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Bitcoin Hyper Presale Surges as Traders Bet on Bitcoin Layer-2 Growth — Next 1000x Crypto Contender?

02 December at 15:30 PM, via Tech Financials

Bitcoin’s Layer-2 expansion narrative is turning into one of the strongest market drivers of late 2025. Activity across scaling ecosystems has increased sharply as users and developers migrate toward faster and cheaper infrastructure without leaving the Bitcoin security layer. Transaction roll ups, smart contract sidechains, and Lightning based settlement layers are beginning to form an […]

AI For Africa: Huawei’s Push For Real-World Digital Transformation

02 December at 13:34 PM, via Tech Financials

HERMANUS, CAPE TOWN – The conversation around Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Africa is rapidly shifting from “if” to “how.” While the potential is universally acknowledged, the path to tangible, scalable, and locally relevant implementation remains the critical challenge. At the SATNAC 2025 conference, the focus was squarely on this practical execution, with industry leaders outlining […]

How Trump’s on-again, off-again Nasa appointee emerged from a political black hole

02 December at 13:00 PM, via The Guardian

Trump’s renomination of billionaire astronaut Jared Isaacman is a tale of politics, ambition and vanity

It used to be that once your star had fallen in Donald Trump’s orbit, it was destined never to rise again. Any number of discarded former allies stretching back to Trump’s first term of office could testify as much.

One who has emerged from a political black hole to return to the...

Standard Bank slashes PayShap fees

02 December at 12:45 PM, via TechCentral

Standard Bank now has the second-lowest PayShap fees in the country behind TymeBank, where they remain free.

Life Invisible: the fight against superbugs starts in the driest place on Earth

02 December at 12:38 PM, via The Guardian

Cristina Dorador is on an urgent mission in the world’s highest desert, the Atacama in Chile. As the rise of drug-resistant superbugs kills millions per year, Cristina has made it her mission to uncover new, life-saving antibiotics in the stunning salt flats she has studied since she was 14. Against the magnificent backdrop of endless plains, microscopic discoveries lead her team of...

The private school cost trap

02 December at 11:16 AM, via TechCentral

Parents are paying premium fees for education models that can’t match what online home schooling delivers.

Samsung goes trifold while Apple folds its arms

02 December at 10:55 AM, via TechCentral

Samsung’s unveiling of its first trifold smartphone marks another escalation in the foldables arms race – and another moment where Apple is conspicuously absent.

Tuesday briefing: What’s next for the resurgent space race?

02 December at 08:40 AM, via The Guardian

In today’s newsletter: As suppliers get ready to meet policy makers and space agencies at the industry’s largest gathering, a look at the exploration and exploitation of space

Good morning. This week Glasgow hosts one of the UK’s largest ever gatherings of the space industry at Space-Comm. With representatives of Nasa, the UK and Scottish governments and the UK space agency among 2,000 space...

Shells found in Spain could be among oldest known musical instruments

02 December at 07:00 AM, via The Guardian

Conch-shell trumpets discovered in Neolithic settlements and mines in Catalonia make tone similar to french horn, says lead researcher

As a child, Miquel López García was fascinated by the conch shell, kept in the bathroom, that his father’s family in the southern Spanish region of Almería had blown to warn their fellow villagers of rising rivers and approaching flood waters.

The hours he spent...

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