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Eyes turn to space to feed power-hungry data centers

Tech firms are floating the idea of building data centers in space and tapping into the sun's energy to meet out-of-this-world power demands in a fierce artificial intelligence race.

13 hours ago
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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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Understanding the cyberattacks against anticorruption activists

Coordinated cyberattacks against activists point to a worrying infiltration of their personal lives and safety

4 years ago
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Pacific sees a 'Blood Moon' rising

The first total lunar eclipse in two years will happen at the same time as the Moon is closest to Earth, in what astronomers say will be a once-in-a-decade show.

4 years ago
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Brazil's favela gamers dream big

Coming of age in the Brazilian favela of Vigario Geral, Luiz Augusto Jr used to spend his money playing video games.

4 years ago
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Russia gives Google 24 hours to delete banned content

Russia's communications watchdog on Monday gave Google 24 hours to delete what it called prohibited content or be fined and said Moscow could eventually slow down the company's traffic in the country.

4 years ago
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China's Mars rover starts roaming the Red Planet

The launch last July of the Tianwen-1 Mars probe, which carried the Zhurong rover, marked a major milestone in China's space programme.

4 years ago
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Microsoft announces retirement of Internet Explorer

Microsoft said it is retiring Internet Explorer, the browser it created more than 25 years and which is now largely abandoned as people instead use competitors like Google's Chrome or Apple's Safari.

4 years ago
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Canine coronavirus detected in Malaysian patients: study

The idea was to deploy the tool, once its accuracy was validated, to look back at test samples from human patients in order to search for signs of coronaviruses that might have begun to cross over from animals.

4 years ago
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Chinese Mars rover beams back first photos

The Zhurong rover was carried into the Martian atmosphere in a lander on Saturday, in the first ever successful probe landing by any country on its first Mars mission.

4 years ago
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Google teams with Samsung for wearables platform

Google and Samsung said they were teaming up on a joint software platform for smartwatches and other wearables in a move ramping up competition with market leader Apple.

4 years ago
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'Nihao Mars': China's Zhurong rover touches down on Red Planet

The lander carrying Zhurong completed the treacherous descent through the Martian atmosphere using a parachute to navigate the "seven minutes of terror" as it is known, aiming for a vast northern lava plain known as the Utopia Planitia.

4 years ago
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Anticipation builds for China's Mars rover landing

The launch of China's Mars probe Tianwen-1 last July marked a major milestone in its space programme, which Beijing views as a sign of its rising global stature and technological might.

4 years ago
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Mexican paleontologists identify new 'talkative' dinosaur species

The scientists said the conditions in which the dino was found explain its preservation. 

4 years ago
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EBay taps into NFT frenzy, allows sale on platform

NFTs, virtual assets that exist on a blockchain ledger, have exploded in popularity this year, as enthusiasts spend enormous sums of money on artwork and other items that exist only online

4 years ago
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Germany halts Facebook sharing WhatsApp data

WhatsApp on Friday stepped back from its plan to require users to accept the new terms which critics said could expand data collection from its two billion users around the world.

4 years ago
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US space probe Osiris-Rex heads home with asteroid dust

The probe still has a vast distance to cover before it lands in the Utah desert on September 24, 2023. 

4 years ago
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US states oppose a children's version of Instagram

Four decades since his death, Bob Marley lives on as a voice of the dispossessed.Officials representing most US states on Monday called on Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg to nix plans to launch a version of Instagram for children.

4 years ago
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SpaceX to launch lunar mission paid with cryptocurrency Dogecoin

The satellite, dubbed DOGE-1, will be launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in the first quarter of 2022, the Calgary-based company said in a statement.

4 years ago
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Archaeologists uncover Neanderthal remains in caves near Rome

Eight of the remains are dated to between 50,000 and 68,000 years ago, while one, the oldest, is dated to between 90,000 and 100,000 years ago, the ministry said in a statement.

4 years ago
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WhatsApp delays enforcing new privacy terms

WhatsApp, which was set to enforce its new data-sharing policy on May 15 -- following a delay in response to a user outcry -- revealed on its website that it would not immediately cut off users who don't accept the new terms, although it would send reminders to those who don't opt in.

4 years ago
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Large Chinese rocket segment disintegrates over Indian Ocean

Officials in Beijing had said there was little risk from the freefalling segment of the Long March-5B rocket, which had launched the first module of China's new space station into Earth orbit on April 29.

4 years ago
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China says rocket debris landed in Indian Ocean west of Maldives

The coordinates given by state media, citing the China Manned Space Engineering Office, put the point of impact in the ocean, west of the Maldives archipelago.

4 years ago
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Chinese rocket debris set for re-entry in coming hours- tracking centers

While there were still varying estimates of where the rocket would land, recent predictions were still tracking it from Costa Rica all the way to Australia and New Zealand

4 years ago
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Italy begins to restore Colosseum floor

The 2,000 year old structure is currently floorless, the ruins of the underground levels' walls and tunnels exposed to the open air save for a small platform.

4 years ago
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Facebook fights influence-for-hire campaigns

The campaigns aimed posts or comments at people in Azerbaijan, Central African Republic, Mexico, Palestine, Peru, and Ukraine, according to the leading social network.

4 years ago
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Twitter lets people leave tips for some tweeters

A limited number of users around the world who tweet in English can add a "Tip Jar" feature to their profiles, according to Twitter senior product manager Esther Crawford.

4 years ago
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The earliest known human burial discovered in Africa

The sunken pit, in a cave complex along the coast of Kenya, was bereft of ornaments, offerings or ochre-coloured clay carvings found in the region's more recent Stone Age graves, they detailed in the journal Nature. 

4 years ago
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SpaceX Starship rocket prototype achieves first safe landing

The feat marked a key milestone for the private rocket company of billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk in its development of a resusable heavy-lift launch vehicle to eventually carry astronauts and large cargo payloads to the moon and Mars.

4 years ago
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Egos clash in Bezos and Musk space race

Musk aimed low with a recent tweet saying "can't get it up (to orbit)" in response to a post about Bezos-founded space company Blue Origin protesting NASA's choice of Musk's SpaceX team to build a module that will land the next US astronauts on the moon.

4 years ago
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Ingenuity exceeds all expectatition, now shifts into new operational phase

The US space agency announced on Friday that Ingenuity is shifting from a pure proof-of-concept, technology demonstration mode to a more ambitious mission gauging how aerial scouting and other functions might benefit future scientific exploration of the Red Planet.

4 years ago
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