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Astronauts successfully return to Earth after ISS command change – video

Yesterday at 17:57 PM, via The Guardian

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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Tshepo Khoza Gets 6-Year Sentence In SAPS DNA Tender Tax Fraud

Yesterday at 17:37 PM, via Tech Financials

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 […]

VERAFIED Introduces Blockchain-Based Verification Platform to Protect Consumers And Businesses From Digital Misinformation

Yesterday at 17:25 PM, via Tech Financials

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...

‘Colleges Oversold Education. Now They Must Sell Connection’

Yesterday at 17:21 PM, via Slashdot

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...

South Africa’s Digital Leaders Recognised At Salesforce Trailblazer Awards

Yesterday at 17:17 PM, via Tech Financials

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 Launches “Pay-As-You-Go” Funeral Cover

Yesterday at 17:08 PM, via Tech Financials

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. […]

Microsoft Excel Turns 40, Remains Stubbornly Unkillable

Yesterday at 16:41 PM, via Slashdot

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...

India’s Aviation Crisis Is All About Too Big to Tame

Yesterday at 16:01 PM, via Slashdot

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...

Science Journal Retracts Study On Safety of Monsanto’s Roundup

Yesterday at 15:00 PM, via Slashdot

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...

iFixit Put a Chatbot Repair Expert in an App

Yesterday at 15:00 PM, via Wired

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.

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