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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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TikTok urges social media alliance against suicide content

TikTok proposed an alliance with nine other social media platforms to work collectively and rapidly to remove suicide content, following an incident this month when a man killed himself on Facebook.

5 years ago
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ISS moves to avoid space debris

Astronauts on the International Space Station carried out an "avoidance maneuver" to ensure they would not be hit by a piece of debris, urging better management of objects in Earth's orbit.

5 years ago
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Nintendo's Switch faces French claim of 'planned obsolescence'

A French consumer advocacy group said that it had filed a "planned obsolescence" claim against Nintendo's Switch console, saying the Japanese giant knew some controllers were failing too quickly.

5 years ago
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TikTok apologizes for censoring LGBT+ content

TikTok has apologized for suppressing LGBT+ content in the past, with a director telling British lawmakers on Tuesday that the company now removed LGBT+ images only when required to do so by law enforcement agencies.

5 years ago
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Questions swirl about possible racial bias in Twitter image function

Social media giant Twitter said on Monday it would investigate its image-cropping function that users complained favored white faces over black.

5 years ago
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TikTok removes over 104 million videos in first-half for violating guidelines

ByteDance-owned short-video app TikTok said on Tuesday it removed over 104 million videos from its platform globally in the first half of the year for violating guidelines or terms of service.

5 years ago
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Google Doodle celebrates late legendary artist Benyamin Sueb

Google Indonesia has celebrated the inauguration of Benyamin Sueb Park in East Jakarta with a doodle.

5 years ago
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NASA plans for return to Moon to cost $28 billion

NASA on Monday revealed its latest plan to return astronauts to the Moon in 2024, and estimated the cost of meeting that deadline at US$28 billion, $16 billion of which would be spent on the lunar landing module.

5 years ago
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Microsoft steps up Xbox game with ZeniMax Media buy

Microsoft's deal to buy ZeniMax Media and its game studios for US$7.5 billion bodes well for its Xbox consoles and could shift the competitive landscape in an industry shifting to online play.

5 years ago
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Study suggests dengue may provide some immunity against COVID-19

A new study that analyzed the coronavirus outbreak in Brazil has found a link between the spread of the virus and past outbreaks of dengue fever that suggests exposure to the mosquito-transmitted illness may provide some level of immunity against COVID-19.

5 years ago
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Human footprints dating back 120,000 years found in Saudi Arabia

Around 120,000 years ago in what is now northern Saudi Arabia, a small band of homo sapiens stopped to drink and forage at a shallow lake that was also frequented by camels, buffalo and elephants bigger than any species seen today

5 years ago
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Millions of US users to be hit by WeChat block

Washington's crackdown on WeChat will disrupt communications between millions of people in the United States and their friends, families and business partners in China.

5 years ago
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Man 'asleep' in speeding self-driving car charged in Canada

A driver who allegedly set his car to autopilot and then took a nap as it broke the speed limit on a rural Canadian highway has been charged with dangerous driving.

5 years ago
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Trump gives blessing to deal to allow TikTok to continue to operate in US

US President Donald Trump said he supports a deal that will allow TikTok to continue to operate in the United States, after threatening to ban the Chinese-owned app in August.

5 years ago
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Could PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X be swan song for consoles?

The upcoming release of a ninth generation of games consoles by Sony and Microsoft is set to be a sales slam dunk with consumers seeking entertainment during pandemic confinement, but could it also be their swan song as the habits of gamers change?

5 years ago
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Ig Nobel science award: An alligator on helium sounds like ...?

If humans sound like Minnie Mouse after inhaling helium, would an alligator squeak on the gas used to float balloons?

5 years ago
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'Bored by all this drama': TikTok users play it cool over latest US ban threat

Since July, TikTok users have braced for a threatened ban of the ultra-popular short-form video app in the United States, with some opening accounts on rival platforms and encouraging friends to do the same.

5 years ago
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Samsung globally launches Galaxy Z Fold 2

Samsung Electronics announced that the company has officially launched the Galaxy Z Fold 2 in overseas markets.

5 years ago
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Vikings not as blond and blue-eyed as previously thought: Study

In the popular imagination, the Viking warriors who plundered northern Europe from the 8th century were as tall, fair and Scandinavian as they were murderous. In fact, according to a new study, they were far more diverse than previously thought.

5 years ago
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Price, launch dates, games... PlayStation 5 duels Xbox

Targeting system supremacy, gaming behemoths Sony and Microsoft are about to go head to head with their latest offerings -- PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X.

5 years ago
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China's Tencent rebrands WeChat work app ahead of Trump ban

Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings has changed the name of its WeChat Work office collaboration app to WeCom, setting it up as a potential alternative to its messaging app WeChat ahead of a US ban.

5 years ago
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Cookies and romance?: What Indonesians watch on YouTube

As the country weathers the pandemic, Indonesians are taking comfort in some unlikely corners of YouTube.

5 years ago
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NASA mulls possible mission to Venus after recent discovery of possible life

NASA is considering approving by next April up to two planetary science missions from four proposals under review, including one to Venus that scientists involved in the project said could help determine whether or not that planet harbors life.

5 years ago
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Amazon cranks up its music service with podcasts

Amazon on Wednesday added podcasts to its streaming music service, tapping into a trend and taking on rivals including Spotify and Apple.

5 years ago
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Spotify steps up antitrust war over Apple One bundling

Sweden's global number one music streamer Spotify is urging EU competition authorities to probe Apple's One bundled subscription services as it steps up its antitrust criticisms of the US tech titan.

5 years ago
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PlayStation 5 console to launch in November

The premium PS5 will be priced at US$500, while a "digital edition" designed for the trend of games being downloaded from the cloud will be priced at $400.

5 years ago
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Facebook plans Ray-Ban smart glasses as it eyes AR

Facebook on Wednesday announced it would launch its own smart glasses next year which connect to smartphones as part of an alliance with eyewear titan EssilorLuxottica.

5 years ago
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AI robot serves customers at Seoul restaurant

"Aglio Kim", a trolley-like robot which uses artificial intelligence (AI), is delivering food to customers at a restaurant in Seoul, in order to minimize human contact and help ensure social distancing.

5 years ago
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China sends satellites into space in first sea-based commercial launch

China has successfully sent nine satellites into orbit in its first commercial launch of a rocket from a platform at sea.

5 years ago
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Scientists find world's oldest sperm in Myanmar amber

A team of paleontologists have discovered what they believe is the world's oldest animal sperm, frozen inside a tiny crustacean in a blob of tree resin in Myanmar 100 million years ago.

5 years ago