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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: EBay on Tuesday rejected a $56 billion takeover bid from the much smaller GameStop over financing doubts, calling the proposal “neither credible nor attractive.” EBay, which has roughly four times GameStop’s market value, also underscored that its turnaround efforts under CEO Jamie Iannone have boosted growth, with its stock returning 201% since...
They won’t replace Chromebooks, but Googlebooks have an Android-centered operating system, AI-first features like the Magic Pointer, and a promise of desktop-grade apps.
You’ll soon be able to generate your own widgets or ask Gemini to finish a booking in Chrome on Android.
Anthropic said that Claude Mythos was too dangerous to release to the public. That claim has reopened an old debate over cybersecurity.
Experts and college students used A.I. agents to try to break into and defend computer networks in a national competition. The agents did all right on their own, too.
The FCC has softened its ban on foreign-made consumer routers, allowing vendors to keep issuing broader software and firmware updates for devices already in use in the U.S. through at least January 2029. Dark Reading reports: Under the original FCC ruling, foreign manufacturers were permitted to provide only limited maintenance and security patches to US customers through March 2027. In a...
Truth Predict was supposed to be the Trump family’s biggest leap yet into prediction markets. Now it’s looking more like a tiptoe.
Here’s what you need to know, from why the cruise ship outbreak won’t spark the next pandemic to how hantavirus spreads.
Houston, Texas – Over five hundred energy industry professionals gather in June to gain insight and examine up-to-the-minute issues facing the U.S. Northeast natural gas and LNG market region. The 31st Annual LDC Gas Forum Energy Northeasttakes place June 8 – 10, 2026 in Boston, MA. This is the industry’s premier gathering for natural gas […]
All the protocols that health experts like me look for have been followed. But outbreaks on cruise ships are notoriously hard to control
Prof Devi Sridhar is chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh
Hantavirus: the disease you wish you’d never heard of, as visions of the Covid pandemic flash through your head. I’ve seen lots of breathless coverage and some bizarre takes...
Researchers at Columbia demonstrated the first real-time brain-controlled hearing system that can identify which speaker a listener is focusing on in a noisy environment and automatically amplify that voice while suppressing others. “This breakthrough addresses the ‘cocktail party effect,’ a major limitation of conventional hearing aids, which often struggle to distinguish between overlapping...
Social media is awash with clips of people paying to be ‘bathed’ in sound. But what’s the science behind the practice?
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I, for one, am partial to a bath: what’s not to love about a dim room, candles and nary an electronic device in sight?
But a wellness trend that has emerged in recent years makes soaking in tepid water seem quaint: increasingly, people are...
From claims of an Israeli false flag to efforts to sell ivermectin, influencers and grifters are using lessons learned from Covid-19 to push their baseless conspiracy theories.
Throughout history, most of the world’s genomic research has relied on DNA data from people of European ancestry. A genome is the full DNA code of about three billion (a thousand million) bases, including all the chromosomes. Each person has two genomes: one from their mother and the other from their father. Well resourced environments […]
The South African National Roads Agency (SANRAL) is expected to receive almost R31 billion this year to maintain, rehabilitate, upgrade and expand the road network. “These funds will be used for capital expenditure on the non-toll network, the Gauteng Freeway Improvement project operations; the N2 Wild Coast route for ongoing construction on major bridges, and […]
The communications ministry appoints an independent expert review panel in preparation of South Africa’s artificial intelligence policy.
An independent panel chaired by Wits AI researcher Benjamin Rosman will help rebuild the withdrawn draft AI policy.
Durban – South Africa has hosted its first national round of the international engineering competition HackAtom, bringing together university students from across the country to compete in solving technology and energy-related challenges. The winning team from the University of Zululand will now advance to the international final in Moscow alongside participants from 15 countries. From […]
Herotel now has 284 850 connected fibre-to-the-home connections, mostly in smaller towns and townships.
5FM, South Africa’s favourite youth radio station, is turning Youth Month into a launchpad for the future with Code Youth, a high-energy, hands-on digital skills bootcamp created to give young South Africans the most valuable skill sets of the 21st century. In partnership with WeThinkCode_, this nationwide CSI initiative brings coding, creativity and real digital […]
The Naspers unit expects $7.3 billion revenue in FY26, with full ecosystem profitability driving the FY27 execution strategy.