Skip to Content

THURSDAY, 16 APRIL 2026, 03:10

Science/Tech

Tech personality Masie leaves ABC board

Monday at 11:19 AM, via ITWeb

Stafford Masie steps down as African Bitcoin Company chairman, but stays on as executive director amid a broader board reshuffle.

AI to predict how bowel cancer patients will respond to new NHS drug

Monday at 11:00 AM, via The Guardian

PhenMap tool could spare thousands of patients from treatment that would be ineffective for them

A new AI-driven way of identifying how patients with advanced bowel cancer will respond to a drug that was recently introduced by the NHS has been announced.

Researchers at London’s Institute of Cancer Research and the RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences in Dublin have developed the...

HOSTAFRICA Unveils Locally Hosted GPU‑As‑A‑Service Platform At Digital Parks Africa

Monday at 10:09 AM, via Tech Financials

HOSTAFRICA has unveiled its dedicated NVIDIA RTX PRO GPU servers at Digital Parks Africa’s (DPA) Samrand data centre, launching its fully localised GPU‑as‑a‑Service offering. The launch brought together industry leaders, tech partners and customers for a first-hand look at the platform in action, including live demonstrations of the high-performance infrastructure now available locally....

Anthropic Asks Christian Leaders for Help Steering Claude’s Spiritual Development

Monday at 09:34 AM, via Slashdot

Anthropic recently “hosted about 15 Christian leaders from Catholic and Protestant churches, academia, and the business world” for a two-day summit , reports the Washington Post:Anthropic staff sought advice on how to steer Claude’s moral and spiritual development as the chatbot reacts to complex and unpredictable ethical queries, participants said. The wide-ranging discussions also covered how...

How Artificial Intelligence Is Rapidly Transforming The Insurance And Financial Services Sectors

Monday at 09:11 AM, via Tech Financials

Picture a rainy Wednesday morning in Sandton, sometime in the near future. A claims handler opens their laptop, and right away, things move much faster than they used to. For every new email, the company’s artificial intelligence system (AI) has already drafted a suggested reply. The inbox is lighter too, because a public chatbot, which […]

Can you solve it? Are you smarter than a Navy admiral?

Monday at 08:10 AM, via The Guardian

A trio of tricky teasers

Tanya Khovanova is a luminary of the recreational mathematics scene. She is one of its foremost bloggers and also runs Number Gossip, a site where you can sumbit a number and she “will tell you everything you want to know about it but were afraid to ask.”

Tanya has now written her first book, Mathematical Puzzles and Curiosities, in collaboration with two other puzzle...

Starwatch: Venus to be joined by young crescent moon in night sky

Monday at 07:00 AM, via The Guardian

The new moon will be particularly beautiful – at just 2.6 days old, only about 7.5% of its visible surface will be illuminated

The brilliant beacon of planet Venus is now unmistakeable in the evening sky, appearing to the naked eye well before the twilight has fully faded into night.

This week, the planet will be joined by a young crescent moon on the nights of 18 and 19 April. The chart shows...

Sam Altman’s Home Targeted a Second Time, Two Suspects Arrested

Monday at 05:34 AM, via Slashdot

“Early Sunday morning, a car stopped and appears to have fired a gun at the Russian Hill home of OpenAI’s CEO,” reportsThe San Francisco Standard, citing reports from the local police department: The San Francisco Police Department announced the arrest of two suspects, Amanda Tom, 25, and Muhamad Tarik Hussein, 23, who were booked for negligent discharge… [The person in the passenger seat] put...

Robot Birds Deployed by Park to Attract Real Birds – Built By High School Students

Monday at 03:34 AM, via Slashdot

“Robotic bird decoys are being deployed at Grand Teton National Park,” reports Interesting Engineering, “to influence the behavior of real sage grouse and help restore a declining population.”. Robotics mentor Gary Duquette describes the machines as “kind of a Frankenbird.” (SFGate shows one of the robot birds charging up with a solar panel… “Recorded breeding calls are played at the scene,...

Elon Musk, Who Owns X, Appears to Post on TikTok

Monday at 01:43 AM, via New York Times

A verified account with the @elonmusk handle also recently showed up on Instagram, as the billionaire prepares to take his rocket company SpaceX public.

  1. Pages:
  2. 1
  3. ...
  4. 10
  5. 11
  6. 12
  7. 13
  8. 14
  9. ...
  10. 48