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“The internet did transform work — but not the way 1998 thought…” argues the Wall Street Journal. “The internet slipped inside almost every job and rewired how work got done.” So while the number of single-task jobs like travel agent dropped, most jobs “are bundles of judgment, coordination and hands-on work,” and instead the internet brought “the quiet transformation of nearly every job in...
The well-known and loved Springbok prop, Ox Nche, is involved in a legal battle regarding his online store, Ox Kraal.
Recent findings reveal that even simple pricing algorithms can make things more expensive.
Investing in a great surround sound system is the best way to get the movie theater experience at home. Here’s everything you need to know to get started.
Wanatu’s app ratings have deteriorated since early 2025 and it has refused to share any details about its growth one year after launch.
The best espresso makers can turn your kitchen into a café, and help you hone the art of the perfect shot.
OpenAI adjusted ChatGPT’s settings, which left some users spiraling, according to our reporting. Kashmir Hill, who reports on technology and privacy, describes what the company has done about the users’ troubling reports.
In tweaking its chatbot to appeal to more people, OpenAI made it riskier for some of them. Now the company has made its chatbot safer. Will that undermine its quest for growth?
These are our favorite gender-inclusive vibrators, wand massagers, and sleeves to give you and your partner(s) a helping hand.
“Copilot Actions on Windows 11” is currently available in Insider builds (version 26220.7262) as part of Copilot Labs, according to a recent report, “and is off by default, requiring admin access to set it up.” But maybe it’s off for a good reason…besides the fact that it can access any apps installed on your system:In a support document, Microsoft admits that features like Copilot Actions...
Outa has given advice for South African motorists who have received fines for traffic offences they didn’t commit due to criminals cloning their number plates.
A promotional video for Amazon’s Kiro software development system took a unique approach, writes GeekWire. “Instead of product diagrams or keynote slides, a crew from Seattle’s Packrat creative studio used action figures on a miniature set to create a stop-motion sequence…” “Can the software development hero conquer the ‘AI Slop Monster’ to uncover the gleaming, fully functional robot buried...
Eskom recently revealed the worst offenders regarding municipal arrears for bulk electricity purchases.
Arthur Hayes thinks Bitcoin’s latest plunge isn’t about investors losing faith, but rather about the dollar tap being turned off. As liquidity thins, it gets harder to find solid altcoins to buy, and investors need to think very differently. Hayes argues that a sharp contraction in dollar liquidity has dragged BTC down, and he was […]
Markets are bleeding, retail investors are panicking, and yet crypto presales are absolutely booming. Well, not all of them, but banking-focused presales are crushing it in this violent bear market. When majors unwind like this, the smartest way to read the future is to look at how investors are positioning for the coming months—to follow […]
A week ago Bitcoin was at $93,714. Saturday it dropped to $85,300. Late Thursday, market researcher Ed Yardeni blamed some of Thursday’s stock market sell-off on “the ongoing plunge in bitcoin’s price,” reports Fortune:”There has been a strong correlation between it and the price of TQQQ, an ETF that seeks to achieve daily investment results that correspond to three times (3x) the daily...
“PHP 8.5 landed on Thursday with a long-awaited pipe operator and a new standards-compliant URI parser,” reports the Register, “marking one of the scripting language’s more substantial updates… “The pipe operator allows function calls to be chained together, which avoids theextraneous variables and nested statements that might otherwise beinvolved. Pipes tend to make code more readable than...
In a 2023 pitch to investors, a “well-financed, highly credentialed” startup named Stardust aimed for a “gradual temperature reduction demonstration” in 2027, according to a massive new 9,600-word article from Politico. (“Annually dispersing ~1 million tons of sun-reflecting particles,” says one slide. “Equivalent to ~1% extra cloud coverage.”) “Another page told potential investors Stardust...
Meta “is testing a new product that would give Facebook users a personalized daily briefing powered by the company’s generative AI technology” reports the Washington Post. They cite records they’ve reviwed showing that Meta “would analyze Facebook content and external sources to push custom updates to its users.”The company plans to test the product with a small group of Facebook users in...
The chatter left startled adults unsure whether they heard correctly. Testers warned that interactive toys like this one could allow children to stray into inappropriate exchanges.
An anonymous reader shared this report from CNN:The universe’s expansion might not be accelerating but slowing down, a new study suggests. If confirmed, the finding would upend decades of established astronomical assumptions and rewrite our understanding of dark energy, the elusive force that counters the inward pull of gravity in our universe… Last year, a consortium of hundreds of researchers...