SATURDAY, 06 DECEMBER 2025, 21:54
schwit1 shares a report from CNN: A private Chinese space firm successfully sent its Zhuque-3 rocket to orbit but failed in its historic attempt to re-land the rocket booster Wednesday — the first such trial by a Chinese firm as the country’s growing commercial space sector races to catch up with American rivals like SpaceX. The rocket entered orbit as planned, but its first stage did not...
The Competition Tribunal as granted Dimension Data Facilities permission to acquire the company central to an allegedly crooked deal involving its own The Campus property in Bryanston.
AI Global Networks (AGN) is taking on one of Africa’s most pressing challenges in the digital age, the widening gap between rapid technological progress and meaningful access to it. Founded by Blaine Cook, the startup is driven by a clear, human-centered belief, that when people are equipped with knowledge and the right tools, they can […]
The Zig Software Foundation has quit GitHub after years of unresolved GitHub Actions bugs — including a “safe_sleep” script that could spin forever and cripple CI runners. Zig leadership puts the blame on Microsoft’s growing AI-first priorities and declining engineering quality. Other open-source developers are voicing similar frustrations. The Register reports: The drama began in April 2025...
Richard Pazdur’s potential retirement weeks into the role adds to upheaval at the FDA amid political pressure
The top drug regulator in the US signaled on Tuesday he may retire weeks after accepting the position, adding to upheaval in the highest ranks of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
If Richard Pazdur retires, finding a replacement would be challenging amid mounting political...
This Samsung innovation redefines home comfort by combining reduced-noise cooling and intelligent energyefficiency.
Rimini Street, Inc. (Nasdaq: RMNI), the Software Support and Agentic AI ERP Company™, and the leading third-party support provider for Oracle, SAP and VMware software, today introduced Rimini Agentic UX™, an intelligent, AI-driven user engagement layer that streamlines ERP process execution for efficiency and significant savings, delivering persona- and role-based automation and...
The Pepkor-owned retailer once seemed well-positioned to become a major e-commerce player in South Africa.
Ethereum is once again stealing the spotlight, this time with a bull flag structure that’s been brewing for years and now tightening toward a potential breakout. Market analysts have been calling Ethereum one of the strongest large caps in this stage of the cycle, and the latest swing in price action only reinforces that view. […]
The market is vibrating with that familiar early cycle tension, the same kind that once surrounded Bitcoin in its formative era and later Ethereum as it redefined programmable money. After massive fundraising waves across the industry, investors are increasingly hunting for projects that mix strong fundamentals with meaningful utility. That shift has pushed Bitcoin Hyper […]
The issue is in the spotlight after Shein announced a global ban on the sale of sex dolls with a childlike appearance.
South Africa’s financial sector is undergoing an accelerated digital transformation driven by mobile access, data analytics, and regulatory modernisation. As digital credit tools expand, consumers increasingly turn to comparison platforms to evaluate affordability, cost structures, and risk exposure. These platforms—including trusted digital comparison tools such as FatCat play an...
Vodacom is integrating South African Sign Language across its digital platforms, employee programmes, and everyday business operations.
Uber is weighing electric bikes for Uber Moto as demand rises and its low-cost mobility strategy evolves.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from GamesIndustry.biz: Japanese game makers are struggling to locate affordable commercial fonts after one of the country’s leading font licensing services raised the cost of its annual plan from around $380 to $20,500 (USD). As reported by Gamemakers and GameSpark and translated by Automaton, Fontworks LETS discontinued its game license plan at the end of...
MultiChoice’s strategy to make ShowMax its growth engine and reach revenue of $1 billion and 16 million active subscribers failed spectacularly.
White Coat Waste finds $1.7m in NIH grants for cat research months after officials said they were working to end studies
The US National Institute of Health is continuing to fund new laboratory experiments on cats despite saying that they are “working tirelessly” to “phase out” such projects.
In July this year, Dr Nicole Kleinstreuer, the NIH acting deputy director, announced in a podcast with...
AI-powered startup Fortell has become a secret handshake for the privileged hearing-impaired crowd who swear by the product. Now, it wants to be in your ears.
Winchester Interconnect, an Aptiv company and leading supplier of high-performance interconnect solutions, today introduced LiteSPEed™ Cable, a next-generation single-pair Ethernet (SPE) solution that delivers 10-gigabit data rates in a dramatically smaller, lighter design.
The new TRIAX TDcH and TDmH headend platforms are Multichoice-approved, DRM-ready, and engineered for hospitality, commercial and remote environments across the continent.
Shein and Temu have been alerted to the investigation and have signalled their intention to cooperate.