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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.

2 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.

1 week ago

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Meta toughens content curbs for teens on Instagram, Facebook

The changes come months after dozens of US states accused Meta of damaging the mental health of children and teens, and misleading users about the safety of its platforms.

1 year ago
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Rocket carrying American lunar lander arrives at launchpad

United Launch Alliance' Vulcan Centaur rocket rolled out in the morning to its launchpad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, preparing for its maiden flight to blast off on Monday at 2:18 am local time.

1 year ago
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Deepfakes deceive voters from India to Indonesia before elections

With a hotly-contested local election in his home state of Rajasthan last November, and a national election due by May this year, the opportunity for his company, The Indian Deepfaker, is tremendous. But Jadoun was reluctant.

1 year ago
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AI-assisted piano allows disabled musicians to perform Beethoven

To assist players, the "Anybody's Piano" tracks the notes of the music and augments the performance by adding whatever keys are needed but not pressed. 

1 year ago
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Fossils show dismembered young dinosaurs in belly of T-rex cousin

Scientists said on Friday they have unearthed fossilized remains of a juvenile Gorgosaurus that was 5 to 7 years old and about 4.5 meters long, which included the animal's stomach contents, revealing its last meals.

1 year ago
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Lawsuit says Facebook, Instagram expose children to exploitation

The new suit comes less than two months after dozens of US states accused Facebook and Instagram owner Meta of profiting "from children's pain," damaging their mental health and misleading people about the safety of its platforms.

1 year ago
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Montreal research hub spearheads global AI ethics debate

OpenAI's recent dismissal and then rehiring a few days later of chief executive Sam Altman, who has been accused of downplaying risks in his push to advance its ChatGPT bot, illustrates some of the turmoil in the startup sector and fierce competition in the race to commercialize generative AI.

1 year ago
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Microsoft president says no chance of super-intelligent AI soon

The president of tech giant Microsoft said there is no chance of super-intelligent artificial intelligence being created within the next 12 months, and cautioned that the technology could be decades away.

1 year ago
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Spotify to change how it pays artists

With its announced changes, Spotify estimates it can generate around a billion dollars in additional revenue for artists over the next five years.

1 year ago
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Sam Altman joins Microsoft

"We look forward to getting to know Emmett Shear and OAI's new leadership team and working with them," Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella posted on social media platform X. He added Microsoft remains committed to its partnership with OpenAI.

1 year ago
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Brightest flash ever disturbed Earth's atmosphere last year

A massive burst of gamma rays from an enormous cosmic explosion around two billion light years away arrived at Earth on October 9, 2022, lighting up telescopes around the world.

1 year ago
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Euclid space telescope releases first images

Euclid blasted off in July on the world's first-ever mission aiming to investigate the enduring cosmic mysteries of dark matter and dark energy.

1 year ago
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Mexican Congress holds second UFO session featuring Peruvian mummies

At Tuesday's session, Maussan was more focused on proving the bodies, which were not on display this time, were not fake, ushering in a string of doctors who all said the bodies were those of real, once-living organisms.

1 year ago
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Tech firms struggle as Israel-Gaza falsehoods explode

While major world events typically trigger a deluge of falsehoods, researchers say the scale and speed with which misinformation proliferated online following the weekend's deadly assault on Israel by the Palestinian militant group Hamas was unlike ever before.

1 year ago
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Japan startup develops 'Gundam'-like robot with $3 million price tag

Called ARCHAX after the avian dinosaur archaeopteryx, the robot has cockpit monitors that receive images from cameras hooked up to the exterior so that the pilot can manoeuvre the arms and hands with joysticks from inside its torso. 

1 year ago
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Start-up Atlas raises $27 mln for new nickel technology for EV batteries

US-based Atlas said it has come up with a way to treat a type of nickel ore usually used as an ingredient in stainless steel into a form that can be used for EV batteries with low emissions and no waste.

1 year ago
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Mysterious antimatter observed falling down for first time

The experiment was hailed as "huge milestone", though most physicists anticipated the result, and it had been predicted by Einstein's 1915 theory of relativity.

1 year ago
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ChatGPT can now search for data on the internet

Until now, ChatGPT's responses to user queries were based on a vast database, which did not contain information from after August 2021.

1 year ago
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US astronaut Rubio says 'good to be home' after landing in Kazakhstan

Their Soyuz MS-23 capsule undocked from the ISS a minute earlier than scheduled, and took around three and a half hours to make it down to Earth, landing southeast of the city of Zhezqazghan.

2 years ago
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Tech giants roll back misinformation curbs ahead of 2024 polls

Whether it is YouTube scrapping a key misinformation policy or Facebook altering fact checking controls, the social media giants are demonstrating a certain lassitude with being the sheriffs of the internet Wild West.

2 years ago
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Likely asteroid debris found upon opening of returned NASA probe

Researchers "found black dust and debris on the avionics deck of the Osiris-Rex science canister when the initial lid was removed today," the US space agency said, though without specifying whether they definitely belonged to the asteroid.

2 years ago
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Hidden ocean the source of CO2 on Jupiter moon: research

Scientists are confident there is a huge ocean of saltwater kilometres below Europa's ice-covered surface, making the moon a prime candidate for hosting extra-terrestrial life in our Solar System.

2 years ago
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AI both a risk and opportunity for journalism: study

While 85 percent of respondents had experimented with generative AI such as ChatGPT or Google Bard for tasks including writing summaries and generating headlines, 60 percent said they also had reservations.

2 years ago
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Scientists warn entire branches of the 'Tree of Life' are going extinct

"The extinction crisis is as bad as the climate change crisis. It is not recognized," said Gerardo Ceballos, professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and co-author of the study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). 

2 years ago
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Dinosaur known as 'Barry' goes on sale in rare Paris auction

The dinosaur, which was first discovered in the 1990s in the U.S. state of Wyoming, was initially restored in 2000 by palaeontologist Barry James, from whom it got its name.

2 years ago
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ChatGPT creator OpenAI says to open Dublin office

"We're growing our presence in Europe with our newest office in Dublin," read a brief statement posted on OpenAI's blog website.

2 years ago
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Skepticism about claim human ancestors nearly went extinct

It is extremely difficult to extract DNA from the few fossils of human relatives dating from more than a couple of hundred thousand years ago, making it hard to know much about them.

2 years ago
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Mexican Congress holds hearing on UFOs featuring purported 'alien' bodies

The two tiny "bodies," displayed in cases, have three fingers on each hand and elongated heads. They were recovered in Peru near the ancient Nazca Lines in 2017.

2 years ago
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Apple says iPhone 12 complies with radiation standards

Apple said it had provided the French watchdog ANFR multiple Apple and independent third-party lab results proving its compliance.

2 years ago
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Apple unveils iPhone with USB-C charger

The European bloc is insisting that all phones and other small devices must be compatible with the USB-C charging cables from the end of next year, a move it says will reduce waste and save money for consumers.

2 years ago