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Key Points Geologists made headlines in 2017 after their announcement of the discovery of Zealandia. It is a vast continent of 1.89 million sq miles (4.9 million sq km) and is around six times the size of Madagascar. Zealandia is a continent because of the kinds of rocks found there, despite that it is thin and is submerged. In 1642, Abel Tasman, a skilled Dutch seaman who loved tough justice, was confident that there was a vast continent in the southern hemisphere  and  determined to find it. He believed  he had discovered the great southern continent, obviously it was hardly a commercial utopia that he imagined and then never returned. BBC reported that Tasman was just thankful, actually there was an undiscovered continent. A group of geologists made headlines in 2017 when they announced the discovery of Zealandia - Te RiuaMāui in the Maori language. It's a vast continent measuring 1.89 million square miles (4.9 million square kilometers) and about six ti...

  Elon Musk been criticized on social media after China complains that its space station was forced to avoid collisions with satellites launched by its Starlink Internet Services project. China submitted a document earlier this month to the UN's space agency saying that satellites from the  Starlink  division of Mr Musk's  SpaceX  company  had two "close encounters" with the Chinese space station on 1 July and 21 October The incidents behind the complaints filed with the UN space agency have yet to be independently verified. Starlink is a satellite Internet network owned by Elon Musk SpaceX. Elon Musk is known in China, even though his Tesla electric car manufacturer has a growing review of regulatory authorities. Starlink and the US have been heavily criticized on China's Weibo microblogging platform Twitter. As news of the filing spread, users of the Chinese microblogging platform Weibo piled on, with one user saying Starlink satellites were ...

Image Credit: CIPhotos via Getty Images By Denise Chow A global team of scientists has discovered antibodies that can kill the variant responsible for the rise of Omicron around the world. In addition, the scientists claim that these antibodies can neutralize other variants of Covid19 as well. New treatments may be explored According to one of the study researchers, David Veesler of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the University of Washington School of Medicine, the antibodies work by targeting areas of the virus spike protein that are unchanged by mutations. Protein, scientists can develop vaccines and antibody treatments that  work not only against the Omicron variant, but also against any mutation that may occur in the future. The Omicron variant of the coronavirus has 37 mutations in its spike protein, which is considered an unusually high number for a virus. For this reason, countries like the US and UK are urging citizens to get a booster dose (a th...

Yadarisa Shabong / Reuters : The UK's CMA opens an investigation into Microsoft's planned $16B acquisition of Nuance, announced in April, arguing that it could reduce competition   —  Britain's antitrust regulator said on Monday it will look into Microsoft Corp's (MSFT.O) $16 billion purchase of artificial intelligence … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/3oNpKlY

Ina Fried / Axios : In an interview, Meta's Andrew Bosworth says political and COVID-19 misinformation are societal problems rather than issues that social networks magnified   —  Longtime Facebook veteran Andrew Bosworth insists that political and COVID-19 misinformation are societal problems rather than issues that have been magnified by social networks. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/3pPC0S5

Daniel Van Boom / CNET : A trader blames a “fat-finger error” for selling a Bored Ape NFT for 0.75 ETH (~$3,000) instead of 75 ETH (~$300K); the NFT was promptly relisted for 60 ETH   —  “Fat finger” errors occasionally happen in traditional finance, but they're usually stopped or reversed.  Not so with NFTs and cryptocurrency. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/31NzLaa

Hassan Mujtaba / Wccftech : Intel shares its post-2025 plans for pushing chip performance, including stacking transistors on top of each other to fit 30%-50% more into a given area   —  At IEDM 2021, Intel unveiled a host of new announcements that will propel and accelerate Moore's Law Beyond 2025. from Techmeme https://ift.tt/3GGb2TK