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South Africa Is Making Moves To Become An Important EV Manufacturer In The Future

25 February at 12:10 PM, via Tech Financials

A year ago, South Africa was mired in loadshedding, with the importance and relevance of electric vehicles (EVs) far from the public imagination.  How can a country that struggles to keep the lights on dedicate time and resources to building out an EV future?  Fast forward a year, much has changed.  Power supply has stabilised […]

TFG empowers future data science leaders

25 February at 11:29 AM, via ITWeb

The TFG Data Science and Leadership Fellowship supports students in tackling SA’s pressing social challenges through data science.

‘I know their names, what they eat’: tracking polar bears on Svalbard’s shifting icescapes

25 February at 11:00 AM, via The Guardian

For more than 20 years, scientists have followed the animals in Norway’s Arctic archipelago to understand how they may adapt to changing threats as the ice they depend on melts

When Rolf-Arne Ølberg is hanging out of a helicopter with a gun, he needs to be able to assess from a distance of about 10 metres the sex and approximate weight of the moving animal he is aiming at, as well as how fat...

Clearwater Capital Purchases SnoLink Logistics, Previously Owned By Etlin International

25 February at 10:50 AM, via Tech Financials

Private equity fund manager Clearwater Capital has announced the purchase of Etlin International (Pty) Ltd’s temperature-controlled storage and logistics arm through a business rescue deal. This division, SnoLink Logistics, will continue to serve its existing customer base, which includes several Blue Chip retailers.  “This acquisition reflects South Africa’s evolving supply chain,...

Volvo South Africa Enhances EV Ownership With Free Charging, Home Wallbox & Vodacom Data

25 February at 10:16 AM, via Tech Financials

Volvo Car South Africa  is introducing an exclusive offer to make electric vehicle (EV) ownership more convenient and accessible. As the country’s leading EV brand, Volvo is providing new EV buyers with two years of free public charging, a GridCars wallbox with installation support, and 10 GB of Vodacom data per month for three years. […]

Eskom Lowers Load Shedding To Stage Two

25 February at 09:50 AM, via Tech Financials

Eskom has reduced load shedding from stage four to stage two, following the successful restoration of several power generation units. According to the power utility, this improvement comes after all five units at Majuba, two units at Camden, and one unit at Medupi were brought back online. Over the weekend, eight out of ten generation […]

How Trump unleashed chaos in science – podcast

25 February at 07:00 AM, via The Guardian

In his first month in office the US president has thrown science in the US into chaos, delaying projects and casting the future of research funding and jobs into doubt. To understand everything that has happened in the month since he took office and what its impact could be, Madeleine Finlay hears from science editor Ian Sample and Prof Harold Varmus, a Nobel prize winner and former director of...

Mars may once have had an ocean with sandy beaches, radar data suggests

25 February at 00:13 AM, via The Guardian

China’s Zhurong rover finds evidence resembling shoreline of large ocean that may have existed 3.5bn to 4bn years ago

Mars may once have been home to sandy beaches, new ground-penetrating radar data suggests.

The radar data from China’s Zhurong rover has revealed buried beneath the Martian surface evidence of what look like sandy beaches from the shoreline of a large ocean that may have...

Chance of giant asteroid hitting Earth in 2032 falls to 0.0017%

24 February at 20:16 PM, via The Guardian

Asteroid 2024 Y4 had reached a 3.1% likelihood of impact but further data has rendered it negligible

It was a discovery that lead to panic-inducing headlines: a giant asteroid found to be hurtling towards Earth that, while unlikely to wipe out life, could do some serious damage.

But now the world can breathe a sigh of relief. After the odds of a future collision rose earlier this year, the...

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