
Samsung close to AI-search deal
Samsung is nearing a wide-ranging deal to invest in Perplexity AI.
SATURDAY, 07 JUNE 2025, 05:12
Samsung is nearing a wide-ranging deal to invest in Perplexity AI.
In today’s fast-paced and ever-evolving industrial landscape, manufacturers face mounting pressure to adapt, innovate, and compete in the digital era.
We’re about to see a new chapter in the attention economy that fuelled the internet.
30 bank branches in South Africa currently support Home Affairs smart ID and passport applications.
At this time of year in the northern hemisphere, just after the sun sets, these mysterious clouds can appear in the west
It’s time to watch for the beautiful cloud formations known as noctilucent clouds. Latin for “night shining”, noctilucent clouds are seasonal and become visible in the northern hemisphere from late spring/early summer.
Although unpredictable, when they do appear they will be...
An anonymous reader shared this report from The Hacker News:Two information disclosure flaws have been identified in apport and systemd-coredump, the core dump handlers in Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Fedora, according to the Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU). Tracked as CVE-2025-5054 and CVE-2025-4598, both vulnerabilities are race condition bugs that could enable a local attacker to...
“The Doctor is dead. Long live the Doctor!” writes Space.com. (Spoilers ahead…)”The era of Ncuti Gatwa’s Fifteenth Doctor came to a surprise end on Saturday night, as the Time Lord regenerated at the end of “Doctor Who” season 2 finale… [T]he Doctor gradually realises that not everything is back to normal. Poppy, his daughter with Belinda Chandra in the “Wish World” fantasy, has been erased...
An anonymous reader shared this report from Space.com:Three world travelers, two Space Camp alums and an aerospace executive whose last name aptly matched their shared adventure traveled into space and back Saturday, becoming the latest six people to fly with Blue Origin, the spaceflight company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos. Mark Rocket joined Jaime Alemán, Jesse Williams, Paul Jeris,...
Stack Overflow remains in the midst of big changes to counter an AI-fueled drop in engagement. So “We’re wondering what kind of online communities Stack Overflow users continue to support in the age of AI,” writes their senior analyst, “and whether AI is becoming a closer companion than ever before.” For their 15th year of their annual reader survey, this means “we’re not just collecting data;...
Several of the SABC’s former crown jewels have turned into albatrosses around the broadcaster’s neck, while one TV channel and two radio stations are doing the heavy lifting.
Every television deserves a row of speakers to call its own. These are our favorite soundbars.
While a test was quickly developed, weaknesses in the early pandemic response included no plan for nationwide testing and ineffective contact tracing
The Covid inquiry has spent the past three weeks on the UK’s attempts to control the pandemic through test, trace and isolation. Here we look at the key findings from the module and experts’ recommendations for future pandemic preparedness.
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Get your pictures off your phone and in front of your loved ones with these WIRED-tested digital picture frames.
With winter approaching, experts advise that South Africans with solar panels should consider stress testing their energy systems.
Eero mesh systems are popular and easy to use, but the product lineup is confusing. Here’s how to choose the right one for your home.
AI may soon be able decode whalespeak, among other forms of communication – but what nature has to say may not be a surprise
Charles Darwin suggested that humans learned to speak by mimicking birdsong: our ancestors’ first words may have been a kind of interspecies exchange. Perhaps it won’t be long before we join the conversation once again.
The race to translate what animals are saying is...
If you’re in pursuit of your next PR, the durable Nice Rocc palm-cooling device can lower your core body temperature fast.
First clear evidence that structured exercise regime reduces risk of dying by a third, can stop tumours coming back or a new cancer developing
‘Now I do weight training’: how exercise helped one patient stay free of cancer
Exercise can reduce the risk of cancer patients dying by a third, stop tumours coming back and is even more effective than drugs, according to the results of a landmark trial...
If conversations are slow to load and Gmail’s search seems sluggish, you can speed things up by tweaking some settings and doing some routine maintenance.
Rose Yu has drawn on the principles of fluid dynamics to improve deep learning systems that predict traffic, model the climate, and stabilize drones during flight.
Mulilo Energy has a former Eskom veteran as its chairman.