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Oldest material on Earth discovered

Shawdesh desk: Scientists analysing a meteorite have discovered the oldest material known to exist on Earth. They found dust grains within the space rock – which fell to Earth in

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NASA graduates 11 astronauts eligible for lunar missions

Shawdesh Desk: The U.S. space agency NASA on Friday included 11 new astronauts into its ranks, increasing the number of those eligible for spaceflight assignments to 49. The new candidates

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Facebook reaffirms refusal to ban political ads on its platform

Shawdesh Desk: Facebook Inc. said Thursday that it will continue to allow political ads on its platform including Instagram, despite possible false information in those ads run by politicians. Facebook

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Twitter to test ‘block all replies’ function

Shawdesh Desk: Twitter has said it will test new features that allow users to control who can reply to their posts – or block replies entirely. “We want to help

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Samsung predicts smaller-than-expected drop in profit

Shawdesh Desk: Samsung Electronics Co. said Wednesday its operating profit for the last quarter likely fell 34% from a year earlier, which would be a smaller-than-expected decline possibly resulting from

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India plans unmanned moon mission in 2020

Shawdesh DEsk: India plans to make a fresh attempt to land an unmanned mission on the moon in 2020 after a failed bid last year, the head of the country’s

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The Race To Commercially Viable Quantum Computing

Rafiq Islam, (Kansas City): Recently, researchers from Google had demonstrated an extraordinary speed of quantum computers, as compared to traditional supercomputers, with a benchmark test known as “quantum supremacy.” The

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AI beats human breast cancer diagnosis

Shawdesh desk: A computer programme can identify breast cancer from routine scans with greater accuracy than human experts, researchers said in what they hoped could prove a breakthrough in the

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