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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.

19 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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Fortnite maker and Apple duel in filings as App Store trial nears

Epic Games and Apple dueled on Thursday in legal filings ahead of a trial over whether to break the iPhone maker's tight grip on the App Store.

4 years ago
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Mind blown: Modern brains evolved much more recently than thought

Our first ancestors from the genus Homo emerged on the continent about 2.5 million years ago with primitive ape-like brains about half the size of those seen in today's humans. 

4 years ago
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No barriers, just willpower: An entrepreneur’s story of success in the pandemic

In an era of widespread adoption of new technology, starting your own business doesn’t need all that much.

4 years ago
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Twitter spotlights Asia democracy movements with #MilkTeaAlliance emoji

The alliance -- named for the shared love of sugary tea drinks across Hong Kong, Thailand and Taiwan -- emerged last year in an expression of cross-border solidarity and shared fear of authoritarian China.

4 years ago
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Genome analysis reveals unknown ancient human migration in Europe

The research is based on the analysis of several ancient human remains -- including a whole tooth and bone fragments -- found in a cave in Bulgaria last year.

4 years ago
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Radio telescope reveals thousands of star-forming galaxies in early Universe

Europe's giant LOFAR radio telescope has detected stars being born in tens of thousands of distant galaxies with unprecedented precision, in a series of studies published Wednesday. 

4 years ago
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The ulti-mutt pet? Chinese tech company develops robo-dogs

It's whip fast, obeys commands and doesn't leave unpleasant surprises on the floor -- meet the AlphaDog, a robotic response to two of China's burgeoning loves: pets and technology.

4 years ago
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YouTube says rule-breaking videos get scant views

YouTube on Tuesday said rule-breaking videos get looked at very little before being removed by the Google-owned platform.

4 years ago
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Facebook says hackers 'scraped' data of 533 mn users in 2019 leak

A trove of information about more than 530 million Facebook users was shared over the weekend at a hacker forum, prompting the leading social network to explain what happened and call on people to be vigilant about privacy settings.

4 years ago
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60 years after Gagarin, Russia lags in the space race

Sixty years after the Soviet Union made history by launching Yuri Gagarin into space on April 12, 1961, Russia continues to have lofty extraterrestrial ambitions, but its ability to realise them is more down to earth.

4 years ago
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Facebook says hackers 'scraped' data of 533 million users in 2019 leak

A trove of information about more than 530 million Facebook users was shared over the weekend at a hacker forum, prompting the leading social network to explain what happened and call on people to be vigilant about privacy settings.

4 years ago
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Self-driving cars ideal match for Apple: Tim Cook

Talk of an autonomous vehicle bearing the Apple brand has long been among rumors swirling around the iPhone maker, which has remained tight-lipped about its plans for the market.

4 years ago
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NASA's Ingenuity helicopter ready to begin Mars flight

The ultra-light aircraft had been fixed to the belly of the Perseverance rover, which touched down on the Red Planet on February 18.

4 years ago
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How the pandemic has shifted the consumer behavior progressed digitally

It has been more than a year since the government declared COVID-19 a public health emergency, nearly a year since the first large-scale social restrictions were imposed in Jakarta and for most of us, almost just as long since nonessential workers started working from home (WFH).

4 years ago
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Facebook revamps feed, aims for more user control

The change enables users to control and prioritize on what Facebook calls its "News Feed," or the main element seen when people log onto Facebook.

4 years ago
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Borisov comet 'most pristine' object from outer space seen in Solar System

Pristine, in astronomical terms, describes a comet that has never passed close enough to a star to be transformed by its searing heat.

4 years ago
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SpaceX Starship rocket test ends in another failure: Musk

"At least the crater is in the right place!" he joked, in acknowledging the fourth failed test of the prototype.

4 years ago
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A 'starter kit' for supermassive black holes?

There are two well-known sizes of black hole -- at one end, so-called stellar-class ones which are typically three to ten times the mass of our Sun -- and at the other, supermassive ones, found at the centre of most galaxies, including the Milky Way, which are millions to billions times heavier.

4 years ago
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Facebook, Google unveil Asia-Pacific data cable plans

Facebook said on Sunday it would be investing with partners on the subsea cables known as Echo and Bifrost to connect Singapore, Indonesia and North America, which would increase overall transpacific capacity by 70 percent. 

4 years ago
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Tokopedia boosts pandemic-battered MSMEs economy through digital transformation

During a year in which staying home is the new going out, it comes as no surprise that 2020 has propelled online shopping and marketplace platforms to the top of everyone’s lists for all sorts of everyday needs, from a new virtual meeting-friendly wardrobe to stocking up on essential items.

4 years ago
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'Alien invasion' display of light likely SpaceX debris re-entering atmosphere

Videos posted on social media showed a thick cluster of glowing dots with blazing trails of light moving slowly across the sky before fizzling out, with users speculating the phenomenon might be a meteor shower or even, jokingly, an alien invasion. 

4 years ago
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New York Times digital 'NFT' article sells for $563,000

Kevin Roose's article entitled "Buy This Column on the Blockchain" was itself aimed at trying to test the market as to what sort of items would sell in the form of an "NFT."

4 years ago
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Young, rich and racy: South Korea's livestreamers

From a converted storeroom on the roof of his mother's Seoul apartment, Kim Min-kyo plays video games for up to 15 hours a day -- and makes a fortune from the thousands of fans watching him.

4 years ago
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Evidence emerges of 'brand-new force of nature' at CERN

Authors of the research said this week that their results should "get physicists' hearts beating just a little faster" after they discovered evidence of a "brand-new" type of particle. 

4 years ago
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NASA will attempt first helicopter flight on Mars in early April

Right now, the ultra-light aircraft remains fixed to the belly of the Perseverance rover, which touched down on the Red Planet on February 18.

4 years ago
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Messaging app Line to transfer all users' data to Japan for security

The measure comes after Line, whose app is used by over 86 million of Japan's some 126 million people, said last week its users' data had been accessed by technicians in China without users being informed as required by law.

4 years ago
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Facebook disables 1.3 billion fake accounts in Oct-Dec last year

The company also removed more than 12 million pieces of content about COVID-19 and vaccines that global health experts flagged as misinformation, it said in a blog post.

4 years ago
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No threat to Earth as huge asteroid zooms past

The asteroid was two million kilometres (1.25 million miles) away at its nearest, according to NASA -- more than five times the distance between the Earth and the Moon but still close enough to be classified as a "potentially hazardous asteroid".

4 years ago
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First ever tweet turns 15 years old

Fifteen years ago Jack Dorsey typed out a banal message -- "just setting up my twttr" -- which became the first ever tweet, launching a global platform that has become a controversial and dominant force in civil society.

4 years ago
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Fulfillment service aids online businesses to expand reach awareness across nation

Several clicks (or taps) and a brief wait, and your package is waiting for you at your doorstep.

4 years ago
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