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MONDAY, 29 DECEMBER 2025, 19:26

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Aspinall latest seed to fall as Manby, 20, wins

Today at 19:04 PM, via BBC News

Nathan Aspinall becomes the latest seed to fall at the PDC World Championship, but 20-year-old Charlie Manby sets up a tie against 10th seed Gian van Veen.

Africa

The best players who never won Afcon?

Saturday at 11:04 AM, via BBC News

As two-time runner-up Mohamed Salah begins another tilt at the Africa Cup of Nations, BBC Sport Africa profiles top stars who never lifted the trophy.

Education

ChatGPT, cooking and Christopher Walken: how parents got their kids to love reading in 2025

Today at 15:00 PM, via The Guardian

Fewer children are reading for fun – but parents are trying everything from AI to dramatic voices to keep them engaged

It’s been a tough year for our brains. Merriam-Webster dictionary editors chose “slop” as 2025’s word of the year. New York Magazine recently dropped its “Stupid Issue”, with a cover story exploring America’s collective “cognitive decline”. There are big...

Entertainment

24 hours in pictures, 29 December 2025

Today at 18:30 PM, via The Citizen

Through the lens: The Citizen’s Picture Editors select the best news photographs from South Africa and around the world.

Science/Tech

‘I Switched To eSIM in 2025, and I am Full of Regret’

Today at 18:41 PM, via Slashdot

Google’s Pixel 10 series arrived this year as the company’s first eSIM-only lineup in the United States, forcing users who wanted to review or buy the new phones to abandon their physical SIM cards entirely. Ryan Whitwam, a senior technology reporter at Ars Technica, made the switch and now regrets it, he says. “In the three months since Google forced me to give up my physical SIM card, I’ve...

Science/Tech

Job Apocalypse? Not Yet. AI is Creating Brand New Occupations

Today at 18:03 PM, via Slashdot

The AI industry, for all the anxiety about mass unemployment, is quietly minting entirely new job categories that require distinctly human skills — empathy, judgment, and the ability to calm down a passenger trapped inside a broken-down robotaxi. Data annotators are no longer just low-paid gig workers tagging images. Experts in finance, law, and medicine now train advanced AI models, earning...

Science/Tech

The New Billionaires of the A.I. Boom

Today at 18:01 PM, via New York Times

Just like past tech booms, the latest frenzy has produced a group of billionaires — at least on paper — from smaller start-ups.

Health

Claire Brosseau Wants to Die. Will Canada Let Her?

Today at 12:00 PM, via New York Times

Ms. Brosseau says mental illness has made her life unbearable. She wants a medically assisted death. Even her psychiatrists are split over whether she should have one.