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Nigeria's 'Mothers of Chibok' go from farm to factory

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Beaming with pride and dressed in colourful traditional gowns, they donned hairnets before entering the production area, where peanuts they cultivate at home are ...

Highway anti-crime wall divides South Africa's tourist hub

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The nearly nine-kilometre (six-mile) wall will separate part of the road that leads in from the international airport from the packed, impoverished settlements that ...

Meta sues Brazil, China advertisers over celebrity deepfake scams

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AI technology is allowing criminals around the world to create sophisticated voice and video copies of well-known figures to endorse scam investments, and helping ...

Warner Bros. board gives Netflix four days to improve merger offer

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Warner Bros. said Wednesday its board had concluded that the Paramount offer constitutes a " Company Superior Proposal" under the terms of its Netflix merger agreement. ...

Trump's global tariffs declared illegal by the US Supreme Court

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The Supreme Court's three liberal justices joined three conservatives in Friday's ruling, which upheld lower court decisions that tariffs Trump imposed under IEEPA ...

Laser-written glass can store data for millennia, Microsoft says

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Since 2019, Microsoft's Silica project has been trying to encode data on glass plates, in a throwback to the early days of photography, when negatives were also ...

Fans flock to Japan zoo to see viral baby monkey Punch

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Punch's predicament sparked sympathy online, spawning a devoted Punch fanbase who began posting updates on the monkey under the hashtag #HangInTherePunch.

Glencore returns to profit, says standalone business case 'strong'

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Full-year profit reached $363 million after a loss of $1.6 billion posted in 2024, in what CEO Gary Nagle called " a year of significant progress".

Oil in spotlight as Trump's Iran warning rattles sleepy markets

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Trump warned Iran of the " consequences of not making a deal" ahead of talks between Washington and Tehran in Geneva.

'Artists of steel': Japanese swords forge new fanbase

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Despite the rapidly greying, shrinking population of blademakers in Japan, their fine steel swords known as katana are amassing a new generation of fans, particularly ...

Samsung starts mass production of next-gen AI memory chip

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The high-bandwidth HBM4 chips are seen as a key component needed to scale-up the vast data centres powering the explosion in artificial intelligence.

EU tells TikTok to change 'addictive' design

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In preliminary conclusions of a probe opened two years ago, the European Commission said it found TikTok was not taking effective steps to address the app's negative ...

Stellantis takes massive hit for 'overestimation' of electric shift

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The colossal $26 billion write-down will likely dwarf any profits the automaker was set to book for 2025, to be announced on February 26, after it posted net profit ...

Launching the idea of data centers in space

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Elon Musk's decision to have his rocket company SpaceX take over his artificial intelligence outfit xAI has added fuel to the debate about whether orbiting data ...

Switch 2 sales boost Nintendo profits, but chip shortage looms

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A global memory chip shortage, created by massive demand for artificial intelligence hardware, threatens to push up manufacturing costs for the " Super Mario" maker. ...

China to ban hidden car door handles, setting new safety standards

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Chinese car models already approved for launch will have an additional two years to achieve compliance, the ministry said.

Snapchat blocks 415 000 underage accounts in Australia

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Australia's eSafety online regulator reported last month that tech giants had already blocked 4.7 million accounts, delivering " significant outcomes".

Japan says rare earth found in sediment retrieved on deep-sea mission

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Japan says the mission was the world's first bid to tap deep sea rare earths at such a depth.

US lawmakers say Nvidia AI tech 'powering China's military'

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California-based Nvidia is the world's most valuable company because its artificial intelligence chips are in such huge demand.

Trump sues US tax agency for $10 billion over leaked records

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This is not the first time the president has filed a legal claim against the federal government he oversees.

Dutch tech firm ASML says to cut around 1,700 jobs

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Dutch tech giant ASML said Wednesday that it would lay off around 1,700 people.

Dollar struggles to recover from losses after Trump comments

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Traders are also keeping an eye on the Federal Reserve's latest meeting, hoping for some guidance on its plans for interest rates amid uncertainty over the US president's ...

Microsoft ordered to stop tracking school children: privacy campaigners

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Online rights campaigners Noyb filed two complaints against Microsoft in 2024, saying the company's education software that is widely used in schools violates data ...

Germany offers €1 million reward for Berlin blackout culprits

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The electricity outage left roughly 45,000 homes and 2,200 businesses without power for nearly a week in the middle of winter in the southwest of the German capital. ...

Social media giants face landmark trial over addiction claims

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A landmark trial beginning this week in Los Angeles could establish a legal precedent on whether social media companies deliberately designed their platforms to ...