Mon 19 February 2024: Misinformation is the number one risk facing society over the next two years, according to the World Economic Forum. With key elections due in the US, UK and many other nations this year, an onslaught of political misinformation can be expected. Some of this material is distributed through paid advertising on social […]
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Russia’s Nauka module undergoes launch preparations at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Credit: Roscosmos (FILE PHOTO) Sun 18 February 2024: Russia is developing a space-based anti-satellite weapon that is “troubling” but poses no immediate threat, the White House has said. National security spokesman John Kirby said US intelligence officials had information that Russia had developed […]
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Sat 17 February 2024: Japan has successfully launched its next-generation rocket into orbit, the country’s space agency has announced, after two failed attempts cast a pall over Tokyo’s space ambitions. The H3 had a “successful liftoff” at 9:22am Tokyo time (12:22 GMT) on Saturday and entered its planned orbit carrying a dummy satellite and two […]
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Sat 17 February 2024: The top tech firms in the world promised on Friday to combat the deceptive use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the elections of 2024, Anadolu Agency reported. Twenty tech companies, including Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, and X, pledged to collaborate in order to identify and prevent harmful AI content in […]
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Fri 16 February 2024: YouTube, the world’s biggest video-sharing platform with over 2 billion active users, turned 19 this month. Founded on Feb. 14, 2005 by three entrepreneurs, it was acquired by the technology giant Google for $1.65 billion slightly over a year and a half after its inception. Serving as a staple in the […]
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The meat-rice hybrid is an alternative protein source that has a much lower carbon footprint than normal beef. Photo: SCMPOST/Yonsei University Fri 16 February 2024: In an innovative development for cultured meat and staple foods, Korean researchers have introduced beef-infused rice. Produced by coating rice grains with animal cells and raising them in laboratory […]
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NASA’s Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation mission detected southeast of Carlsbad, New Mexico. Methane is a potent greenhouse gas that is much more effective at trapping heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech-FILE PHOTO Thu 15 February 2024: Google and the nonprofit Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) have partnered to map oil […]
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Wed 14 February 2024: Meta-owned WhatsApp is reportedly working on a new ‘favourite contacts filter’ feature, allowing users to prioritise their conversations and offer greater control and efficiency in the messaging experience. The new feature spotted by WABetaInfo mentioned that it will appear with a dedicated chat filter in a future update of WhatsApp Web. […]
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Wed 14 February 2024: European politicians in two key committees have adopted new rules to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) ahead of a historic vote that may pave the way for the world’s first laws on the technology. Two committees in the European Parliament – on civil liberties and consumer protection – overwhelmingly endorsed the provisional […]
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Tue 13 February 2024: The Elon Musk-owned company X has revealed that its Creator Targeting program will soon allow advertisers to place advertisements next to specific content providers on the network. With this change, advertisers will be able to stop their advertising from showing up next to objectionable or controversial material. “Soon, advertisers on X […]
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