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Six Things You Should Know About South African e-Shoppers

15 March at 09:44 AM, via Tech Financials

The e-commerce sector in South Africa is expanding rapidly, with local revenue predicted to reach the $7.9 billion mark by 2027. In such a fast-paced world of business, it is essential for companies to build a strong digital presence and tap into the growing online marketplace. To thrive in the evolving South African consumer landscape, […]

Does The Current AI Boom Afford Us A Unique Advantage To Leap-Frog Information Access?

15 March at 08:07 AM, via Tech Financials

A major technological transformation is underway, and South Africa is well-positioned to capture its value. The barriers to access are low, and the opportunity is profound.Despite the allure and glimmer of the proverbial gold, businesses are struggling to navigate the complex landscape of AI adoption. Quickly understanding, integrating, and exploiting the opportunities AI presents in […]

Neurological conditions now leading cause of ill-health worldwide, finds study

15 March at 01:30 AM, via The Guardian

Numbers living with or dying from disorders such as stroke rises dramatically to 3.4bn people – 43% of global population

Neurological conditions ranging from migraine to stroke, Parkinson’s disease and dementia, are now the leading cause of ill-health worldwide, causing 11.1 million deaths in 2021, research has revealed.

The number of people living with or dying from disorders of the nervous...

TikTok Is Its Own Worst Enemy

14 March at 21:59 PM, via New York Times

The video-sharing app has received unfair treatment in Washington. But the company’s biggest wounds are self-inflicted.

SpaceX launches third Starship test flight – video

14 March at 16:19 PM, via The Guardian

SpaceX has launched the third test flight of its Starship spacecraft, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built, which aims to carry astronauts to the moon and eventually, to Mars. It took off from SpaceX’s spaceport, named Starbase, on the Gulf of Mexico in Boca Chica, Texas, entering space several minutes later. Two previous attempts ended in the explosion of both the spacecraft’s...

What is SpaceX’s Starship?

14 March at 15:50 PM, via New York Times

Bigger than the Statue of Liberty, the SpaceX vehicle is central to NASA’s plans to get to the moon and Elon Musk’s dreams of the red planet.

SpaceX launches third Starship test flight

14 March at 15:38 PM, via The Guardian

Rocket system enters space several minutes after launch from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas

SpaceX has launched the third test flight of it Starship spacecraft, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built, which aims to carry astronauts to the moon and, eventually, to Mars.

The 120-metre system, which weights about 5,000 metic tonnes when fully fuelled, took off from SpaceX’s spaceport,...

BREAKING: Thabo Bester’s Attempt To Stop Showmax Documentary

14 March at 15:20 PM, via Tech Financials

MultiChoice confirms that the last-minute applications by Thabo Bester and Nandipha Magadumana to stop Showmax from airing the four-part documentary, “Tracking Thabo Bester” will be heard in the Johannesburg High Court on Friday 15 March 2024. That is the same day that the documentary is due to start airing on Showmax. Bester and Dr Magudumana […]

Motsepe’s GoTyme Bank Is Pursuing Acquisition Of A Philippines-Based Payroll Lender

14 March at 12:14 PM, via Tech Financials

Tyme Global, which is owned by Patrice Motsepe,today announced that GoTyme Bank was pursuing the acquisition of a Philippines-based payroll lender so that it can access salaried employees and utilise its low-cost deposit base to drive efficiencies. In October 2022, Motsepe’s Tyme launched GoTyme Bank in the Philippines. In August, GoTyme reached the 1-million customer […]

TikTok Turns to Creators to Fight Possible Ban

14 March at 11:08 AM, via New York Times

Dozens of popular figures on the app have traveled to Washington to urge lawmakers to oppose a bill that could result in the platform being blocked in the United States.

For Gen Z, Facebook Is a Marketplace

14 March at 11:01 AM, via New York Times

For a generation that loves thrift-shopping, Facebook isn’t a place to socialize online — it’s the best place to score some deals.

PayShap Turns One Records Over 2.5 Million ShapID Identifier

14 March at 09:12 AM, via Tech Financials

An increasing number of South Africans are embracing PayShap, South Africa’s first interbank, interoperable, real-time payments service, which experienced strong growth in its first year, in line with the service’s fast-expanding community of participating banks and new users. Promoting instant, convenient, easy and safe payments within the transaction limit of R3 000, BankservAfrica’s...

Melt rate of Greenland ice sheet can predict summer weather in Europe, scientist says

14 March at 08:00 AM, via The Guardian

Location, extent and strength of recent freshwater events suggest an unusually warm and dry summer over southern Europe this year

Long-range weather predictions are notoriously difficult, but a new paper in the journal Weather and Climate Dynamics suggests that the melt rate of the Greenland ice sheet can predict the next summer’s weather in Europe.

The chain of events is complex and other...

Sam Ngumeni Appointed As CEO Of Woolworths Foods

14 March at 07:44 AM, via Tech Financials

Sam Ngumeni has been named the CEO of Woolworths Food, effective from July 1, 2024, succeeding Zyda Rylands, who is set to retire at the end of August 2024. Rylands’ retirement was initially announced on August 3, 2021. Woolworths expressed gratitude to Zyda for her nearly three decades of dedication to the Woolworths Group and […]

A waterworld with a boiling ocean and the end of dark matter? The week in science – podcast

14 March at 07:00 AM, via The Guardian

Ian Sample and science correspondent Hannah Devlin discuss some of the science stories that have made headlines this week, from a new theory challenging the existence of dark matter to an alarming study about the possible impact of microplastics on our health and a glimpse of a ‘waterworld with a boiling ocean’ deep in space

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