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Reddit blackout: Thousands of communities are doing dark today – here’s why | Science & Tech News
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Some of Reddit’s most popular communities are going dark today in protest against “ludicrous” pricing changes. The platform’s main subreddits for gaming, which has more than 37 million members; music, which has 32.3 million; and r/todayilearned, a page dedicated to sharing facts with 31.8 million users are among those shutting down. Pages dedicated to specific…
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Emergency alert test happens today – here’s everything you need to know | Science & Tech News
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Tens of millions of phones will receive an emergency alert today as the government tests the system nationwide for the first time. At 3pm, a distinct sound and vibration will be accompanied by a message telling people a new service has launched that will “warn you if there’s a life-threatening emergency nearby”. It will last…
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It’s your best chance to spot a once-in-a-lifetime green comet – here’s how | Science & Tech News
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It’s fair to say this is an opportunity that doesn’t come around very often. For the first time in some 50,000 years, a green comet has this month been making a fly-by past Earth – and your best chance to spot it has now arrived. Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) has been already visible through binoculars…
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ChatGPT: We let an AI chatbot help write an article – here’s how it went | Science & Tech News
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OpenAI has recently unveiled a new language model called ChatGPT, which has the potential to revolutionise the way we interact with machines. So much so, that it wrote the introduction to this article by itself. Because in a daring move that I feared would leave me questioning my usefulness as a real-life human journalist, I…
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Paying up for Twitter’s blue tick? Here’s what else you get for your money | Science & Tech News
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Twitter is to charge users for the famous blue tick – the first big change since Elon Musk’s controversial takeover. An update to its iOS app on Saturday said the feature was live in the handful of countries that have been testing the premium Twitter Blue service – which originally launched last year. However, the…