Reflecting a small fraction of incoming sunlight to reduce global heating is not a new idea. It is time to safely experiment
The world is warming fast – and our options to avoid catastrophic harm are narrowing. 2024 was the first full year more than 1.5C hotter than the 19th-century average. Emissions are still rising, with fossil fuel use expected to hit a new high in 2025. Permanent carbon...
On this week’s episode of The Big Interview, the author of The Handmaid’s Tale talks about Elon Musk, political resistance, and why she still has hope for America’s future.
No chimney? No problem. LED and gel fuel fireplaces are excellent alternatives for those who can’t or don’t want to burn wood. We tried one of each to see which method is best.
While many respected investors have turned their back on Cell C, financial investment firm Allan Gray has doubled down in its backing of the struggling mobile network operator.
Companies like Kairos Energy are building new types of reactors with the encouragement of the Trump administration, but their success is far from assured.
Dell has reversed course and resurrected the XPS brand as its “premium consumer” brand of laptops, admitting it was a mistake to kill it in the first place. Slashdot reader joshuark shares a report from Gizmodo: At last year’s CES, Dell made the eyebrow-raising decision to ax all its legacy laptop brand names and instead opt for Apple-like conventions. Instead of XPS, we were forced to...
Yesterday at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES® 2026), Sandisk announced SANDISK Optimus as the new name for its renowned internal SSD lineup for gamers, creators, and professionals. The new branding for this family of products reflects a focus on performance leadership, engineering excellence, and a heritage of trust in flash memory. The powerful collection of […]
MyBroadband recently tested Starlink’s Residential Lite service in Botswana at a farm less than 20km from South Africa’s border. The results were impressive.