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OpenAI says a million ChatGPT users talk about suicide

In a blog post published on Monday, the AI company estimated that approximately 0.15 percent of users have "conversations that include explicit indicators of potential suicidal planning or intent."

1 week ago
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AI can help double oil-well productivity: Saudi Aramco

President and CEO Amin Nasser said Aramco, the world's biggest oil exporter, was now realising gains after investing tens of billions of dollars in computing and hiring thousands of data scientists.  ...

1 week ago
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AI not a reliable source of news, EU media study says

The mistakes included confusing news with parody, getting dates wrong or simply inventing events. ...

1 week ago

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Trump's new social media app has rocky rollout

Donald Trump's new social media app has started its gradual rollout but thousands of would-be users encountered glitches or found themselves placed on a waitlist.

3 years ago
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British-Belgian teen aims to follow sister's record with solo world flight

British-Belgian teenager Mack Rutherford is hoping to become the youngest male, at 16, to fly around the world solo in a light aircraft, just months after his sister became the youngest woman to do so.

3 years ago
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‘Life-changing’ or scam? Axie Infinity helps Philippines’ poor earn

A blockchain-based play-to-earn game finds popularity in the Philippines but some warn that it may be a fraudulent scheme.

3 years ago
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Rocket set to hit Moon was built by China, not SpaceX, say astronomers

A rocket will indeed strike the lunar surface on March 4, but contrary to what had been announced, it was built not by Elon Musk's company, but by Beijing, experts now say.

3 years ago
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How we can do better: PeduliLindungi should be doing more

"How We Can Do Better" is a new column that takes a close look at various innovations and developments across different industries and the ways they could be improved. In our inaugural installment, we delve into the official COVID-19 tracking app, PeduliLindungi.  

3 years ago
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Webb telescope spots its first star and takes a selfie

The steps are part of the months-long process of aligning the observatory's enormous golden mirror that astronomers hope will begin unraveling the mysteries of the early Universe by this summer.

3 years ago
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Musk 'confident' of Starship orbital launch this year

Addressing an audience at the company's Starbase facility near Boca Chica, south Texas, the tycoon merely said: "I feel at this point highly confident that we'll get to orbit this year," while hinting at a potential pivot to launching from Florida if the company encounters regulatory hurdles.

3 years ago
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Dozens of SpaceX internet satellites lost to geomagnetic storm

Geomagnetic storms are caused by ejections of the solar corona into space, resulting in disturbances to the Earth's upper atmosphere and increased drag on objects in low orbits.

3 years ago
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Study places Homo Sapiens in Europe earlier than thought

Up to now, archaeological discoveries had indicated that Neanderthals disappeared from the European continent about 40,000 years ago, shortly after the arrival of their "cousin" Homo sapiens, barely 5,000 years earlier and there was no evidence of an encounter between these two groups.

3 years ago
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Lockheed Martin wins NASA contract to bring Mars samples back to Earth

The "small, lightweight rocket" will be the first to take off from another planet, bringing back "rock, sediment and atmospheric samples from the surface of the Red Planet," NASA said in a statement.

3 years ago
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Facebook slump reignites debate over attracting younger audiences

Facebook has tried to replicate TikTok's Reels function and borrowed inspiration from Instagram's Stories function, but neither addition has stopped the slump.

3 years ago
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Facebook usage dips for first time. Will Instagram follow?

One forecaster, Insider Intelligence, does not expect Meta Platforms's Instagram social media service to lose users in the next three years. But its November estimates show Instagram's growth in monthly users will fall to 5.8 percent this year and 3.1 percent by 2025 from 16.5 percent last year.

3 years ago
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Facebook parent Meta sheds $200 billion in stock plummet

In addition to costs of big investments on its metaverse vision for the internet and trouble for its core ads business, the firm predicted slower growth and even reported its first dip in daily users globally on the signature Facebook platform.

3 years ago
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Spotify boss defends Joe Rogan deal as stock plunges

The comments were published Thursday as the firm's stock went into freefall.

3 years ago
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New 'highly virulent' HIV strain discovered in the Netherlands

Their analysis, published Thursday in the journal "Science," showed that patients infected with what they call the "VB variant" had 3.5 to 5.5 times higher levels of the virus in their blood than those infected with other variants, as well as a more rapidly fading immune system.

3 years ago
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Judge dismisses lawsuit over Apple iPhone water resistance claims

Apple's advertisements had made various claims about the iPhone's resistance to damage when submerged or otherwise exposed to water, including that some models could survive depths of 4 meters (13.1 feet) for 30 minutes.

3 years ago
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World's first trial to deliberately infect young adults with COVID found to be safe

The data supports the safety of this model which could theoretically provide a "plug and play" platform for testing therapies and vaccines using the original COVID-19 strain as well as variants of the virus, Open Orphan, which carried out the study, said in a statement.

3 years ago
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Hitchhiking in Earth's orbit, asteroid may be with us for 4,000 years

An asteroid that was discovered riding along in Earth's orbit is about three-quarters of a mile (1.2 km) wide and might remain as a hitchhiker with our planet for at least 4,000 more years while posing no danger.

3 years ago
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‘New York Times’ buys ‘Wordle’

The New York Times announced Monday it had bought Wordle, a phenomenon played by millions just four months after the game burst onto the internet, for an "undisclosed price in the low seven figures."

3 years ago
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Thai cafe serves up crypto advice with coffee and cake

A cafe in northeast Thailand has become home to cryptocurrency traders, adding banks of screens showing the latest market moves and dishing out investment advice alongside coffee and cake.

3 years ago
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Apple hits revenue record despite chip shortage

Apple reported record $124 billion quarterly revenue on Thursday, despite a global chip pinch and shifting impacts of the pandemic that have weighed down other big tech players.

3 years ago
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Scientists amazed by blinking star's 'totally unexpected' behavior

Scientists have detected what appears to be an incredibly dense star behaving unlike anything else ever seen – and suspect it might be a type of exotic astrophysical object whose existence has until now been only hypothesized.

3 years ago
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NASA aims to make observations from SpaceX junk collision with Moon

The rocket was deployed in 2015 to put a NASA satellite into orbit and its second stage, or booster, has been floating in the cosmos ever since, a common fate for such pieces of space technology.

3 years ago
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Astronomers predict SpaceX space junk will hit the Moon

The rocket was deployed in 2015 to put into orbit a NASA satellite called the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR).

3 years ago
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Object found in the Milky Way 'unlike anything astronomers have seen'

The object, first spotted by a university student working on his undergraduate thesis, releases a huge burst of radio energy three times every hour.

3 years ago
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Slovak flying car receives official certification

"AirCar certification opens the door for mass production of very efficient flying cars," said Stefan Klein, founder and chief executive of KleinVision, a company that designed and manufactured the prototype of the dual-mode car-aircraft vehicle.

3 years ago
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Webb telescope reaches final destination, a million miles from Earth

At around 2:00 pm Eastern Time (1900 GMT), the observatory fired its thrusters for five minutes to reach the so-called second Lagrange point, or L2, where it will have access to nearly half the sky at any given moment.

3 years ago
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Amazon to open first offline clothing store in LA

Amazon's online commerce empire is taking another step into the real world with plans to open a shop in Los Angeles, its first bricks-and-mortar clothing store, announced Thursday.

3 years ago
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Scientists struggle to monitor Tonga volcano after massive eruption

The eruption of Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha'apai volcano, which sits on the seismically active Pacific Ring of Fire, sent tsunami waves across the Pacific Ocean and was heard some 2,300 kms (1,430 miles) away in New Zealand.

3 years ago
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One of the oldest human fossils just got older: study

Kibish Omo I, first unearthed in Ethiopia in 1967, contained only bone and skull fragments which were difficult to date directly and experts long remained divided over their age.

3 years ago
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