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Volvo XC90 And XC60 Lead South Africa’s Pre-Owned PHEV Market

Today at 18:34 PM, via Tech Financials

Volvo Car South Africa continues to strengthen its position as a leader in South Africa’s electrified vehicle landscape, with the brand’s plug-in hybrid models ranking first and second among the country’s best-selling used PHEVs (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle). New market data from AutoTrader South Africa reveals a compelling trend: demand for Volvo’s electrified vehicles remains...

Meta’s New AI Superstars Are Chafing Against the Rest of the Company

Today at 18:05 PM, via Slashdot

Meta’s newly recruited AI “superstars” have developed an us-versus-them mentality against the company’s longtime executive leadership, creating internal friction over whether the team should focus on catching up to rivals like OpenAI and Google or improving Meta’s core advertising and social media businesses. Alexandr Wang, the 28-year-old entrepreneur Mark Zuckerberg hired in June to be chief...

A dead whale shows up on your beach. What do you do with the 40-ton carcass?

Today at 18:00 PM, via The Guardian

A fin whale washed ashore in Anchorage and was left there for months. Then a self-described ‘wacko’ museum director made a plan

When a whale dies, its body descends to the bottom of the deep sea in a transformative phenomenon called a whale fall. A whale’s death jump-starts an explosion of life, enough to feed and sustain a deep-ocean ecosystem for decades.

There are a lot of ways whales can...

Man made fire 350,000 years earlier than previously thought, discovery in Suffolk suggests

Today at 18:00 PM, via The Guardian

Groundbreaking find makes compelling case that humans were lighting fires much earlier than originally believed

Humans mastered the art of creating fire 400,000 years ago, almost 350,000 years earlier than previously known, according to a groundbreaking discovery in a field in Suffolk.

It is known that humans used natural fire more than 1m years ago, but until now the earliest unambiguous...

MTN price increases announced in South Africa

Today at 17:33 PM, via MyBroadband

MTN South Africa has announced adjustments to its consumer contract pricing, which it said will result in a 9.7% average increase in subscription fees.

A Complete Guide to the Jeffrey Epstein Document Dumps

Today at 17:26 PM, via Wired

New records about the infamous sex offender are released seemingly every week. Here’s a quick rundown of who’s releasing the Epstein documents, what they contain—and what they’re releasing next.

Same Product, Same Store, but on Instacart, Prices Might Differ

Today at 17:25 PM, via Slashdot

A study this week has found that shoppers using Instacart are often charged different prices for identical products at the same store at the same time, even when selecting in-store pickup rather than delivery. The Groundwork Collaborative, a progressive policy group, and Consumer Reports organized nearly 200 volunteers across four cities to simultaneously check prices on 20 grocery items. Price...

Nvidia Builds Location Verification Tech That Could Track Where Its AI Chips End Up

Today at 16:48 PM, via Slashdot

Nvidia has developed location verification technology that could determine which country its AI chips are operating in, Reuters reports, citing a source, a capability that may help address ongoing concerns about the smuggling of advanced semiconductors to restricted markets like China. The feature, which Nvidia has demonstrated privately in recent months but has not released, would be an...

AI Slop Ad Backfires For McDonald’s

Today at 16:00 PM, via Slashdot

McDonald’s has pulled an AI-generated Christmas commercial from YouTube after viewers pushed back on what they called a distasteful, “AI slop”-filled take on the holidays. The 45-second ad, titled “It’s the most terrible time of the year,” was a satirical look at holiday chaos — people tripping while carrying overloaded gift bags, getting tangled in lights, burning homemade cookies, starting...

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