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A chimpanzee is pictured inside his enclosure at the Beauval Zoopark in Saint-Aignan, central France, on May 7, 2025.
A chimpanzee is pictured inside his enclosure at the Beauval Zoopark in Saint-Aignan, central France, on May 7, 2025.
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Jungle music: Chimp drumming reveals building blocks of human rhythm

The findings lend fresh weight to the theory that the raw ingredients of human music were present before our evolutionary split from chimpanzees six million years ago.

12 hours ago
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Ransomware group Lockbit appears to have been hacked, analysts say

On Wednesday one of Lockbit's darkweb sites was replaced with a message saying, "Don't do crime CRIME IS BAD xoxo from Prague" and a link to an apparent cache of leaked data.

2 days ago
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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.

5 days 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
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Webb telescope reaches final destination, a million miles from Earth

At around 2:00 pm Eastern Time (1900 GMT), the observatory fired its thrusters for five minutes to reach the so-called second Lagrange point, or L2, where it will have access to nearly half the sky at any given moment.

3 years ago
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Amazon to open first offline clothing store in LA

Amazon's online commerce empire is taking another step into the real world with plans to open a shop in Los Angeles, its first bricks-and-mortar clothing store, announced Thursday.

3 years ago
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Scientists struggle to monitor Tonga volcano after massive eruption

The eruption of Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai volcano, which sits on the seismically active Pacific Ring of Fire, sent tsunami waves across the Pacific Ocean and was heard some 2,300 kms (1,430 miles) away in New Zealand.

3 years ago
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One of the oldest human fossils just got older: study

Kibish Omo I, first unearthed in Ethiopia in 1967, contained only bone and skull fragments which were difficult to date directly and experts long remained divided over their age.

3 years ago
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Man takes selfies everyday for 5 years, makes crypto fortune

A young Indonesian man named Ghozali is making headlines for selling a selfie for Rp 3.1 trillion (US$216 million) as a nonfungible token (NFT).

3 years ago
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'Amazing milestone' as NASA fully deploys Webb telescope in space

Engineering teams in the James Webb Space Telescope's control room cheered as confirmation came back that its final wing was deployed and latched into place.

3 years ago
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Body-monitoring tech trend comes with concerns

Despite its popularity, some experts at the Consumer Electronics Show worried a trend of ceaselessly tracking steps, time sitting, heart rate and more could cause stress and addiction.

3 years ago
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James Webb telescope fully deploys sunshield in mission milestone

"All five layers of the sunshield are fully tensioned," said an announcer at the observatory's control center in Baltimore, where team members cheered, a live feed showed.

3 years ago
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BlackBerry pulls life support for once-indispensable business smartphone

The move marks the end of an era as the phones, which sported a tiny QWERTY physical keyboard, pioneered push email and the BBM instant messaging service.

3 years ago
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Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes guilty in fraud trial

Holmes had vowed to revolutionize health diagnostics with self-service machines that could run an array of tests on just a few drops of blood, a vision that drew high-profile backers and made her a billionaire by the age of 30.

3 years ago
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CES tech fair prepares to draw crowds as COVID surges

Multiple companies -- including Amazon, BMW and Microsoft -- reduced or canceled their attendance as COVID-19 case numbers broke records, but organizers said safety protocols were in place for thousands of expected attendees.

3 years ago
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Chinese citizens slam Elon Musk after space station near-misses

The satellites from Starlink Internet Services, a division of Musk's SpaceX aerospace company, had two "close encounters" with the Chinese space station on July 1 and Oct. 21, according to a document submitted by China earlier this month to the UN's space agency.

3 years ago
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James Webb telescope sets off on million-mile voyage

The James Webb Space Telescope, some three decades and billions of dollars in the making, left Earth enclosed in its Ariane 5 rocket from Kourou Space Centre in French Guiana.

3 years ago
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James Webb telescope set for launch on million-mile voyage

The James Webb Space Telescope, some three decades and billions of dollars in the making, will leave Earth enclosed in its Ariane 5 rocket from Kourou Space Centre in French Guiana.

3 years ago
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Tesla, after probe, deactivates video games in moving cars

Electric automaker Tesla will update its vehicle software to prevent drivers from playing video games on the console while the car is in motion.

3 years ago
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James Webb telescope launch pushed back, again

The new target date, if determined to be viable, would be an actual Christmas gift for scientists who have been waiting three decades to see the largest and most powerful telescope take off for space aboard an Ariane 5 rocket.

3 years ago
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Perfectly preserved dinosaur embryo was preparing to hatch like a bird

The fossil was discovered in Ganzhou, southern China and belonged to a toothless theropod dinosaur, or oviraptorosaur, which the researchers dubbed "Baby Yingliang."

3 years ago
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Amazon, Facebook to drop CES plans on COVID-19 concern

CES, which serves as an annual showcase of new trends and gadgets in the technology industry has attracted more than 180,000 people from around the world to a sprawling array of casinos and convention spaces in the past.

3 years ago
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NASA confirms James Webb telescope to be launched on Dec. 24

The project, begun in 1989, was originally expected to deploy the instrument -- which will be the largest and most powerful telescope ever to be launched into space -- in the early 2000s.

3 years ago
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Scientists discover brain region that responds to clitoris

The research involved stimulating the clitorises of 20 adult females while their brains were scanned using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

3 years ago
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Reddit jumps on IPO bandwagon with confidential filing

Reddit Inc, whose message boards became the go-to destination for day traders during this year's meme stock frenzy, said on Wednesday it had confidentially filed for an initial public offering with U.S. securities regulators.

3 years ago
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Ground control to Maezawa: SoftBank's Son speaks to orbiting protege

Maezawa, 46, has a long relationship with Son, 64, and made his fortune with online fashion retailer Zozo, which was bought by SoftBank's internet business in 2019.

3 years ago
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Experimental duo Senyawa creates app to deliver postapocalyptic music

The Yogyakarta-based pair released a new album through their own streaming app.

3 years ago
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Elon Musk named Time magazine person of the year

Time magazine named Elon Musk as its person of the year 2021, citing his embodiment of the technological shifts but also troubling trends reshaping people's lives.

3 years ago
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Webb telescope to look for first light of cosmic dawn

The largest and most powerful telescope ever to be launched into space, which will take over from Hubble, will "directly observe a part of space and time never seen before", says NASA. 

3 years ago
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James Webb Space Telescope: A giant leap towards 'other Earths'?

But outside our own solar system, other stars give warmth and light to planets and, possibly, life.

3 years ago
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'Squid Game', Alec Baldwin among top Google searches

Google said Wednesday its most popular search terms in 2021 include "Squid Game," Alec Baldwin and the cryptocurrency Dogecoin.

3 years ago
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CEO apologizes after laying off 900 employees via Zoom call

Vishal Garg, who has come under intense criticism after the SoftBank-backed company laid off about 9 percent of its workforce through the video call, said he had "blundered the execution" of communicating the layoffs.

3 years ago