Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan told employees this week that the company has fallen out of the “top 10 semiconductor companies” and that it’s “too late” to catch up with Nvidia in AI training technology. The remarks came as Intel began laying off thousands of workers globally, including 529 in Oregon and several hundred others in California, Arizona and Israel. “Twenty, 30 years ago, we are really the...
President appoints his transportation secretary as interim administrator of space agency as it faces crisis amid Trump’s budget cuts
Donald Trump has appointed his transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, as interim administrator of Nasa, six weeks after withdrawing the nomination of Elon Musk ally and billionaire Jared Isaacman for the permanent role.
Alec Hogg launched the Internet publishing company Moneyweb Holdings in the mid-nineties and listed it on the JSE in July 1999 at the height of the Internet boom.
President Cyril Ramaphosa will on Sunday, 13 July 2025, address the nation on developments arising from a public statement by KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner, Lt-Gen Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi, that details allegations against senior political and South African Police Service leadership. President Ramaphosa was attending the BRICS Summit in Brazil on Sunday, 6 July 2025, when General Mkhwanazi...
Researchers have discovered 27 million tonnes of nanoplastics distributed across just the top layer of the temperate to subtropical North Atlantic Ocean, according to a study published in Nature. The team sampled water at three depths across 12 locations during a November 2020 research cruise, finding average concentrations of 18 milligrams per cubic meter of three plastic types: polyethylene...
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: On Sunday, Block CEO and Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey launched an open source chat app called Bitchat, promising to deliver “secure” and “private” messaging without a centralized infrastructure. The app relies on Bluetooth and end-to-end encryption, unlike traditional messaging apps that rely on the internet. By being decentralized, Bitchat...
Liquid AI announced today the launch of its next-generation Liquid Foundation Models (LFM2), which set new records in speed, energy efficiency, and quality in the edge model class.
South Africa’s Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance (BFSI) sectors are on the cusp of a transformation, fueled by the nation’s ambitious digital agenda and the burgeoning potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The Gen AI market is projected to reach $564.2m by the end of 2025. With initiatives like the AI National Plan laying the groundwork, […]
Neuroscientist, author, political activist and advocate for social responsibility in science
Science and politics can make awkward bedfellows, with the very question of whether it is possible to make purely objective observations about the world drawing forth highly politicised positions. The neurobiologist Steven Rose, who has died aged 87, took a broadly reductionist approach to his research...
The brand’s second high-performance EV can hit 160 mph yet aims to be as at home on urban streets as the track. Whether you engage its sci-fi soundscape or artificial combustion cacophony is up to you.