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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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TikTok owner ByteDance accuses Facebook of 'plagiarism and smears'

TikTok owner ByteDance has accused Facebook of plagiarism and smears although it did not elaborate on the accusation.

5 years ago
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SpaceX brings NASA astronauts home safe in milestone mission

America's first crewed spaceship to fly to the International Space Station in nearly a decade returned safely to Earth on Sunday, splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico.

5 years ago
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Google teases Pixel 4A release and August 3 launch date

On Thursday, Google went crazy teasing the upcoming budget iteration of the flagship Pixel 4 smartphone.

5 years ago
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SpaceX craft departs ISS for Earth

The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station on Saturday with two US astronauts on board, beginning their journey back to Earth despite a storm threatening Florida.

5 years ago
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TikTok sale uncertain as Trump ban looms: Reports

Negotiations for Microsoft to buy the US operations of Chinese-owned TikTok are on hold after President Donald Trump threatened to bar the social media app and came out against the sale.

5 years ago
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Facebook challenges YouTube with licensed music videos

Facebook on Friday added licensed music videos to the social network in the US, challenging YouTube for the attention of online audiences.

5 years ago
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Netflix raises subscription prices for Indonesians

The platform's cheapest subscription plan, called the Mobile package, which previously cost Rp 49,000 (US$3.35), is now priced at Rp 54,000.

5 years ago
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US teen charged as 'mastermind' in epic Twitter hack

Criminal charges were filed on Friday against the suspected teenage mastermind of an epic Twitter hack and two others who allegedly helped hijack celebrity accounts to swindle people out of more than $100,000 in a cryptocurrency scheme.

5 years ago
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Microsoft weighs TikTok purchase as ad business flattens out

Microsoft Corp could re-energize its advertising business with a huge supply of video if it follows through on acquiring TikTok's US operations from ByteDance.

5 years ago
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Video games seen becoming a new frontier in digital rights

Critical digital rights battles over privacy, free speech and anonymity are increasingly being fought in video games, a growing market that is becoming a "new political arena".

5 years ago
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Ancient 'Acropolis of the sea' opens to divers, guarded by high tech

Hidden and protected for millennia, an ancient shipwreck in Greece opens to the public for the first time on Aug. 3, fusing archaeological wonders in the depths of the sea with the marvels of modern-day artificial intelligence.

5 years ago
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Snap Inc.'s first diversity report exposes company's lack of racial and gender diversity

On Wednesday, Snap Inc. published its first annual diversity report which discloses how white, male employees make up the majority of the company workforce.

5 years ago
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Facebook to get rights to show music videos: Bloomberg News

Facebook Inc has completed a series of deals for the right to show music videos on its platform, raising the prospect of its competing more with Alphabet Co's video platform YouTube in the area

5 years ago
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Taking on SpaceX, Amazon to invest $10 billion in satellite broadband plan

Amazon.com Inc said it will invest more than $10 billion to build a network of 3,236 satellites that will provide high-speed broadband internet services to people around the world who lack such access.

5 years ago
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Indonesian landmarks, characters featured in town simulator game

Several historical Indonesian landmarks are featured in the town simulator game Fantasy Town.

5 years ago
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Spotify tests tool allowing long-distance friends to simultaneously listen to a playlist

On Tuesday, Spotify announced that after a few months of testing, its tool allowing users to host virtual parties and listen to tunes together while confined in their respective homes has launched as an updated beta.

5 years ago
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Mystery solved: Scientists trace source of Stonehenge boulders

Stonehenge, a Neolithic wonder in southern England, has vexed historians and archaeologists for centuries with its many mysteries: How was it built? What purpose did it serve? Where did its towering sandstone boulders come from?

5 years ago
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UK researchers trial robots to ease social care burden

Scientists at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh have programmed robots, including Pepper -- who was launched as the world's first humanoid in Japan in 2014 -- to perform tasks normally carried out by care workers.

5 years ago
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Holocaust survivors urge Facebook to remove genocide denial posts

Holocaust survivors launched a campaign Wednesday in which they plan to upload daily videos to Facebook urging CEO Mark Zuckerberg to remove posts from the site that deny the Nazi genocide of Jews.

5 years ago
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NASA set to launch robotic rover to seek signs of past Martian life

NASA is set to launch an ambitious mission to Mars on Thursday with the liftoff of its next-generation Perseverance rover, a six-wheeled robot tasked with deploying a mini helicopter, testing out equipment for future human missions and searching for traces of past Martian life.

5 years ago
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Marketers' dilemma: Do we need Facebook and Google?

A month ago, Unilever as one of the biggest advertising spenders in the world joined more than 100 other giant brands like Coca Cola, Starbucks, Honda, Levi’s and Patagonia in boycotting social media.

5 years ago
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Scientists revive 100 million-year-old microbes from deep under seafloor

Scientists have succeeded in reviving microbes retrieved from sediment deep under the seafloor in the heart of the South Pacific that had survived in a dormant state for 101.5 million years in research illustrating the resiliency of life on Earth.

5 years ago
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Samsung weighs dropping Bixby as Google dangles new mobile apps deal

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd is considering dropping its Bixby virtual assistant and Galaxy Apps Store from its mobile devices as part of a new global revenue-sharing deal with Alphabet Inc's Google, according to correspondence seen by Reuters on Tuesday.

5 years ago
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CES global gadget fest goes digital due to pandemic

Consumer Electronics Show organizers on Tuesday reversed course on plans to go through with the massive annual gathering in Las Vegas, saying it will go digital due to the pandemic.

5 years ago
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Quest advances to recreate sun's energy on earth

Fourteen years after receiving the official go-ahead, scientists on Tuesday began assembling a giant machine in southern France designed to demonstrate that nuclear fusion, the process which powers the sun, can be a safe and viable energy source on Earth.

5 years ago
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Dusting off the past: London's Natural History Museum prepares to re-open

London's Natural History Museum is dusting off the blue whale that soars above its central hall, its dinosaur skeletons and thousands of other exhibits in preparation for re-opening next month after COVID-19 forced its closure in March.

5 years ago
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India bans 47 more Chinese mobile apps

India has banned 47 more Chinese apps just weeks after blocking the highly popular video-sharing platform TikTok and 58 others over national security and privacy concerns, an information ministry official and media reports said Monday.

5 years ago
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Google employees to work from home until July 2021: Report

Google LLC will allow its employees around the world to work from home until July 2021, altering an earlier plan to resume office work from next January amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, US media said Monday.

5 years ago
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What is the bidirectional V2G technology being tested by auto manufacturers?

Audi is just the latest in a string of manufacturers to announce work on a bidirectional recharge system. 

5 years ago
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Quantum loop: US unveils blueprint for 'virtually unhackable' internet

US officials and scientists have begun laying the groundwork for a more secure "virtually unhackable" internet based on quantum computing technology.

5 years ago