Anthropic and Wall Street Giants Join Forces to Create New A.I. Firm
Blackstone and Goldman Sachs are among the investors in the new firm, which will help integrate Anthropic’s A.I. model Claude into their systems.
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Best Mother’s Day Deals on Mom-Approved Gifts (2026)
Give Mom the best and save some cash in the process with these legitimate discounts on WIRED-approved gifts.
GameStop Offers to Buy eBay for $56 Billion
GameStop has made an unsolicited $56 billion cash-and-stock offer to buy eBay (paywalled; alternative source), with CEO Ryan Cohen arguing he can turn the marketplace into a far larger Amazon competitor. “EBay should be worth — and will be worth — a lot more money,” Cohen said in an interview. “I’m thinking about turning eBay into something worth hundreds of billions of dollars.” The Wall...
Scientists Discover 27 Potential New Planets That Orbit Two Stars
Astronomers have identified 27 potential new circumbinary planets — worlds that orbit two stars, like Star Wars’ Tatooine. “To date, only about 18 circumbinary planets … had been identified in the universe,” reports the Guardian. “More than 6,000 planets have been discovered that orbit single stars, like Earth does around the sun.” The Guardian reports: In a timely publication for May 4, also...
Infrasound Waves Stop Kitchen Fires, But Can They Replace Sprinklers?
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: In a makeshift demonstration kitchen in Concord, California, cooking oil splatters in and around a frying pan, which catches fire on an unattended gas stove. Within moments, a smoke detector wails. But in this demonstration, something less common happens: An AI-driven sensor activates and wall emitters blast infrasound waves toward the...
DHS Demanded Google Surrender Data on Canadian’s Activity, Location Over Anti-ICE Posts
Using a 1930s trade law, Homeland Security targeted the man—who hasn’t entered the US in more than a decade—following posts on X condemning the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
Man produces sperm from testicular tissue frozen as a child in breakthrough trial
Exclusive: Sperm re-transplant offers hope that boys left infertile by chemotherapy could have biological children one day
In a groundbreaking fertility trial, a man whose testicular tissue was frozen before he underwent chemotherapy as a child to be re-transplanted 16 years later has been able to produce sperm.
It is the first time a transplant of cryopreserved prepubertal testicular tissue...
Exclusive: Metalenz Has Figured Out a Way to Make Face ID Invisible
Metalenz’s Polar ID face-scanning technology works even when the camera is hidden under the display.
TechCentral opens new production studio as commercial offering expands
The launch of the new studio follows a year of readership growth and rising advertiser demand.
Microsoft and Postel: An Innovative New Data and AI-Driven Solution to Optimize Italian SMEs’ Relationships with Their Customers
Microsoft and Postel, a Poste Italiane Group company, announce an evolution of their collaboration and of the agreements they have signed for the digitalization of Italian businesses, welcoming Audiencerate as technology partner in the Data and Direct & Digital Marketing space.
How Panther Lake put Intel back in contention
Intel’s Panther Lake and its 18A manufacturing node have put the US chip maker back in the fight with Apple and AMD.
eFama’s Pretty Kubyane wins Wired4Women Tech Entrepreneur Award
Launched in 2023, eFama is a marketplace app that connects farmers with buyers, simplifying the agricultural supply chain and improving access to fresh produce.
Rasan Sustains Growth Trajectory in Q1 2026, Delivering Highest Ever Quarterly Revenue of SAR 261 Million, More Than Doubling Year-on-Year
Rasan Information Technology Company (Tadawul: 8313), the leading Insurtech and Fintech platform in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, today announced its financial results for the first quarter of 2026, delivering highest ever quarterly revenue, accelerated profitability, and broad-based growth across all products.
Top ICT tenders: Eskom locks down endpoints
The utility is advertising for a hardware asset tracking and recovery tool with an estimated 20 000 licences.
16% of Parents Help Their Children Bypass Online Age Checks, Study Finds. One 15-Year-Old Just Uses a Fake Moustache
The Independent reports that “more than a third of children in the UK have found a way around age verification measures” for social media sites and other online platforms. And new research from online safety organisation Internet Matters “suggests one in six parents have helped their child to get past age verification checks, with children reporting ‘tricking’ platforms into thinking they are...
Securex South Africa 2026 – five expos under one roof
One free badge gives access to five co-located shows covering security, safety, facilities, fire and energy.
Do Lightsaber Blades Have Mass?
On Star Wars Day, we put to rest a question that has bedeviled sci-fi nerds for years.
RFK Jr.’s New Podcast Is as Weird as You’d Expect
The first two episodes of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new podcast feature him discoursing on food with a reality-TV chef and, for some reason, Mike Tyson. Vaccines are not on the agenda.
MultiChoice, Altech accused of carving up pay-TV market
The Competition Commission alleges the firms entered into an agreement to divide markets, in contravention of the Competition Act.
Stitch adds BNPL to payments platform
The payments infrastructure provider behind several South African online retailers adds buy-now-pay-later functionality.
Why 2G will outlast 3G in South Africa
The sequencing reflects how stubbornly low-end devices and machine-to-machine sensors remain tied to legacy connectivity.