Three crew members left the International Space Station and landed back on Earth after 245 days in space.
The cosmonaut and station commander, Sergey Ryzhikov, handed over a symbolic key to the Nasa astronaut Mike Fincke during a change of command ceremony onboard the station.
The spacecraft landed at 8.04am Moscow time near the Kazakh city of Zhezkazgan.
The Investigating Directorate Against Corruption (IDAC) in collaboration with the South African Revenue Service (SARS), and other law enforcement agencies have secured six years direct prison sentence with two years suspended for Tshepo Khoza in a tax fraud matter involving approximately R3.6 million, linked to systemic corruption within state procurement processes. Tshepo Khoza, director of […]
ERAFIED Introduces Blockchain-Based Verification Platform to Protect Consumers and Businesses from Digital Misinformation Johannesburg, South Africa – As the world becomes increasingly dependent on digital platforms for information, entertainment, and daily decision-making, one question is rising to the surface: Is the information we consume truly VERAfied? VERAFIED is a pioneering Digital...
A tenured USC professor is arguing that universities need to fundamentally rethink their value proposition as AI rapidly closes the gap on human instruction and a loneliness epidemic grips the generation most likely to be sitting in their lecture halls. Eric Anicich, an associate professor at USC’s Marshall School of Business, wrote in the Los Angeles Times that nearly three-quarters of 16- to...
Salesforce has hosted its 2025 Trailblazer Awards in Johannesburg, recognising the South African organisations using Salesforce’s platform and partner ecosystem to cut costs, accelerate sales cycles and improve operational performance. Across this year’s finalists, companies report an average 35% saving in service costs, a 22% increase in sales-cycle velocity, and combined outcomes that...
Sanlam’s new prepaid funeral cover works like buying airtime, offering flexible terms to tackle income uncertainty. The product aims to include millions previously locked out of traditional insurance. In a major shift for the industry, Sanlam has launched South Africa’s first prepaid funeral cover, directly confronting the problem of lapsed policies due to irregular incomes. […]
A Namibian man raised on a sheep farm near Kalkrand steered South Africans away from SMSs to instant messaging apps, making it far more affordable to communicate via text.
You can speak into the Pebble Index to have it remember things or set reminders, timers, and tasks. No cloud processing, no subscription, and best of all, no charging.
Microsoft Excel, the 40-year-old spreadsheet application that helped establish personal computers as essential workplace tools and contributed to Microsoft’s current valuation of nearly $4 trillion, has weathered both the rise of cloud computing and the current AI boom largely unscathed. In its most recent quarter, commercial revenue for Microsoft 365 — the bundle including Excel, Word, and...
MyBroadband looked at some of the vehicles supported by Bolt and Uber for carrying passengers and found several models with 2-star or lower Global NCAP ratings for adult occupant protection.
India’s dominant airline IndiGo has cancelled roughly 3,000 flights since last week after new pilot fatigue regulations collided with technical issues and the seasonal schedule shift, stranding more than half a million passengers and forcing aviation authorities to reverse course on the safety rules they had just implemented. InterGlobe Aviation, IndiGo’s parent company, told regulators that...
Africa is rapidly becoming one of the world’s fastest adopters of digital assets — not because of hype, but because the continent needs faster, cheaper, more reliable ways to move money.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: The journal Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology has formally retracted a sweeping scientific paper published in 2000 that became a key defense for Monsanto’s claim that Roundup herbicide and its active ingredient glyphosate don’t cause cancer. Martin van den Berg, the journal’s editor in chief, said in a note accompanying the retraction...
FixBot can check on the health of your devices and talk you through necessary repairs. You can even point your phone’s camera at broken gear to get started.
NTT DATA, a global leader in AI, digital business and technology services, today announced the appointment of Dr. Bratin Saha as CEO of the newly established AI Company, NTT DATA AIVista, Inc., effective Dec 1, 2025.