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What to expect from this year's Google I/O developer’s conference 07 May 2019 - 06:46 pm
Small toy figures are seen in front of Google logo in this illustration picture, April 8, 2019. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration -/File Photo
UN report: Humans accelerating extinction of species 06 May 2019 - 07:37 pm
Birds are seen on a tree partially submerged in water during sunset at the Mamiraua Sustainable Development Reserve in Amazonas State, Brazil on June 27, 2018. AFP / Mauro Pimentel
Solar tracking bracelets protect nomadic Kenyan mothers and babies 02 May 2019 - 09:55 pm
Alima Hossain, wearing a beaded solar-powered GPS bracelet, waits for her turn for health check-up in Yaballo Godha, Moyale, Kenya, April 8, 2019. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Munyaradzi Makoni
Facebook's Zuckerberg preaches privacy, but evidence is elusive 01 May 2019 - 11:14 pm
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers the opening keynote introducing new Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram privacy features at the Facebook F8 Conference at McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California on April 30, 2019.  AFP / Amy Osborn
In revamp, Facebook bets on small-scale connections, romance 01 May 2019 - 11:14 pm
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers the opening keynote introducing new Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram privacy features at the Facebook F8 Conference at McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California on April 30, 2019.  AFP / Amy Osborn
Chinese fossil sheds light on mysterious Neanderthal kin 01 May 2019 - 09:53 pm
Male and female Neanderthals in the Neanderthal Museum, Mettmann, Germany (montage: background rock from original different location). Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA
In parched South Africa, water-storing football fields give drought the boot 01 May 2019 - 09:11 pm
Students play football on a GreenSource field in South Africa which filters 17 million litres of clean water per year. Photo taken on 22 April 2019. Handout photo courtesy of GreenSource
Do 'mechanical trees' offer the cure for climate change? 30 Apr 2019 - 11:47 pm
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Homes like parkas? Shivering Arctic dwellers may need housing rethink 29 Apr 2019 - 10:19 pm
A view of an energy efficient house with a waterless toilet and gravity fed water system in southwest Alaska. Credit: Cold Climate Housing Resarch Center/Jack Hébert
Cute or creepy: why humans love some species, loathe others 29 Apr 2019 - 06:30 pm
A Chinese giant salamander, the largest in the world, which can grow up to 1,8 meters in length, lies in a glass enclosure during the China International Conservation festival in Zhangjiajie, central China's Hunan province on December 10, 2005. AFP / Goh
Fly me to the moon: Germany eyes slice of lucrative space market 29 Apr 2019 - 12:22 pm
Employees chat at a production line of Airbus' European Service Module (ESM), which is delivered for NASA's Orion Spaceship, at the Airbus plant in Bremen, Germany, February 19, 2019. REUTERS/Fabian Bimmer
Facebook’s Zuckerberg builds his wife a glowing ‘sleep box’ 28 Apr 2019 - 09:46 am
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No pay, no gain: Huawei outspends Apple on R&D for a 5G edge 26 Apr 2019 - 11:00 pm
A woman poses holding P9 smartphone by Chinese tech company Huawei during the launch at Battersea Evolution in London on April 6, 2016. AFP/Jack Taylor
Cambodians try out smartphones to track - and ease - climate woes 24 Apr 2019 - 09:47 pm
A Cambodian farmer learns how to use the MobilES app in Tmat Paelly village, Cambodia, on March 14, 2019. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Jeffrey Barbee
China to build moon station in 'about 10 years' 24 Apr 2019 - 12:17 pm
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'Marsquake': first tremor detected on Red Planet 23 Apr 2019 - 07:22 pm
An installation representing a cave on Mars is seen at the C-Space Project Mars simulation base in the Gobi Desert outside Jinchang, Gansu Province, China, April 17, 2019. Reuters/Thomas Peter
Facebook's flood of languages leaves it struggling to monitor content 23 Apr 2019 - 07:22 pm
An illustration photo shows the Facebook page displayed on a mobile phone held in front of a computer screen at a cyber-cafe in downtown Nairobi, Kenya April 18, 2019. Reuters/Stringer
SeaWorld publishes decades of orca data to help wild whales 23 Apr 2019 - 07:22 pm
A southern right whale swims in the harbour in Wellington on July 6, 2018. AFP/Marty Melville