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The crypto market rarely witnesses a new project entering exchanges with enough momentum to immediately challenge the industry’s established players. Most cryptocurrencies spend years building liquidity, community participation, and exchange access before approaching the billion-dollar valuation range. Yet every market cycle produces a few exceptions, projects that arrive with strong momentum...
The Sony WH-1000XM6 get a noticeable markdown for a limited time.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: AI has made it vastly easier for malicious hackers to identify anonymous social media accounts, a new study has warned. In most test scenarios, large language models (LLMs) — the technology behind platforms such as ChatGPT — successfully matched anonymous online users with their actual identities on other platforms, based on the information...
Researchers working to unpick whether daily multivitamin results in people staying healthier as they age
Taking a multivitamin every day for two years appears to slow some markers of biological ageing – albeit to a small degree – research suggests.
While chronological age is based on how long a person has lived, biological age reflects the state of the body. Estimates of the latter are often...
The Claude chatbot developer says the Trump administration overstepped by escalating a contract dispute into a federal ban on the company’s technology.
The artificial intelligence company filed two lawsuits against the Department of Defense, saying it was being punished on ideological grounds.
Swiss voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to use physical cash. “The vote means Switzerland will join the likes of Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia, which have already written the right to cold, hard cash in their constitutions,” reports Politico. From the report: Official results revealed that 73.4 percent of voters backed the legal amendment, which...
Josh Payne, the chief executive of Nscale, raised $2 billion from investors. Sheryl Sandberg, the former Facebook executive, is joining his board.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CBS News: Tonight, we have details of a classified U.S. intelligence mission that has obtained a previously unknown weapon that may finally unlock a mystery. Since at least 2016, U.S. diplomats, spies and military officers have suffered crippling brain injuries. They’ve told of being hit by an overwhelming force, damaging their vision, hearing, sense of...
Whether you’re layering up for winter cold or looking for an ultralight summer system, I’ve tested and found the best base layers for all your outdoor adventures.
The app that catered to unconventional kinks is gaining steam among daters with vanilla preferences—and some aren’t happy about it.
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A bump in storage and the addition of MagSafe make Apple’s cheapest iPhone a better value proposition than its predecessor.
The company wishes to offer customers additional products for transactions, services and support.
As the US space agency misses its launch window for the second month, smaller firms continue work on their parts
It was shaping up into another ordinary day at the Colorado headquarters of the small space startup Lunar Outpost last Friday when chief executive Justin Cyrus learned of a surprise press conference called by Jared Isaacman, the new administrator of Nasa.
Cyrus’s company epitomises...
After decades of searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, the nonprofit SETI Foundation has an announcement. “A new study by researchers at the SETI Institute suggests stellar ‘space weather’ could make radio signals from extraterrestrial intelligence harder to detect.”Stellar activity and plasma turbulence near a transmitting planet can broaden an otherwise ultra-narrow signal, spreading...
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As part of its ongoing efforts to build digital skills and literacy among women in rural communities, the Women’s Development Business (WDB) Trust Training Academy will host two ICT graduation ceremonies in Mpumalanga and Limpopo. The events celebrate learners who have successfully completed a year-long ICT skills development programme. A total of 184 learners will […]
ID applications are the first use case, but passports and other types of documents are in the pipeline.
As global travel demand continues to surge, with Airbnb recently reporting a 12% revenue increase in the fourth quarter of 2025 and projecting “low double-digit” growth for 2026, a new wave of innovation is emerging from Africa . Durban-based startup AirhostSwap is quietly gaining traction by solving the oldest problem for property hosts: inventory waste. Instead of letting […]
Hatch’s sunrise alarm clock is popular for a reason, and it’s on sale this week. An older-model sound machine for babies is on sale too.
International recruiters are increasingly targeting South African tech professionals, intensifying global competition for scarce local skills, says Pnet.