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When Chinese quant hedge fund founder Liang Wenfeng went into AI research, he took 10,000 Nvidia chips and assembled a team of young, ambitious talent. Two years later, DeepSeek exploded on the scene.
Eskom’s electricity generation costs have more than doubled over the past decade, leading to significantly higher electricity prices for South Africans.
Sassa is making progress against fraud, but there are likely many fraudulent grant applications made years ago that still receive money.
CERN’s particle accelerator is being used in a pioneering cancer treatment called Flash radiotherapy. This method delivers ultra-high radiation doses in less than a second, minimizes side effects while targeting tumors more effectively than conventional radiotherapy. The BBC reports: In a series of vast underground caverns on the outskirts of Geneva, Switzerland, experiments are taking place...
The move may take advantage of volatility in the social media industry, given X’s issues and questions about TikTok’s future, an analyst said.
Apple has charged a decades-long veteran with the responsibility of whipping its struggling AI technology into shape.
The SABC is facing a deep financial crisis, but solutions to save the business have been met with widespread controversy.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: A U.S. auto safety agency said on Friday it is reconsidering a landmark rule from the administration of former President Joe Biden requiring nearly all new cars and trucks by 2029 to have advanced automatic emergency braking systems. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said it would delay the effective date to March 20 to give the...
As spotted by Tom’s Hardware, Nvidia’s CUDA 12.8 release notes signal the transition of Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta GPUs to the legacy driver branch. As a result, there will be no more new feature updates for these architectures; however, CUDA and gaming driver support will remain for now. From the report: It’s crucial to highlight that this has nothing to do with GeForce gaming driver support....
Several potential US buyers have expressed interest in purchasing the social media platform.
High cholesterol is considered 240 mg/dL. The man’s was over 1,000 mg/dL.
The Travel and Tourism sector’s essential contribution to shaping the global landscape was underscored at the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting in Davos this week with His Excellency Ahmed A. Al-Khateeb, Saudi Arabia Minister of Tourism, urging world leaders to provide the industry with the focus and collaborative solutions it deserves.
Researchers say study may help global efforts in controlling disease that still destroys crops today
It was a disaster that killed about 1 million people, devastating 19th century Ireland, but while the potato disease linked to the Irish famine is well known, a battle has raged over where it originated.
Scientists have long been divided over whether the fungus-like pathogen Phtytophthora...
The federal law banning TikTok has revealed a major schism among American tech companies: Some are willing to flout the law — and some, including Apple and Google, are not.
Australia’s internet regulator said X was the only major tech platform which refused its request.
This diagnosis is a label given to survivors of abuse and should not be used with children, writes Keir Harding. Plus a parent writes of how medical professionals abandoned their son
Scout Tzofiya Bolton painfully illustrates the neglect and brutality that can arise once mental health difficulties are understood as a “disordered personality” (Nobody could help me with my psychosis. Then I...
As The Traitors final airs, Prof Richard Wiseman – a psychologist and magician – says telling a good lie is ‘very difficult’
As The Traitors final airs on BBC on Friday, in which the Faithfuls battle to expose the Traitors to win a cash prize, we spoke to an expert in the psychology of deception about how to lie.
Richard Wiseman, a professor of the public understanding of psychology at the...
People in their 60s are living longer today than in previous generations. We asked experts how they can best prepare
The percentage of people 65 or older has rapidly increased over the last 100 years. This group grew about five times faster than the total population between 1920 and 2020.
Baby boomers, who started turning 65 in 2011, are primarily behind this growth spurt. The sixtysomethings...
Eskom’s relentless execution of the Generation Recovery Plan has achieved a monumental milestone: 303 consecutive days without loadshedding since 26 March 2024. This Sunday, 26 January, marks 10 full months of uninterrupted power supply, a testament to the utility’s progress in its turnaround strategy. In addition to this remarkable achievement, Eskom has saved R16.40 billion in diesel...
Vodacom has notified contract customers that their monthly fees will increase from 1 March 2025. To soften the blow, subscribers will get some extra data every month.
A former USDS employee called the repurposing of the Digital Service into DOGE an “A+ bureaucratic jiu-jitsu move.” It will give Musk and his associates access to unclassified data in every government agency.