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Dead satellites could affect Earth's magnetic field
A dead spacecraft the size of a truck ignites with plasma and pulverizes into dust and...
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Creating sexually explicit deepfake images to be made offence in UK
Creating a sexually explicit “deepfake” image is to be made an offence under a new law,...
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Astronomers discover Milky Way's biggest stellar black hole–33 times size of sun
Astronomers have discovered an enormous black hole which formed in the aftermath of an exploding star...
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Dun, Dun Duuun Where did pop culture's most dramatic sound come from? (2022)
There’s surely only one thing that unites Russian composer Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, the 1974...
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Colorado funeral home where 190 bodies were found charged with Covid fraud
The couple who owned a Colorado funeral home – where 190 decaying bodies were discovered last...
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'We're the last bastion of rental': video stores resisting rise of streaming
A man shuffles along a royal blue carpet and props himself up against a stacked shelf...
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Top cosmologists convene to question conventional view of the universe
If you zoomed out on the universe, well beyond the level of planets, stars or galaxies,...
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From boom to burst, the AI bubble is only heading in one direction
“Are we really in an AI bubble,” asked a reader of last month’s column about the...
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US House votes to re-authorize law, allows warrantless surveillance of citizens
House lawmakers voted on Friday to reauthorize section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or...
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Fraudsters feel the fear: why prison sentences may deter white collar crime
Last month, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority sent out a press release boasting of its success...
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IDF colonel discusses 'data science magic powder' for locating terrorists
A video has surfaced of a senior official at Israel’s cyber intelligence agency, Unit 8200, talking...
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Vietnamese Property tycoon Truong My Lan sentenced to death in $27B fraud case
A prominent property tycoon has been sentenced to death for her role in Vietnam’s biggest-ever fraud...
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Mass use of guided bombs driving Russian advances, says Ukraine
The mass use of “drop-and-forget” guided bombs containing foreign components is driving Russian advances in Ukraine,...
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Saudi Arabia 'forced to scale back' plans for desert megacity
It was billed as a glass-walled city of the future, an ambitious centrepiece of the economic...
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Brutal Welsh Architecture – Pictures
Built according to plans by Spence, Blocks A and B, housing the Magnox reactors, were intended...
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Biden says he is 'considering' Australian call to drop Julian Assange charges
Joe Biden said on Wednesday that he is considering a request from Australia to drop the...
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Ronda Rousey: 'I never wanted to talk about concussion. It felt like a weakness'
‘I worry about it because we already have Alzheimer’s and dementia in our family, and those...
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Peter Higgs, physicist who discovered Higgs boson, dies aged 94
Peter Higgs, the Nobel prize-winning physicist who discovered a new particle known as the Higgs boson,...
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Silver coin boom in medieval England due to melted down Byzantine treasures
Several decades after the Sutton Hoo burial, starting in about AD660, there was a sudden rise...