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This year is set to be the world’s second or third-warmest on record, potentially surpassed only by 2024’S record-breaking heat, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said on Tuesday. From a report: The data is the latest from C3S following last month’s COP30 climate summit, where governments failed to agree to substantial new measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions,...
Microsoft has announced that it will raise prices on its Microsoft 365 productivity suites for businesses and government clients starting in July 2026, marking the first commercial price increase since 2022. Small business and frontline worker plans face the steepest hikes: Business Basic jumps 16.7% to $7 per user per month, while frontline worker subscriptions surge up to 33%. Enterprise...
The new Pew report also found that two-thirds of teens said they had used an A.I. chatbot.
Pinduoduo in China, Shopee in Southeast Asia, and Meesho in India operate in markets that could hardly be more different — an upper-middle-income industrial state, a stitched-together archipelago of under-banked economies, and a country where three-quarters of retail is unorganized and e-commerce penetration sits at about 7% — yet all three have landed on the same business model. These...
To Cook a Bear, The Manipulated, and Chris Hemsworth: A Road Trip to Remember are just a few of the shows you should be watching on Hulu this month.
The Pokemon Trading Card Game has quietly transformed into something its creators never intended: a speculative asset class dominated by adults hunting for profit while children struggle to find a single pack on store shelves. The resale market has climbed so high that the latest set, Phantasmal Flames, had a rare Charizard illustration valued at more than $800 before anyone had even pulled one...
A memo obtained by WIRED confirms Denise Dresser’s departure from Slack. She is now headed to OpenAI.
Microsoft announced on Tuesday its largest-ever investment in Asia — $17.5 billion over four years starting in 2026 — to expand cloud and AI infrastructure across India, fund skilling programs, and support ongoing operations in the country. The commitment adds to a $3 billion investment the company announced in January 2025 that is on track to be spent by the end of 2026. A new hyperscale cloud...
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Conservationist who devoted his life to the study and preservation of the African elephant
The British scientist Iain Douglas-Hamilton, who has died aged 83, became the world’s leading authority on the behaviour of African elephants and played a vital part in ensuring their conservation.
His efforts to save the African elephant began in 1965 when, as an Oxford zoology graduate who had also just...
Four sources close to the situation claim OpenAI has become hesitant to publish research on the negative impact of AI. The company says it has only expanded the economic research team’s scope.
Michael Saylor’s software company Strategy, formerly known as MicroStrategy, built a financial model that some observers called an “infinite-money machine” by stockpiling hundreds of thousands of bitcoins and issuing stock and debt to buy more, but that machine appears to be breaking down. The company’s stock peaked above $450 in mid-July and ended November at $177.18, a 60% decline. Bitcoin...
American AI giants are backing a new effort to establish open standards for building agentic software and tools.
Gugu Lourie hosts Raman Abrol, Division President at Amdocs, for the TFS Bag of Words podcast on TechFinancials News. The conversation first explores their partnership with Telkom SA, detailing how Raman’s role fosters this collaboration and what makes it distinctive in the African context. They then reflect on the core themes of SATNAC 2025, discussing […]
Microsoft’s Xbox consoles were conspicuously absent from Black Friday’s winners, failing to crack the top three in U.S. sales during one of the retail calendar’s most important weeks. According to Circana analyst Mat Piscatella, the PlayStation 5 captured 47% of Black Friday week console sales ending November 29, followed by the Nintendo Switch 2 at 24% and — somewhat remarkably — the NEX...
It is a significant turnaround for the tech giant after its first attempt – Google Glass – was pulled in 2015.
Silicon Valley is again betting everything on a new technology. But the mania is not a reboot of the late-1990s frenzy.
In February, a six-month-old baby named KJ Muldoon became the first person ever to receive a CRISPR gene-editing treatment customized specifically for his unique genetic mutation, a milestone that researchers say marks a turning point in how medicine might approach the thousands of rare diseases that collectively affect 30 million Americans. Muldoon was born with a type of urea-cycle disorder...
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.
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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...