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‘Astonishing’ digital scan of Titanic reveals wreck as never seen before | UK News
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The first-ever full-sized digital replica of the Titanic has been created – and experts say it could be used to unlock secrets of the world’s most famous shipwreck. Scientists have created what they have labelled a “digital twin” of the passenger liner, which sank into the Atlantic in 1912 after hitting an iceberg while on…
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300,000-year-old human footprints discovered in Germany | Science & Tech News
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Scientists have discovered human footprints thought to be 300,000 years old and the earliest ever found in Germany. Experts believe the perfectly-preserved prints were left by a family of Heidelberg people, a long-extinct species of human. The footprints were discovered in the Schöningen Paleolithic site in the Harz Mountains. Ancient animal prints, including the first…
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New iPhone feature can create a voice that sounds like you in just 15 minutes | Science & Tech News
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Apple has revealed a new feature that will allow iPhones and iPads to generate digital reproductions of a user’s voice. The Personal Voice feature, expected as part of iOS 17, will work with the Live Speech feature to allow users to record their voices and communicate with others on audio calls or platforms such as…
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Boss of AI firm’s ‘worst fears’ are more worrying than creepy Senate party trick | US News
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Normally when representatives of tech companies appear before the US Senate, they tend to rail against the prospect of regulation, and resist the suggestion that their technology is doing harm. And that’s what made this committee hearing on AI a rare thing. Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI – the company that created ChatGPT and GPT4,…
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Meta Verified: Facebook and Instagram launches paid service in the UK | Science & Tech News
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The owner of Facebook and Instagram has begun rolling out a paid verification service in the UK. Meta’s subscription service can be compared to “Twitter Blue” which gives users of the social media platform a blue tick from £9.99 a month. Facebook and Instagram users can sign up for Meta Verified. The service requires users…
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First cases of treatment-resistant ringworm found in patients in US | US News
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Two cases of highly contagious, drug-resistant ringworm infection have been detected in the US. The cases were reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in February and shared in a report published on Thursday. The patients, from New York City, had their first symptoms in 2021 and 2022. One of the patients…
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Microsoft-Activision Blizzard £55bn merger approved by EU – despite UK rejection | Science & Tech News
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The $68.7bn (£55bn) mega merger between Microsoft and game developer Activison Blizzard has been approved by the European Union, just weeks after it was blocked by the UK. European regulators said they accept commitments made by Microsoft that its offer to take over the developer behind Call Of Duty, would not lessen competition. In April,…
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Elon Musk tells Emmanuel Macron he had to to ‘sleep in the car’ before their meeting – hours after he was seen partying | Science & Tech News
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Elon Musk has been heard telling French President Emmanuel Macron that he had to “sleep in the car” before their meeting in Paris – hours after the billionaire was seen partying in Mexico and Los Angeles. The Tesla chief executive met Mr Macron at the Elysee Palace on Monday as part of the French president’s…
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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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Irish Times apologises and takes down ‘hoax’ AI-generated article | Science & Tech News
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The Irish Times has apologised after it published an opinion article that was generated by artificial intelligence. Editor Ruadhan Mac Cormaic said his paper was “genuinely sorry” after it published the comment piece called “Irish women’s obsession with fake tan is problematic” on Thursday. In the article, which was supposedly written by a 29-year-old healthcare…