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The Xander glasses for real-time offline captioning of conversation audio for the hearing impaired is displayed during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada, the United States, on Jan. 7, 2025. Gadgets, robots and vehicles imbued with artificial intelligence will once again vie for attention at the CES, as vendors behind the scenes will seek ways to deal with tariffs threatened by US President-elect Donald Trump. The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) opens formally in Las Vegas on Jan. 7, 2025, but preceding days are packed with product announcements.
The Xander glasses for real-time offline captioning of conversation audio for the hearing impaired is displayed during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada, the United States, on Jan. 7, 2025. Gadgets, robots and vehicles imbued with artificial intelligence will once again vie for attention at the CES, as vendors behind the scenes will seek ways to deal with tariffs threatened by US President-elect Donald Trump. The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) opens formally in Las Vegas on Jan. 7, 2025, but preceding days are packed with product announcements.
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Today's smart glasses, all paired with smartphone apps, increasingly resemble traditional eyewear.

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Wild chimpanzees adapt genetically to different habitats

Researchers examined genetic data from 388 wild chimpanzees in 18 countries, documenting adaptations driven by the nature of their habitat and revealing previously unknown genetic diversity within this species shaped by local conditions.

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Meta knew it used pirated books to train AI, authors say

Ta-Nehisi Coates, comedian Sarah Silverman and other authors suing Meta for copyright infringement made the accusations in filings made public on Wednesday in California federal court. They said internal documents produced by Meta during the discovery process showed the company knew the works were pirated.

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Disinformation experts slam Meta decision to end US fact-checking

Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg announced the company was going to "get rid" of its third-party fact-checkers in the United States, in a sweeping policy shift that analysts saw as an attempt to appease US President-elect Donald Trump.

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Facebook's fact-checking program currently operates in 26 languages, partnering with more than 80 media organizations worldwide including AFP.

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NASA spacecraft 'safe' after closest-ever approach to Sun

The space agency said the operations team at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland received the signal, a beacon tone, from the probe just before midnight on Thursday.

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Launched in August 2018, the spaceship is on a seven-year mission to deepen scientific understanding of our star and help forecast space-weather events that can affect life on Earth.

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Scientists observe 'negative time' in quantum experiments

Now, researchers at the University of Toronto, through innovative quantum experiments, say they have demonstrated that "negative time" isn't just a theoretical idea -- it exists in a tangible, physical sense, deserving closer scrutiny. 

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ChatGPT search opens to all users in challenge to Google

The San Francisco-based tech firm had beefed up its ChatGPT generative AI chatbot with search engine capabilities in late October, but made the feature available only to paying subscribers.

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Japanese, Indonesian businesses see potential in air mobility

Technologies such as drones, electric aircraft and autonomous aerial vehicles (AAV) have made short-distance air transportation more economically viable.

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Major Canadian media sue ChatGPT in case potentially worth billions

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Australian dictionary picks 'enshittification' as word of the year

"ENSHITTIFICATION -- Noun. Colloquial, the gradual deterioration of a service or product brought about by a reduction in the quality of service provided, especially of an online platform, and as a consequence of profit-seeking." 

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France court orders Google to halt new news search scheme

The Paris commercial court was ruling on an emergency injunction sought by the SEPM union, which represents magazine staff in France.

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Bringing ADHD Awareness to Light: Sasa’s New Campaign for Kids

The number of Indonesian children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has continued to increase, according to a study by Gadjah Mada University (UGM), with the current data showing that 15 percent of children, or 1 in 20 children, have been diagnosed ADHD.

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NASA astronaut hospitalized after return from ISS

The four-member Crew-8 mission splashed down off the coast of Florida early Friday after nearly eight months aboard the orbital laboratory.

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NASA astronaut hospitalized after return from space station

The astronaut, who NASA did not name for privacy reasons, had splashed down off Florida's coast at 3:29 a.m. ET on Friday aboard SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule with three other crew members; two NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut.

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Watchdog reports doubling of AI child sex abuse material online

Many of the images and videos of children being "hurt and abused are so realistic that they can be very difficult to tell apart from imagery of real children".

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A high school student from Jakarta has discovered the potential use of kacang koro benguk (red velvet beans) as the main ingredient of functional foods used to treat diabetes and malnutrition on a larger scale.

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PT Sasa Inti shines at the 2024 Marketing Excellence Awards

PT Sasa Inti achieved remarkable success at the 2024 Marketing Excellence Awards (MEA) this year, one of Indonesia's most prestigious recognitions in the marketing industry. The company demonstrated its marketing prowess by winning two Gold Awards in the Excellence for Experiential Marketing and Excellence for Customer Engagement categories for its innovative “Sasa Santan - Secret Kitchen” campaign. In addition, Sasa secured a Bronze Award for Excellence for Advertising for its impressive “Idul Adha Sapi” video and was named a finalist in other categories.

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AI enhances flood warnings but cannot erase risk of disaster

AI has supercharged weather forecasting, using a range of statistical tools to analyze years of historical data and predict patterns, and at a lower cost than traditional numerical weather predictions.

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Is life possible on a Jupiter moon?

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'Denying my potential': Women at Japan's top university call out gender imbalance

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Trio wins chemistry Nobel for protein design, prediction

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