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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.

21 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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Images of 'cosmic web' reveal maze of dwarf galaxies

Peering into the early Universe some 12 billion years ago, scientists in France have for the first time seen the incandescent filaments of hydrogen gas known as the "cosmic web," they said Thursday.

4 years ago
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New early embryo models offer hope for research on miscarriages, birth defects

Scientists have generated early-stage human embryo models that could help shed light on the "black box" of initial human development stages and improve research on pregnancy loss and birth defects.

4 years ago
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Lightning may have sparked life on Earth, study finds

Phosphorus is a vital building block of life as we know it, forming basic cell structures and the double helix shape of DNA and RNA. 

4 years ago
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Mars' 'missing' water is buried beneath surface: study

Billions of years ago, Mars was home to lakes and oceans -- but where all the water went to transform the planet into the desolate rock we know today has been something of a mystery.

4 years ago
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Messaging app Signal no longer working in China

Users of the free app, which has surged in popularity globally after rising privacy concerns, were unable to access it without a virtual private network (VPN).

4 years ago
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Tributes pour in for father of cassette tape

Created by Ottens while working for electrical giant Philips, cassettes made music truly portable for the first time and allowed a generation of music fans to make mix-tapes of their favourite songs.

4 years ago
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Russia deploys giant space telescope in Lake Baikal

The deep underwater telescope, which has been under construction since 2015, is designed to observe neutrinos, the smallest particles currently known.

4 years ago
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The Hitler history 'sensation' stashed in an Austrian attic

When he was first contacted by a woman claiming to have discovered letters written by Adolf Hitler's father, Roman Sandgruber was understandably wary.

4 years ago
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Large asteroid to pass by Earth on March 21: NASA

The US space agency said it will allow astronomers to get a rare close look at an asteroid.

4 years ago
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Is 'Star Trek' light-speed travel possible? There could be an engineering solution

A new research paper authored by an American physicist offers a potential blueprint for superluminal travel - faster than the speed of light - using conventional physics rather than a construct based upon hypothetical particles and states of matter with exotic physical properties.

4 years ago
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Perseverance 'SuperCam' begins hunt for past life on Mars

The return to Earth years from now of the rocks and soil it retrieves "will give scientists the Holy Grail of planetary exploration," Jean-Yves le Gall, president of France's National Centre for Space Studies (CNES), which mostly built the mobile observatory, commented via a YouTube broadcast.  

4 years ago
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Biden plans to nominate Big Tech critic for regulatory post

The reports said Lina Khan -- a Columbia University law professor who has suggested antitrust laws could be interpreted to break up tech titans -- would be named to the Federal Trade Commission, an agency with some authority over mergers and antitrust policy.

4 years ago
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Neanderthals disappeared from Europe earlier than thought, says study

Neanderthal fossils from a cave in Belgium believed to belong to the last survivors of their species ever discovered in Europe are thousands of years older than once thought, a new study said Monday.

4 years ago
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Jack Dorsey's auction of a tweet draws $2 million bid

"just setting up my twttr," Dorsey tweeted on March 21, 2006. 

4 years ago
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Israeli 5-minute battery charge aims to fire up electric cars

Ultra-fast recharge specialists StoreDot have developed a first-generation lithium-ion battery that can rival the filling time of a standard car at the pump.

4 years ago
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Mars rover Perseverance goes for a 'spin'

The Mars rover Perseverance has successfully conducted its first test drive on the Red Planet, the US space agency NASA said Friday.

4 years ago
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SpaceX rocket explodes on ground after seemingly successful flight

It was yet another flub involving a prototype of the Starship rocket, which SpaceX hopes one day to send to Mars. 

4 years ago
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Fly me to the Moon: Japan billionaire offers space seats

It's the sort of chance that comes along just once in a blue Moon: a Japanese billionaire is throwing open a private lunar expedition to eight people from around the world.

4 years ago
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SoundCloud to be first music app with 'fan-powered' artist payments

At the moment, streaming services like Spotify, Deezer and Apple put royalty payments into one big pot and dish them out based on which artists have the most global plays. 

4 years ago
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Boeing Starliner test flight postponed

The test, which had previously been postponed until early April, will suffer another delay, this time due to unprecedented cold temperatures in Texas that caused extensive power outages in the southern US state.

4 years ago
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Instagram Live Rooms adds group streaming of up to four users

"Previously, you could go live with only one other person in a stream, but we’re now letting you 'double up' on your live broadcast," the company said in a blog post.

4 years ago
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Twitter to boot users who persist with Covid-19 lies

Twitter said Monday it will start labeling misleading tweets about Covid-19 vaccines and boot users who persist in spreading such misinformation.

4 years ago
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Twitter considers charging users for special content, in revenue push

Twitter said Thursday it plans to offer a subscription service in which users would pay for special content from high-profile accounts, part of an economic model to diversify its revenue.

4 years ago
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Domestic consumption via e-commerce helps absorb Indonesia’s economic shocks

Statistics Indonesia (BPS) recently announced that Indonesia’s economy contracted 2.07 percent year-on-year (yoy) in 2020 due to the blows dealt by the COVID-19 pandemic, marking the country’s first recession since the 1998 Asian financial crisis.

4 years ago
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Teenage T-Rexes edged out smaller dinosaur species, says study

A team of US scientists has demonstrated that the offspring of huge carnivorous dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus rex, who grew from the size of house cats to towering monsters, reshaped their ecosystems by outcompeting smaller rival species.

4 years ago
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NASA releases panorama taken by Mars rover

The panorama shows the rim of the Jezero Crater where the rover touched down last week and the cliff face of an ancient river delta in the distance.

4 years ago
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SolarWinds hack required massive, sophisticated effort: Microsoft president

The stunning SolarWinds hack that cybersecurity experts blame on Russia likely took a massive, disciplined effort by more than 1,000 software engineers, Microsoft President Brad Smith said Tuesday.

4 years ago
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Dogs came to North America with earliest humans: study

Humans are thought to have migrated to North America from Siberia over what is today the Bering Strait at the end of the last Ice Age -- between 30,000 and 11,000 years ago.

4 years ago
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NASA rover provides landing images on Mars, sound of Martian breeze

Along with 3 minutes of footage of what it calls "the world's most intimate view of a Mars landing," the U.S. space agency also released an audio recording of sounds from the red planet, including what it said was a wind gust on the surface of Mars.

4 years ago
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Facebook blocks medical data shared by apps

Data fed into a Facebook analytics tool by app makers included medical diagnoses and whether users were pregnant, according to a report shared by New York financial services department on Thursday.

4 years ago
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