Human ancestors made the oldest known bone tools 1.5 million years ago

Ancient human relatives crafted sharp-edged tools out of animal bones around 1.5 million years ago, researchers say. Discoveries at Tanzania’s Olduvai Gorge, a famous East African fossil location, represent the oldest known evidence of systematic bone tool production by hominids, according to archaeologist Ignacio de la Torre of CSIC-Spanish National Research Council in Madrid and…

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The Return of Digg, a Star of Web 2.0

In the summer of 2005, Alexis Ohanian, a tech entrepreneur, sent an email to his colleague Steve Huffman with an ominous subject line: “Meet the enemy.” The body of the email contained just one line — a link to Digg, a community-focused social message board where people shared and discussed news articles and links to…

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Middle East crisis: Netanyahu tells new military chief Israel ‘determined’ to achieve victory – as it happened | World news

Netanyahu tells new military chief Israel ‘determined’ to achieve victory Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu told new military chief Lt Gen Eyal Zamir on Wednesday that Israel is “determined” to achieve victory in the multi-front war that began with Hamas’s October 2023 attack, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP). “A very heavy responsibility rests on your shoulders,…

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