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Africa

Six players to watch at Afcon 2025

Friday at 14:30 PM, via BBC News

BBC Sport Africa picks out six players to keep an eye on at the 2025 Africa Cup of Nations in Morocco from 21 December to 18 January.

Sport

Match of the Day

Today at 01:21 AM, via BBC News

Highlights from four Premier League matches, including Arsenal v Wolves.

Education

What to Know About Brown University

Today at 04:28 AM, via New York Times

Here’s what to know about the Rhode Island university, where a shooting on Saturday killed two people and injured eight others.

Lifestyle

TRAGIC start to summer beach season

Today at 07:02 AM, via The South African

The NSRI urges caution this summer beach season as fatalities start to add up. And it warns of an unlikely contributing factor …

Science/Tech

Ethereum Network Sees 62% Drop in Fees: Is ETH Price at Risk? – Analysts See Digitap ($TAP) Banking Layer as the Best Crypto Presale 2026

Today at 07:10 AM, via Tech Financials

Ethereum is heading into December with network fees down 62%, a sign that activity on the chain has cooled noticeably. The dip comes as traders wait for clarity from the SEC on staking-enabled Ethereum ETFs, leaving ETH stuck near $3,236 and moving within a much tighter range than earlier in the year. With things slowing […]

Science/Tech

Is the R Programming Language Surging in Popularity?

Today at 05:44 AM, via Slashdot

The R programming language “is sometimes frowned upon by ‘traditional’ software engineers,” says the CEO of software quality services vendor Tiobe, “due to its unconventional syntax and limited scalability for large production systems.” But he says it “continues to thrive at universities and in research-driven industries, and “for domain experts, it remains a powerful and elegant tool.” Yet...

Science/Tech

System76 Launches First Stable Release of COSMIC Desktop and Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS

Today at 03:34 AM, via Slashdot

This week System76 launched the first stable release of its Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment, reports 9to5Linux. Announced in 2021, it’s designed for all GNU/Linux distributions — and it shipping with Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS (based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS):Previous Pop!_OS releases used a version of the COSMIC desktop that was based on the GNOME desktop environment. However, System76 wanted to...

Motoring

The worst countries to drive in

Yesterday at 09:00 AM, via TopAuto

The worst countries to drive in for 2025 have been revealed, and South Africa is only ranked fourth.