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Threads launches: Meta’s Twitter rival has arrived – how it works, how to join, and which celebs are on board | Science & Tech News
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Threads, the long-awaited Twitter rival from Meta, launches in the UK today. Built by the firm’s Instagram team, it’s billed as a home for “sharing text updates and joining public conversations”. Its release couldn’t be more aggressively timed, coming days after another controversial move by Twitter’s incendiary owner Elon Musk forced many people to look…
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Meta to launch Twitter-like app called Threads | Science & Tech News
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Meta Platforms Inc – the owner of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram – is set to launch a Twitter-like app called Threads. Threads has been billed as Instagram‘s text-based conversation app and will allow users to keep the same username and follow the same accounts as they do on the photo-sharing platform. The app is available to…
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Threads: Why Meta’s Twitter rival could finally be the one that catches on | Science & Tech News
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If you can’t beat them, copy them. That’s generally been Mark Zuckerberg‘s go-to strategy when it comes to dealing with upstart competitors to his social media empire. Long gone are the days when Instagram was just a feed of photos as was its original vision, with two of its now marquee features ripped straight from…
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Who is Jack Dorsey? The billionaire tech founder and Bluesky boss who ran Twitter before Elon Musk | Science & Tech News
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As Elon Musk drags Twitter and its users through more and more turbulence, its founder Jack Dorsey has made a supportive observation from the sidelines. He posted that “Running Twitter is hard” and “it’s easy to critique the decisions from afar”. The 46-year-old billionaire left the platform he co-founded in 2006 to launch what he…
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New octopus species discovered by scientists in rare ‘nursery’ off Costa Rican coast | Science & Tech News
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A new species of octopus has been found in a deep-sea nursery off the coast of Costa Rica. Scientists say both the discovery of the new species of Muusoctopus, a genus of small to medium sized octopus without an ink sac, and the nursery are notable. The rare brooding site – at 2,800m below sea…
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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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Smartwatches could help identify symptoms of Parkinson’s disease | Science & Tech News
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Smartwatches could help identify symptoms of Parkinson’s disease seven years before they appear, a study has found. Researchers analysed data from more than 103,000 people who wore a medical-grade wearable for seven days, measuring their speed of movement continuously. Slow movement is a hallmark symptom of the condition, along with shaking and stiffness. Dr Kathryn…
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Supermoon happening this week: How and when to see the lunar event | Science & Tech News
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The night sky was lit up by a supermoon last night, making the lunar surface appear larger than at any point this year so far. The striking reddish orb rose above cities from London to Washington DC, as the full moon made its closest pass of Earth during its orbit. It made the moon seem…
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Pixel Fold: A week with Google’s first foldable phone proves this tech is still a long way from catching on | Science & Tech News
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Four years after Samsung spearheaded their arrival, foldable phones are still waiting for their mass market breakthrough. Not helped by the fact that the South Korean company’s first attempt in 2019 was plagued by reports of screens breaking when users tried to, well, fold them, take-up for smartphone-tablet hybrids has been undeniably slow. There were…
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Elon Musk jokes about Twitter’s new reading limits after users vent fury | Science & Tech News
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Elon Musk has joked about Twitter’s temporary daily reading limits after users vented their fury over the site’s new limitations. “Oh the irony of hitting view limits due to complaining about view limits,” the billionaire tweeted. Earlier Musk had said Twitter applied the limits to address “extreme levels” of data scraping and system manipulation. He…