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Galen Buckwalter says brain-computer interfaces will have to be enjoyable to use if the technology is going to be successful.
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Galen Buckwalter says brain-computer interfaces will have to be enjoyable to use if the technology is going to be successful.

Aarti Holla-Maini, of the UN’s Office for Outer Space Affairs, is primed and ready should a planetary strike occur – and just over 12 months ago, she thought it might
The UN official had trained for this moment. She had run drills and table-top exercises at her offices in Vienna, housed inside a grey and unassuming 1970s concrete tower complex next to the Danube River.
Aarti Holla-Maini, a...

If you’re the glass-half-full type, you should be overjoyed at the news coming out of Yale School of Public Health. But pessimists like me? We’re stuffed
There’s bad news for me and my fellow Eeyores (there always is): a positive mindset could help you age better. Research led by Prof Becca Levy of the Yale School of Public Health interrogated over-65s on their attitudes to ageing, following...

WIRED surveyed the ways the Trump administration is working to manipulate this year’s midterm elections.

Every winter, 80,000 people gather in the California desert for King of the Hammers, a popular racing series featuring high-speed relays and rock crawling with dirt bikes, stock VW Bugs, and million-dollar trophy trucks.

AI is turning estate agents into data-driven ‘bionic’ operators who know who wants to sell before the board goes up.

Tarsus Distribution explains how HPE’s latest servers help businesses consolidate workloads and cut costs.

Experts at Solar & Storage Live Africa 2026 tackle load-shedding with smart, integrated energy solutions.

Documents show the tax agency is testing a Palantir tool to surface “highest-value” audit and investigation targets from a maze of legacy systems.

Huawei South Africa showcased its Xinghe portfolio of AI-driven networking solutions at its IP Club 2026 event. AI-driven networking is moving from theory to deployment, and Huawei South Africa is leaning into that future. A key part of that is its Xinghe portfolio – a suite of AI-driven solutions designed to secure and optimise enterprise […]

The provincial leg of SA Innovation Week showcased solutions aimed at addressing local socio-economic challenges.

The telecoms group appoints new independent directors to strengthen governance in support of its Ambition 2030 strategy.

Despite frequent comparisons, Bitcoin and Ethereum have settled into distinct roles within the digital economy, and those roles are driving real movement of assets between networks. Bitcoin’s dominance as a store of value now coexists with Ethereum’s leadership in programmable finance. Together, they account for more than half of global cryptocurrency market capitalization, and the […]

The company scooped the Partner-to-Partner Excellence Award, Industry Partner: Mining & Manufacturing Award and Industry Partner: Retail Award.

First for Women is proud to sponsor the Mentor of the Year Award at the 2026 Wired4Women Awards.

The workflow tool has become a central platform for project management, budgeting, forecasting, resource planning and executive decision-making.

Starlink has called Namibia’s rejection “misleading” and urged citizens to appeal, claiming 98.6% public support for its bid.

The standalone Pi brand runs on MTN’s network, offering contract-free mobile and home 5G from a single app.
Apple’s 50th anniversary is this week — and Fast Company’s Harry McCracken just published an 11,000-word oral history with some fun stories from Apple’s earliest days and the long and winding road to its very first home computers:Steve Wozniak, cofounder, Apple: I told my dad when I was in high school, “I’m going to own a computer someday.” My dad said, “It costs as much as a house.” And I...

Companies must increasingly collaborate and draw insights from rapidly-growing data streams without sacrificing privacy or security.

Hacker group XP95 claims to have stolen 154GB of private data from the government organisation, demanding $100 000 ransom.