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Do you know what happened on May 10, 1967? NASA's M2-F2 disaster explained

Do you know what happened on May 10, 1967? NASA's M2-F2 disaster explained

Fifty-seven years ago, test pilot Bruce Peterson survived one of aviation's most dramatic crashes, an incident so spectacular that NASA's...

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Marvel's Wolverine release window leaks online: Check details here

Marvel's Wolverine release window leaks online: Check details here

Insomniac Games confirmed Marvel's Wolverine will release September 15, 2026 on PlayStation 5, ending months of silence about the highly...

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43 hair products tested: Researchers find cancer-linked chemicals in braiding hair

43 hair products tested: Researchers find cancer-linked chemicals in braiding hair

A Silent Spring Institute study raised alarm about chemicals lurking in everyday beauty products, particularly hair extensions worn by millions of...

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Shark Tank star Mark Cuban says AI can’t be trusted without humans

Shark Tank star Mark Cuban says AI can’t be trusted without humans

Billionaire investor Mark Cuban warned the corporate world that artificial intelligence's greatest weakness isn't a lack of power; it's...

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Study finds women judged more harshly for using AI

Study finds women judged more harshly for using AI

Women are significantly penalised for using artificial intelligence to create job application materials, while men who use identical AI assistance...

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Study reveals how brain tells you to stop scratching

Study reveals how brain tells you to stop scratching

A team of scientists from the University of Louvain in Belgium has discovered a vital process which helps your brain understand that you’ve...

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What is AI Omnibus? Europe's new simplified AI rulebook explained

What is AI Omnibus? Europe's new simplified AI rulebook explained

The European Union reached a provisional agreement on its AI Omnibus at 4am Thursday, a landmark effort to simplify Europe's complex AI...

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China launches Hanyuan-2: World's first dual-core quantum computer with 200 qubits

China launches Hanyuan-2: World's first dual-core quantum computer with 200 qubits

China's CAS Cold Atom Technology announced Hanyuan-2, the world's first dual-core quantum computer, marking a significant advancement in...

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How to watch Pentagon's new declassified UFO files online

How to watch Pentagon's new declassified UFO files online

The Pentagon launched a publicly accessible archive of 162 declassified UFO files on Friday, and anyone with an internet connection can now watch...

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Tony Brothers loses it: Referee clashes with coach Finch in playoff game

Tony Brothers loses it: Referee clashes with coach Finch in playoff game

The San Antonio Spurs defeated the Minnesota Timberwolves 115-108 in Western Conference semifinals Game 3 on Friday, but the game was overshadowed by...

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Instagram deletes millions of followers in massive overnight purge

Instagram deletes millions of followers in massive overnight purge

Kylie Jenner woke to 15 million missing followers. So did BLACKPINK with loosing 10 million gone), Cristiano Ronaldo with 8 million, and thousands of...

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Goldman Sachs says no to monitoring employee AI use

Goldman Sachs says no to monitoring employee AI use

While JPMorgan monitors dashboards tracking tens of thousands of individual employees' AI activities and Meta installs keystroke-monitoring...

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Instagram removes end-to-end encryption Starting today

Instagram removes end-to-end encryption Starting today

Instagram's end-to-end encryption feature is being disabled today, May 8, 2026, marking Meta's dramatic reversal of a seven-year commitment...

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AI now writes 60% of company's code, says Airbnb CEO

AI now writes 60% of company's code, says Airbnb CEO

Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky revealed during Thursday's earnings call that AI now generates nearly 60% of the company's code, a figure that...

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Meta sues UK regulator over online safety act fees

Meta sues UK regulator over online safety act fees

Meta is fighting the UK's media regulator Ofcom in London's High Court over how regulatory fees and penalties are calculated under...

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EU plans to restrict US cloud providers for sensitive data

EU plans to restrict US cloud providers for sensitive data

The European Commission is preparing to restrict EU government use of US cloud providers for sensitive data, signalling a dramatic shift in European...

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Is ChatGPT dulling your brain? Scientists warn

Is ChatGPT dulling your brain? Scientists warn

Students who use ChatGPT frequently score significantly worse on standard critical thinking tests, and surveys of 494 students found heavier AI users...

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What did OpenAI hide? Musk's lawsuit reveals internal chaos

What did OpenAI hide? Musk's lawsuit reveals internal chaos

Elon Musk's $150 billion lawsuit against OpenAI intensified this week with testimony that CEO Sam Altman misled executives and created a...

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Nvidia, Corning partner on 3 new AI facilities

Nvidia, Corning partner on 3 new AI facilities

Nvidia and Corning announced a multiyear partnership establishing three advanced manufacturing facilities in North Carolina and Texas dedicated...

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AI-generated Met Gala photos fool millions online

AI-generated Met Gala photos fool millions online

Millions of social media users scrolled past images of Britney Spears and Nicki Minaj at the 2026 Met Gala and believed them. Within hours, posts...

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Court filing reveals Musk sought OpenAI settlement 2 days before trial

Court filing reveals Musk sought OpenAI settlement 2 days before trial

Two days before his civil trial against OpenAI was due to begin, Elon Musk privately messaged OpenAI president Greg Brockman to explore a settlement...

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Biohub invests $500M to build AI models of human cells

Biohub invests $500M to build AI models of human cells

Chan Zuckerberg Biohub is investing $500 million within a period of five years in developing artificial intelligence models of human cells, tools that...

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Denmark halts data centre growth as grid strain rises

Denmark halts data centre growth as grid strain rises

Denmark has become the unlikely flashpoint in Europe's battle over who gets power and who gets left behind. In March 2025, state-owned grid...

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Viral squirrel creator’s app hits No 1 on App Store in 12 hours

Viral squirrel creator’s app hits No 1 on App Store in 12 hours

Derrick Downey Jr has spent years building a following of over a million people on both Instagram and TikTok by documenting the squirrels that visit...

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Morgan Stanley predicts $1.75bn AI boost for Hong Kong tech stocks

Morgan Stanley predicts $1.75bn AI boost for Hong Kong tech stocks

Morgan Stanley is predicting a significant capital event for Hong Kong's equity markets this summer, driven not by macroeconomic tailwinds but by...

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Viral Girigo app craze leaves some users shaken

Viral Girigo app craze leaves some users shaken

When Netflix released the Korean horror series If Wishes Could Kill on April 24, it came with a fictional premise designed to unsettle: an app called...

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Study reveals only 9 to 18% of personality is written in your DNA

Study reveals only 9 to 18% of personality is written in your DNA

In 2009, a defence lawyer in Trieste, Italy, successfully argued that his client's possession of the so-called "warrior gene", a...

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The email that can sink Musk's case against OpenAI

The email that can sink Musk's case against OpenAI

The trial of Musk vs Altman entered its second week with a live audio stream now available through the US District Court Northern District of...

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NASA Artemis II crew shares Moon secrets on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

NASA Artemis II crew shares Moon secrets on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Travelling at 39 times the speed of sound, the Orion spacecraft carrying NASA's Artemis II crew became what mission commander Reid Wiseman called...

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Harley-Davidson recalls 88,000 motorcycles: Here's why

Harley-Davidson recalls 88,000 motorcycles: Here's why

Harley-Davidson is recalling 88039 motorcycles because of a safety defect which causes oil to eject from the engine fill spout when the dipstick gets...

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Jensen Huang: AI doom CEOs have 'god complex'

Jensen Huang: AI doom CEOs have 'god complex'

Jensen Huang is tired of the AI apocalypse argument and he's started pointing fingers at the people making it. In an interview with the Special...

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SpaceX launch today: How to watch CAS500-2 live

SpaceX launch today: How to watch CAS500-2 live

The countdown has begun as SpaceX is launching 45 satellites to low Earth orbit from California in the early hours of Sunday, May 3, and the mission...

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'Not for the Sake of AI': Greg Abel breaks with big tech

'Not for the Sake of AI': Greg Abel breaks with big tech

When Greg Abel took the podium at Berkshire Hathaway's annual shareholder meeting in Omaha on Saturday, every analyst in the room was watching...

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8 best Poki games to play in May 2026

8 best Poki games to play in May 2026

With over 1,500 free browser games and more than 100 million players visiting every month, Poki is the largest destination for instant-play gaming on...

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Can AI win an Oscar? The academy has finally answered

Can AI win an Oscar? The academy has finally answered

When Val Kilmer died in April 2025 with a film unfinished, producers turned to AI to complete his performance. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and...

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Pentagon signs AI deals with 7 firms, excludes Anthropic

Pentagon signs AI deals with 7 firms, excludes Anthropic

The US Department of Defence has struck a sweeping new Pentagon AI deal with some of the world’s largest technology companies, marking a major...

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Zuckerberg says most AI agents fail simple usability test

Zuckerberg says most AI agents fail simple usability test

AI agents are advancing fast enough to impress the tech industry and still not simple enough for most people to use. That gap is now a strategic...

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How Sam Altman manages OpenAI: 'A few hundred' daily messages

How Sam Altman manages OpenAI: 'A few hundred' daily messages

Sam Altman messages "a few hundred" OpenAI employees every day. Across texts, Slack, and other platforms, that adds up to roughly 39,000...

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OpenAI's strangest bug: GPT models wouldn't stop mentioning goblins

OpenAI's strangest bug: GPT models wouldn't stop mentioning goblins

Buried inside the system instructions for OpenAI's Codex coding tool was a directive that reads like something from a fantasy moderation policy:...

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Did Bill Gates save Apple? The 1997 Microsoft deal explained

Did Bill Gates save Apple? The 1997 Microsoft deal explained

On 6 August 1997, Steve Jobs walked out at Macworld Expo in Boston and announced that Apple's most bitter rival had just invested $150 million in...

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Amazon’s AI hosts are now selling you products: Here’s how

Amazon’s AI hosts are now selling you products: Here’s how

Amazon has quietly launched one of its stranger AI features to date: a short, podcast-style audio segment where two synthetic hosts discuss a...

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Is Anthropic stock worth more than $1 trillion? Buyers think so

Is Anthropic stock worth more than $1 trillion? Buyers think so

When tech founder Jesse Leimgruber hinted on X that he might sell his Anthropic shares, he received hundreds of responses within minutes wire-ready...

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Google Photos' new AI feature turns your clothes into digital closet

Google Photos' new AI feature turns your clothes into digital closet

Google Photos is about to make your morning outfit decision a lot less painful. The app announced a new AI-powered feature that scans your existing...

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Musk Altman trial: Inside the OpenAI legal showdown

Musk Altman trial: Inside the OpenAI legal showdown

Elon Musk told a San Francisco jury this week that he donated $38 million to OpenAI under the belief that it would remain a nonprofit research lab,...

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China blames foreign spies for 'lying flat' trend surge

China blames foreign spies for 'lying flat' trend surge

China's "lying flat" movement, young people opting out of a punishing work culture by doing as little as possible, has been quietly...

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Canada plans to ban crypto ATMs used in fraud

Canada plans to ban crypto ATMs used in fraud

Canada ranks first in the number of crypto ATMs per capita with almost 4,000 machines running across the country, from Halifax to Vancouver, and,...

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Elon Musk says AI could kill us, warns of ‘Terminator outcome’

Elon Musk says AI could kill us, warns of ‘Terminator outcome’

Elon Musk appeared in a California courtroom on Tuesday, sounding an alarm about artificial intelligence, which he himself had helped develop, as...

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What was the ‘golden orb’? Scientists finally solve it

Two miles beneath the Gulf of Alaska, where sunlight never reaches and pressure crushes anything fragile, a small golden dome clung to a rock....

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Why did China block Meta's acquisition of AI startup Manus?

China has blocked Meta's acquisition of AI startup Manus, a deal the Facebook parent had already declared complete in a move that signals Beijing...

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What worries CEOs most in 2026? Constant global shocks

More than 2,000 vessels are stranded in the Persian Gulf, with between 20,000 and 30,000 mariners affected, and that, according to the CEO of one of...

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