SUNDAY, 22 FEBRUARY 2026, 13:12
My father, Desmond McConnell, who has died aged 95, made a great contribution to mineralogy, inspiring scientists around the world.
At Cambridge University in the 1960s and 70s, with the excellent X-ray diffraction facilities in the Mineralogy Department, he developed work first published by his crystallographer colleagues, Peter Gay and Mike Bown, on the incommensurate behaviour (ie falling...
Workplace grievances that once fit in a single email are now ballooning into 30-page documents stuffed with irrelevant historical detail, made-up legal precedents, and citations to laws from the wrong country — and UK employment lawyers say generative AI is the likely culprit. Anna Bond, legal director at Lewis Silkin, says the complaints she now sees sometimes cite Canadian legislation or...
A SpaceX Falcon 9 crashed to Earth last year. Now scientists have measured the pollution it caused.
The company warns of a sharp earnings per share decline after recognising a R5.2 billion loss linked to Cell C’s listing.
Phison CEO Pua Khein-Seng, whose company is one of the leading makers of controller chips for SSDs and other flash memory devices, admitted in a televised interview that the ongoing global RAM shortage could force companies to cut back their product lines in the second half of 2026 — and that some may not survive at all if they cannot secure enough memory. The interview, conducted in Chinese by...
The state’s attorney general said in a lawsuit filed on Thursday that the company declined to use tools that recognize the material stored on iCloud.
An anonymous reader shares a report: Amazon has officially dethroned Walmart as the biggest global company by revenue, a milestone attesting to the massive scale the e-commerce and cloud-computing giant has achieved since its humble beginnings in 1994 as an online bookseller in Jeff Bezos’ Seattle-area garage. Walmart, which had been the largest company by revenue for more than a decade, on...
The Structural Shift in Energy Markets Energy markets are undergoing a fundamental transformation. The rapid growth of AI data centers, industrial electrification, and renewables penetration has placed mounting pressure on power grids that were never designed for this level of complexity. Electricity demand growth is no longer linear or predictable, and the consequences for price […]
The SA Venture Capital and Private Equity Association confirms Anusha Naidu as its new CEO, effective 1 March.
We sifted through the fine print to figure out how to score the best deal on all the major carriers in 2026
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Financial Post: In 2024, the Ethiopian government banned the import of fossil fuel-powered vehicles and slashed tariffs on their electric equivalents. It was a policy driven less by the country’s climate ambitions and more by fiscal pressures. For years, subsidizing gasoline for consumers has been a major drag on Ethiopia’s budget, costing the state...
The Gear team spends countless hours in front of displays while writing for you. So we reviewed those too (including a portable screen).
Blu Label has warned it will absorb a R5.2-billion hit related to Cell C as it finally draws the line under a long-running saga.
Shopping for a phone can be an ordeal. That’s why we’ve tested almost every Android phone, from the smartest to the cheapest—even phones that fold—to find the ones worth your money.
South African astronomers have detected the most distant and powerful natural radio laser ever observed.
There’s little reason to pay top dollar for a smartphone. These iPhones and Android devices—ranging from $100 to $600—stood up to WIRED’s testing.
As Trump slashes science funding, young researchers flee abroad. Without solid innovation, the US could cease to have the largest biomedical ecosystem in the world
In April 2025, less than three months after Donald Trump returned to the White House, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) put out its latest public health alert on so-called “superbugs”, strains of...
Lifting weights can keep you carrying groceries and riding bikes even as you get older. Here’s our guide to a simple home setup.
Gay men have long been rumored to run Silicon Valley. WIRED investigates.
Recruitment activity for IT professionals rebounded in the final quarter of 2025, despite persistent skills gaps in specialised IT roles.
South Africa’s IT channel warns of rising PC prices and shipment delays as global hardware shortages and supply pressures intensify.