such pieces of space technology.

3 years ago
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Astronomers predict SpaceX space junk will hit the Moon

The rocket was deployed in 2015 to put into orbit a NASA satellite called the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR).

3 years ago
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Object found in the Milky Way 'unlike anything astronomers have seen'

The object, first spotted by a university student working on his undergraduate thesis, releases a huge burst of radio energy three times every hour.

3 years ago
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Slovak flying car receives official certification

"AirCar certification opens the door for mass production of very efficient flying cars," said Stefan Klein, founder and chief executive of KleinVision, a company that designed and manufactured the prototype of the dual-mode car-aircraft vehicle.

3 years ago