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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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Russian crew return to Earth after filming first movie in space

Yulia Peresild and Klim Shipenko landed as scheduled on Kazakhstan's steppe at 0436 GMT, according to footage broadcast live by the Russian space agency. 

3 years ago
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Microsoft shuttering LinkedIn in China as rules tighten

The US-based company will replace LinkedIn in China with an application dedicated to applying for jobs but without the networking features, according to senior vice president of engineering Mohak Shroff.

3 years ago
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Prince William tells space tourists: fix Earth instead

Britain's Prince William blasted space tourism on Thursday, saying more attention should be paid to problems closer to home ahead of the COP26 climate summit.

3 years ago
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What a blast! The rush of amateur astronauts

With veteran actor William Shatner of Star Trek becoming the latest celebrity to go into space Wednesday, we look at the recent rush of amateur astronauts.

3 years ago
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Anti-Semitism 'reaching younger audience on social media'

Anti-Semitism is being disseminated to a younger generation of social media users through platforms like Instagram and TikTok, according to analysis.

3 years ago
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To boldly go: 'Star Trek' star Shatner space-bound with Blue Origin

The Canadian -- who will forever be known to the sci-fi show's legion of "Trekkies" as Captain James Tiberius Kirk -- will launch from the company's West Texas base at 9 am (1400 GMT), after a day's delay due to high winds.

3 years ago
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Life on Mars: simulating Red Planet base in Israeli desert

The Austrian Space Forum has set up a pretend Martian base with the Israeli space agency at Makhtesh Ramon, a 500-metre (1,600-foot) deep, 40 kilometre (25 mile) wide crater.

3 years ago
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Germany unveils first self-driving train

Four such trains will join the northern city's S-Bahn rapid urban rail network and start carrying passengers from December, using the existing rail infrastructure.

3 years ago
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Fossil shows humans, dogs lived in Central America in 10,000 BC

The dogs, and their masters, potentially lived alongside giant animals, researchers say.

3 years ago
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Small business, big impact: The importance of MSMEs in small towns

It is no surprise that the COVID-19 pandemic, despite showing signs of abating, has wreaked havoc on the Indonesian economy. Even as the country is on the rebound, the pandemic’s effects are still being felt across industries, including micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs).

3 years ago
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Ancient river delta bolsters search for signs of life on Mars

In February, NASA's Perseverance rover landed in Jezero crater, where scientists suspected a long-gone river once fed a lake, depositing sediment in a fan-shaped delta visible from space. 

3 years ago
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'We feel helpless and guilty': Meet those behind Indonesia’s 'solidarity economy'

With many Indonesians barely able to survive the pandemic’s economic fallout, citizen-run initiatives have become a lifeblood for many.

3 years ago
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Singapore patrol robots stoke fears of surveillance state

From vast numbers of CCTV cameras to trials of lampposts kitted out with facial recognition tech, Singapore is seeing an explosion of tools to track its inhabitants.

3 years ago
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Duo wins Nobel Chemistry Prize for work on catalysts

The duo was awarded "for their development of a precise new tool for molecular construction: organocatalysis. This has had a great impact on pharmaceutical research, and has made chemistry greener," the Nobel Committee said.

3 years ago
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Vtubers: Virtual anime characters ready to entertain fans

Virtual YouTubers, or Vtubers, are entertainers with virtual anime avatars.

3 years ago
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Ancient Indonesian woman reshapes views on spread of early humans

Theories about early human migration in Asia could be transformed by the research published in the scientific journal Nature in August, after analysis of the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), or the genetic fingerprint, of the woman who was given a ritual burial in an Indonesian cave.

3 years ago
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Facebook blames "internal mistake" for nearly six-hour outage

The company in a late Monday blog post did not specify who executed the configuration change and whether it was planned.

3 years ago
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Facebook fights global outage and whistleblower revelations

Many long-held fears and criticisms about the platform seem to have been backed up by Facebook's own research, which ex-worker Frances Haugen has turned over to authorities and the Wall Street Journal.

3 years ago
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What is graphene? 'Miracle material' singled out for COVID-19 conspiracies

Often referred to as a "miracle material," graphene is one of the world's strongest materials, and one of the lightest.

3 years ago
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Space mission captures images of Mercury from 199 kilometers away

The images were obtained almost three years after the unmanned mission vessel was launched aboard an Ariane 5 Rocket.

3 years ago
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Decade after Steve Jobs' death, has Apple traded magic for profit?

"Apple doesn't innovate anymore" or "Steve Jobs is turning in his grave" are the type of disillusioned tweets that pop up especially during product launches led by Tim Cook, who took Apple's reins in August 2011. 

3 years ago
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Webinar fandom: web seminars are here to stay, to the delight of many

For better or worse, the continuing pandemic means that webinars will remain a major part of our lives for a long while yet. Webinar enthusiasts welcome this with open arms. 

3 years ago
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Google pulls plug on plan for mobile banking in Pay app

Google has hit the brakes on a project to add mobile banking to its Pay app, even as the online financial services market for everyday investors heats up.

3 years ago
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Science journal calls on scientists to combat Facebook misinformation

"The pandemic has revealed shocking ineptness by the scientific establishment at conveying messages about masks, vaccination, or the dangers of consuming horse drugs and aquarium cleaner," wrote editor-in-chief H. Holden Thorp.

3 years ago
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YouTube cracks down on anti-vax videos

YouTube said Wednesday it would remove videos that falsely claim approved vaccines are dangerous.

4 years ago
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Instagram delays kids' version after criticism

The decision to hold the iteration for children under 13 comes as Facebook grapples with fallout from a withering Wall Street Journal series revealing the social media giant's own research showed it knew of the harm Instagram can do to teenage girls' well-being. 

4 years ago
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Elon Musk wants US regulators to let cryptocurrency 'fly'

The colorful serial entrepreneur, an outspoken digital money fan, shared his view at a Code Conference in Beverly Hills, as governments around the world fret over cryptocurrency threatening their control of financial systems.

4 years ago
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Australia wants to limit Google's ad dominance

The comments, in a report published on Tuesday, puts Australia alongside Europe and Britain where regulators want to stop the Alphabet Inc unit trouncing rival advertisers by using the data it collects from people's online searches - including on maps and YouTube - to place marketing material.

4 years ago
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Blue Origin unveils next flight, TMZ says Captain Kirk to be aboard

Blue Origin's next flight may include a celebrity astronaut -- William Shatner, who played Captain Kirk on Star Trek, news and entertainment website TMZ said.

4 years ago