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• Newly discovered stone tools drag dawn of Greek archaeology back by a quarter-million years

  Deep in an open coal mine in southern Greece, researchers have discovered the antiquities-rich country's oldest archaeological site, which dates to 700,000 years ago and is associated with modern humans' hominin ancestors. The find announced Thursday would drag the dawn of Greek archaeology back by as much as a quarter of a million years, although older hominin sites have been discovered elsewhere in Europe. The oldest, in Spain, dates to more than a million years ago.

  

• Strawberry Moon kicks off month of planetary shows

  From the Strawberry Moon to invisible meteors, here's a round-up of when to look up and what to look for in the sky this month.

  

• Would you eat this? Ready-to-cook fish 3D-printed in a lab

  Forget your hook, line and sinker. An Israeli foodtech company says it has 3D printed the first ever ready-to-cook fish filet using animal cells cultivated and grown in a laboratory.

  

• Meta starts testing paid verification for Canadian Facebook, Instagram creators

  Meta Platforms Inc. has begun allowing 'up-and-coming creators' in Canada to pay to be verified on Facebook and Instagram.

  

• NASA talks UFOs with public ahead of final report on unidentified flying objects

  NASA held its first public meeting on UFOs Wednesday a year after launching a study into unexplained sightings.

• AI chips are hot. Here's what they are, what they're for and why investors see gold

  The hottest thing in technology is an unprepossessing sliver of silicon closely related to the chips that power video game graphics. It's an artificial intelligence chip, designed specifically to make building AI systems such as ChatGPT faster and cheaper.

• Climate change and El Nino's return will impact Canada's weather. Here's how

  Forecasters warn an upcoming weather pattern known for warm temperatures could bring droughts, floods and even tropical storms to Canada.

• Meta threatens to yank news content from California over payments bill

  Facebook owner Meta Platforms said on Wednesday it would remove news content in its home state of California if the state government passed legislation forcing tech companies to pay publishers for journalistic content.

• 4,000-year-old DNA unlocks secrets of the plague

  A team of researchers excavating mass burial sites in England have detected the DNA of the bacteria that caused the plague in human skeletal remains — and they are the oldest known cases of the disease in Great Britain.

• Private flight with 2 Saudi astronauts returns from space station with Gulf of Mexico splashdown

  A private flight carrying two Saudi astronauts and other passengers returned to Earth late Tuesday night after a nine-day trip to the International Space Station.