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Astronauts stranded on space station to return next February, NASA announces | Science & Tech News
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NASA has announced the two astronauts stranded on the International Space Station (ISS) will return to Earth on SpaceX in February 2025. Pilot Sunita “Suni” Williams and Commander Barry “Butch” Wilmore blasted off in Boeing’s new spacecraft on 5 June, and were meant to stay in orbit for eight days after docking on the ISS.…
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YouTube announces new restrictions on gun videos | Science & Tech News
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YouTube says it is introducing new restrictions on videos featuring guns after repeated calls by campaigners to limit potentially traumatising material. From 18 June, the video-sharing platform said it will prohibit any videos demonstrating how to remove firearm safety devices. YouTube, which is owned by Google, will also restrict videos showing homemade guns and automatic…
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Elon Musk announces more changes to X – following claims user numbers have plummeted | Science & Tech News
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Elon Musk has announced further changes to social media platform X that will see certain accounts get premium features for free. The tech billionaire, writing on the platform formerly known as Twitter, said all accounts with more than 2,500 verified subscriber followers would be able to access features that usually cost $8 (£6.30) a month.…
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Meta share price surges as Facebook’s parent company announces dividend for first time | Business News
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Shares in Facebook’s parent company Meta have soared after it was announced that dividends will be paid to investors for the first time. Stock in the tech giant surged by more than 15% – adding more than £110bn to its valuation. To put this into context, that rise alone is five times higher than the…
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India announces moon lander days from touching down – as Russian craft crashes | World News
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India could be about to take one giant leap ahead of Russia in the space race – with its latest lunar mission just days away from attempting to land. India’s space agency ISRO announced via X, formerly known as Twitter, on Sunday that it will attempt to land its Vikram robotic lander on Wednesday. The…
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AI: Facebook owner Meta announces its rival to ChatGPT will be free to use | Science & Tech News
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The owner of Facebook has announced plans to make its version of the artificial intelligence technology behind ChatGPT free for researchers and companies to use. The latest version of Meta’s large language model, called LLaMa 2, will rival OpenAI’s GPT-4, which powers the chatbot app. The technology came to the fore last November after the…
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What is water cremation? What ‘Resomation’ or alkaline hydrolysis involves as Co-op announces UK plans | Science & Tech News
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Co-op Funeralcare has said it hopes to be able to offer water cremations in the UK for the first time later this year. Currently there are only two options for families when their loved ones die – just under 80% choose traditional cremation and the remainder opt for a burial. But amid concerns about the…
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Twitter applies temporary reading limits for all users, Elon Musk announces | Science & Tech News
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Twitter has applied temporary daily reading limits to address “extreme levels” of data scraping and system manipulation, Elon Musk has said. In a tweet, the billionaire gave details for both verified, unverified and new unverified accounts – followed by another post about two hours later, saying the caps would be “increasing soon”. Verified Twitter users…
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WhatsApp will allow users to lock and hide conversations, Meta announces | Science & Tech News
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WhatsApp users will soon be able to lock and hide conversations, thanks to a new feature. Chat Lock will remove a chat thread from the app’s regular onscreen inbox and place it into a new folder that can only be opened by a password or biometric, such as facial recognition or a fingerprint. Calling it…
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Heardle: Spotify announces it’s shutting down the popular name-that-tune game | UK News
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Spotify has announced it is dropping Heardle – the name-that-tune game inspired by Wordle. The streaming giant had acquired the game last July, five months after it took the world by storm. Heardle played small snippets of music and challenged gamers to guess the song as quickly as possible. But in a new statement, Spotify…