FRIDAY, 31 JANUARY 2025, 13:50
Readers reflect on Aida Edemariam’s piece about what can be a fine line between physical symptoms and conditions dismissed as being ‘all in your head’
While enjoying Aida Edemariam’s review of current neuro-psychological research (The mind/body revolution: how the division between ‘mental’ and ‘physical’ illness fails us all, 26 January), I disagree with her assertion that “A...
Elon Musk-owned SpaceX, which operates satellite broadband service Starlink, has warned that Icasa’s current approach to BEE will hold back foreign investment.
Terrorizing classmates, spending a night in jail, tripping on LSD: This isn’t the Bill Gates you know.
Nearly 90% of Oracle Java customers are looking to abandon the software maker’s products following controversial licensing changes made in 2023, according to research firm Dimensional Research. The exodus reflects growing frustration with Oracle’s shift to per-employee pricing for its Java platform, which critics called “predatory” and could increase costs up to five times for the same...
US President Donald Trump has ordered that the body of water be renamed the Gulf of America.
Virtual bank cards may not be susceptible to physical wear and tear but must sometimes play nice with years-old payments systems that demand expiry dates.
Three years after starting a club meant to fight social media’s grip on young people, many original members are holding firm and gaining new converts.
The Authors Guild — one of the largest associations of writers in the US — has launched a new project that allows authors to certify that their book was written by a human, and not generated by artificial intelligence. From a report: The Guild says its “Human Authored” certification aims to make it easier for writers to “distinguish their work in increasingly AI-saturated markets,” and that...
An anonymous reader shares a report: SoftBank is in talks to invest as much as $25 billion into OpenAI [non-paywalled source], in a deal that would make it the ChatGPT maker’s biggest financial backer, as the pair partner on a huge new artificial intelligence infrastructure project. The two companies announced last week they would lead a joint venture that would spend $100 billion on Stargate —...
The Johannesburg Roads Agency’s budget has dwindled over the past seven years and it estimates a cost of R70 million to fix traffic lights in the city.
France’s Mistral AI is facing mounting pressure over its future as an independent European AI champion, as competition intensifies from U.S. tech giants and China’s emerging players. The Paris-based startup, valued at $6.5 billion and backed by Microsoft and Nvidia, has struggled to keep pace with larger rivals despite delivering advanced AI models with a fraction of their resources. The...
The “truth seekers” conference, held at a hotel owned and frequented by President Donald Trump, is being organized by Charlie Ward, an antisemitic conspiracy theorist.
Air traffic controllers asked Flight 5342 to switch runways when coming in to land. Black box recordings from the jet and the military helicopter it collided with will help reveal if this contributed to the accident.
Cedar Money, a payments company that enables seamless cross-border money movement on stablecoins, announced today a $9.9 million seed round led by QED Investors, with participation from North Island Ventures, Wischoff Ventures, Lattice, and Stellar.
Some networks charge more for activating a prepaid eSIM than buying a physical card, which makes little sense considering the former should come at a lower cost.
Eskom’s transmission arm has once again compensated for its other businesses that continue to perform poorly.
Energy regulator Nersa on Thursday granted state-owned power utility Eskom an average tariff increase of 12.7%.
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India’s IT minister on Thursday praised DeepSeek’s progress and said the country will host the Chinese AI lab’s large language models on domestic servers, in a rare opening for Chinese technology in India. From a report: “You have seen what DeepSeek has done — $5.5 million and a very very powerful model,” IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Thursday, responding to criticism New Delhi has...
Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore expected to stay at space station a week but have been there almost eight months
Nasa’s two stuck astronauts took their first spacewalk together Thursday, exiting the International Space Station almost eight months after moving in.
Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore floated out to perform maintenance work and wipe the station’s exterior for evidence of any...
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