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Members of the lab, including the new chief A.I. officer, Alexandr Wang, have talked about abandoning Meta’s most powerful open source A.I. model in favor of developing a closed one.
The deal follows Google’s $2.4 billion investment in Windsurf, an A.I. start-up, as companies race to gain technological talent and provide A.I. tools.
A second court challenge has been launched against Minister Parks Tau’s decision to award the fourth lottery licence to Sizekhaya Holdings. Ithuba Lottery has raised concerns about alleged political connections between Sizekhaya’s shareholders Moses Tembe and Sandile Zungu and the ANC, including reported links to Deputy President Paul Mashatile. Ithuba Lottery also says Sizekhaya Holdings […]
Life Healthcare has completed the sale of its Life Molecular Imaging (LMI) business to US-based Lantheus Holdings. All required conditions for the deal have been met. This follows last year’s sale of Alliance Medical Group, marking another step in Life Healthcare’s plan to focus on healthcare services in Southern Africa. The company will still manufacture […]
In the race to develop artificial intelligence, tech giants are building data centers that guzzle up water. That has led to problems for people who live nearby.
Hackers have accessed personal information of potentially 800,000 customers of Flutter Entertainment.
As Bitcoin’s price goes up once again, here’s a guide to some of the crypto market’s trickiest terms.
Calling all innovators and forward-thinkers! The Empire Partner Foundation (EPF) and TechFinancials (TFS News) are back with an exciting Q&A Competition, offering brilliant minds the chance to showcase bold ideas and win R5,000! This month’s challenge (#Solve4X) focuses on a critical question: “How can AI and technology help South Africa use more renewable energy?” How to Enter &...
Takealot and Pick n Pay are rolling out more convenient Pickup Points in Pick n Pay supermarkets as a growing number of South Africans collect their Takealot orders while doing their grocery shopping. What began with just two pilot locations in 2023 has expanded to 30 Takealot Pickup Points in Pick n Pays across the country. Plans […]
The Chemical Industries Education and Training Authority (CHIETA), in partnership with PG Glass, has launched a new Smart Skills Centre in Gauteng, marking a milestone in the drive to bridge the digital divide and promote inclusive skills development. This latest centre, housed at PG Glass premises, is equipped with advanced digital tools and resources to […]
Ask any team behind a successful business if marketing is an important part of its development, and the answer will undoubtedly be a Yes. At the same time, when we think of the blockchain and crypto industry, where developments happen at the speed of light, the standard approach to marketing doesn’t seem to apply. Conventional […]
Over the coming months, the planet will be in retrograde motion, and will also appear brighter as it draws closer
The moon will help us track down Saturn, the sixth planet in the solar system, this week. Currently residing in the constellation of Pisces, the fishes, Saturn is gradually building in brightness as the Earth’s orbit is carrying the two planets closer together. This year, the...
Hollingside lane, Durham: Pleated inkcaps may live for a day but here we’ve been watching other fungi, such as dryad’s saddle, grow since spring
There were none here yesterday, and by the end of tomorrow they’ll have deliquesced and disappeared, but for now the neatly mown grass under our feet was studded with 2in-tall parasol inkcaps (Parasola plicatilis). They looked like an invasion of tiny...
The conduits, which are spooled in big stacks on a boat before being buried in an underwater trench, are a crucial part of the grid as demand for electricity increases.
Research papers found carrying hidden white text giving instructions not to highlight negatives as concern grows over use of large language models for peer review
Academics are reportedly hiding prompts in preprint papers for artificial intelligence tools, encouraging them to give positive reviews.
Nikkei reported on 1 July it had reviewed research papers from 14 academic institutions in eight...
Ripples in space-time from collision recorded by gravitational wave detector forces a rethink of how the objects form
Scientists have detected ripples in space-time from the violent collision of two massive black holes that spiralled into one another far beyond the distant edge of the Milky Way.
The black holes, each more than 100 times the mass of the sun, began circling each other long ago...
Finalists for 2025 will be exhibited at Hobart’s Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery from 6 to 31 August as part of the Beaker Street festival and will include the first-ever image of a wild eastern quoll glowing under UV light
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Do you scream when you stub your toe? Could you play a grand final with a shattered jaw, or work all day as your belly fills with blood? When it comes to suffering, perspective is everything
Some say it was John Sattler’s own fault. The lead-up to the 1970 rugby league grand final had been tense; the team he led, the South Sydney Rabbitohs, had lost the 1969 final. Here was an opportunity for...
Michael Kirk Moore accused of distributing at least 1,937 false vaccination cards and administering saline to children
The US Department of Justice dropped charges on Saturday against Michael Kirk Moore, the Utah doctor accused of destroying more than $28,000 worth of government-provided Covid-19 vaccines and administering saline to children instead of the shot.
Pam Bondi, the US attorney...
Mainstream mockery of AI-generated rat with giant penis in one paper brings problem to public attention
It was, at first glance, just another scientific paper, one of the millions published every year, and destined to receive little to no attention outside the arcane field of biological signalling in stem cells destined to become sperm.
But soon after the paper was published online, in the...
Previously, the only way to reduce levels of Pfas was by bloodletting or a drug with unpleasant side effects
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Certain kinds of gut microbes absorb toxic Pfas “forever chemicals” and help expel them from the body via feces, new first-of-its-kind University of Cambridge research shows.
The findings are welcome news as the only options that exist for...