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Researchers into idea to blend powdered PTFE into food as a zero-calorie filler to curb hunger win chemistry prizeFor decades scientists, doctors and public health officials have battled to solve the obesity crisis. Now researchers have won an Ig Nobel prize for a radical new approach: slashing people's calorie intake by feeding them Teflon.The...
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Patrick Vallance says relations must improve and NHS has to reverse decline in drugs investmentThe UK is determined to resolve its standoff with the pharmaceutical industry and reverse a 10-year decline in NHS spending on medicines, the science minister has told MPs after a string of drugmakers cancelled projects worth nearly £2bn.Patrick...
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A growing number of shooters are in conversation with their digital communities, which are becoming extremeOn the day that 22-year-old Tyler Robinson shot and the killed rightwing activist Charlie Kirk, prosecutors say, he texted his roommate to confess what he had done. While appearing to admit to the murder and describe how he was planning to...
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Danish drugmaker jumps by about £9bn as trial shows 'significant weight loss' for tablet version of WegovyBusiness live – latest updatesThe value of the drugmaker Novo Nordisk jumped by about £9bn on Thursday after research showed its new anti-obesity pill resulted in almost as much weight loss as its Wegovy jab.The Danish company is racing...
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Google's president and chief investment officer Ruth Porat tells the BBC there are "profound opportunities in the UK".
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The 'knowledge economy' promised cultural and social growth. Instead, we got worsening inequality and division. Artificial intelligence will supercharge itRecently, Palantir – a tech corporation that boasts no fewer than five billionaire executives – announced its Q2 earnings: over a billion dollars generated in a single quarter. Forty-eight...
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On a tiny Italian island, scientists conducted a radical experiment to see if the bees were causing their wild cousins to declineOff the coast of Tuscany is a tiny island in the shape of a crescent moon. An hour from mainland Italy, Giannutri has just two beaches for boats to dock. In summer, hundreds of tourists flock there, hiking to the red and...
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The phenomenal response to an article we published on this question led to detailed cognitive research – and the findings have implications that go way beyond gamersFive years ago, on the verge of the first Covid lockdown, I wrote an article asking what seemed to be an extremely niche question: why do some people invert their controls when...
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Super-budget Chinese retailer reports revenues of $63.3m last year, almost double its $32m in 2023The UK operation of the Chinese online marketplace Temu doubled revenues and pre-tax profits last year, as British consumers snapped up products offered by the super-budget retailer.Temu UK reported revenues of $63.3m (£46.4m) last year, almost double...
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The murder of political activist Charlie Kirk has prompted fears about rising levels of political violence in the US after a number of high-profile assassinations and attempted assassinations of political figures in recent years. But how connected are these events and do they signal a rise in public support for this kind of violence? To find out...
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California, Oregon, Washington and Hawaii release recommendations in wake of firings at federal health agenciesFour western states are issuing their own joint recommendations for who should receive Covid, flu and RSV vaccines this fall, providing a counterbalance in anticipation of new vaccine guidance from the Trump administration, which has...
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The purchases, the billionaire's first since 2020, boost his investment in the firm.
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The deal will pave the way to US ownership of the social media platform's American operations, according to the US treasury secretary.
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Swedish researchers find low daily dose can halve risk in post-surgery patients with specific gene mutationsA daily dose of aspirin can substantially reduce the risk of some colorectal cancers returning after surgery, according to a major trial into the protective effects of the everyday painkiller.Swedish researchers found that people who took a...
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Study finds chimpanzees' enthusiasm for guzzling ripe fruit puts their ethanol intake at about 14g per daySomeone have a word with the chimps? Observations of the apes in the wild show them imbibing the alcoholic equivalent of a half pint of beer a day through the vast amount of fermented fruit in their diet.Researchers arrived at the first...
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Delphi-2M uses diagnoses, 'medical events' and lifestyle factors to create forecasts for next decade and beyondScientists have developed a new artificial intelligence tool that can predict your personal risk of more than 1,000 diseases, and forecast changes in health a decade in advance.The generative AI tool was custom-built by experts from the...
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My husband, Ulrich Loening, who has died aged 94, was a lecturer first in the botany and then in the zoology departments (now the molecular plant sciences and biological sciences departments) of Edinburgh University. He engaged in fundamental research and made significant contributions to the developing science of molecular biology.He had always...
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PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox, Nintendo Switch 2; Gearbox Software/2K GamesFamiliar and predictable, but also well-honed and significantly less juvenile, the fourth Borderlands game is a blastOnce a games franchise hits its fourth outing, it is certainly mature – yet maturity is not a word generally associated with Borderlands, the colourful and...
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More women are entering the US ranching and agriculture field. Their struggles – and aspirations – defy the traditional Marlboro cowboy stereotypeSavanah McCarty was not riding across the wide-open prairie when a horse accident nearly killed her.She was in the driveway of her leased farm outside Bozeman, Montana, waiting for a student's mother...
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The clown duo share what makes them laugh, including pop divas, unhinged mobile game ads and Kermit unmaskedGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailWe are Rae and Will AKA raeandwill, a clown duo who specialise in mime – so asking us to write about the 10 funniest things we've seen on the internet is technically considered a hate crime. But if...
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From famous Street Fighter lines to quips from 90s classics, these are the quotes we hear again and again – and even incorporate into our own livesSome snippets of video game dialogue, like classic movie quotes, are immediately recognisable to a swathe of fans. From Street Fighter's "hadouken!” to Call of Duty's "remember, no Russian” to...
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Preteens are parroting influencer speak and demanding anti-ageing products as the pressure to fit in intensifiesJessica, 25, was working a shift at Sephora when a little girl who looked about 10 ran up to one of her colleagues, crying. "Her skin was burning,” Jessica said, "it was tomato red. She had been running around, putting every acid you...
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Footage shared on social media shows burning wreckage on the ground after the mid-air collision.
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Kering, the luxury French fashion house which owns the brands, confirmed the attack to BBC News.
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Sam Altman said if there is doubt the system will default to the under-18 experience putting 'safety ahead of privacy and freedom for teens'OpenAI will restrict how ChatGPT responds to a user it suspects is under 18, unless that user passes the company's age estimation technology or provides ID, after legal action from the family of a 16-year-old...
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Comments from Chinese official in Madrid have raised questions over who could control the algorithm that powers Tik Tok's video feedDonald Trump has claimed his administration has reached a deal with China to keep TikTok operating in the US, amid uncertainty over what shape the final agreement will take, with suggestions from the Chinese side that...
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My novel explores the consequences of extreme longevity. Meanwhile, Putin and Xi are pondering immortality in real lifeI was in bed scrolling on my phone when I read the headline: Hot mic catches Xi and Putin discussing organ transplants and immortality. It took me a long time to get to sleep after that. Not yet, I thought. I pride myself on my...
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The social media platform had faced a ban in the US over national security concerns.
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Lara Lewington explores the tech being trialled to find 'hidden' pancreatic cancer cases.
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One in five people who took orforglipron once a day for 72 weeks lost 20% or more of their weight, maker Eli Lilly saysA daily pill for weight loss can help people reduce their body weight by as much as a fifth, according to a trial that could pave the way for millions more people to shed pounds.The drug, called orforglipron, is manufactured by Eli...
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Kirk's rise to fame was largely bolstered by being extremely online – and it seems the suspect has that in commonHello, and welcome to TechScape. Dara Kerr here, filling in for Blake Montgomery, who promises he'll come back from vacation. Meanwhile, I'm looking at the memes, gaming and internet culture behind the shooting of Charlie Kirk.The...
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FAA ruled to have satisfied obligations in granting approval for expanded SpaceX operations next to wildlife refugeA US district court judge on Monday rejected a suit by conservation groups challenging the Federal Aviation Administration approval in 2022 of expanded rocket launch operations by Elon Musk's SpaceX next to a national wildlife refuge...
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What once seemed a pretty fringe subculture of hobbyists riffing on stories that got them privately hot is now bringing mainstream cinema to a rolling boilThere was a time when fan fiction meant furtive scribbles uploaded to shadowy corners of the internet, in which Mr Darcy was recast as a moody vampire flatmate, Captain Kirk discovered his inner...
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Rachel Reeves says move is a 'vote of confidence' in British economy as she prepares to open firm's first UK datacentreBusiness live – latest updatesGoogle has said it will invest £5bn in the UK in the next two years to help meet growing demand for artificial intelligence services, in a boost for the government.The investment, which comes as...
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The next pandemic or geopolitical shock could be close at hand. To look after our people, we're looking after our supply chains, agriculture and fuel reservesMiika Ilomäki is chief preparedness specialist for Finland's National Emergency Supply AgencyIn times of crisis, food is more than sustenance. It is a pillar of national stability. Finland...
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When you're done settling for the sludge in the hotel lobby, this portable brewing setup will open the door to perfect coffee anywhereNothing makes me feel more settled than making a cup of coffee in the morning. Without it, my whole day feels slightly off. For years, that was just something I accepted about traveling or camping – there might be...
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It felt like a gargantuan achievement – I'm someone who regularly forgets the most important item on a shopping listTell us about your colorful wedding dressThere's a scene from the 2010s series Sherlock that I think about a lot. Sherlock Holmes (Benedict Cumberbatch) visits his "mind palace” to figure out how he and his friend/minion John...
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Artificial intelligence will replace creativity with something closer to magical wishing. The challenge for future generations will be dealing with the feeling of emptiness that leaves us withIn the German fairytale The Fisherman and His Wife, an old man one day catches a strange fish: a talking flounder. It turns out that an enchanted prince is...
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The cuddly chatbot Grem is designed to 'learn' your child's personality, while every conversation they have is recorded, then transcribed by a third party. It wasn't long before I wanted this experiment to be over ...'I'm going to throw that thing into a river!” my wife says as she comes down the stairs looking frazzled after putting our...
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In 2020, after spending half his life in the US, Song-Chun Zhu took a one-way ticket to China. Now he might hold the key to who wins the global AI raceBy the time Song-Chun Zhu was six years old, he had encountered death more times than he could count. Or so it felt. This was the early 1970s, the waning years of the Cultural Revolution, and his...
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At a recent ceremony for world leaders in Beijing, a hot mic picked up a surprising exchange between Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping about the possibility of living to 150. Putin suggested the secret might lie in repeated organ transplants. But is this the new frontier of anti-ageing research or a fringe and unproven theory? To find out, science...
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The iPhone Air will only have an eSim - will other phone makers also shift away from the familiar - but fiddly - plastic cards?
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Manganese blue pigment, used in Pollock's Number 1A, 1948, was since phased out for environmental reasonsScientists have identified the origins of the blue color in one of Jackson Pollock's paintings with a little help from chemistry, confirming for the first time that the abstract expressionist used a vibrant, synthetic pigment known as manganese...
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Tesla shares rose by more than 8% after news of CEO's transactions, a week after he was offered $1tn pay packageElon Musk, the Tesla CEO, has purchased nearly $1bn worth of the electric-vehicle maker's stock, a regulatory filing showed, reinforcing Musk's push for greater control over Tesla.Tesla shares jumped more than 8% in premarket trading on...
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The industry's retreat from the UK reflects a deeper shift about how Beijing is rewriting the rules of innovationWhen Merck abruptly scrapped its billion-pound London research hub last week, critics blamed Britain's lacklustre support for life sciences and a Scrooge-like grip on NHS drug prices. But one important factor may have been missed. That...
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The answer to today's T-zerEarlier today I set you a classic 19th century puzzleThe T-puzzle Continue reading...
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Nostalgic tech; autumn garden hacks; and what to wear when it rains• Don't get the Filter delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereWhen I was 18, I bought a heavily reduced MiniDisc player. This wasn't even what you could charitably call "fashionably late”, given the format was already on its last legs, but I loved it, and because nobody else was...
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iPhone upgrade joined by watchOS 26, iPadOS 26 and macOS 26 Tahoe, adding a new look and features to devicesApple will release some of the biggest software updates for its iPhone, iPad and smartwatch on Monday, radically changing the way icons, the lock screen and the system looks, as well as adding features for compatible devices.Announced at the...
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Quantum sensing, satellite tracking and AI are part of an accelerating arms race in detection that should prompt a re-evaluation of Australia's defence strategyFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastMilitary history is littered with the corpses of apex predators.The Gatling...
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Laura Marie is one of six research volunteers preparing to spend 378 days inside Nasa's Mars Dune Alpha in HoustonIt sounds like the premise of a new reality show: take four strangers, isolate them in a 3D-printed Martian habitat for more than a year, and watch them tackle equipment failures, communication delays and attempts to grow vegetables. In...
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Met forced to rebut misinformation amplified by X users as Musk accused of inciting violence with protest commentsThe Metropolitan police has had to counter false suggestions by the artificial intelligence on Elon Musk's X platform that the force passed off footage from 2020 as being from Saturday's far-right rally in the city.The claim by the...
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Autumnal equinox arrives in northern hemisphere this week, but we must wait a few more days for the equiluxSo that's it for the summer. The season comes to a close for us in the northern hemisphere this week on 22 September as we enter the autumn.The moment is marked by the autumnal equinox, which is the moment when the sun crosses the celestial...
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Lara Lewington explores the tech being trialled to find 'hidden' pancreatic cancer cases.
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Research suggests increase in office snooping in trend that some managers claim undermines trust with staffHow employers are gathering Australian workers' dataShare your experience of tech surveillance at work in the UKA third of UK employers are using "bossware” technology to track workers' activity with the most common methods including...
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Top-spec cameras, cutting edge AI, great software and stunning screen squeezed into a more manageable frameThe Pixel 10 Pro is Google's best phone that is still a pocketable, easy-to-handle size, taking the excellent Pixel 10 and beefing it up in the camera department.That makes it a contender for the top smaller phone with Apple's iPhone 17 Pro,...
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Staggeringly simple, tormentingly toughToday's puzzle is a classic – one of the most celebrated, perhaps, of all time.The T-puzzle Continue reading...
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The Oracle cofounder's wealth temporarily overtook Musk's fortune, propelled by an AI boom.
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The car-maker previously said there was no evidence that customers information had been taken.
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Research shows most patients can read extra lines on eye test charts after twice-daily treatmentDoctors have developed special eye drops for people with longsightedness that could replace the need for reading glasses or surgery.Hundreds of millions of people worldwide have presbyopia, which is when the eyes find it difficult to focus on objects and...
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The long-running series in which readers answer other readers' questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical conceptsMust what goes up always come down? Sadia, via emailSend new questions to [email protected]. Continue reading...
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Robot sailboats are helping forecasters predict where hurricanes will hit land.
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Kennedy is unfit to be our nation's leading public health official because he rejects the fundamental principles of modern scienceSince taking office, Robert F Kennedy Jr, the secretary of the health and human services department (HHS), has undermined vaccines at every turn. He has dismissed the entire Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
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Need something brilliant to read this weekend? Here are six of our favourite pieces from the past seven days Continue reading...
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Sanofi's market access chief urges ministers to come up with a roadmap to raise spending on new treatmentsBusiness live – latest updatesNils Pratley: UK must heed Bell's big pharma warningA senior pharmaceuticals executive has called on the government to come up with a "proper” roadmap for raising spending on new medicines, saying Britain is...
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The ubiquitous AI tool has a divisive effect on educators with some seeing it a boon and others a menace. So what should you know about where to draw the line between check and cheat?For many students, ChatGPT has become as standard a tool as a notebook or a calculator.Whether it's tidying up grammar, organising revision notes, or generating...
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From avoiding recycling a password, even part of it, to two-step verification, steps to closing an open door for hackersThe first you know about it is when you find out someone has accessed one of your accounts. You've been careful with your details so you can't work out what has gone wrong, but you have made one mistake – recycling part of your...
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DNA analysis of endemic specimens in museums finds 79% of ant populations in Pacific archipelago are shrinkingIsland-dwelling insects have not been spared the ravages of humanity that have pushed so many of their invertebrate kin into freefall around the world, new research on Fijian ant populations has found.Hundreds of thousands of insect species...
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Exclusive: A third of those polled do not tell bosses about use of tools and half think AI threatens the social structureIt is the work shortcut that dare not speak its name. A third of people do not tell their bosses about their use of AI tools amid fears their ability will be questioned if they do.Research for the Guardian has revealed that only...
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Robot sailboats are helping forecasters predict where hurricanes will hit land.
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Artificial intelligence is changing how students learn and the world they'll graduate into. Experts reveal how applicants can get aheadOpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently told a US podcast that if he was graduating today, "I would feel like the luckiest kid in all of history.”Altman, whose company developed and released ChatGPT in November 2022,...
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Phil Bellamy's daughters refuse to ride in his electric car without travel sickness tablets. Are there other solutions?It was a year in to driving his daughter to school in his new electric vehicle that Phil Bellamy discovered she dreaded the 10-minute daily ride – it made her feel sick in a way no other car did.As the driver, Bellamy had no...
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Justice department in lawsuit accuses company drivers of routinely refusing to serve people with disabilitiesThe US government sued Uber on Thursday, accusing the ride-sharing company of violating federal law by discriminating against passengers with disabilities.In a complaint filed in San Francisco federal court, the US Department of Justice said...
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Robot sailboats are helping forecasters predict where hurricanes will hit land.
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Court declined preliminary injunction in case brought by scientists seeking to halt purge of more than 1,600 grantsThe Trump administration can go ahead and purge more than 1,600 research grants issued by National Science Foundation (NSF) worth more than $1bn, after a judge declined to grant a preliminary injunction in a case brought by a coalition...
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Move comes after parliamentary committee finds platform like a 'slow poison' to young people A French lawmaker has asked the state prosecutor for a criminal investigation into whether TikTok was responsible for "endangering the lives” of its young users.Arthur Delaporte, a Socialist MP, said he co-chaired a six-month French parliamentary inquiry...
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Social media platform accused of failing to filter out obvious usernames such as 'coke', 'weed' and 'molly'Snapchat has been accused by a Danish research organisation of leaving an "overwhelming number” of drug dealers to openly operate on Snapchat, making it easy for children to buy substances including cocaine, opioids and MDMA.The social media...
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Instead of recognising that social media harms mental health and democracy, the former deputy PM and Meta executive repeats company talking pointsNick Clegg chooses difficult jobs. He was the UK's deputy prime minister from 2010 to 2015, a position from which he was surely pulled in multiple directions as he attempted to bridge the divide between...
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With research suggesting fewer than half of adults carry a wallet, four people reveal if they still do and what's insideFewer than half of British adults now carry a physical wallet, according to recent research, with many carrying payment cards on their phones or smartwatches instead.But while digital wallets such as Apple Pay or Google Pay are...
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The Federal Trade Commission is inquiring into seven tech companies including Snap, Meta, OpenAI and XAI.
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The fertility rate in England and Wales has fallen for the third year in a row. It is a story that is being repeated all over the world, with two thirds of the global population now living in countries with below replacement level fertility. Low fertility rates have become a talking point on the political right, with Elon Musk claiming that...
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A country plagued by power cuts has become the first to ban imports of petrol and diesel cars, as a new dam brings hopes of cheap green energyWhen Deghareg Bekele, an architect in his early 30s, bought an Volkswagen electric car this year, he was a little sceptical. Not only is his home town, the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, prone to persistent...
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Ditch the subscriptions and algorithms of the music streamers with our pick of the best modern digital audio players• DJ Paulette, Carl Craig and more on the best DJ headphonesAn MP3 player? In 2025? Am I going to be covering Betamax and MiniDisc players next?No, this isn't a retro piece from the Filter. You may be reading this at least three...
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We hear from people who say they have been unfairly banned from Facebook and Instagram.
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Robot sailboats are helping forecasters predict where hurricanes will hit land.
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Judges have announced the winning images from the Royal Observatory Greenwich's annual competition. The photographs will be exhibited at the National Maritime Museum in London from Friday Continue reading...
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New blow to UK's key life science sector as industry body says country is losing ground on investment and researchThe US drugmaker Merck has scrapped a £1bn London research centre and is laying off 125 scientists in the capital this year, in a big blow to the UK's important life science sector.Keir Starmer's government has described life sciences...
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Evidence of millions of animal bones at sites in West Country and Surrey points to 'age of feasting'These days, revellers converge on the West Country from all parts of the UK and beyond to take part in the wonderful craziness of the Glastonbury festival.It turns out that at the end of the bronze age – also a time of climatic and economic crisis...
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The six-month inquiry also proposes an overnight "digital curfew" for 15-18 year olds from 22:00 to 08:00.
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Meta denies the allegations and described the "claims at the heart" of the Senate hearing as "nonsense".
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Tycoon who briefly surpassed Elon Musk is a friend of Trump, owner of Hawaiian island and father of man who took over CBSLarry Ellison, co-founder of the software company Oracle, is having a good year. His friend Donald Trump is in the White House, his son David Ellison has taken over the storied media company CBS, and on Wednesday he surpassed his...
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Contracted AI raters describe grueling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around work to make chatbots intelligentIn the spring of 2024, when Rachael Sawyer, a technical writer from Texas, received a LinkedIn message from a recruiter hiring for a vague title of writing analyst, she assumed it would be similar to her previous gigs of content creation....
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The Information Commissioner's Office says schools face an "insider threat" from children as young as seven.
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Creatures favour front arms for most tasks, study suggests, despite fact all eight arms are capable of all actionsWhile some humans find they have two left feet on the dancefloor, octopuses manage to coordinate eight highly flexible arms across a host of behaviours, from foraging to den-building, or moving around the seafloor.Now researchers say...
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People attempting to obtain vaccine report major hurdles amid new limitations brought in by Trump health secretaryThe first deployment of updated Covid shots under the Trump administration has been plagued by access issues and misinformation amid confusion and chaos at US health agencies.People attempting to get the vaccines say they have struggled...
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Looking for a new iPhone, or a good deal on a refurbished handset? Samuel Gibbs has assessed and rated Apple's smartphonesThe best iPhone may be the one you already own. There is generally no need to buy a fresh phone just because new models have been released, as hardware updates are broadly iterative, adding small bits to an already accomplished...
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Nasa dismisses theory by Harvard astronomer who suggested an object from beyond the solar system could be a relic from a distant civilization Skywatchers at Nasa have discounted a Harvard astronomer's hypothesis that a rare interstellar object hurtling through our solar system is a relic from a civilization in another celestial neighborhood, and...
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After a lacklustre response to the 2025 edition, the game has gone all out to engage players and respond to user feedbackIn an open office space somewhere inside the vast Electronic Arts campus in Vancouver, dozens of people are gathered around multiple monitors playing EA Sports FC 26. Around them, as well as rows of football shirts from leagues...
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The fertility rate in England and Wales has fallen for the third year in a row – a trend mirrored across the world, with two-thirds of the global population now living in countries with below-replacement-level fertility. In the second episode of a two-part series, Madeleine Finlay speaks to Dean Spears, assistant professor of economics at the...
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Move comes amid escalating anti-China rhetoric under Donald Trump's administrationNasa has begun barring Chinese nationals with valid visas from joining its programs, underscoring the intensifying space race between the the US and China.The policy shift was first reported by Bloomberg News and confirmed by the US government agency. Continue...
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Oracle co-founder's shares rose by 40% in early trading, valuing his fortune at $393bn, just ahead of Musk's $384bnUS tech billionaire Larry Ellison is neck-and-neck with Elon Musk in the contest to be the world's richest person after briefly overtaking the Tesla chief executive on WednesdayEllison's wealth surged after Oracle, the business...
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A few inexpensive upgrades can totally reinvigorate your old iPhone, and you can get even get the iPhone 17's best feature completely freeSign up for the Filter US newsletter, your weekly guide to buying fewer, better things.On Tuesday, Apple announced the iPhone 17 series with the usual spate of new features, including a thinner design, improved...
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Saturn will be highly visible all September and scientists say gazing at planets and stars lets us see 'the biggest picture'It has baffled minds as great as Galileo's, inspired composers and fuelled sci-fi fantasies, but while Saturn will be on show all September, is anyone watching?The ringed gas giant will be highly visible in the night sky all...
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PC, PS5, Xbox, Switch 2; Bloober TeamAn intriguing setup sees an unnamed protagonist time-travel to discover the origins of a devastating outbreak, but a stingy inventory and one-sided battles lead to frustrationBloober Team, the Polish developer behind 2021's hugely underrated psycho-thriller The Medium and last year's excellent Silent Hill 2...
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Surface spots and nodules on rocks in ancient river valley are described in new study as 'potential biosignatures'Unusual features found in rocks on Mars may be the handiwork of ancient microbial life that eked out an existence on the red planet billions of years ago.The rocks were spotted by Nasa's Perseverance rover as it trundled along Neretva...
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In this week's newsletter: the long-awaited release from the three-person Team Cherry studio has crashed gaming storefronts and put indie developers back in the spotlightJust one game has been dominating the gaming conversation over the past week: Hollow Knight Silksong, an eerie, atmospheric action game from a small developer in Australia called...
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Thousands had taken to the streets demanding that the government lift the ban and tackle corruption.
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When in distress, babies produce chaotic wails which have pronounced effects on humans, including changes in facial temperatureThe cry of a distressed baby triggers a rapid emotional response in both men and women that is enough to make them physically hotter, researchers say.Thermal imaging revealed that people experienced a rush of blood to the...
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The Commission said competitors faced higher costs and reduced revenues as a result.
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Company accused of manipulating virtual reality research as senator attacks Meta's 'disgusting web of lies'A group of six whistleblowers have come forward with allegations of a cover-up of harm to children on Meta's virtual reality devices and apps. They say the social media company, which owns Facebook and Instagram, and offers a line of VR...
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Company also augments AirPods earbuds with live translation and reveals upgrades to Apple WatchApple debuted its latest iPhone on Tuesday, trumpeting the smartphone's slimmest design yet. The device, named the iPhone Air, is one of several upgrades the company unveiled at its annual product showcase, promoted with the title "awe-dropping”. The...
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Companies using different technologies for long-duration storage seek funding as country shifts to renewables and requires greater energy securityThink of battery manufacturing and it may evoke images of Elon Musk and Tesla's sprawling "gigafactories” around the globe, or China's vast, hi-tech clean rooms churning out cells to go in anything from...
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An antitrust apocalypse has been averted, and it's all down to its biggest competitor, according to the judge who could've forced Google to sell ChromeHello, and welcome to TechScape. I'm your host, Blake Montgomery, writing to you as I finish the audiobook version of Don DeLillo's White Noise, which I can't say I found compelling.In tech –...
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Experts are concerned about people emotionally depending on AI, but these women say their digital companions are misunderstoodA young tattoo artist on a hiking trip in the Rocky Mountains cozies up by the campfire, as her boyfriend Solin describes the constellations twinkling above them: the spidery limbs of Hercules, the blue-white sheen of...
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In the first interview about the hack, the commission's new boss admits that huge mistakes were made, but says the organisation is now secure.
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A growing number of Kenyans, Ugandans and Ethiopians are being trafficked to Myanmar, where missing online scam targets leads to beatings and torture• Revealed: the huge growth of Myanmar scam centres that may hold 100,000 trafficked peopleWithin hours of landing in Bangkok from Nairobi last December to start a job as a customer service agent,...
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Can one really relax while being prodded by large robotic arms?I am alone in a dimly lit room, splayed face down on a table. Megan Thee Stallion's Mamushi is bumping from a speaker, and on a large screen, two white circles roam up and down an outline of my body.Am I at an exclusive German sex club at 2am? Continue reading...
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His account kept being deactivated, even though he had spent thousands of dollars to use the social media site for advertising. Just one of the perils of sharing a name with the world-famous tech billionaire ...Name: Mark Zuckerberg.Age: Unknown. Continue reading...
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Nate Soares says case of US teenager Adam Raine highlights danger of unintended consequences in super-intelligent AIThe unforeseen impact of chatbots on mental health should be viewed as a warning over the existential threat posed by super-intelligent artificial intelligence systems, according to a prominent voice in AI safety.Nate Soares, a...
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The satellite will turn deep red as the Earth passes between the sun and the moon at about 7.30pm on SundayA rare total lunar eclipse "blood moon” will be visible from the UK on Sunday night for the first time since 2022.The moon is expected to turn a deep, dark red as the Earth passes directly between the sun and the moon, casting its shadow...
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From Covid misinformation to climate denialism, understanding the divergent paths of Australia and the US can help us fight the powerful forces that threaten our worldAs two scientists who lived through Australia's black summer bushfires and the Covid-19 crisis in the United States, we have seen firsthand how science in modern societies is under...
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Social media users also struggle to grab the game on the Nintendo, PlayStation and Xbox game stores.
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Erroneously putting map of Sunderland on medals for Tyneside event is latest in long line of cartological mishaps'Newcastle map' medals actually show SunderlandThe organisers of the Great North Run have apologised for using a map of Sunderland, rather than Newcastle, on this year's finisher medals, but this was just one in a long line of map...
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How technology is bringing hope of earlier detection and prevention to wildfires.
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Visible from Australia, across Asia and western Europe, a blood moon has been captivating stargazers. This marvel is caused when the Earth shades the moon from direct solar light, causing the moon to appear red.Blood moon and lunar eclipse cast an ethereal light – in pictures Continue reading...
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The pair will be visible on the eastern horizon soon after sunset before tracing the Pisces constellationAn almost full moon glides close to Saturn this week, forming a pleasant conjunction in an otherwise unremarkable patch of the sky.The chart shows the view looking east-southeast from London at 22:00 on 8 September 2025. The moon's visible...
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Jean Innes says it is time for 'new chapter' at AI research body, after staff revolt and government calls for changeThe chief executive of the UK's leading artificial intelligence institute is stepping down after a staff revolt and government calls for a strategic overhaul.Jean Innes has led the Alan Turing Institute since 2023, but her position...
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Device could replace deep brain stimulation and may also help with Tourette syndrome, Alzheimer's and depressionAn ultrasound "helmet” offers potential new ways for treating neurological conditions without surgery or other invasive procedures, a study has shown.The device can target brain regions 1,000 times smaller than ultrasound can, and could...
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Unexplained damage to the cables is causing delays in traffic going through the Middle East, the tech giant says.
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The take-down of the site has been championed as a major victory for live sports broadcasters.
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Russian leader's claim that people can 'get younger' through repeated organ transplants has raised eyebrowsPerhaps it was the extravagant display of deadly weaponry that prompted Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin to mull on mortality at this week's military parade in Beijing.It was more banter than serious discussion, but with both aged 72, the Chinese...
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Visible from Australia, across Asia, to western Europe, a blood moon has been captivating stargazers. This marvel is caused when the Earth shades the moon from direct solar light, causing the moon to appear red Continue reading...
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Media sites are taking action on several fronts as traffic referrals dry up and AI companies plunder their contentWhen the chief executive of the Financial Times suggested at a media conference this summer that rival publishers might consider a "Nato for news” alliance to strengthen negotiations with artificial intelligence companies there was a...
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In the combat zone of the supermarket duopoly, Tennilles_deals is our protector, guiding us through each aisle with her weekly videos of sale productsRead more in the Internet wormhole seriesMaya Angelou once said "a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people” and when she said that, I can only assume she had...
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For people with lower levels of the enzyme required to metabolise clopidogrel, aspirin remains the better option – a personalised approach is required, write Dr Ronnie Ramlogan, Dr Dimitri Gagliardi, Dr Luigi Venetucci, Dr Abisope Akintola, Dr Cinzia Dello Russo and Prof Sir Munir PirmohamedYour article (Doctors find drug that is better than...
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Google says the decision misunderstands how its products work, and it will appeal the ruling.
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Settlement could be pivotal after authors claimed company took pirated copies of their work to train chatbotsThe artificial intelligence company Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5bn to settle a class-action lawsuit by book authors who say the company took pirated copies of their works to train its chatbot.The landmark settlement, if approved by a...
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Regulators ordered the tech giant to end 'self-preferencing practices' in advertising services but declined to force saleEuropean Union regulators on Friday hit Google with a €2.95bn ($3.5bn) fine for breaching the bloc's competition rules by favoring its own digital advertising services, marking the fourth such antitrust penalty for the company...
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Models for reconnaissance, rescue, interception and attack are changing the way both sides operate"It's more exhausting,” says Afer, a deputy commander of the "Da Vinci Wolves”, describing how one of the best-known battalions in Ukraine has to defend against constant Russian attacks. Where once the invaders might have tried small group assaults...
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British founder of Quantinuum doubles value of stake with excitement growing over technology's 'transformative potential'A British quantum computing entrepreneur has doubled the value of his stake in the business he founded to $2bn (£1.5bn), after the company achieved a $10bn valuation in its latest fundraising.Ilyas Khan, 63, is the founder of...
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Kelley Heyer had accused the online platform of copying her choreography without permission.
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Film-making studio Fable has announced it will attempt to recreate the 43 minutes cut from the auteur's 1942 film using AIAn AI company is to reconstruct the missing portions of Orson Welles' legendary mutilated masterwork The Magnificent Ambersons, it has been announced.According to the Hollywood Reporter, the Showrunner platform is planning to...
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Steam, the Nintendo eShop and Playstation Store among those that crashed on Friday, unable to cope with demand for the Australian-made gameGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAn enigmatic three-member game developing team from Adelaide has created chaos on global online gaming platforms.Steam and other major storefronts...
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As scientific institutions and truths come under attack in the US, how well protected is Australia against the assault on science and facts?Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe light afternoon breeze barely ruffled the sails of the Vasa as it glided out of Stockholm harbour for its maiden voyage on 10 August 1628. With its...
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Tesla CEO's absence is marked departure from his constant presence at the White House in early days of Trump 2.0As Donald Trump hosted leaders from the biggest US tech companies at a lavish White House state dining room dinner on Thursday night, there was one notable absence. Elon Musk, once inseparable from Trump and a constant, contentious...
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CEO will have to increase the value of his electric car company from just over $1tn to $8.5tn over 10 yearsBusiness live – latest updatesElon Musk could become the world's first trillionaire if he hits targets set by Tesla, under a scheme disclosed by the electric car company he runs and in which he is the largest shareholder.Tesla outlined the...
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Airborne particles cause toxic clumps of proteins in brain that are hallmarks of Lewy body dementia, study indicatesFine-particulate air pollution can drive devastating forms of dementia by triggering the formation of toxic clumps of protein that destroy nerve cells as they spread through the brain, research suggests.Exposure to the airborne...
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There are increasing reports of people experiencing delusions after intensive use of AI chatbots. The phenomenon, dubbed 'AI psychosis', has raised concerns that features built into large language models may contribute to some users losing touch with reality. Madeleine Finlay speaks to Dr Hamilton Morrin, a psychiatrist and researcher at King's...
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Russian leader was caught musing about immortality with Xi Jinping but his fascination with long life is nothing newIt was the stuff of Bond villains. Two ageing autocrats, their younger ally in tow, ambled down a red-carpeted ramp before a military parade in Beijing when a hot mic picked up a question that seemed to be on their minds: how long...
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A flourishing lineup of immersive storytelling experiments are taking visitors into novels, nightclubs and outer spaceIn the largest cinema at the Venice film festival, guests gather for the premiere of Frankenstein, Guillermo del Toro's lavish account of a man who dared to play God and created a monster. When the young scientist reanimates a dead...
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West Australians should get particularly good views, but the eclipse will be visible from the whole country given favourable weatherGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastSet your alarm, pray for clear skies and prepare to be awestruck in the early hours of Monday morning, when Australia becomes the prime location to witness a...
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Shift from fossil fuels could lower deaths from particle pollution in some states by 19% in five years, study findsEfforts to improve the climate could reduce the number of deaths caused by air pollution in the US by about 6,000 people a year by 2030, according to a study. If action is not taken, the situation is predicted to worsen. This is...
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Review says ministers have only 'small chance' of wiping out bovine tuberculosis by 2038 without more investmentLabour can end the badger cull but only with a Covid-19 style focus on testing and vaccinating, the author of a government-commissioned report has said.Ministerial plans to stop the shooting of the animals can be achieved but at a cost to...
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What happens when a teenager signs up to TikTok? Within seconds, studies find, they are shown harmful content about issues from eating disorders to toxic subcultures, which keeps them scrolling and TikTok profiting from the ads.Neelam Tailor puts TikTok's algorithm to the test. Creating accounts for two fake children, a 14-year-old boy, Rami, and a...
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Judge said tech giant had monopoly but let it keep Chrome and Android; critics cried foul while Wall Street cheeredA judge ruled on Tuesday that Google would not be forced to sell its Chrome browser or the Android operating system, saving the tech giant from the most severe penalties sought by the US government. The same judge had ruled in favor of...
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The South American country is dealing with very high inflation ahead of its latest general election.
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India tackles the problem of making AI translate between its many languages and dialects
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PFAS were once prized for their durability, but now firms are developing ways to destroy them.
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New tech promises to dub film and TV into different languages without losing the quality of the performance.
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Find out how AI is making phone calls possible between people who don't share a language.
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The hack has caused severe disruption at manufacturing plants globally, with some staff told not to come into work.
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