
Numsa digs in as Eskom wage pact splits unions
NUM and Solidarity have accepted Eskom’s 7% three-year pay offer, but Numsa has declared a deadlock and is demanding more.
MONDAY, 04 MAY 2026, 13:24

NUM and Solidarity have accepted Eskom’s 7% three-year pay offer, but Numsa has declared a deadlock and is demanding more.

Intel today unveiled its new Intel Core™ Series 3 mobile processors, bringing advanced performance, exceptional battery life, and AI-ready to value buyers, commercial and essential edge devices. Purpose-engineered for value, Intel Core Series 3 is built on the proven foundations of Intel Core Ultra Series 3 (code-name Panther Lake) and manufactured on the Intel 18A […]

Spartans.com is now the 14th largest crypto casino in the world while still in beta. That is not just a milestone; it is a serious market signal. The obvious question is whether this is pure luck, perfect timing, or genius planning? The facts point to a much bigger picture. Spartans is part of Nexus International, […]
Concerned about the slow pace and high cost of weapons production, Pentagon officials have begun talks with General Motors and Ford Motor about producing certain parts.

Montgomery, Alabama – Happy Horse has surged to the top of the Artificial Analysis Video Arena — the trusted blind human-vote Elo leaderboard — in pure visual quality. While other models focus primarily on motion control and audio synchronization, Happy Horse 1.0 prioritizes what truly makes videos feel premium: hyper-realistic textures, film-grade lighting, rich color grading, […]

My friend and colleague Chris Walton, who has died aged 69 of brain cancer, was a biologist and lecturer at Cranfield University, Bedfordshire. He had a passion for getting things to work in the real world; consequently he was widely regarded by his colleagues as an honorary engineer.
Chris studied volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in matrices including breath, sweat, blood, urine and faeces,...

Warren Mande will replace Grant Fraser, who is emigrating to Australia after three-and-a-half years at Netstar.

Scientists suggest red hair and fair skin were favoured for vitamin D efficiency in study focused on whether human evolution plateaued after advent of agriculture
People with red hair who have put up with teasing or “fiery” stereotypes may be pleased to learn that they appear to be winners from an evolutionary perspective. A large genetics study has revealed that, in Europe, the gene for...

The leaked information includes client names, ID numbers, contact details, account numbers and some credit card details.

For his project ‘De Oförtrutna’ (The Relentless), photographer Christer Björkman pictured Swedish scientists working in the spirit of Carl Linnaeus, the botanist who created the modern taxonomic system that classifies organisms based on appearance. Each scientist brought to the shoot a book and an item of importance to their work
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Regulated clients in financial services and government drove TrendAI’s decision to host its platform in South Africa.

Direct marketers must scrub their databases monthly against a national opt-out registry under rules now in force.

Google’s Personal Intelligence is rolling out first to paying Gemini subscribers, with free users to follow.

TrendAI has enhanced its South African data centre and is planning further deployments across the African continent.

Madeleine Finlay sits down with co-host and science editor Ian Sample to discuss three eye-catching stories from the week, including a review into the effectiveness of a new class of Alzheimer’s drug that was once hailed as a game-changer in slowing the progress of the disease. Also on the agenda is the news that the world could be heading for a ‘super El Niño’ this summer and a study...

Informal migration, plus climate change and rising numbers of cases globally, are complicating the tireless efforts of the landlocked African country to eradicate the killer disease
The freezer is filled with blue-lidded tubes of cows’ blood, ready to be defrosted and used to feed the colony of mosquitoes. “Also, you can use your arm,” says Nombuso Princess Bhembe, who tends the...
After selling its business for $39 million last month, the company said it planned to buy powerful computer chips and rebrand itself NewBird AI.

Data assessed from 17 clinical trials of anti-amyloid drugs found no ‘meaningful effect’ on cognitive decline
Drugs that have been hailed as a gamechanger for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease make no noticeable difference to patients, according to an extensive review.
The analysis of clinical trials in people with mild cognitive impairment or mild dementia found that the effects of...
Doug Field, a former Tesla and Apple executive, had returned to Ford Motor in 2021 to help develop new electric models and software.
The company, which owns the social media app Snapchat, said it was laying off about 1,000 employees as it increased its reliance on artificial intelligence.

Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas
The critical Atlantic current system appears significantly more likely to collapse than previously thought after new research found that climate models predicting the biggest slowdown are the most realistic. Scientists called the new finding “very concerning” as a collapse would...