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Kimberley – Ekapa Minerals Joint Shaft Mine in Kimberley, Northern Cape, has suspended operations and intensified search and rescue operations for five missing miners. The mine workers went missing earlier this week when a mudslide hit the mine and trapped them underground. RELATED: Ekapa Mine Mudslide: 5 Miners Remain Trapped, NUM Calls For Urgent Rescue – […]
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down on Friday President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs that he pursued under a law meant for use in national emergencies, rejecting one of his most contentious assertions of his authority in a ruling with major implications for the global economy. From a report: The justices, in a 6-3 ruling authored by conservative Chief Justice John Roberts, upheld a lower...
An anonymous reader shares a report: Amazon’s cloud unit has suffered at least two outages due to errors involving its own AI tools [non-paywalled source], leading some employees to raise doubts about the US tech giant’s push to roll out these coding assistants. Amazon Web Services experienced a 13-hour interruption to one system used by its customers in mid-December after engineers allowed its...
Rising service expectations demand connected workflows, AI support and fewer departmental handoffs.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: In early 2024, the agency that oversees cybersecurity for much of the US government issued a rare emergency order — disconnect your Connect Secure virtual private network software immediately. Chinese spies had hacked the code and infiltrated nearly two dozen organizations. The directive applied to all civilian federal agencies, but given the...
Epilogue’s adorable GB Operator plug-in gizmo is a must-have for collectors of retro Nintendo Game Boy games.
Rand Mutual Assurance (RMA), South Africa’s leading social insurer, has officially launched its flagship STEAM Project at Botlhabelo High School in Brits, in the North West province, marking a major investment in South Africa’s future skills pipeline. The initiative, funded by RMA in partnership with the Insurance Sector Education and Training Authority (INSETA), the North […]
The FMF has warned the proposed 20% online gambling tax could undermine provinces and fuel illegal offshore betting.
The Boldr Kelvin heater looks cool and promises energy savings and far-infrared heat. Too bad it also heats backward.
Huawei’s developer competition brings diverse innovators together to create practical solutions using cloud-powered technologies.
This would be an unprecedented escalation against a U.S. company.
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Whether you’re hiking, climbing, or backpacking, here’s how to use base layers, mid layers, and a shell to be comfortable no matter what nature throws at you.
Massive data centers for generative AI are bad for the Earth. How about launching them into orbit?
Gen Z didn’t break the internet – but TechCentral’s newest editorial intern wonders whether it’s time to fix it.
Inside Dewar’s cavernous whisky warehouses, man’s best mechanical friend—a Boston Dynamics robot dog with an ethanol sensor for a nose—is on the hunt for leaky barrels.
These edibles made from functional fungi are not your childhood Flintstone vitamins.
Minister Solly Malatsi to take action after an investigation found alleged overspending by the .ZA Domain Name Authority’s boss, and recommended disciplinary action.
Axelspace Corporation (“Axelspace”), a leading developer and operator of microsatellites dedicated to realizing its vision of “Space within Your Reach,” announced that, for the purpose of carrying out the Ministry of Defense’s satellite constellation project, it has entered into a contract with Tri-Sat Constellation Co., Ltd. and Mitsui Bussan Aerospace Co., Ltd. for acquisition of...
Presearch’s “Doppelgänger” is trying to help people discover adult creators rather than use nonconsensual deepfakes.
But the head of the US delegation at the AI Impact Summit in Delhi says: “We totally reject global governance of AI.”
Prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket are booming, and so is a fight among regulators, lawmakers, and advocates over their legality.