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Artemis II makes lunar flyby: day five of Nasa mission – in pictures

Yesterday at 13:16 PM, via The Guardian

Astronauts onboard the Orion spacecraft break the record for the farthest distance humans have travelled from Earth – 5,000 miles (8,000km) beyond the moon – exceeding the distance achieved by the Apollo 13 mission in 1970

Artemis II swings back around after completing record-setting moon flyby

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Sedna Appoints Shawn Nortje And Raymond Mhlongo As Directors

Yesterday at 13:07 PM, via Tech Financials

Industrial connectivity and digital transformation specialist Sedna Africa has strengthened its executive leadership team with the appointment of Shawn Nortje as Operations Director and Raymond Mhlongo as Technical Director, reinforcing the company’s ability to support the growing demand for advanced connectivity solutions across Africa’s mining, logistics, energy and heavy industry...

LinkedIn Faces Spying Allegations Over Browser Extension Scanning

Yesterday at 13:00 PM, via Slashdot

LinkedIn is facing allegations that it quietly scans users’ browsers for installed Chrome extensions. The German group Fairlinked e.V. goes so far as to claim that the site is “running one of the largest corporate espionage operations in modern history.” “The program runs silently, without any visible indicator to the user,” the group says. “It does not ask for consent. It does not disclose...

South Africa’s AI Moment Will Be Shaped By The Strength Of Its Networks

Yesterday at 12:08 PM, via Tech Financials

 Trying to scale AI on outdated digital foundations is like playing Jenga on a wobbly table: early wins stack up quickly, but as ambition grows, every underlying weakness is magnified. South African organisations are reaching this point with AI. Adoption is accelerating, experimentation is widespread, and productivity gains are visible, yet many are trying to […]

Let’s stop going into space. There’s nothing to see and no one to talk to | Zoe Williams

Yesterday at 12:00 PM, via The Guardian

I’ve nothing against astronauts or scientific innovation. But what’s the point of Artemis II?

It is absolutely self-evident to me that space exploration is pointless, and the more urgent the crises besetting this planet we live on, the more pointless it becomes. I can see why people got excited about it in the 1960s, back when the world was young and we still thought there might be little green...

Key moments from the Artemis II lunar flyby – video

Yesterday at 11:55 AM, via The Guardian

The astronauts of Artemis II flew further from Earth than any human beings before them, breaking Apollo 13’s distance record at 1.57pm ET on Monday.

Across a six-hour flyby, on the sixth day of a lunar mission that has reinvigorated Nasa’s space exploration programme, the crew of the Orion spacecraft captured views of the moon’s far side that have never been seen before

Blackouts, broken...

Endeavor SA Closes R230M Harvest Fund III For Growth

Yesterday at 11:10 AM, via Tech Financials

Endeavor South Africa has announced the close of Harvest Fund III at R230 million. This venture fund brings together both entrepreneurs and institutional investors focused on backing and scaling the next generation of high-growth technology businesses across South Africa – and paying their successes forward. Harvest Fund III is a rules-based co-investment fund that invests […]

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