
Colorado’s Anti-Repair Bill Is Dead
Colorado has led the US on legislation that ensures people can fix their stuff. Manufacturers tried to claw back that control, but ultimately failed—for now.
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Colorado has led the US on legislation that ensures people can fix their stuff. Manufacturers tried to claw back that control, but ultimately failed—for now.

Hallucinogens have come a long way from the 60s counterculture to Trump’s White House – propelled by veterans’ lobbying and Silicon Valley capital
Kojo Koram’s new book, The Next Fix: Winners and Losers in the Future of Drugs, is out on 4 June
On 13 May 1966, a US Senate subcommittee questioned a former Harvard clinical psychologist, considered by many to be “the most dangerous man in...

From US courtrooms to Australian government reports, hallucinated citations are everywhere. Pretoria has now joined the club.

Las Animas, CO Anubis Lane Productions, a rising force in the Rocky Mountain independent media landscape, today announced the simultaneous release of a new relationship guide and a cinematic music project. The dual launch highlights a growing trend of “creative multi-hyphenates” revitalizing local economies through digital-first storytelling across literature, music, and film. Leading the...

Neurable, which makes noninvasive brain-computer interfaces, is licensing its technology and promises a “flood” of new third-party hardware this year and next.

AI agents may soon be buying your stuff for you. The FIDO Alliance has teamed up with Google and Mastercard to try to ensure that shopping in the near future isn’t a complete disaster.

Hong Kong – Pharos today announced the launch of its Pacific Ocean Mainnet and $PROS token, bringing its network for real-world financial applications fully live. The launch follows a high-scale testnet that processed more than 4.3 billion transactions across 209 million wallets in less than a year, demonstrating strong early demand and readiness for production use. […]

The global media group will become the first French company with a secondary listing on the Johannesburg bourse.

It’s the world’s best E Ink picture frame, but you’ll need Monet money to make the most of it.

If you’re waffling between Alexa, Siri, and Google, the answer may already be in your home.

Speaking at the Girls in ICT Day, minister Solly Malatsi emphasised the critical need for inclusive growth within the ICT sector.

Four tech giants pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into AI report results this week – and investors want signs of returns.
Researchers say infrasound — low-frequency vibrations from things like pipes, HVAC systems, and traffic that humans can’t consciously hear — may help explain why some old buildings feel unsettling or “haunted.” Rodney Schmaltz, senior author and professor at MacEwan, says: “Consider visiting a supposedly haunted building. Your mood shifts, you feel agitated, but you can’t see or hear anything...

If you’re looking for the perfect laptop power bank, I’ve tested ‘em all, and these are the best.

The communications department has pushed the long-promised merger of Broadband Infraco and Sentech to 2029.

An augmented reality experience allows visitors to view digital smelter overlays using smartphones at the Melville Koppies heritage site.

On this week’s Big Interview podcast, actor-director Ben McKenzie talks about the rise of crypto, why he finds it dangerous, and why it benefits from having a mysterious creator.

All of us can choose to consider facts, not vibes, in our next decision. One simple hack is go and look up some easily accessible peer-reviewed studies
Helen Pearson is an editor for Nature and author of Beyond Belief: How Evidence Shows What Really Works
In 1992, a group of rebel doctors published a radical idea in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association. They argued that...