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Florida investigating ChatGPT role in mass shooting

The decision to launch an investigation came after prosecutors reviewed exchanges between OpenAI chatbot ChatGPT and the suspected gunman, who opened fire at Florida State University last year, according to state Attorney General James Uthmeier.

1 day ago
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Humans far behind as robot breaks record at Beijing half marathon

Spectators lined the roads in Yizhuang in the capital's south to watch the machines and their human rivals race, each group in a separate lane to avoid accidents or collisions. ...

3 days ago
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China humanoid robot half-marathon to showcase technical leaps

Almost 40 percent of the robot participants will navigate the course autonomously in a high-profile demonstration of the industry's growing capabilities, according to the race organizers. ...

4 days ago

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Robotic suit gives paralyzed children gift of walking

Wearing a robotic exoskeleton designed specially for children, an eight-year-old boy with cerebral palsy walked through a therapy room in Mexico City, smiling triumphantly at the once-unthinkable feat.

3 years ago
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First 'concrete picture' of Neanderthal family revealed by DNA

The new research, published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, used DNA sequencing to look at the social life of a Neanderthal community, finding that women were more likely to stray from the cave than men.

3 years ago
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Genetic findings from Siberian caves give glimpse into Neanderthal life

Researchers on Wednesday described genomic findings from the remains of 13 Neanderthals - 11 from Chagyrskaya cave and two from Okladnikov cave in the Altai Mountains of Russia - in one of the largest genetic studies of a Neanderthal population to date.

3 years ago
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Iconic 'Pillars of Creation' captured in new Webb image

The twinkling of thousands of stars illuminates the telescope's first shot of the gigantic gold, copper and brown columns standing in the midst of the cosmos.

3 years ago
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Climate change may boost Arctic 'virus spillover' risk

Viruses need hosts like humans, animals, plants or fungi to replicate and spread, and occasionally they can jump to a new one that lacks immunity, as seen during the COVID-19 pandemic.

3 years ago
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Astronomers are captivated by brightest flash ever seen

The burst of gamma-rays -- the most intense form of electromagnetic radiation -- was first detected by orbiting telescopes on October 9, and its afterglow is still being watched by scientists across the world.

3 years ago
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Neanderthals, humans co-existed in Europe for over 2,000 years: study

While the study, published in the journal Scientific Reports, did not provide evidence that humans directly interacted with Neanderthals around 42,000 years ago, previous genetic research has shown that they must have at some point.

3 years ago
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Elon Musk is under federal investigations, Twitter says in court filing

While the filing said he was under investigations, it did not say what the exact focus of the probes was and which federal authorities are conducting them. 

3 years ago
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Google approves Trump's Truth Social for Play Store

Alphabet Inc.'s Google has approved the former United States president Donald Trump's social media app Truth Social for distribution in the Google Play Store, a company spokesperson said on Wednesday. 

3 years ago
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Meta unveils new virtual reality headset Quest Pro

A year after it rebranded itself in the name of building a metaverse, Meta on Tuesday unveiled a new version of its virtual reality headset tailored for working professionals.

3 years ago
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Google looks to raise its smartphone game with Pixel 7

The device was unveiled this week in Brooklyn, where representatives from the Mountain View, California giant highlighted top-flight features that can silence background noise on the phone. 

3 years ago
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A 'cataclysmic' celestial couple gone wrong - a star eats its mate

Researchers this week described one of these marriages gone wrong - a twosome that borders on the extreme, with the pair whirling around each other every 51 minutes in the fastest such orbital period known for a rare class of binary stars. As part of the drama, one star is eating its companion.

3 years ago
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Why crypto's big 'merge' is causing big headaches

The biggest software upgrade in the short history of crypto has fulfilled its promise to wipe out more than 99 percent of the electricity used by the second-biggest cryptocurrency.

3 years ago
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Swedish geneticist wins Nobel medicine prize for decoding ancient DNA

Paabo's work demonstrated practical implications during the COVID-19 pandemic when he found that people infected with the virus who carry a gene variant inherited from Neanderthals are more at risk of severe illness than whose who do not.

3 years ago
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Twitter Blue subscribers getting edit feature

The long-awaited editing tool test "went well," so it is being made more widely available, the San Francisco based tech firm said in a tweet, adding that it is "coming soon" to the United States.

3 years ago
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First images of asteroid strike from Webb, Hubble telescopes

The world's telescopes turned their gaze towards the space rock Dimorphos earlier this week for a historic test of Earth's ability to defend itself against a potential future life-threatening asteroid.

3 years ago
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TikTok to partner with TalkShopLive for US live shopping

TikTok is due to enter a partnership with Los Angeles, California, the United States-based TalkShopLive to launch its live shopping platform in North America by outsourcing its operation, the Financial Times (FT) reported on Saturday citing two people familiar with the operations. 

3 years ago
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Tracing uncertainty: Google harnesses quantum mechanics at California lab

At Google's Quantum AI (artificial intelligence) laboratory, dozens of super-smart people labor in an office kitted out with climbing walls and electric bikes to shape the next generation of computers, a generation that will be unlike anything users currently have in their pockets or offices.

3 years ago
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Direct impact or nuclear weapons? How to save Earth from an asteroid

The operation is like playing billiards in space, using Newton's laws of motion to guide us. 

3 years ago
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NASA spacecraft hits target asteroid in first planetary defense test

Humanity's first attempt to alter the motion of an asteroid or any celestial body played out in a NASA webcast from the mission operations center outside Washington, DC, 10 months after DART was launched.

3 years ago
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After asteroid collision, Europe's Hera will probe 'crime scene'

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) aims to collide with the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos on Monday night, hoping to slightly alter its trajectory -- the first time such an operation has been attempted.

3 years ago
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NASA gears up to deflect asteroid, in key test of planetary defense

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spaceship launched from California last November and is fast approaching its target, which it will strike at roughly 14,000 miles per hour (23,000 kph).

3 years ago
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Meet Japan's cyborg cockroach, coming to disaster area near you

If an earthquake strikes in the not too distant future and survivors are trapped under tonnes of rubble, the first responders to locate them could be swarms of cyborg cockroaches.

3 years ago
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Neptune's delicate rings captured in new Webb image

The last time astronomers had such a clear view of the farthest planet from the Sun was when NASA's Voyager 2 became the first and only space probe to fly past the ice giant for just a few hours in 1989.

3 years ago
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Major crypto trader Wintermute hit by $160 million hack, CEO says

The theft targeted London-based Wintermute's decentralised finance operations, Evgeny Gaevoy said in a tweet. The firm, which provides liquidity across major crypto exchanges and trading platforms, remains solvent after the hack, he added. 

3 years ago
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Apple to raise App Store prices in some countries in Europe, Asia

The new prices, excluding auto-renewable subscriptions, will be effective as early as Oct. 5, Apple said in a blog post. 

3 years ago
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Hackers breach website known for anti-trans campaigns

Internet forum Kiwi Farms was working to get back online Monday after a breach by hackers, in the wake of being blocked by internet infrastructure firm Cloudflare due to potentially dangerous rhetoric.

3 years ago
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Mars rover sees hints of past life in latest rock samples

While organic matter has been found on the Red Planet before, the new discovery is seen as especially promising because it came from an area where sediment and salts were deposited into a lake -- conditions where life could have arisen.

3 years ago
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TikTok search results rife with misinformation: report

TikTok is serving up misinformation to users searching for news about politics, climate change, COVID-19, the war in Ukraine and more, according to a report released on Wednesday.

3 years ago
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Webb telescope captures 'breathtaking' images of Orion Nebula

An international research team on Monday revealed the first images of the Orion Nebula captured with the James Webb Space Telescope, leaving astronomers "blown away."

3 years ago
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