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China readies Shenzhou mission ahead of schedule after spacecraft damage

The Shenzhou missions have run like clockwork since 2021 until ten days ago when Shenzhou-20 was damaged while docked at Tiangong, forcing its three-person crew to stay an extra nine days along with another trio of astronauts.

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High school student Gracelyn Atmadja contributes to pioneering battery technology research

While most high school students explore science through classroom experiments, Gracelyn Atmadja took her passion a step further by contributing directly to a pioneering research project on sustainable battery technology at the University of Indonesia (UI). ...

4 days ago
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Humans can no longer tell AI music from the real thing: survey

The polling firm Ipsos asked 9,000 people to listen to two clips of AI-generated music and one of human-made music in a survey conducted for France-based streaming platform Deezer. ...

5 days 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.

5 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.

5 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.

5 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.

5 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.

5 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.

5 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.

5 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.

5 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.

5 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
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23 million dollars for new space station toilets: But how do they work?

Scheduled for delivery on Tuesday, September 29, the new International Space Station (ISS) toilets have cost the American taxpayer an astronomical 23 million dollars. 

5 years ago
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With more than 26 million kilometers logged across RI, GrabProtect now reaches Papua

As a precautionary measure to maintain the health of its partners and its users, Southeast Asia’s leading super app Grab recently launched GrabProtect in Papua’s Jayapura, in partnership with the city’s mayor and transportation agency.

5 years ago
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Research and Technology Ministry and INOTEK to incubate 1,000 technopreneurs

Research and Technology Minister and National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) head Bambang Brodjonegoro has signed a cooperation agreement with business incubator INOTEK Foundation to run the One Thousand Technopreneurs One Million Jobs (STSP) program.

5 years ago
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TikTok launches US election guide to battle misinformation

TikTok on Tuesday launched a US election guide as part of an effort to battle misinformation on the wildly popular video-sharing app that the White House has targeted for a ban.

5 years ago
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Amazon unveils payment by hand-waving

Amazon on Tuesday unveiled a new biometric payment system using palm recognition, to be made available to rival retailers and also promoted as a replacement for badge entry at stadiums or workplaces.

5 years ago
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LINE allows users to create their own avatars

Tokyo-based messaging app LINE has introduced a new feature that allows its users to to express their creativity by creating a cartoon version of themselves.

5 years ago
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Google clamps down on apps dodging Play Store 30% cut

Google said Monday it plans to start enforcing a rule requiring Android apps in its Play store to use its payment system, which takes a 30 percent cut of transactions.

5 years ago
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Fortnite still unwelcome in Apple's mobile App Store

Epic Games on Monday failed to convince a US judge to make Apple put its hit title Fortnite back in the tech giant's App Store, while their legal battle heads for a possible trial next year.

5 years ago
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Kenya harnesses fly larvae's appetite to process food waste

Every day, the farm processes around 20 to 30 tons per day of fruit waste and produces 2 and 2.5 tons of larvae, which are then dried and turned into animal feed. 

5 years ago
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Far from home, refugees build digital heritage with virtual reality

The Partition in 1947, following India's independence from British rule, triggered one of the biggest forced migrations in history, uprooting more than 12 million people and killing more than one million.

5 years ago
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TikTok gets reprieve as judge halts Trump download ban

TikTok won a last-minute reprieve as a US federal judge halted enforcement of a politically charged ban ordered by the Trump administration on downloads of the popular video app, hours before it was set to take effect.

5 years ago
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Can artificial intelligence encourage good behavior among internet users?

Hostile and hateful remarks are thick on the ground on social networks in spite of persistent efforts by Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and YouTube to tone them down. Now researchers at the OpenWeb platform have turned to artificial intelligence to moderate internet users’ comments before they are even posted.

5 years ago
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Epic Games battles to get Fortnite back in App Store

Epic Games will strive anew Monday to convince a judge that its hit title Fortnite should be restored to Apple's App Store, despite sidestepping the tech titan's standard commission on transactions.

5 years ago
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Wildly successful, TikTok becomes focus of US-China war

Known for its short-form videos popular with teens, TikTok has become a global social media sensation, and at the same time has found itself at the heart of a geopolitical war between the United States and China.

5 years ago
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Facebook gets reprieve from Apple on live events cut

Facebook said Friday it struck a deal in which Apple agreed to temporarily forgo its cut of revenue from paid events at the leading social network to help pandemic-hit performers earn money during the pandemic.

5 years ago
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ShopBack and RedDoorz report data breaches

Both assure customers of safety of credit card information, and are investigating incidents further.

5 years ago
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Back to Venus: Upstart company wants to beat NASA in search for life

Can a small American aerospace company get to Venus before NASA returns to our superheated planetary neighbor? That's what Peter Beck, the CEO of Rocket Lab, is hoping as he sets his sights on launching a low-cost probe in 2023.

5 years ago
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Google parent Alphabet settles sexual misconduct lawsuit

Alphabet on Friday announced moves to address sexual misconduct at Google and its other operating divisions, putting in place changes worked out to settle a lawsuit filed by shareholders.

5 years ago
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