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AI may help us cure countless diseases – and usher in a new golden age of medicine | Samuel Hume
AlphaFold, which uses AI to find a protein’s structure, has only been around since 2020 but has already had a meteoric impact
AlphaFold might be the most exciting scientific innovation of this century. From Google DeepMind, and first reported in 2020, it uses artificial intelligence to figure out a protein’s 3D structure. The technology has already been used to solve fundamental questions in...
Trump’s 25% tariff sparks big concern for SA’s car makers
Tensions between South Africa and the US continue to rise, with Agoa set to expire later this year.
New Capitec CEO announced
Capitec CEO Gerrie Fourie is retiring in July after 25 years in leadership positions at the bank.
Trump’s Tariffs Leave Automakers With Tough, Expensive Choices
Carmakers are likely to face higher costs regardless of how they respond to President Trump’s 25 percent tariffs on cars and auto parts.
Unlocking Africa’s data potential: Google Cloud’s analytics and AI advantage
Google Cloud’s comprehensive suite of data and analytics tools is emerging as a clear leader.
TCS | How South Africa’s Milkor became a global player in drone innovation
A company with its headquarters in Pretoria has designed and built a giant, advanced drone that can attain speeds of 250km/h.
Telkom earnings to jump on Swiftnet sale
Telkom’s basic earnings per share will leap by at least 300% on the successful sale of its masts and towers business.
Why the weasel testicles? Cambridge show explains medieval medicine
Exhibition aims to help visitors get inside the minds that thought mercury and roasted apples would cure lice
Medieval treatments might make you question the sanity of the doctors of the day, but a new exhibition is set to take visitors inside the minds of such medics and reveal the method behind what can seem like madness.
Curious Cures, opening on Saturday at Cambridge University Library, is...
Huawei is (almost) back to its former glory
China’s Huawei Technologies is expected to claim triumph over US sanctions at its upcoming annual results.
CoreWeave Scales Back Ambition for Its I.P.O.
The company, which originally expected its shares to be priced between $47 and $55, will ask for $40 a share in a sign of stock market uncertainty.
ChatGPT’s Studio Ghibli Style Animations Are Almost Too Good
An update to ChatGPT made it easy to simulate Hayao Miyazaki’s style of animation, which has flooded social media with memes.
The Guardian view on Trump and reality: from promoting alternative facts to erasing truths | Editorial
The decision to put documents on the assassination of John F Kennedy into the public domain comes alongside a ‘digital book burning’ of data
What does the public need to know? The Trump White House boasts of being the most transparent administration in history – though commentators have suggested that the inadvertent leak of military plans to a journalist may have happened because senior...
News24 Business | MTN successfully trials satellite-to-phone call in the North West
MTN just tested a new technology in the small agricultural town of Vryburg that could soon bring big improvements to communication in rural areas.
Gloucestershire company wins prize for inventing way to produce clean water on moon
Naicker Scientific wins £150,000 for device that produces drinking water from icy lunar soil
A £150,000 prize for a device that can produce clean water from icy lunar soil has been won by a pair of inventors whose solution involves a microwave oven, a motorised device for feeding woodchips into a barbecue and sound waves.
The £1.2m Aqualunar Challenge, funded by the UK Space Agency’s...
Democrats Fired from F.T.C. Sue President Trump Over Dismissals
Rebecca Kelly Slaughter and Alvaro Bedoya, who were fired from the agency this month, accused President Trump in a lawsuit of executive overreach.
MTN claims first satellite direct-to-mobile call in South Africa
LEO satellites promise to ramp up rural connectivity, but they could also threaten mobile operators.
Facebook Returns to Its Roots: Showing Posts From Friends and Family
A new Friends Tab will feature posts from a user’s friends and relatives, which was the original mission of the app.
Facebook’s New Friends Tab Brings App Back to Its Roots
A new Friends Tab will feature posts from a user’s friends and relatives, which was the original mission of the app.
Trump Auto Tariffs: How Major Car Brands Would Be Affected
The scale of the damage depends on the circumstances of each company’s supply chain.
In my family, introvert-extrovert pairings are common. But I had to get to 36 to learn which one applied to me | Jessie Cole
Now I understand the terminology, it all seems so clear
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I never identified as shy as a child because my younger brother was the type of kid who wouldn’t speak in the company of strangers, and I – apparently – never stopped talking. Shyness was comparative, and, in my family of origin, there was always someone shyer than me.
I didn’t notice my shyness until I split with...