Lawyer says ‘difficult to understand’ rules on storage consent led to confusion and left clients ‘in limbo’

A group of more than 15 fertility patients are taking legal action to prevent their frozen embryos being destroyed as a result of administrative errors that could deny them a chance to have children.

The group, which includes people with cancer and fertility problems, froze gametes or...

Researchers find the longest-living mammal is particularly good at fixing faulty DNA – and cold water may help

With a maximum lifespan of more than 200 years, the bowhead whale lives longer than any other mammal. But how the 80-tonne beasts survive so long has never been fully explained.

Now scientists have found hints of an answer and are drawing up plans to see whether the same biological...

Nvidia made history on Wednesday, powered by a stunning rally that has cemented its place at the centre of the AI boom.

A.J. Jacobs went 48 hours without interacting with artificial intelligence. That meant more than just avoiding generative A.I. tools like ChatGPT – he did his best to not interact with any products that used any kind of machine-learning algorithms in their production, marketing or distribution. This was more limiting than expected; Jacobs needed to find ways around using electricity, running...

A new digital infrastructure tracker being developed by public works will give live insight into project performance and risks.

South Africa’s payments system is at a crossroads – adapt through collaboration and inclusion, or risk being left behind.

Videos about personality science are going viral on social media, but beware of giving them credence …

In the 1950s, a secretary in a San Francisco medical office noticed something weird: some of the chairs in the waiting room needed to be reupholstered more frequently than others. Patients with coronary disease, she realised, nearly always arrived on time and gravitated towards hard...

iOCO is pursuing out-of-court settlements with the former senior executives it sued over alleged governance failures.

Study finds lapses of attention in sleep-deprived people coincide with wave of fluid flowing out of the brain

It’s never a great look. The morning meeting is in full swing but thanks to a late night out your brain switches off at the precise moment a question comes your way.

Such momentary lapses in attention are a common problem for the sleep deprived, but what happens in the brain in these...

Young people are eschewing medical trials, to their own detriment. Maybe my tales of pills, tubes and paydays can inspire a generation

Gen Z has a reputation for being “boring”. Not only do they reportedly prefer going to the gym than the pub, and staying at home and going to bed at 9pm rather than going clubbing, now they are refusing to sign up for medical trials. Back (way back) when I...

China’s largest car maker, BYD, has announced it will launch the Sealion 5 plug-in hybrid electric vehicle in South Africa.

In South Africa’s fast-growing software industry, redPanda Software proves focus beats scale and hype.

Vodacom Business’s new advisory board bridges industry and innovation for purposeful digital transformation.

US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he will speak to Chinese President Xi Jinping about Nvidia’s state-of-the-art Blackwell AI chips at their expected meeting on Thursday. Sales of the US firm’s high-end AI chips to China have been a key sticking point in protracted trade talks between the world’s two largest economies this year. […]

The online betting boom has sparked alarm as vulnerable South Africans gamble away their social grants.

Nvidia has agreed to pay $1-billion for a stake of 2.9% in Nokia as part of a deal focused on AI and data centres.