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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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France orders Apple iPhone 12 sales halted over radiation

The French agency that regulates radio frequencies, the ANFR, said testing found that the model emits more electromagnetic waves susceptible to be absorbed by the body than permitted. 

2 years ago
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Robot fried chicken: entrepreneur seeks to improve South Korea's favourite food

Eaten at everything from tiny family gatherings to a 10-million-viewer live-streamed "mukbang" -- eating broadcast -- by K-pop star Jungkook of BTS fame, fried chicken is deeply embedded in South Korean culture.

2 years ago
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Black hole is observed snacking on sun-like star, bite by bite

Researchers said they have observed a supermassive black hole at the center of a relatively nearby galaxy as it takes bites out of a star similar in size and composition to our sun, consuming material equal to about three times Earth's mass each time the star makes a close pass on its elongated oval-shaped orbit.

2 years ago
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Japan launches 'moon sniper' lunar lander SLIM into space

Dubbed the "moon sniper", Japan aims to land SLIM within 100 meters of its target site on the lunar surface. The $100-million mission is expected to start the landing by February after a long, fuel-efficient approach trajectory.

2 years ago
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From the Moon to the Sun: India readies next space mission

If successful, the latest mission from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will be the first by any Asian nation to be placed in solar orbit.

2 years ago
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Last 'Super Blue Moon' until 2037 rises tonight

Supermoons occur when the Moon passes through its perigee, or the point that takes it closest to Earth during its elliptical orbit. This makes it look about 14 percent bigger compared to when it is at its furthest point, and a touch brighter. 

2 years ago
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Fearing 'pillaging', news outlets block an OpenAI bot

The New York Times, CNN, Australian broadcaster ABC and news agencies Reuters and Bloomberg have taken steps to thwart GPTBot, a web crawler launched on August 8.

2 years ago
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Russia, US agree additional US astronaut flight to ISS: Interfax

The flight is part of an agreement between Russia's space agency Roscosmos and NASA in the United States on cross-flights to the International Space Station (ISS).

2 years ago
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UN-backed deforestation carbon credits failing: Study

Across nearly a score of UN-backed offset projects examined in central Africa, South America and Southeast Asia, only 5.4 million out of 89 million credits, about six percent, actually resulted in carbon reduction through forest preservation, scientists reported this week in the journal Science.

2 years ago
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Chandrayaan-3 rover rolls onto moon's surface as ecstatic India celebrates

The spacecraft landed on the unexplored south pole of the moon on Wednesday evening, days after Russia's Luna-25 failed, making India the first country to achieve this feat.

2 years ago
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EU users to have more power over Facebook, Instagram content

Under a landmark EU law, digital giants will be forced to more aggressively police content online to protect users, especially against hate speech and disinformation.

2 years ago
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Russia's Luna-25 probe crashes on the Moon

The crash comes almost a year and a half into Russia's Ukraine offensive that has seen Moscow isolated, with punishing sanctions that have affected its space industry. 

2 years ago
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Mars once had wet-dry climate conducive to supporting life: study

Though the surface of Mars is now an arid desert, billions of years ago rivers and vast lakes are thought to have stretched across its surface.

2 years ago
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Russia launches lunar lander in race to find water on moon

The Russian lunar mission, the first since 1976, is racing against India, which launched its Chandrayaan-3 lunar lander last month, and more broadly with the United States and China, both of which have advanced lunar exploration programs targeting the lunar south pole.

2 years ago
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NASA back in touch with Voyager 2 after 'interstellar shout'

Launched in 1977 to explore the outer planets and serve as a beacon of humanity to the wider universe, it is currently more than 12.3 billion miles (19.9 billion kilometers) from our planet, well beyond the solar system.

2 years ago
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First test images from Euclid space telescope unveiled

The star-filled snapshots were taken during the space telescope's commissioning -- a phase during which its powerful instruments are finely calibrated -- and therefore not representative of its full potential.

2 years ago
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Google testing AI news writing tool

The project was first reported by The New York Times, which is working with The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal in testing the new product.

2 years ago
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Twitter to be renamed X, get new logo

Founded in 2006, Twitter takes its name from a play on the sound of birds chattering, and it has used avian branding since its early days, when the company bought a stock symbol of a light blue bird for $15, according to the design website Creative Bloq. 

2 years ago
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A sweaty robot may help humans understand impact of soaring heat

Arizona researchers have deployed a robot that can breathe, shiver and sweat to answer the burning questions of what happens to the body when a human gets heatstroke.

2 years ago
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NASA to unveil new Webb image on telescope's first anniversary

Webb, the most powerful observatory in orbit, was launched in December 2021 from French Guiana, on a million mile (1.6 million kilometer) voyage to a region called the second Lagrange point.

2 years ago
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Twitter rival Threads signs up 100 million users in five days

While ChatGPT took two months to hit the 100 million user mark and video-sharing app TikTok took nine months, Instagram itself took two and a half years to reach that mark after its 2010 launch.

2 years ago
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'Like a mirror': Astronomers identify most reflective exoplanet

This strange world, which is more than 260 light years from Earth, reflects 80 percent of the light from its host star, according to new observations from Europe's exoplanet-probing Cheops space telescope. 

2 years ago
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Proof humans reshaped the world? Chickens

That is the conclusion of scientists whose findings are offered as proof that rapid expansion of human appetites and activity so radically altered natural systems as to tip Earth into a new geological epoch called the Anthropocene, or the "era of humans".

2 years ago
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What we know about Threads, Meta's 'Twitter killer'

Threads is a text-based sidekick of Instagram, the image-heavy social network that Facebook bought more than a decade ago and became the world's most popular app for photo sharing.

2 years ago
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Musk predicts Tesla self-driving cars 'later this year'

"In terms of where Tesla is at this stage, I think we are very close to achieving full self-driving without human supervision," Musk said via video link at the opening ceremony of an artificial intelligence conference in Shanghai.

2 years ago
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Twitter rival Threads crosses 10 million users within hours of launch

Threads is the biggest challenger yet to Elon Musk-owned Twitter, which has seen a series of potential competitors emerge but not yet replace one of social media's most iconic companies, despite its epic struggles.

2 years ago
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Canadian government to stop buying ads on Facebook, Instagram

The Online News Act, adopted by parliament last month, requires digital giants like Google and Meta to make commercial deals to compensate Canadian news outlets when users access articles through their products, or face binding arbitration.

2 years ago
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Twitter chaos leaves door open for Meta's rival app

Zuckerberg's Meta group, which owns Facebook, has listed a new app in stores as "Threads, an Instagram app", available for pre-order in the United States, with a message saying it is "expected" this Thursday.

2 years ago
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Time appears five times slower in early universe: study

Einstein's theory of relativity predicts that because space is expanding, "we should see the distant universe run in slow motion," said Geraint Lewis, an astrophysicist at the University of Sydney and the lead author of a new study.

2 years ago
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Twitter to limit TweetDeck to 'verified' users

The social media firm, bought by billionaire Elon Musk last year, has been thrashing around for ways to make a profit, cutting staff and ramping up its paid-for subscriptions.

2 years ago