Skip to Content

THURSDAY, 05 MARCH 2026, 18:00

Science/Tech

The Covid-19 inquiry is sounding a clear warning. If it’s not heeded, yet more lives will be lost | Ben Connah

Today at 17:25 PM, via The Guardian

It’s not a question of if, but when, another pandemic hits Britain. We owe it to all those who suffered to make sure mistakes are not repeated

What makes the independent inquiry set up to examine the UK’s response to, and the impact of, the Covid-19 pandemic unlike any other in British history is that we are not examining something that affected one specific group of people. The chair,...

US Tech Firms Pledge At White House To Bear Costs of Energy For Datacenters

Today at 17:00 PM, via Slashdot

Major tech companies including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta pledged at the White House to pay for new power generation and grid upgrades needed to support their rapidly expanding datacenters. The Guardian reports: The agreement is meant to help mitigate concerns that big tech’s datacenters are driving up US electricity costs for homes and small businesses at a time the administration of...

Axiz And SUSE Seek To Strengthen SSA Channel With 2026 Graduate Programme

Today at 16:10 PM, via Tech Financials

Axiz, the leading value-added distributor in sub-Saharan Africa, has launched its 2026 Graduate Programme in collaboration with SUSE, a global leader in enterprise open-source solutions. The strategic collaboration combines Axiz’s established distribution reach with SUSE’s enterprise-grade, open-source technologies and training expertise to develop production-ready ICT professionals for the...

Jensen Huang Says Nvidia Is Pulling Back From OpenAI and Anthropic

Today at 16:00 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: At the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom conference in downtown San Francisco Wednesday, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said his company’s recent investments in OpenAI and Anthropic are likely to be its last in both, saying that once they go public as anticipated later this year, the opportunity to invest closes. It could be that simple....

Solar In Poor Countries Is Creating a Huge Lead Hazard

Today at 15:00 PM, via Slashdot

schwit1 shares a report from Slow Boring: A new report (PDF) from the Center for Global Development documents that most of [the decentralized solar/battery systems used in poor countries in sub-Saharan Africa] use lead-acid batteries, like Americans use in cars. Lead-acid batteries work for a while and then need to be recycled. If they’re recycled safely, that’s fine. But in poor countries,...

DA Takes Court Action To Stop Above-Inflation Salary Hikes At Struggling City Of Johannesburg

Today at 13:14 PM, via Tech Financials

The Democratic Alliance (DA) has initiated legal action against the City of Johannesburg to halt what the party claims is the implementation of an unfunded R10 billion salary agreement. Councillor Belinda Kayser-Echeozonjoku, the DA Johannesburg Caucus Leader, on Wednesday, 4 March 2026, said her party, ”served the City with legal papers to stop the implementation […]

The Next Gender Gap Is Time

Today at 12:47 PM, via Tech Financials

A country reveals who holds power by watching who gets to wait. Waiting is often framed as a minor inconvenience, yet it functions as a gatekeeper. It signals whose time is treated as valuable and whose time can be absorbed by the system, and that is where rights and justice often break down in practice. […]

  1. Pages:
  2. 1
  3. 2
  4. 3
  5. 4
  6. 5
  7. ...
  8. 48