
Woza Rides: the car-pooling app hoping to be the Uber of SA intercity travel
South Africa has a new entrant in long-distance ride-sharing – and its founder is barely out of his teens.
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South Africa has a new entrant in long-distance ride-sharing – and its founder is barely out of his teens.

BTC is puking aggressively, and investors are switching to risk off. Compounding bearish sentiment is the fact that equities are starting to roll over. BlackRock’s IBIT posted a record one-day outflow of about $463 million, finishing a week where crypto-related products bled roughly $2 billion—one of the largest weekly withdrawals since February. Institutions are clearly […]

As the Cop30 climate talks continue in Brazil, Madeleine Finlay hears about a landscape at the opposite end of the planet facing the direct impacts of the climate crisis. The Guardian reporter Leyland Cecco recounts a recent trip to Qikiqtaruk (also known as Herschel Island) off the coast of Canada’s Yukon territory, where he saw first hand how indigenous groups and scientists are reckoning...

Local smartphone brand Mobicel launched roughly 18 years ago and still sees consistent month-to-month growth.

Hisense, a leading brand in global consumer electronics and home appliances, has officially launched the Hisense TriChroma Laser TV L9Q, redefining home entertainment with superior brightness, immersive sound, and space-efficient design.

Cloudbet, the pioneering crypto sportsbook and casino founded in 2013, today announced the launch of Cloudbet Academy, a fully open-access educational platform that allows anyone to earn real wagering rewards—risk-free bet credits, USDT, and free spins—simply by completing short, interactive courses and passing brief quizzes. No account, email, or deposit is required to begin learning […]
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: When Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, unveiled the company’s Superintelligence Lab in June, he named 11 artificial intelligence researchers who were joining his ambitious effort to build a machine more powerful than the human brain. All 11 were immigrants educated in other countries. Seven were born in China, according to a...

The draft order, obtained by WIRED, instructs the US Justice Department to sue states that pass laws regulating AI.
Longtime Slashdot reader ukoda shares a report from the Associated Press: China is replacing its diesel trucks with electric models faster than expected, potentially reshaping global fuel demand and the future of heavy transport. In 2020, nearly all new trucks in China ran on diesel. By the first half of 2025, battery-powered trucks accounted for 22% of new heavy truck sales, up from 9.2% in...
A Tokyo court ruled that Cloudflare is liable for aiding manga piracy after failing to act on infringement notices and continuing to cache and serve content for major piracy sites, awarding about $3.2 million in damages. TorrentFreak says the decision sets a significant precedent in Japan, suggesting CDN providers can face direct liability when they don’t verify customers or respond adequately...

Record sales, a strong financial forecast, and CEO Jensen Huang’s impassioned arguments on his company’s earnings call weren’t enough to push Nvidia shares back to their October high.

The interstellar visitor, known as 3I/Atlas, will be seen just in this instance, never to come back again
Nasa releases close-up pictures on Wednesday of the interstellar comet that’s making a quick one-and-done tour of the solar system.
Discovered over the summer, the comet known as 3I/Atlas is only the third confirmed object to visit our corner of the cosmos from another star. It zipped...
Adobe is buying Semrush for $1.9 billion in a move to supercharge its AI-driven marketing stack. Reuters reports: Semrush designs and develops AI software that helps companies with search engine optimization, social media and digital advertising. The acquisition, expected to close in the first half of next year, would allow Adobe to help marketers better understand how their brands are viewed...

Molecular profiles will give detailed snapshot of person’s physiology and predict diseases from diabetes to cancer and dementia
The world’s largest study into key substances in the bloodstream has paved the way for a swathe of pinprick tests that can detect early signs of disease more than a decade before symptoms appear, researchers say.
Work on the tests follows the completion of a project by...

Study calls for depression treatment to be suspended for more research after reports of heart problems and emotional blunting
Electroconvulsive therapy could be causing a wider range of adverse effects when used to treat depression than previously understood, according to a paper that calls for the practice to be suspended pending more robust research.
Although short- and long-term memory loss...

After weeks of silence, NASA has officially dismissed speculation that 3I/ATLAS has anything to do with aliens.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: This year’s newest iPhones included one momentous change that marked a new phase in the evolution of Apple Silicon: the Apple N1, Apple’s first in-house chip made to handle local wireless connections. The N1 supports Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and the Thread smart home communication protocol, and it replaces the third-party wireless chips...
Dr. LeCun’s departure follows a shake-up in Meta’s artificial intelligence efforts, as Mark Zuckerberg pushes his company to keep up in the tech race.

DeepMind’s chief says he envisions Gemini as an operating system for physical robots. The company has hired Aaron Saunders to help make that a reality.

Brisk It’s Zelos-450 boasts gimmicky generative AI. However, it’s a stellar piece of hardware, especially at this price.
pbahra writes: Saudi Arabia is betting that the future of Hollywood won’t be built in physical stages but in datacenters. In a push to anchor itself in next-generation film production, Riyadh-based Humain has led Luma AI’s latest Series C round, backing the shift towards cloud-based, AI-generated video rather than traditional studio infrastructure.. Humain’s announcement says the new investment...