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Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, testifies during the US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing “Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis“ in Washington, DC, on Jan. 31, 2024.
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, testifies during the US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing “Big Tech and the Online Child Sexual Exploitation Crisis“ in Washington, DC, on Jan. 31, 2024.
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Meta to back pro-AI candidates in California

The tech world powerhouse on Tuesday confirmed plans for a super-PAC called Mobilizing Economic Transformation Across California dedicated to backing pro-AI candidates regardless of party affiliation.

2 days ago
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California parents blame ChatGPT for son's suicide

Matthew and Maria Raine argue in a complaint filed Monday in a California state court that ChatGPT cultivated an intimate relationship with their son Adam over several months in 2024 and 2025 before he took his own life.  

2 days ago
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Human ancestor Lucy gets first European showing in Prague

The ancient remains of the Australopithecus afarensis were discovered in Ethiopia in 1974. The find was, at the time, the most complete ever made and revolutionised the understanding of humanity's ancestors.

4 days ago

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Chinese auto giant BYD to integrate DeepSeek

The company also said it would integrate AI startup Deepseek's software into its cars, following domestic peers such as Geely, Great Wall Motors, and Leapmotor. 

6 months ago
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A 'city-killer' asteroid might hit Earth how worried should we be?

It may sound apocalyptic, but a newly detected asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has a greater than one percent chance of colliding with Earth in about eight years.

6 months ago
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Scientists cast doubt on famous US groundhog's weather forecasts

The US state's tradition of using a large rodent to predict the seasons dates back to the Pennsylvania Dutch belief that if a groundhog left its burrow and saw its shadow, it would scurry back inside and winter would go on for six more weeks.

6 months ago
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With China's DeepSeek, US tech fears red threat

California tech investors have usually kept their involvement in politics low key, generally supporting centrist politicians who don’t get in the way of their innovations and business plans.

6 months ago
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Fossil reveals Cretaceous drama of a croc attack on a flying reptile

Scientists have unearthed in the badlands of Alberta's Dinosaur Provincial Park the fossilized neck bone of a young Cryodrakon, a type of flying reptile called a pterosaur, that may have died in just such a scenario.

7 months ago
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Homo erectus, not sapiens, first humans to survive desert: Study

The moment when the first members of the extended human family called hominins adapted to life in desert or tropical forests marks "a turning point in the history of human survival and expansion in extreme environments."

7 months ago
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Meta's 'Community Notes' model will not apply to paid ads

Community Notes on Meta Platforms will be enabled for organic content, a source said. Organic content are posts that Meta hasn't been paid to promote.

7 months ago
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Smart glasses enter new era with sleeker designs, lower prices

Today's smart glasses, all paired with smartphone apps, increasingly resemble traditional eyewear.

7 months ago
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Wild chimpanzees adapt genetically to different habitats

Researchers examined genetic data from 388 wild chimpanzees in 18 countries, documenting adaptations driven by the nature of their habitat and revealing previously unknown genetic diversity within this species shaped by local conditions.

7 months ago
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Meta knew it used pirated books to train AI, authors say

Ta-Nehisi Coates, comedian Sarah Silverman and other authors suing Meta for copyright infringement made the accusations in filings made public on Wednesday in California federal court. They said internal documents produced by Meta during the discovery process showed the company knew the works were pirated.

7 months ago
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Disinformation experts slam Meta decision to end US fact-checking

Meta Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg announced the company was going to "get rid" of its third-party fact-checkers in the United States, in a sweeping policy shift that analysts saw as an attempt to appease US President-elect Donald Trump.

7 months ago
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X's 'Community Notes': A model for Meta?

Facebook's fact-checking program currently operates in 26 languages, partnering with more than 80 media organizations worldwide including AFP.

7 months ago
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NASA spacecraft 'safe' after closest-ever approach to Sun

The space agency said the operations team at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland received the signal, a beacon tone, from the probe just before midnight on Thursday.

8 months ago
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NASA probe makes closest ever pass by the Sun

Launched in August 2018, the spaceship is on a seven-year mission to deepen scientific understanding of our star and help forecast space-weather events that can affect life on Earth.

8 months ago
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Scientists observe 'negative time' in quantum experiments

Now, researchers at the University of Toronto, through innovative quantum experiments, say they have demonstrated that "negative time" isn't just a theoretical idea -- it exists in a tangible, physical sense, deserving closer scrutiny. 

8 months ago
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ChatGPT search opens to all users in challenge to Google

The San Francisco-based tech firm had beefed up its ChatGPT generative AI chatbot with search engine capabilities in late October, but made the feature available only to paying subscribers.

8 months ago
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Japanese, Indonesian businesses see potential in air mobility

Technologies such as drones, electric aircraft and autonomous aerial vehicles (AAV) have made short-distance air transportation more economically viable.

8 months ago
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Join #GenHappineZ with the latest beauty products launch from Sasa and Naturally Speaking

We often forget that happiness can be found in everyday moments, like trying a new recipe or enjoying a skincare routine.

8 months ago
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Major Canadian media sue ChatGPT in case potentially worth billions

Media including The Globe and Mail newspaper and public broadcaster CBC accused OpenAI of breaching copyrights by "scraping large swaths of content" and profiting from the use of this content, according to a statement.

8 months ago
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Australian dictionary picks 'enshittification' as word of the year

"ENSHITTIFICATION -- Noun. Colloquial, the gradual deterioration of a service or product brought about by a reduction in the quality of service provided, especially of an online platform, and as a consequence of profit-seeking." 

9 months ago
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Scientists takes first 'zoomed-in' image of a star outside our galaxy

Roughly 160,000 light years from Earth, the star WOH G64 sits in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our home Milky Way.

9 months ago
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Human ancestor Lucy still has secrets 50 years after discovery

In a non-descript room in the National Museum of Ethiopia, the 3.18-million-year-old bones are delicately removed from a safe and placed on a long table. 

9 months ago
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France court orders Google to halt new news search scheme

The Paris commercial court was ruling on an emergency injunction sought by the SEPM union, which represents magazine staff in France.

9 months ago
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Bringing ADHD Awareness to Light: Sasa’s New Campaign for Kids

The number of Indonesian children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has continued to increase, according to a study by Gadjah Mada University (UGM), with the current data showing that 15 percent of children, or 1 in 20 children, have been diagnosed ADHD.

9 months ago
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NASA astronaut hospitalized after return from ISS

The four-member Crew-8 mission splashed down off the coast of Florida early Friday after nearly eight months aboard the orbital laboratory.

10 months ago
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NASA astronaut hospitalized after return from space station

The astronaut, who NASA did not name for privacy reasons, had splashed down off Florida's coast at 3:29 a.m. ET on Friday aboard SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule with three other crew members; two NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut.

10 months ago
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Watchdog reports doubling of AI child sex abuse material online

Many of the images and videos of children being "hurt and abused are so realistic that they can be very difficult to tell apart from imagery of real children".

10 months ago
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William Nathan Atmadja Research Red Velvet Beans as a solution to Diabetes & Malnutrition

A high school student from Jakarta has discovered the potential use of kacang koro benguk (red velvet beans) as the main ingredient of functional foods used to treat diabetes and malnutrition on a larger scale.

10 months ago
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PT Sasa Inti shines at the 2024 Marketing Excellence Awards

PT Sasa Inti achieved remarkable success at the 2024 Marketing Excellence Awards (MEA) this year, one of Indonesia's most prestigious recognitions in the marketing industry. The company demonstrated its marketing prowess by winning two Gold Awards in the Excellence for Experiential Marketing and Excellence for Customer Engagement categories for its innovative “Sasa Santan - Secret Kitchen” campaign. In addition, Sasa secured a Bronze Award for Excellence for Advertising for its impressive “Idul Adha Sapi” video and was named a finalist in other categories.

10 months ago
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AI enhances flood warnings but cannot erase risk of disaster

AI has supercharged weather forecasting, using a range of statistical tools to analyze years of historical data and predict patterns, and at a lower cost than traditional numerical weather predictions.

10 months ago