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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.

4 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.

2 weeks ago

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IBM to break up 109-year old company to focus on cloud growth

International Business Machines Corp is splitting itself into two public companies, capping a years-long effort by the world's first big computing firm to diversify away from its legacy businesses to focus on high-margin cloud computing.

4 years ago
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Google must talk to French publishers about paying for their content, court says

Google must open talks with publishers in France about paying to use their content, an appeals court confirmed on Thursday, paving the way for an industry-wide deal in the country.

4 years ago
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Facebook, Twitter dismantle global array of disinformation networks

Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc said they had taken down more than a dozen disinformation networks used by political and state-backed groups in multiple countries to deceive users on their platforms.

4 years ago
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Web Summit to be held... on the Web

The 2020 edition of the Web Summit, an annual gathering for the global tech industry, will be held exclusively over the internet this year due to the coronavirus pandemic.

4 years ago
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Waymo opens robo-taxi service to the public in US city

Waymo, the autonomous car unit of Google-parent Alphabet, opened its robo-taxi project to the general public in the US city of Phoenix on Thursday, becoming the first widely available driverless ride service.

4 years ago
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Study finds preserved brain material in Vesuvius victim

Brain cells have been found in exceptionally preserved form in the remains of a young man killed in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius almost 2,000 years ago.

4 years ago
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Nobel winning women hope to inspire a new generation of scientists

On hearing that they had been awarded a Nobel Chemistry Prize for their groundbreaking work on gene-editing Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier said they hoped it would inspire a new generation of women in science.

4 years ago
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Election bot counters sexist abuse in New Zealand, one tweet at a time

An abuse-fighting bot has sent out hundreds of positive messages on social media to counter the online harassment of women candidates in New Zealand's general election.

4 years ago
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What is QAnon and how are online platforms taking action on it?

Online marketplace Etsy Inc is removing all QAnon merchandise from its site, the latest in a series of platform crackdowns on the unfounded and sprawling conspiracy theory.

4 years ago
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Agate’s ‘Onet Asli’ game available globally on Hago

By collaborating with Hago, Onet Asli can be played by users worldwide, enabling them to compete with each other regardless of their location.

4 years ago
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Mexican Nobel laureate Molina, ozone layer prophet, dies at 77

Mexican scientist Mario Molina, who became his country's first winner of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work on the threat to the ozone layer from chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), has died at the age of 77.

4 years ago
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US-French duo Charpentier, Doudna win Nobel Chemistry Prize for gene editing tool

Emmanuelle Charpentier of France and Jennifer Doudna of the United States on Wednesday won the Nobel Chemistry Prize for developing the gene-editing technique known as the CRISPR-Cas9 DNA snipping "scissors".

4 years ago
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Musk says Tesla to use new batteries, tech at Berlin factory; flags production risk

Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Wednesday the company will produce Model Y with a new structural battery design and technology at its Berlin factory next year and that could result in a "significant production risk".

4 years ago
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Musk says Tesla to use new batteries, tech at Berlin factory; flags production risk

Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Wednesday the company will produce Model Y with a new structural battery design and technology at its Berlin factory next year and that could result in a "significant production risk".

4 years ago
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Twitter is testing how its misinformation labels can be more obvious, direct

Twitter is rethinking how the labels it applies to misinformation look and work, as the social media company tries to make these interventions more obvious and cut its reaction times.

4 years ago
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SK Telecom, Microsoft team up to create 'Netflix of video games'

Firms to target Korea’s burgeoning console, cloud gaming market.

4 years ago
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Facebook, Instagram ban QAnon conspiracy-linked accounts

Facebook announced a ban on all accounts linked to the QAnon conspiracy group, as the social network tries to clamp down on misinformation ahead of the heated US presidential election.

4 years ago
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Apple sets unveil for Oct 13 amid 5G iPhone speculation

Apple scheduled a media event for October 13 amid expectations it would unveil one or more new iPhones which use ultrafast 5G wireless technology.

4 years ago
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American universities dominate the science Nobels

The Nobel science prizes reward not only the individual laureates, but also their universities, a competition won by far by the United States' prestigious faculties.

4 years ago
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Black hole discoveries win 2020 Nobel Prize for Physics

Physics is the second of this year's crop of Nobels to be awarded, after three scientists won the medicine prize for their discovery of Hepatitis C on Monday.

4 years ago
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South Korean search giant fined $23 million for manipulating results

South Korea's biggest internet portal Naver was hit with an unprecedented 26.7 billion won ($23 million) fine Tuesday for manipulating search results in favor of its own online shopping service.

4 years ago
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Quarter of employees at gaming firm Ubisoft report misconduct

A quarter of employees at the French video game giant Ubisoft have been victims of professional misconduct at work or were witnesses to it, according to a survey carried out by the group following allegations of sexual misconduct.

4 years ago
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Musk's SpaceX wins Pentagon award for missile tracking satellites

Elon Musk's SpaceX won a $149 million contract to build missile-tracking satellites for the Pentagon, in the company's first government contract to build satellites.

4 years ago
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Greece, Microsoft announce 1-billion-euro cloud investment

Greece and Microsoft announced an investment deal worth up to a billion euros ($1.2 billion) to build cloud storage infrastructure in the country.

4 years ago
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Boosting financial literacy key to promoting financial inclusion in Indonesia

Financial inclusion is highly important to stabilize the Indonesian economy. Yet, a 2019 survey by the Financial Services Authority (OJK) revealed that Indonesia’s financial inclusion rate stood at only 76.1 percent, marking an increase of some 40 million unbanked adults from 2017, when the rate stood at nearly 50 percent.

4 years ago
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On 10th birthday, Instagram no longer an escape from reality

Artful photos of sunsets and ice cream are being challenged by more activist content on Instagram as it turns 10 years old in a time of social justice protests, climate crisis, and the pandemic.

4 years ago
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A new feminist show on Twitch presents women's experiences in their own words

The Twitch platform aims to attract a feminist audience with a new show in which women from a variety of entertainment industry sectors will tell of their struggles and experience.

4 years ago
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Facebook overhauls Instagram messaging, enabling cross-app chats with Messenger

Facebook Inc said it would start replacing the direct messaging service within Instagram with a version of its Messenger app, the first major step in its plan to tie together messaging across its suite of apps.

5 years ago
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Google unveils new Pixel handsets with 5G wireless

Google on Wednesday unveiled two new smartphones with 5G wireless capability under its Pixel brand, which showcases the Android mobile system but has limited market share.

5 years ago
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FarmVille got hit by 2020 too

Sad news for FarmVille fans—Zynga, the developer of FarmVille, recently announced that it’s closing the original FarmVille on Facebook.

5 years ago