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According to a prominent electricity resellers’ association, average households in small multi-dwelling properties are seeing their electricity bills skyrocket by far more than Eskom’s 12.74% average hike.
Automated web-scraping bots seeking training data for AI models are flooding scientific databases and academic journals with traffic volumes that render many sites unusable. The online image repository DiscoverLife, which contains nearly 3 million species photographs, started receiving millions of daily hits in February this year that slowed the site to the point that it no longer loaded,...
Apple is hitting back hard at the European Union, saying its demands are unreasonable and hamper innovation.
Microsoft will require all USB-C ports on Windows 11 certified laptops and tablets to support data transfer, charging, and display functionality under updated hardware compatibility program rules. The mandate targets devices shipping with Windows 11 24H2 and aims to eliminate what Microsoft — and the industry — calls “USB-C port confusion,” where identical-looking ports offer different...
Prosecutors aren’t the only ones arguing for a smaller Google. Some critics say it might be better for investors, customers and innovation.
As Mr. Musk steps away from Washington, he faces concerns over his prolonged absence from his businesses including Tesla, SpaceX, xAI and X.
The Road Accident Fund (RAF) faces mounting uncertainty following the suspension of its CEO, Collins Letsoalo, amid a Special Investigating Unit (SIU) probe into a controversial R79 million office lease deal in Johannesburg. Letsoalo was placed on special leave with immediate effect, raising questions about governance and financial management at the embattled state entity. Letsoalo Breaks...
Apple has filed an appeal with the European Union’s General Court in Luxembourg challenging the bloc’s order requiring greater iOS interoperability with rival companies’ products under the Digital Markets Act. The EU executive in March directed Apple to make its mobile operating system more compatible with competitors’ apps, headphones, and virtual reality headsets by granting developers and...
An anonymous reader shares a report: Business Insider announced this week that it wants staff to better incorporate AI into its journalism. But less than a year ago, the company had to quietly apologize to some staff for accidentally recommending that they read books that did not appear to exist but instead may have been generated by AI. In an email to staff last May, a senior editor at...
Researchers say people born more recently, particularly women, have lower risk at same age as their grandparents
People born more recently are less likely to have dementia at any given age than earlier generations, research suggests, with the trend more pronounced in women.
According to the World Health Organization, in 2021 there were 57 million people worldwide living with dementia, with...
Study utilises handwriting-generated electrical signal to measure tremor in tandem with AI machine learning
It won’t be much good for taking down notes, but a 3D-printed pen filled with magnetic ink could help identify people with Parkinson’s disease, a small pilot study suggests.
More than 10 million people worldwide are thought to be living with Parkinson’s, a neurodegenerative disorder...
It has cost South Africa over R16 million in additional costs to operate the driving licence card printer.
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The Australian equivalent of communications regulator Icasa has had enormous success fighting scam phone calls.
Momentum Group financial director Risto Ketola says scammers employ various tactics to dupe South Africans, including AI deepfakesand invite-only WhatsApp Group scams.
MSI’s largest and most powerful gaming laptop is also its most premium, sporting a Mini-LED screen and an invisible touchpad.
The broadcaster believes an electronic system will help to address its current manual and error-prone processes.
Check out the schedule of guests chatting to ITWeb on 3 and 4 June.
We often highlight the people side of cybersecurity but we fail to acknowledge how these incidents affect the victims psychologically.
When AI falls into the wrong hands, the consequences can be far-reaching, warns Dmitry Berezin, Kaspersky.
One pharmacist described scarcity of life-saving Creon as ‘worst stock shortage’ they have dealt with
People with pancreatic cancer are eating only one meal a day because of an acute shortage of a drug that helps them digest their food.
Patients with cystic fibrosis and pancreatitis are also affected by the widespread scarcity of Creon, a form of pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy (PERT).
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