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Could a drug for narcolepsy change the world? | Zoe Williams

Today at 13:00 PM, via The Guardian

There are apparently breakthroughs on the way for those with sleep disorders – which sent me down a rabbit hole of research…

I met a guy in pharmaceuticals who told me about a bunch of cool breakthroughs in sleep meds: mainly, we may be on the brink of a new Wegovy, but in this case it’s a drug to cure narcolepsy. I suggested the two things are not quite the same, given that obesity is a...

SA’s Ezeebit Raises $2M To Scale Stablecoin And Crypto Payment Infrastructure In SA, Kenya, Nigeria

Today at 12:53 PM, via Tech Financials

Ezeebit, the FSCA-regulated stablecoin and cryptocurrency payment infrastructure company, has announced the close of a $2.05 million seed funding round. The capital will be used to accelerate product development and merchant adoption in South Africa, Kenya, and Nigeria and expand strategic partnerships with banks, PSPs, and telcos. Ezeebit enables merchants to accept cryptocurrency payments...

Vodacom boss is top earning telco CEO

Today at 12:39 PM, via ITWeb

The CEOs of MTN, Vodacom, Telkom and Blu Label Unlimited earned a combined R224.9 million in the most recent fiscal year.

Evidence That Humans Now Speak In a Chatbot-Influenced Dialect Is Getting Stronger

Today at 12:00 PM, via Slashdot

Researchers and moderators are increasingly concerned that ChatGPT-style language is bleeding into everyday speech and writing. The topic has been explored in the past but “two new, more anecdotal reports, suggest that our chatbot dialect isn’t just something that can be found through close analysis of data,” reports Gizmodo. “It might be an obvious, every day fact of life now.” Slashdot reader...

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