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An anonymous reader shares a report: The hundreds of prize payouts were mostly just a few bucks each, part of a promotional campaign by a South Korean cryptocurrency exchange. The total reward pot: 620,000 Korean won, or about $425. Then came a colossal mistake. A staffer for Bithumb, South Korea’s No. 2 crypto exchange, didn’t distribute 620,000 Korean won. Rather, the prizes, due to an input...
National treasury has stepped in to rescue state-owned broadcasting signal distributor Sentech.
The relentless addition of artificial intelligence in popular apps raises questions about what’s at stake. The answer: the future of the internet and its lifeblood, digital advertising.
ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.
South Africa’s top fibre network operators (FNOs) have widely differing policies for cancellations and downgrades, with some not charging a cent while others claw back well over R2,000 in certain cases.
The American economy’s most valuable companies are now worth trillions of dollars more than their predecessors were a generation ago, yet they employ a fraction of the workers — and a new analysis by the Wall Street Journal argues that this widening gap between capital and labor is the defining economic story of our time. Labor received 58% of gross domestic income in 1980; by the third quarter...
The top private schools in New York City plan to charge more than $70,000 this year for tuition, an amount exceeding that of many elite colleges, as they pass on the costs of soaring expenses including teacher salaries. From a report: Spence School, Dalton School and Nightingale-Bamford School on Manhattan’s Upper East Side are among at least seven schools where the fees now exceed that...
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Only one of South Africa’s three largest domestic airlines is currently considering introducing Wi-Fi on local flights.
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Vasion, a leader in serverless printing and Intelligent Print Automation, today announced the appointment of Scott Lee as Chief Product Officer.
New Technology Allows Customers to Search and Find Products Using Images Instead of Text
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The scientific community is celebrating the cancellation of a project which would have threatened the clearest skies in the world in Chile’s Atacama Desert.
The proposed $10bn, 3,000-hectare green hydrogen and ammonia production facility, known as INNA, included a port, transport...
The UK’s markets regulator says the proposed commitments “will boost the UK’s app economy”.
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Africa’s financial sector embraces tech, but talent constraints and uneven tech adoption challenge institutions’ innovation endeavours.
By 2026, virtual crypto cards have moved far beyond being an “extra feature” of major exchanges. A new wave of providers is focusing on flexibility, compliance-friendly onboarding, and practical everyday spending — often without the heavy branding and limitations of top-tier platforms. For users who prefer alternatives to bank cards and want more control, privacy, […]