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Social media frenzy fuels bank busting panic

Fearful Twitter posts and anxious WhatsApp exchanges coupled with online banking ease are seen as helping power a run on a pair of now-collapsed American lending institutions.

2 years ago
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Odds drop newly-found asteroid will hit Earth in 2046

The asteroid, which is named 2023 DW and is estimated to be around the size of a 50-metre Olympic swimming pool, was first spotted by a small Chilean observatory on February 26. ...

2 years ago
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At San Francisco expo, AI 'sorry' for destroying humanity

The pieces in this temporary show mix the disturbing with the comic, and this first display has AI disburse pithy observations to the visitors that cross into its line of vision. ...

2 years ago

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Facebook spreads hate, whistleblower tells UK lawmakers

Haugen, who earlier this year shared a trove of internal documents alleging Facebook knew its products were harming children's mental health, argued the platform was "unquestionably" fueling hate.

4 years ago
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'Facebook Papers' hit as platform reports billions in profit

The social media giant has been battling a fresh crisis since former employee Frances Haugen leaked reams of internal studies showing executives knew of their sites' potential for harm, prompting a renewed US push for regulation.

4 years ago
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Grab, Emtek, Bukalapak kick-start MSME digital accelerator program with vaccinations

Grab, Emtek and Bukalapak have joined hands to launch an extensive accelerator program dubbed Kolaborasi Nyata Untuk Masa Depan (Tangible Collaboration for the Future), or Kota Masa Dapan, targeting micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME) across the country.

4 years ago
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South Korea launches first domestic space rocket but mission fails

South Korea launched its first domestically developed space rocket on Thursday but failed to put its dummy payload into orbit.

4 years ago
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New name for Facebook? "Don't change the subject", critics say

The report from website The Verge, which Facebook refused to confirm, said the embattled company was aiming to show its ambition to be more than a social media site.

4 years ago
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Facebook plans rebrand with new name

The name change will be announced next week, The Verge reported, citing a source with direct knowledge of the matter.

4 years ago
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Darwin family microscope to be sold at auction

The instrument was designed by Charles Gould for the firm Cary around 1825 and is one of six surviving microscopes associated with the British naturalist, according to auction house Christie's.

4 years ago
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Facebook announces 10,000 EU jobs to build 'metaverse'

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been a leading voice in Silicon Valley hype around the idea of the metaverse, which would blur the lines between the physical world and the digital one.

4 years ago
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Russian crew return to Earth after filming first movie in space

Yulia Peresild and Klim Shipenko landed as scheduled on Kazakhstan's steppe at 0436 GMT, according to footage broadcast live by the Russian space agency. 

4 years ago
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Microsoft shuttering LinkedIn in China as rules tighten

The US-based company will replace LinkedIn in China with an application dedicated to applying for jobs but without the networking features, according to senior vice president of engineering Mohak Shroff.

4 years ago
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Prince William tells space tourists: fix Earth instead

Britain's Prince William blasted space tourism on Thursday, saying more attention should be paid to problems closer to home ahead of the COP26 climate summit.

4 years ago
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What a blast! The rush of amateur astronauts

With veteran actor William Shatner of Star Trek becoming the latest celebrity to go into space Wednesday, we look at the recent rush of amateur astronauts.

4 years ago
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Anti-Semitism 'reaching younger audience on social media'

Anti-Semitism is being disseminated to a younger generation of social media users through platforms like Instagram and TikTok, according to analysis.

4 years ago
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To boldly go: 'Star Trek' star Shatner space-bound with Blue Origin

The Canadian -- who will forever be known to the sci-fi show's legion of "Trekkies" as Captain James Tiberius Kirk -- will launch from the company's West Texas base at 9 am (1400 GMT), after a day's delay due to high winds.

4 years ago
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Life on Mars: simulating Red Planet base in Israeli desert

The Austrian Space Forum has set up a pretend Martian base with the Israeli space agency at Makhtesh Ramon, a 500-metre (1,600-foot) deep, 40 kilometre (25 mile) wide crater.

4 years ago
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Germany unveils first self-driving train

Four such trains will join the northern city's S-Bahn rapid urban rail network and start carrying passengers from December, using the existing rail infrastructure.

4 years ago
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Fossil shows humans, dogs lived in Central America in 10,000 BC

The dogs, and their masters, potentially lived alongside giant animals, researchers say.

4 years ago
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Small business, big impact: The importance of MSMEs in small towns

It is no surprise that the COVID-19 pandemic, despite showing signs of abating, has wreaked havoc on the Indonesian economy. Even as the country is on the rebound, the pandemic’s effects are still being felt across industries, including micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs).

4 years ago
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Ancient river delta bolsters search for signs of life on Mars

In February, NASA's Perseverance rover landed in Jezero crater, where scientists suspected a long-gone river once fed a lake, depositing sediment in a fan-shaped delta visible from space. 

4 years ago
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'We feel helpless and guilty': Meet those behind Indonesia’s 'solidarity economy'

With many Indonesians barely able to survive the pandemic’s economic fallout, citizen-run initiatives have become a lifeblood for many.

4 years ago
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Singapore patrol robots stoke fears of surveillance state

From vast numbers of CCTV cameras to trials of lampposts kitted out with facial recognition tech, Singapore is seeing an explosion of tools to track its inhabitants.

4 years ago
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Duo wins Nobel Chemistry Prize for work on catalysts

The duo was awarded "for their development of a precise new tool for molecular construction: organocatalysis. This has had a great impact on pharmaceutical research, and has made chemistry greener," the Nobel Committee said.

4 years ago
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Vtubers: Virtual anime characters ready to entertain fans

Virtual YouTubers, or Vtubers, are entertainers with virtual anime avatars.

4 years ago
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Ancient Indonesian woman reshapes views on spread of early humans

Theories about early human migration in Asia could be transformed by the research published in the scientific journal Nature in August, after analysis of the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), or the genetic fingerprint, of the woman who was given a ritual burial in an Indonesian cave.

4 years ago
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Facebook blames "internal mistake" for nearly six-hour outage

The company in a late Monday blog post did not specify who executed the configuration change and whether it was planned.

4 years ago
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Facebook fights global outage and whistleblower revelations

Many long-held fears and criticisms about the platform seem to have been backed up by Facebook's own research, which ex-worker Frances Haugen has turned over to authorities and the Wall Street Journal.

4 years ago
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What is graphene? 'Miracle material' singled out for COVID-19 conspiracies

Often referred to as a "miracle material," graphene is one of the world's strongest materials, and one of the lightest.

4 years ago
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Space mission captures images of Mercury from 199 kilometers away

The images were obtained almost three years after the unmanned mission vessel was launched aboard an Ariane 5 Rocket.

4 years ago
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Decade after Steve Jobs' death, has Apple traded magic for profit?

"Apple doesn't innovate anymore" or "Steve Jobs is turning in his grave" are the type of disillusioned tweets that pop up especially during product launches led by Tim Cook, who took Apple's reins in August 2011. 

4 years ago
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