Cape Town homeowners who do not qualify for income-linked rebates are paying municipal bills that have significantly outpaced inflation and salary increases over the past decade as a result of spiralling property valuations and a wave of fixed charges that did not exist 10 years ago.

Long-time Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot writes: Researchers have developed a robotic hand that can not only skitter about on its fingertips, it can also bend its fingers backward, connect and disconnect from a robotic arm, and pick up and carry one or more objects at a time. This article in Science News includes footage of the robotic arm reattaching itself to the skittering robot hand, which can...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani said that no remote classes would be held. The last official snow day in the city’s schools was in March 2019.

DUBAI, Feb 22 (Reuters) – Iran has indicated it is prepared to make concessions on its nuclear programme in talks with the U.S. in return for the lifting of sanctions and recognition of its right to enrich uranium, as it seeks to avert a U.S. attack.

South Africa 187 for 7 (David Miller 63, Jasprit Bumrah 3-15,) beat India 111 all out (Shivam Dube 42, Marco Jansen 4-22) by 76 runs.

Law enforcement fatally shot an armed man attempting to breach President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, highlighting ongoing concerns about political violence in the US.

With local elections expected later this year, the ANC in Gauteng is weaker than it’s ever been. Many of the problems have piled up over the years, but key to so many of them is political infighting, which shows no signs of abating.

Angolan journalist and lawyer Teixeira Cândido wants to know who targeted him with spyware, and he wants justice.

Long before artists climbed its slopes, Table Mountain was imagined from the decks of ships: exaggerated, fortified, volcanic and teeming with beasts. The first in a new series explores how hearsay, fear and fantasy shaped the earliest images of the mountain we think we know.

Imagine a 280-unit apartment complex offering no on-site leasing office with a human agent for questions. “Instead, the entire process has been outsourced to AI…” reports SFGate, “from touring to signing the lease to completing management tasks once you actually move in.” Now imagine it’s far more than just one apartment complex…At two other Jack London Square apartment buildings, my initial...