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WhatsApps AI feature depicts Palestinian boys with guns, Israelis with books In this file photo, logo of WhatsApp, the text messaging service, is seen on a smartphone in New York. (AFP)
The United States unfaltering support for decades-long Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people has snuck its way into the field of Artificial Intelligence, with Meta-owned WhatsApp introducing... |
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UN chief calls for united response to AI threats The UN chief has called for a "united, sustained, global response" to the AI threat. (Photo by AFP)
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for a "united, sustained, global response" to artificial intelligence threats, as world leaders meet in Britain to discuss the risks posed by the technologys... |
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Texas sues Meta over facial recognition The attorney generals office in the southern US state claims that Facebook violated users privacy rights
A lawsuit was filed against Facebook, which changed its company name to Meta last year, on Monday by the Texas attorney generals office, alleging the social media corporation violated state... |
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Drones flying over Mars could cause Saint Elmos fire, NASA says © NASA / Jay Friedlander
The electric currents generated by the whirling blades could make the air in the Martian atmosphere glow
A team of NASA scientists conducted research to investigate how electricity could build up on the rotor blades of drones, causing the Martian air to glow. This phenomenon... |
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NASAs new space telescope nears destination in solar orbit The James Webb Space Telescope Mirror is seen during a media unveiling at NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center at Greenbelt, Maryland, on November 2, 2016. (Photo by Reuters)
NASAs James Webb Space Telescope, designed to give the world an unprecedented glimpse into the earliest stages of the universe,... |
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NASA warns that Russia module may be isolated from rest of space station © NASA
Officials warned that the section could cause problems for the whole of the ISS
A Russian International Space Station (ISS) module has been experiencing air leaks and may need to be permanently isolated from the rest of the facility, NASA has announced.
Robyn Gatens, the space agency... |
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Earths core cooling faster than expected Rapid cooling of planets core may lead to earlier shut-down of crucial tectonic processes © Getty Images / De Agostini Picture Library
A critical tectonic process between the core and surface layers may be shut down earlier than anticipated
The Earths molten interior is cooling faster than... |
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Microsoft buying Activision Blizzard in all-time record deal © Pavlo Gonchar / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images
Microsoft has announced it will acquire the scandal-ridden game studio behind ‘Diablo’ and ‘Call of Duty’ for an impressive $68.7 billion
Microsoft has revealed it will purchase Activision Blizzard, the game... |
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Mystery on Moons dark side solved Chinese rover got close-up shot of ‘mysterious lunar object
A Chinese rover has finally made it close enough to explore an oddly-shaped object spotted on the far side of the Moon last year. The discovery was dubbed ‘mystery hut online.
The image of a gray cube-shaped object on the Moons... |
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Ex-NASA head explains what could make Mars and Venus habitable Illustration of Mars and the Sun © pixabay / GooKingSword
Former NASA director James Green says the two planets could be ‘terraformed using shields to protect them from the Sun
Building a magnetic shield between the Sun and Mars could protect the planet from solar particles that erode... |
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Artificial Sun hits record temperature The Chinas nuclear fusion device HL-2M tokamak, nicknamed the Artificial Sun. © Getty Images / VCG
A clean energy experiment known as the ‘Artificial Sun reached a temperature of 70,000,000C, and held it for more than 17 minutes, during trials in China. The program aims to mimic natural... |
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Telecom giants reject calls to halt 5G rollout © Getty Images / MARK GARLICK / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY
5G rollout in the US to go on as planned despite concerns it could interfere with aircraft electronics
AT&T and Verizon Communications have rejected calls by the US aviation authority to delay the introduction of 5G networks amid concerns... |
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Chinas man-made sun sets new world record Chinese scientists have set a new world record by achieving a 1,056 second-long operation of a "man-made sun".
The breakthrough was made on Thursday during the latest round of experiments at the experimental advanced superconducting tokamak (EAST), or Chinas "man-made sun".
The scientists achieved... |
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Elon Musk denies hogging space FILE PHOTO: SpaceX founder and Tesla CEO Elon Musk speaks on a screen during the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain, June 29, 2021 © Reuters / Nacho Doce
Billionaire SpaceX CEO insists theres enough room in space for "tens of billions of satellites"
Elon Musk has rejected complaints... |
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China slams US over space stations close encounter with Elon Musks satellites The file photo shows a model of the Chinese space station Tiangong orbiting Earth.
China says the United States is ignoring its obligations under outer space treaties and endangering the safety of astronauts, following two "close encounters" between a Chinese space station and satellites operated... |
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Largest-ever group of rogue planets discovered in Milky Way Young Free Floating Planets in their parent nebula. © YouTube / Herve Bouy
70 wandering ‘rogue planets the size of Jupiter in Milky Way are largest group ever discovered
Astronomers have found dozens of ‘rogue exoplanets roaming the Milky Way without a parent star to hold them... |
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Paralyzed man with brain chip posts first direct-thought tweet © Reuters / Kacper Pempel / Illustration
A company that implants neural computer interfaces into the brain says a patient with a nervous system disease that left him motionless was able to share a post on social media by just thinking it.
A 62-year-old man in Australia diagnosed with amyotrophic... |
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$10 billion James Webb Space Telescope successfully launched by NASA Arianespaces Ariane 5 rocket with NASAs James Webb Space Telescope onboard lifts up from the launch pad, at the Europes Spaceport, the Guiana Space Center in Kourou, French Guiana, on December 25, 2021. (Photo by AFP)
The worlds most powerful space telescope on Saturday blasted off into orbit,... |
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2022 will start with a bus-sized asteroid approaching Earth © Pixabay / urikyo33
The beginning of 2022 will be marked by a large asteroid approaching the Earth. NASAs classifications provide a clue on whether we should be worried.
According to the US space agency, Asteroid 2014 YE15, first discovered in 2014, will approach Earth at a distance of around... |
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China fires up its artificial sun © Pixabay.com
A new round of nuclear fusion experiments for an advanced superconducting tokamak (EAST), or "Chinese artificial sun," kicked off at the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science this month, Xinhua News Agency reported on Tuesday.
According to the institutes vice director, Song Yuntao,... |
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Los Angeles Comic Con held in-person (Video) Los Angeles Comic Con, one of the most diverse and celebrated pop culture events in the United States, was held at the Los Angeles Convention Center in early December, signaling a return to full-scale in-person events.
Los Angeles Comic Con had been held annually since 2011, but was canceled for 2020... |
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Elon Musks rocket debris flying towards International Space Station Elon Musk, CEO of Space Exploration Technologies Corp, speaks during a news conference at the National Press Club. © Brendan Smialowski / Getty Images
A fragment from a SpaceX rocket stuck in orbit around the Earth is set to pass close by the International Space Station, Russian mission controllers... |
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Western tech giants have five weeks to open branches in Russia before sanctions applied regulator A total of 13 foreign tech companies, including Google and Apple, must open branches or legal entities in Russia before the years end in order to continue to operate advertising in the country, Moscows regulator said on Monday.
The internet giants, including Twitter and Mark Zuckerbergs newly created... |
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Tech giant insists its workers may now speak freely about pay, conditions FILE PHOTO: Apple Store employees greet customers, Palo Alto, California, US, September 20, 2013. © AFP / Justin Sullivan
US tech giant Apple has affirmed its employees right to talk about their pay and working conditions. The step comes as a result of its staffs consolidated efforts to protect... |
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US lawmakers introduce bill to rein in Apple, Google app stores A new Senate bill targeting US app stores seeks to rein in the power of tech giants such as Apple and Google by banning restrictions on app developers. (File photo)
A bipartisan trio of senators has introduced a bill that would seek to rein in the power of tech giants such as Apple and Google.
The... |
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US whistleblower Snowden, privacy advocates blast Apples photo scanning plan US whistle-blower Edward Snowden and other privacy advocates speak out against Apples plan to scan user photos for child abuse imagery. (File photo)
Former US National Security Agency member and whistle-blower Edward Snowden, along with other security experts and privacy advocates, has censured a controversial... |
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Massive EA Games hack began with cyber thieves posing as employee on Slack The Slack Technologies Inc. logo is seen on a banner outside the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) during thew companys IPO in New York, US June 20, 2019. © REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
The group of hackers who swiped source code from game company Electronic Arts pulled off the stunt by tricking EAs... |
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Australias largest dinosaur identified as new species Australian scientists have confirmed the discovery of one of the largest dinosaur species ever in Eromanga, outback Queensland.
Formally named Australotitan cooperensis meaning "the southern titan" the plant-eating sauropod lived between 92 million and 96 million years ago, when Australia was attached... |
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Microsoft to unplug Explorer as it seeks edge in browser war Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) is pulling the plug on its once omnipresent browser, Internet Explorer, next year as it prepares to battle market leader Chrome with its slicker Edge browser.
Launched in 1995, Internet Explorer became the dominant browser for over a decade as it was bundled with Microsofts... |
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Parler returns to Apples App Store with PG version as platform begins hate speech crackdown on iOS only Conservative-friendly social media site Parler has made a comeback on the Apple App Store, reappearing on the platform with beefed up ‘hate speech filters after it was pulled in the wake of the January 6 riot at the US Capitol.
The social network was reinstated on the App Store on Monday, with... |
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