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South African university’s tech promises big boost for cities

Sunday at 13:00 PM, via MyBroadband

South African cities face urbanisation-driven challenges, sparking interest in Regenerative Public Spaces (RPS) to promote sustainability, resilience, and community well-being through collaborative, technology-driven solutions.

EPF Tech Fund Fuels South Africa’s Startup Revolution

Sunday at 12:24 PM, via Tech Financials

Since its launch in 2016, the EPF Tech Fund has played a pivotal role in powering South Africa’s most innovative startups, driving technological advancement and economic growth. What began as an ambitious idea to bridge the gap between visionary concepts and real-world execution has now become a cornerstone of the country’s startup ecosystem. The Sunday […]

4 Best Tax Services (2025), Tested and Reviewed

Sunday at 12:08 PM, via Wired

I’m filing my 2024 taxes with nine different documents across three states. I tested popular tax services to see which best helped me untangle my tax mess.

Law firm in deep trouble in South Africa

Sunday at 11:00 AM, via MyBroadband

A South African law firm was penalised for citing fake AI-generated case law, prompting experts to caution against the use of tools like ChatGPT.

Samsung Unveils AI-Powered, Screen-Enabled Home Appliances

Sunday at 09:34 AM, via Slashdot

Samsung teased its “AI Vision Inside” refrigerators at January’s CES tradeshow. (Its internal sensors can now detect 37 different fresh ingredients and 50 processed foods, generating lists for your cellphone or a screen on your refrigerator’s door.) But the refrigerators are part of a larger “AI Home” lineup of screen-enabled appliances with advanced AI features, and Engadget got to see them...

South African music streaming explosion

Sunday at 09:00 AM, via MyBroadband

South African music revenues surged to R1.51 billion in 2024 and much of this growth has been attributed to streaming service usage.

The Sleep Room by Jon Stock review – haunting accounts of horrific medical abuse

Sunday at 08:00 AM, via The Guardian

A book about psychiatrist William Sargant’s unethical treatments at a London hospital in the 1960s is all the more powerful for its vivid patient testimonies

A child of 14 is forced to walk on to a stage and strip to her underwear. Tiny and mute beneath the stacked rows of medical students, she is paraded for their benefit by a consultant psychiatrist some 44 years her senior. It is 1966 –...

Gautrain under siege

Sunday at 07:00 AM, via MyBroadband

The Gautrain aims to reverse declining ridership and ensure long-term sustainability by adapting its services to better meet evolving commuter needs and expanding its network to underserved areas.

Aptera Takes First 300-Mile Highway Trip in Solar-Powered EV

Sunday at 05:34 AM, via Slashdot

“I’ve been dreaming of this moment for 20 years,” says Aptera co-CEO Steve Fambro. Aptera’s solar-powered electric car just drove 300 miles on a single charge. “We’re one step closer to a future where every journey is powered by the sun,” Aptera says in their announcement. “This go around, Aptera took to the highway for the first time ever…” writes the EV blog Electrek. “At one point, Aptera’s...

Did Life on Earth Come from ‘Microlightning’ Between Charged Water Droplets?

Sunday at 03:34 AM, via Slashdot

Some scientists believe life on earth originated in organic matter in earth’s bodies of water more than 3.5 billion years ago,” reports CNN. “But where did that organic material come from…?” Maybe electrical energy sparked the beginnings of life on earth — just like in Frankenstein: Researchers decades ago proposed that lightning caused chemical reactions in ancient Earth’s oceans and...

Reddit’s 50% Stock-Price Plunge Fails to Entice Buyers as Growth Slows

Sunday at 02:34 AM, via Slashdot

Though it’s stock price is still up 200% from its IPO in March of 2024— last week Reddit’s stock had dropped nearly 50% since February 7th. And then this week, it dropped another 10%, reports Bloomberg, citing both the phenomenon of “volatile technology stocks under pressure” — but also specifically “the gloomy sentiment around Reddit…”The social media platform has struggled to recover...

‘Why Did the Government Declare War on My Adorable Tiny Truck?’

Sunday at 00:34 AM, via Slashdot

Automotive historian Dan Albert loves the “adorable tiny truck” he’s driving. It’s one of the small Japan-made “kei” pickups and minivans that “make up about a third of car sales in Japan.” Americans can legally import older models for less than $10,000, and getting 40 miles per gallon they’re “Cheap to buy and run… rugged, practical, no-frills machines — exactly what the American-built...

Are Tech-Driven ‘Career Meltdowns’ Hitting Generation X?

Saturday at 22:44 PM, via Slashdot

“I am having conversations every day with people whose careers are sort of over,” a 53-year-old film and TV director told the New York Times:If you entered media or image-making in the ’90s — magazine publishing, newspaper journalism, photography, graphic design, advertising, music, film, TV — there’s a good chance that you are now doing something else for work. That’s because those...

Why a Lost Cellphone Forced an Airplane to Turn Around in Mid-Flight

Saturday at 21:34 PM, via Slashdot

Last week an Air France flight to the Caribbean had to turn around and return to Paris, reports the Washington Post, “after a passenger could not locate their cellphone.” Because of fears that an unattended cellphone could overheat — and because the passenger and crew couldn’t find the phone — the Boeing 777 turned around off the coast of France “and returned to the airport, according to...

‘An Open Letter To Meta: Support True Messaging Interoperability With XMPP’

Saturday at 20:34 PM, via Slashdot

In 1999 Slashdot reader Jeremie announced “a new project I recently started to create a complete open-source platform for Instant Messaging with transparent communication to other IM systems (ICQ, AIM, etc).” It was the first release of the eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol, and by 2008 Slashdot was asking if XMPP was “the next big thing.” Facebook even supported it for third-party...

Scientists May Have Discovered How To Extract Power From the Earth’s Rotation

Saturday at 19:34 PM, via Slashdot

Long-time Slashdot reader Baron_Yam writes:No more burning fossil fuels, playing with fissile material, damming rivers, erecting wind mills, or making solar panels. All of our energy needs could potentially be supplied by the angular kinetic energy of the Earth — and because of the mass of the planet, doing so would slow its rotation down by a mere 7ms per century. [Which is similar to speed...

Scientists Create New Heavy-Metal Molecule: ‘Berkelocene’

Saturday at 18:34 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shared this report from the Mercury News:After a year of fastidious planning, a microscopic sample of the ultra-rare radioactive element berkelium arrived at a Berkeley Lab. With just 48 hours to experiment before it would become unusable, a group of nearly 20 researchers focused intently on creating a brand-new molecule. Using a chemical glove box, a polycarbonate glass box...

When the physicists need burner phones, that’s when you know America’s changed | John Naughton

Saturday at 18:00 PM, via The Guardian

US academics, fearing persecution by their own government, are becoming ideological refugees. Europe, and Britain, must offer them sanctuary

At international academic conferences recently, one sees an interesting trend. Some American participants are travelling with “burner” phones or have minimalist laptops running browsers and not much else. In other words, they are equipped with the same...

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