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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.

5 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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Online global hackathon aims to tackle local issues

Around 2,300 participants participated in the event, mostly from Indonesia, India, the US and Canada.

5 years ago
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Pakistan tells YouTube to block 'objectionable' content

Pakistani regulators have asked YouTube to immediately block all videos they consider "objectionable" from being accessed in the country, a demand criticized by rights campaigners.

5 years ago
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Chinese consumers could boycott Apple if US bans WeChat: Ministry warns

Chinese consumers could boycott Apple if the United States bans WeChat, China's foreign ministry spokesman warned Friday, as the clock ticks down on a US order to block the popular social app.

5 years ago
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Zuckerberg says Facebook's failure to remove militia page an 'operational mistake'

Facebook Inc made an "operational mistake" in not acting sooner to remove a page for a militia group that posted a call to arms in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the company's Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Friday.

5 years ago
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Apple blocks Fortnite maker from game developer tools

Apple said Friday it has followed through on its decision to block the maker of Fortnite from developer tools needed to update games on its mobile devices.

5 years ago
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Musk shows off progress merging brains and machines

Futurist entrepreneur Elon Musk late Friday demonstrated progress made by his Neuralink startup in meshing brains with computers, saying the work is essential to the future of humanity.

5 years ago
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Blue planet: Study proposes new origin theory for Earth's water

Water covers 70 percent of the Earth's surface and is crucial to life as we know it, but how it got here has been a longstanding scientific debate.

5 years ago
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New Amazon health wristband gauges happiness

Amazon on Thursday unveiled a wristband that goes beyond simply tracking activity to gauging how happy a person is by the sound of their voice.

5 years ago
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YouTube removes 600,000 Indonesian videos last quarter

Around 10 million videos removed by YouTube potentially violated the platform's guidelines as they were indicated to contain extremism, violence or could harm minors.

5 years ago
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Amazon's latest grocery store concept opens, with high-tech carts

Amazon.com Inc on Thursday said it is opening a supermarket in Los Angeles with shopping carts that let customers skip checkout lines, as the e-commerce company builds out its offline presence.

5 years ago
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New season of 'Fortnite' is here, Apple users miss out

Epic Games launched the new season of hit video game "Fortnite" on Thursday, pitting Marvel super heroes against Fantastic Four-villain Galactus in the first update to exclude iPhone and iPad users due to a legal fight with Apple Inc.

5 years ago
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Walmart says teaming with Microsoft in bid for TikTok

US retail giant Walmart said Thursday it had teamed with Microsoft to buy TikTok, the Chinese-owned short-form video app that has come under fire from the administration of President Donald Trump.

5 years ago
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Fighting mosquito-borne diseases... with mosquitoes

The French company InnovaFeed, specialized in the production of insects to feed livestock, is partnering with the Australian research World Mosquito Program (WMP) to develop what it says is the first industrial-level production of mosquitoes.

5 years ago
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TikTok CEO Kevin Mayer quits: Memo

TikTok Chief Executive Officer Kevin Mayer has left the company and General Manager Vanessa Pappas will replace him on an interim basis.

5 years ago
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Artificial intelligence has role to play in enforcing COVID-19 health protocol

Never has the potential of AI been greater than in this moment of crisis.

5 years ago
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Is Nintendo planning an upgraded Switch console for 2021?

Nintendo is planning to bring out a new and more powerful version of its Nintendo Switch console in early 2021, according to reports from Bloomberg and the Economic Daily News. The launch will likely be accompanied by a major release of new games.

5 years ago
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Fitbit unveils stress-tracking smartwatch with Google deal pending

Fitbit Inc on Tuesday unveiled a fitness tracker and two smartwatches, including one that purports to help monitor users' stress levels, as the company's pending sale to Alphabet Inc's Google remains mired in antitrust reviews globally.

5 years ago
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YouTube video removals soar as software enforces rules

YouTube said Tuesday that video removals soared in the second quarter of this year as the company relied more on software to enforce content rules to protect workers from the pandemic.

5 years ago
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Apple defeats bid to return 'Fortnite' to App Store

A US court has rejected a bid by the makers of Fortnite to reinstate the video game sensation immediately to the App Store, saying its eviction by Apple was a "self-inflicted wound."

5 years ago
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Facebook News feature to expand beyond US

Facebook on Tuesday said it is speeding up plans to go international with a news tab feature that involves paying publishers for stories delivered through the leading social network.

5 years ago
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Platform for virtual gatherings offers larger-than-life social interaction

A team of three young developers in Toronto has launched a new platform which promises to make video meetings  more natural and much closer to real-life gatherings.

5 years ago
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Judge blocks Apple move to hamper Epic's Unreal Engine

A federal judge on Monday blocked Apple Inc from shutting down an Epic Games tool that is relied upon by hundreds of other app makers but had become the subject of an antitrust battle between the companies.

5 years ago
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TikTok sues over ban ordered by Trump

Video app TikTok on Monday filed a lawsuit challenging the US government's crackdown on the popular Chinese-owned platform, which Washington accuses of being a national security threat.

5 years ago
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Zoom's US users hit by partial outage, some service restored

Video-conferencing company Zoom Video Communications Inc said on Monday a partial outage had left numerous US users unable to log in to work meetings or attend classes remotely, but that it had managed to restore some service.

5 years ago
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Vietnamese tech firm sues TikTok, alleging copyright infringement

Vietnamese technology firm VNG is suing TikTok, the popular short-form video app, saying it does not have adequate licences for the songs being used in its videos, sources said on Monday.

5 years ago
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Microsoft says Apple's move against 'Fortnite' creator would hurt its games

Microsoft Corp on Sunday said in a court filing that Apple Inc's threat to cut off the creator of "Fortnite" from Apple's developer tools would hurt Microsoft's gaming business, as well as other game developers.

5 years ago
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The world's longest-range electric automobile to be unveiled this fall

On Sept. 9,, American manufacturer Lucid Motors is to unveil the Air, an electric sedan with record-breaking range. 

5 years ago
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UK plans to drop 'Facebook tax', Mail on Sunday says

British finance minister Rishi Sunak plans to drop a tax on technology companies such as Facebook and Google because it does not raise much money and could hurt a push for a US trade deal.

5 years ago
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TikTok says to sue over Trump crackdown

Video app TikTok said it will challenge in court a Trump administration crackdown on the popular Chinese-owned service, which Washington accuses of being a national security threat.

5 years ago
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'FreeFortnite' tournament taunts Apple amid legal battle

The maker of video game sensation Fortnite is taunting Apple amid its legal battle with the tech titan, launching a tournament on Sunday to highlight its war on the App Store fee policy.

5 years ago