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When researching space objects and a far-flung message made for aliens, I was drawn to the question: what do we choose to memorialise – or forget?
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Space objects embody all kinds of contradictions. They’re closely tied to us as our proxies in space, and the people who make or launch them often imprint or project their own emotions and beliefs on to...
Study suggests almost everyone with two copies of genetic variant ApoE4 goes on to develop disease
Having two copies of a gene variant known to predispose people to Alzheimer’s could in fact represent a distinct genetic form of the disease, researchers have said.
The variant, known as ApoE4, has long been known to increase the risk of developing Alzheimer’s, with two copies conferring greater...
Shell says its decision to exit South Africa comes after a review of its downstream and renewables business across all regions and markets.
For the first time since it invested more than $10 billion into OpenAI in exchange for the rights to reuse the startup’s AI models, Microsoft is training a new, in-house AI model large enough to compete with state-of-the-art models from Google, Anthropic and OpenAI itself. The Information: The new model, internally referred to as MAI-1, is being overseen by Mustafa Suleyman, the ex-Google AI...
Eskom is taking South Africa’s largest city to court over its alleged failure to pay debts totalling nearly R1.1-billion.
Vodacom touted IoT.nxt as a revolutionary platform that would support its global expansion ambitions, but the mobile operator has gone quiet about the success of this acquisition.
More than 90% of stablecoin transaction volumes aren’t coming from genuine users, according to a new metric co-developed by Visa, suggesting such crypto tokens may be far away from becoming a commonly used means of payment. Bloomberg: The dashboard from Visa and Allium Labs is designed to strip out transactions initiated by bots and large-scale traders to isolate those made by real people. Out...
Results from the world’s biggest technology companies have brought mostly good news. There’s just one missing piece.
OpenAI will leverage validated knowledge from Stack Overflow while Stack Overflow will benefit from OpenAI’s large language models.
Stack Overflow, a Prosus company, and OpenAI today announced a new API partnership that will empower developers with the collective strengths of the world’s leading knowledge platform for highly technical content with the world’s most popular LLM models for AI development. “Stack Overflow is the world’s largest developer community, with more than 59 million questions […]
Energy analyst Clyde Mallinson said Eskom could have used the billions it spent on diesel to build sustainable solar energy plants that could produce power for many years.
Kids and screens are a contentious subject. But if you’re going to get your kids a tablet, here are the ones you should buy and why.
Mavenir, the cloud-native network infrastructure provider building the future of networks, today announces the signing of a five-year Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS) set to revolutionize the deployment of telecom workloads running on the AWS.
ATMECS Global, renowned for its prowess in digital transformation and engineering solutions, proudly announces that it has joined the NVIDIA Partner Network as a Solution Advisor Consultant.
Today, the City of Cape Town demonstrated its powerful new crime-fighting aerial surveillance technology during a staged search, rescue and car chase scenario. The City’s information, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) technology will take information gathering to the next level in the fight against gang incidents, poaching, stolen vehicles, vegetation fires, and various criminal...
Companies that partner with PaySpace will enjoy superior, simplified payroll management.
The humble French press is affordable, effective, and hard to mess up. Here are our favorites to make your morning cup of coffee.
The Saldanha Bay-based artificial intelligence institute becomes the fourth AI hub in SA, with its primary focus on the defence and military sector.
Franco Barbalich and Andrew Simpson showed it is possible to build a nationally competitive telecommunications company outside of Gauteng and Cape Town.
Duarte da Silva hosts Softline co-founder Ivan Epstein in the latest episode of TechCentral’s TCS Legends.
IBM today announced that the availability of its software portfolio is expanding globally to 92 countries in AWS Marketplace, a digital catalogue with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors (ISVs) that make it easy to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS). The software availability now will […]