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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.

2 days 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. ...

5 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. ...

6 days 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. 

5 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.

5 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.

5 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.

5 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.

5 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.

5 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.

5 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.

5 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.

5 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.

5 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.

5 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.

5 years ago
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NASA's Perseverance rover beams back spectacular new images

The high-resolution still was extracted from a video taken by the descent stage of the spacecraft that had transported the rover from Earth.

5 years ago
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America has sent five rovers to Mars when will humans follow?

With its impeccable landing on Thursday, NASA's Perseverance became the fifth rover to reach Mars -- so when can we finally expect the long-held goal of a crewed expedition to materialize? 

5 years ago
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Touchdown: NASA's Perseverance rover ready to search for life on Mars

The autonomously guided procedure was in fact completed more than 11 minutes earlier, the length of time it took for radio signals to return to Earth.

5 years ago
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Chatty robot Franzi cheers up German patients

Cleaning robot Franzi makes sure floors are spotless at the Munich hospital where she works, and has taken on a new role during the pandemic: cheering up patients and staff.

5 years ago
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New look at first black hole detected shows it is bigger than expected

Researchers said on Thursday that new observations of the Cygnus X-1 black hole, orbiting in a stellar marriage with a large and luminous star, showed it is 21 times our sun's mass, about 50 percent more massive than previously believed.

5 years ago
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Egypt autopsy offers new clues 3,600 years after murder

Seqenenre Tao II, "the Brave", reigned over southern Egypt some 1,600 years before Christ.

5 years ago
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Why the world is watching Australia's tussle with Big Tech

Here is a look at what the proposed rules are, why companies such as Facebook object, and what it might mean for users:

5 years ago
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Was there ever life on Mars? NASA's Perseverance rover wants to find out

NASA's Perseverance rover prepares for touchdown on the Red Planet Thursday to search for telltale signs of microbes that might have existed there billions of years ago, when conditions were warmer and wetter than they are today.

5 years ago
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Facebook blocks news sharing in Australia over media law

Facebook blocked the sharing of news in Australia on Wednesday over government plans to make it pay media groups for content, but the move disrupted the pages of emergency services while triggering accusations of censorship  

5 years ago
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Italy fines Facebook 7 million euros over data protection

According to the authority, known as AGCM, the US social media giant fails to properly inform users about how it collects and uses their data for commercial purposes.

5 years ago
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Russian scientists probe prehistoric viruses dug from permafrost

The Siberia-based lab said in a statement that the aim of the project was to identify paleoviruses and conduct advanced research into virus evolution. 

5 years ago
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Comet from edge of solar system killed the dinosaurs: study

A pair of astronomers at Harvard say they have now resolved long standing mysteries surrounding the nature and origin of the "Chicxulub impactor", a huge celestial object that triggered a catastrophic "impact winter" that eventually wiped out three-quarters of life on Earth

5 years ago
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5G phones may interfere with aircraft: French regulator

The potential phenomenon is due to "signal interference from a close frequency source of a strength that is similar or even superior to that of  altimeters." 

5 years ago
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Perseverance rover lands on Mars this week

The Mars 2020 mission, which set off late from Florida in late July, includes the largest ever vehicle to be dispatched to the Red Planet.

5 years ago
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UAE's 'Hope' probe sends home first image of Mars

The picture "captured the largest volcano in the solar system, Olympus Mons, emerging into the early morning sunlight," it said in a statement.

5 years ago
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Maryland becomes first US state to tax digital ad revenue

Legislators in the state senate mustered enough votes to override a veto by Republican Governor Larry Hogan, who had sought to derail the tax on revenue taken in from online ads shown in Maryland.

5 years ago
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China's Mars probe sends back video of Red Planet

In the video, published by state broadcaster CCTV, the surface of the planet is seen coming into view out of a pitch black sky against the outside of the Tianwen-1, which entered the orbit of the Red Planet on Wednesday.

5 years ago
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Twitter chief Dorsey teams with Jay-Z to back bitcoin

Dorsey, who is also founder and chief of financial services and mobile payments firm Square, said in a tweet that he and Jay-Z are giving 500 bitcoin to fund an independent endowment called "Btrust."

5 years ago
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