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TFG online sales jump to 15% of total

07 November at 09:47 AM, via TechCentral

The Foschini Group on Friday said online sales neared 15% of total retail sales in the half-year ended 30 September 2025.

Revisited: How to save the Amazon episode three: ask the people that know – podcast

07 November at 07:00 AM, via The Guardian

Global environment editor Jon Watts goes in search of answers to the question the journalist Dom Phillips was investigating when he was murdered: how to save the Amazon?

In the final episode of this three-part series from June 2025, Jon encounters a radical new view of the Amazon’s history being uncovered by archaeologists. Far from an uninhabited wilderness, the rainforest has been shaped by...

Net zero is an insidious loophole that distracts from the scientific imperative to eliminate fossil fuels | Joëlle Gergis

07 November at 01:01 AM, via The Guardian

History tells us that polite incrementalism and political kowtowing will prevail at Cop30 – even as catastrophe unfolds around us

As world leaders gather in Brazil this year for Cop30 – the first Amazonian Cop – it’s worth doing a quick reality check on how we are collectively tracking to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions.

Despite 30 years of UN climate summits, about half of the carbon...

Tesla Investors Back Musk’s Trillion Dollar Payday

06 November at 23:56 PM, via New York Times

Shareholders approved a plan to grant Mr. Musk shares worth nearly $1 trillion if he meets ambitious goals, including vastly expanding the company’s stock market valuation.

OpenAI Races to Quell Concerns Over Its Finances

06 November at 23:16 PM, via New York Times

The A.I. company faced pushback after a top executive raised the idea of government aid, amid concerns that the A.I. industry is headed toward a dangerous bubble.

Canada pushes on with ‘complete depopulation’ plan to cull 400 ostriches

06 November at 21:57 PM, via The Guardian

Country’s top court declines to block controversial cull of hundreds of birds amid fears of an avian flu outbreak

Canada’s food inspection agency says it plans to begin a “complete depopulation” of hundreds of ostriches at a farm after the country’s top court declined to block the controversial cull.

On Thursday, the supreme court said it would not take up a case that has catalyzed a fierce...

Amazon lakes hit ‘unbearable’ hot-tub temperatures amid mass die-offs of pink river dolphins – study

06 November at 21:00 PM, via The Guardian

Droughts and heatwaves causing water in some areas to reach 41C, killing fish and endangered dolphins, say researchers

Amazonian lakes are being transformed into simmering basins hotter than spa baths as severe heatwaves and drought grip the region, research shows.

The temperature of one lake exceeded 40C (104F) as water levels plummeted under intense sunlight and cloudless skies. The extreme...

Are A.I. Therapy Chatbots Safe to Use?

06 November at 18:30 PM, via New York Times

Psychologists and technologists see them as the future of therapy. The Food and Drug Administration is exploring whether to regulate them as medical devices.

Unesco adopts global standards on ‘wild west’ field of neurotechnology

06 November at 18:00 PM, via The Guardian

UN body’s recommendations driven by AI advances and proliferation of consumer-oriented neurotech devices

It is the latest move in a growing international effort to put guardrails around a burgeoning frontier – technologies that harness data from the brain and nervous system.

Unesco has adopted a set of global standards on the ethics of neurotechnology, a field that has been described as “a...

Scientists criticize ‘straw man’ arguments in Bill Gates climate memo

06 November at 15:00 PM, via The Guardian

Tech billionaire relying on ‘false binary’ with call to focus less on emissions and more on aid for poor, experts say

A new memo on the climate crisis from Bill Gates relies on “straw man” arguments about the threat to humanity and “false dichotomies” between spending on climate or aid for the poor, some climate scientists say.

Published last week, the tech billionaire’s 17-page missive...

‘Vibe coding’ beats ‘clanker’ to be Collins dictionary’s word of the year

06 November at 09:51 AM, via The Guardian

AI-inspired word joins ‘biohacking’, ‘Henry’ and ‘broligarchy’ on tech-heavy 2025 list

“Vibe coding”, an emerging software development that turns natural language into computer code using artificial intelligence, has been named Collins dictionary’s word of the year for 2025.

Lexicographers at Collins monitor the 24bn-word Collins Corpus, which draws from a range of media sources, including...

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