With its Globalstar purchase, Amazon aims to step into the satellite arena against SpaceX’s Starlink. But does it have the infrastructure and strategy to truly compete?
Despite some positive sentiment towards the country in recent months, South Africans who choose to stay make smart financial decisions to protect themselves and their families.
Higher nutritional standards are a good idea. But ministers, like hungry pupils, must avoid looking for ‘grab-and-go’ fixes
For growing children, lunchtime is a vital moment in every day. Full-time education is demanding. Afternoon lessons only work because they come after a break – and food. And children, like adults, often mind a great deal about what they eat. So school menus are...
Sale of vocational training brand and million-pound executive pay deals now subject to Charity Commission inquiry
When electrician Charlie Butler was contacted by City & Guilds last autumn, he received a shock.
He had branched out to launch a new company schooling future sparkies in Essex, offering City & Guilds-affiliated courses and qualifications. When the representative from the training...
“Motorola has filed a lawsuit in India against social media platforms and content creators,” reports TechCrunch, “over posts it alleges are defamatory…”The lawsuit, filed in a Bengaluru court and obtained by TechCrunch, names platforms such as X, YouTube, and Instagram along with dozens of content creators, and seeks takedown of the content as well as broader restraint on what it describes as...
“Nevada quietly signed an agreement earlier this year with a company that collects location data from cellphones, allowing police to track a device virtually in real time,” reports the Associated Press. “All without a warrant.”The software from Fog Data Science, adopted this January in Nevada through a Department of Public Safety contract, pulls information from smartphone apps in order to let...
kriston (Slashdot reader #7,886) writes:HP Anyware, the new name of the Teradici PCoIP remote desktop solution that was acquired by HP in 2021, is being discontinued. “Maintenance and support for customers and partners with multi-year terms will continue until 31 October, 2029,” a href=”https://anyware.hp.com/hp-anyware-end-of-life”>according to HP’s announcement. But HP is also announcing the...
Artificial intelligence infrastructure is usually described through the most visible parts of the buildout. The discussion centers on megawatts, land, chips, and the pace at which hyperscalers can expand the physical footprint required to support increasingly compute-intensive workloads. That story is real, but it is incomplete. Beneath the visible race sits a second discipline that […]
With shortages of medical professionals and an aging population, thousands of community health care workers prevent older adults from falling through the cracks.
An upcoming executive order is intended to accelerate research into the compounds’ efficacy in treating PTSD, depression and other mental health problems, officials said.
The numbers are the first to quantify the effect of the Trump administration’s shutdown and restarting of a program that has saved millions of lives worldwide.