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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. ...

4 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. ...

5 days ago

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Streaming service Spotify in unexplained outage

"Something's not quite right, and we're looking into it. Thanks for your reports!" the company wrote on Twitter.

4 years ago
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TikTok suspends posting of new videos from Russia

TikTok announced it is suspending the posting of all video content from Russia in order to keep its employees safe and comply with the country's new "fake news" regulations.

4 years ago
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'TechWorks' brings dreams of Jordan inventors to life

In the age of Covid, Jordanian mechanical engineer Saliba Taimeh came up with a device to sterilise everyday surface with UV rays with the help of TechWorks.

4 years ago
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Scientists think an old rocket just hit the Moon going 5,800 mph

The impact would have taken place at 7:25 am Eastern Time (1225 GMT), on the far side of the Moon, said the astronomer Bill Gray, who was the first to predict the collision.

4 years ago
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Twitter to welcome workers back in the office

Twitter's new chief Parag Agrawal said it will reopen offices globally this month but let people work remotely if they wish.

4 years ago
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Tesla finally gets green light to start production in Germany

After getting snarled up in German red tape, US electric car pioneer Tesla got the final go-ahead from authorities Friday.

4 years ago
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Tech giants clamp down on Russia state-linked news

Tech firms from Facebook to TikTok and Microsoft moved to curb the reach of Russian state-linked news outlets, which stand accused of pushing misinformation about its invasion of Ukraine.

4 years ago
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Russian-European Mars rover 'very unlikely' to launch this year

The launch of the Rosalind Franklin rover, whose mission is to drill into Martian soil to seek out signs of life, was originally planned for 2020 but postponed due to COVID-19 and technical delays.

4 years ago
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'Pick a side': Ukraine invasion dilemma for US Big Tech

Services like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube have a unique power because of their global reach and ubiquity, but they are profit-motivated companies so a stridently principled stand can be bad for business.

4 years ago
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US-Russia tensions spill into space, but ISS safe for now

The outpost was the subject of a menacing Twitter thread by Russian space agency head Dmitry Rogozin, who warned Thursday that US sanctions could "destroy our cooperation" and said the research platform would plummet to the Earth without his nation's help.

4 years ago
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Ukrainians can lock Facebook pages after 'kill list' fears

People in Ukraine can lock down their Facebook pages as a security measure, the platform said, following warnings Russia was creating lists of Ukranians to kill after its invasion.

4 years ago
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Dubai adds to striking architecture with Museum of Future

Dubai opened its Museum of the Future on Tuesday, a structure it touts as the world's most beautiful building.

4 years ago
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China denies making space junk set to crash into Moon

Astronomers initially thought the wayward object was a chunk of a SpaceX rocket that blasted off seven years ago and was abandoned in space after completing its mission.

4 years 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.

4 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.

4 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.

4 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.

4 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.  

4 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.

4 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.

4 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.

4 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.

4 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.

4 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.

4 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.

4 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.

4 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.

4 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.

4 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.

4 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.

4 years ago
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