The Vodacom Foundation, in partnership with the Gauteng Department of Education, has invested R2million in the School of Excellence model at Usizolwethu Special Needs School in Daveyton, empowering learners with intellectual disabilities through technology and digital skills. This landmark initiative strengthens Vodacom’s commitment to inclusive, quality education and demonstrates the...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: Wikipedia editors have implemented new policies and restricted a number of contributors who were paid to use AI to translate existing Wikipedia articles into other languages after they discovered these AI translations added AI “hallucinations,” or errors, to the resulting article. The new restrictions show how Wikipedia editors continue to...
When an ambulance takes hours to arrive, or indeed never arrives at all, the consequences can quite literally be deadly. Recent reporting from across South Africa paints a stark picture: ambulance response times stretching from two to 24 hours in urban and peri-urban areas, and from six to 48 hours in townships and rural communities. […]
New research shows hundreds of attempts by apparent Iranian state hackers to hijack consumer-grade cameras, timed to missile and drone strikes. Israel, Russia, and Ukraine have also adopted this trick.
If you trade with crypto prop firms long enough, you realize something quickly. The strategy is only half the battle. The other half? It’s rules, payouts, drawdown mechanics, and whether the firm you choose is structured to last. Many traders tend to focus on profit splits and account sizes. But what actually determines whether a […]
BrianFagioli shares a report from NERDS.xyz: An international team of scientists has done something chemistry has never seen before. IBM, working alongside researchers from the University of Manchester, Oxford University, ETH Zurich, EPFL, and the University of Regensburg, has created and characterized a molecule whose electrons travel through its structure in a corkscrew-like pattern,...
In an exclusive interview with WIRED, Block’s cofounder and CEO says he axed 40 percent of his workforce so that he can rebuild the company “as an intelligence.”