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The Twitter team behind new "prompts" to users over replies that its artificial intelligence moderator has deemed offensive said they were so effective that it caused a third of users to either edit or delete their posts.
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - A US tech company named II-VI, a leading developer of optical technology, received a $410 million award from Apple Computer’s Advanced Manufacturing Fund to develop new components for the iPhone, Apple said on Wednesday.
Pricing for the crypto-doggos reached historic highs on Wednesday, with analysts stating the joke-filled altcoin should now be taken "seriously" as a competitor to Bitcoin, Ethereum and many others.
In 2011, a study conducted by South Korean researchers revealed a correlation between the size of a penis and the ratio of the ring finger to index finger – the longer a man’s ring finger was compared to his index finger, the bigger was his package size.
The news comes as numerous smartphone devices such as the foldable Mate X2, Mate 30, MatePad Pro and others have begun receiving notifications to upgrade from EMUI 11 to the new operating system. The developments reveal major competition with the world's top tech firms, reports show.
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - A Falcon 9 booster rocket has launched a constellation of 60 more Starlink communications satellites into orbit during a televised launch from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, SpaceX announced.
The simulation was carried out during a planetary defence conference organised by the United Nations. According to the findings of the study, the international community is unprepared for such potential incidents.
China launched the Long March5B rocket carrying the main module of its future orbital station on 29 April. The launch took place at the Wenchang site on Hainan Island.
Aside from the mammoth bone, two paleontologists discovered parts of an extinct shark and the tooth of a sabre-tooth tiger that will be put on display at the Florida Museum of Natural History.
Last Tuesday, Washington, DC’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) came forward with the news that their computer system had been hacked by ransomware developed by the Babuk hacker group, who threatened to leak 250 GB worth of confidential files.
In the wake of the 2020 racial justice and protests, federal authorities came under severe scrutiny after investigators with the US Department of Homeland Security compiled intelligence reports on journalists who covered the demonstrations. Latest efforts to monitor online extremists are likely to draw backlash over increased surveillance.
The country’ Minister of Culture Dario Franceschini hailed the project as "extraordinary". According to the official, it will allow visitors to walk into the centre of the arena and stand where the gladiators once fought.
The study in question is the Mars500 project, a joint initiative of China, Russia, and the European Space Agency, which saw volunteers live for 520 days in conditions that are similar to those that astronauts would be subjected to during a trip to the red planet.
Last month, the company presented the first results of its efforts at developing a brain-computer interface by hooking a monkey up to a computer with the classic game "Pong" thus allowing the animal to play it "hands-free".
NASA and private aerospace company SpaceX joint flight Crew-1 was launched on November 16, 2020, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, for a six-month mission to the International Space Station.
NASA awarded SpaceX the lunar contract earlier in April, beating out billionaire Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin and defense contractor Dynetics. For the first time since the Apollo program in 1972, a high-profile mission seeks to return humans to the moon.
The researchers used “low-light equipment” and a bioluminescent lure to coax the giant squid into view.
The artefacts include items such as "very well preserved necklaces, chains, and needles" made out of bronze, which supposedly date back between 750 and 500 BC.
Prior to the study, it was believed that the most significant causes of ill health in medieval times were infectious diseases, such as bubonic plague, as well as malnutrition and warfare-related injuries.
A stunning 18-second clip allegedly from July 2019 of "spherical" unidentified craft swarming a US Navy destroyer, the USS Russell, at night had earlier been sent anonymously to filmmaker Jeremy Corbell. The footage was supposedly part of a classified briefing led by the Pentagon into Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP).