WEDNESDAY, 17 DECEMBER 2025, 07:16
Yale epidemiologist Harvey Risch, who has speculated about a connection between Covid vaccines and “turbo cancer” and promoted ivermectin, says he’ll chair the President’s Cancer Panel.
A millisecond used to be a big deal for the world’s quickest traders. A dispute over huge trading profits at one of the world’s largest futures exchanges shows they now think a million times faster [non-paywalled source]. From a report: The controversy is about an arcane technical maneuver in which high-speed traders bombard Frankfurt-based Eurex with useless data. The idea is to keep their...
New York, NY — Sarkee Capital (SKC) today announced a significant milestone in the development of its G4 system, confirming that the firm’s Dual-Track Strategy has successfully completed live-market validation and has formally entered the build-out phase. The advancement follows extensive testing in cryptocurrency markets and reflects SKC’s commitment to disciplined, risk-controlled...
The glasses-shaped face computers that tech companies have been building for years now face an identity crisis, and their makers can’t agree on what to call them. Meta has asked a journalist to refer to its Ray-Ban glasses as “AI glasses” to distinguish them from Google Glass. Google, whose Project Aura is a collaboration with Xreal, calls the product “wired XR glasses” because the company...
Across South Africa’s growing trading sphere, you’ve probably noticed how expectations around platform performance and reliability have shifted. More traders want deeper analytics, broader market access and tools that simplify complex decisions in real time. Recent figures reflect this rise, with around 190,000 active retail traders in South Africa in 2025 and online retail projected […]
The traditional signals that employers used to evaluate entry-level job candidates — college GPAs, cover letters, and interview performance — have lost much of their value as grade inflation and widespread AI use render these metrics nearly meaningless, writes The Atlantic. The recent-graduate unemployment rate now sits slightly higher than the overall workforce’s, a reversal from historical...
Food inflation in South Africa has definitely come off the scary highs of the past few years, but most households will tell you their trolley still feels lighter than it should. Consumer food price inflation averaged about 11% in 2023, before easing to roughly 4.1% in 2024, with December 2024 down at 1.7% year-on-year....
Christmas can be daunting. Meal kit boxes from Sunbasket and Blue Apron offer the satisfaction of making a home-cooked feast with a lot less stress.
Organisers of award in honour of late primatologist hope it will inspire and encourage people to take action
Earth might be under pressure, but the Queen guitarist Sir Brian May is hopeful a new award from the science, music and arts festival he co-founded will encourage people to take action.
The Starmus Jane Goodall Earth medal is in honour of the British primatologist who died this year and...
Mozilla has named Anthony Enzor-DeMeo as its new chief executive, promoting the executive who has spent the past year leading the Firefox browser team and who now plans to make AI central to the company’s future. Enzor-DeMeo announced on Tuesday that an “AI Mode” is coming to Firefox next year. The feature will let users choose from multiple AI models rather than being locked into a single...
Home Affairs wants to stop producing green ID books from 2026 and focus entirely on rolling out smart ID cards and a digital ID system.
Google’s data partner HouseCanary has begun displaying home listings directly in search results in select markets, sending Zillow’s shares tumbling more than 8% yesterday as investors weighed whether the search giant might eventually cut into the portal business that Zillow dominates. The experiment places property details, prices, images and a “Request a tour” button at the top of mobile...
The refreshed Classic Full Zip hoodie uses a softer cotton fleece, but it’s still US-made. It’s the first major overhaul of American Giant’s most well-loved sweatshirt.
Bring the gift everyone will want to win from this year’s holiday party, from a cute jacket for a beer can to magnets they’ll wish they could eat.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from BleepingComputer: Audio streaming platform SoundCloud has confirmed that outages and VPN connection issues over the past few days were caused by a security breach in which threat actors stole a database containing user information. The disclosure follows widespread reports over the past four days from users who were unable to access SoundCloud when...
Sitting at a desk for hours? Upgrade your WFH setup and work in style with these comfy WIRED-tested seats.
These WIRED-tested two-wheelers will help you scoot scoot scoot around town.
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Google has officially acknowledged the upcoming merger of Android and Chromebooks, and it may be coming in 2026.
The head of Amazon Web Services has big plans to offer AI tools to businesses, but says that replacing coders with AI is “a non-starter for anyone who’s trying to build a long-term company.”
When the partnership was unveiled in September the UK government said it would “shape the futures of millions of people”
Rubicon’s head of e-mobility Hilton Musk believes that paying to charge an EV in public should be as simple as paying for fuel.