Technology
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Desert Sands Reading: Indigenous Wildlife Tracking Fuels Major Project
As animals move across the desert, they leave tracks, diggings and droppings. For skilled trackers, reading these signs is like…
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The ‘Best Comet of the Year’ Is Here: Everything You Need to Know
Image Credit: AstroStar/Shutterstock In January 2023, a new comet was discovered. Comets are found regularly, but astronomers quickly realised this…
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India is in the midst of an electric vehicle revolution
You don’t have to be in India long to appreciate just how dramatic its electric vehicle revolution is. Whether it’s…
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Instagram to Remove Beauty Filters, but Damage is Done
Image Credit: Roman Samborskyi/Shutterstock Meta has announced third-party augmented reality (AR) filters will no longer be available on its apps…
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OpenAI’s data hunger raises privacy concerns
Image Credit: Euronews Last month, OpenAI came out against a yet-to-be enacted Californian law that aims to set basic safety…
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Is life getting better for China’s tech billionaires?
Image Credit: asharkyu/Shutterstock According to the latest Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Pony Ma, co-founder of Tencent Holdings, is once again China’s…
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The newest version of ChatGPT has a feature you’ll love — but that might be a concern.
If you’re a paid subscriber to ChatGPT, you may have noticed the artificial intelligence (AI) large language model has recently…
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Watch 1.8 billion years of tectonic plate movement across Earth’s surface in a new animation.
Using information from inside the rocks on Earth’s surface, we have reconstructed the plate tectonics of the planet over the…
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A billionaire and an engineer have completed the first private spacewalk.
Two astronauts have carried out the first-ever commercial spacewalk, using new less-bulky spacesuits designed by SpaceX. Tech billionaire Jared Isaacman…
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Has AI hacked the operating system of human civilisation?
Image Credit: TechSolution/Shutterstock Just as artificial intelligence (AI) models are trained on vast data sets to learn and predict, Sapiens:…
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A Guide to Proper Safety Gear for Ladder Work at Heights
Working at height using ladders can be dangerous if proper safety precautions are not taken. Having the right safety gear…
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Can we really reach net zero by 2050?
Image Credit: structuresxx, Shutterstock A zero-carbon mindset must “become the new normal” in Australia, according to a much-anticipated report from…
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Only 100 years ago the Milky Way was visible from central Paris.
For the more than 100,000 years humans have been on Earth, we have looked up at night and seen the…
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Repeating aids believing: climate misinformation feels more true through repetition – even if you back climate science
If you consider yourself a climate science supporter, you probably wouldn’t think simple exposure to a sceptic’s claim could shift…
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Archaeologists conduct first ‘space excavation’ on International Space Station
New results from the first archaeological fieldwork conducted in space show the International Space Station is a rich cultural landscape…
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