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Science/Tech

The Boardroom Challenge: Governing AI, Data And Digital

Yesterday at 09:21 AM, via Tech Financials

South African companies face a quiet revolution in technology governance. King V, the country’s latest corporate governance framework, builds on King IV by aligning governance expectations more closely with law, sustainability priorities and the demands of a digital economy. Beyond compliance, it champions sustainability through integrated ESG and Ubuntu approaches, encouraging leaders to...

Bank of England ‘Must Plan For a Financial Crisis Triggered By Aliens’

Yesterday at 09:00 AM, via Slashdot

A former Bank of England analyst has urged contingency planning for a potential financial shock if the U.S. government were to confirm the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence. The argument is that “ontological shock” alone could destabilize confidence and trigger crisis dynamics. The Independent reports: [Helen McCaw, who served as a senior analyst in financial security at the UK’s...

Aurora australis set to light up Australian sky as agencies monitor ‘severe solar storm’

Yesterday at 08:40 AM, via The Guardian

The spectacular aurora australis, also known as the southern lights, may be visible as far north as Victoria and New South Wales

A ‘severe’ solar storm, which is being monitored by the National Emergency Management Agency, could make auroras visible in Australia as well as cause disruptions to the power grid. Here’s what you need to know about the solar storm.

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Facebook under fire over illegal gambling ads

Yesterday at 08:16 AM, via MyBroadband

Meta Platforms is turning a blind eye to illegal gambling sites that advertise on Facebook and Instagram, according to the UK’s Gambling Commission.

Cartesian Capital Expands Investor Toolkits With JSE Listings

Yesterday at 08:10 AM, via Tech Financials

Today, Cartesian Capital, a boutique South African asset management firm, has announced the listing of an Actively Managed Exchange Traded Fund (AMETF) and an Actively Managed Certificate (AMC)on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), offering wealth managers, financial planners and retail investors access to flexible, outcome-driven building blocks designed for today’s evolving portfolio...

Extreme solar storm hits South Africa

Yesterday at 07:57 AM, via MyBroadband

The South African National Space Agency space weather centre reports that a G5/Extreme geomagnetic storm hit the country at around 02:00 local time on 20 January 2026.

R220 petrol price joy in South Africa

Yesterday at 07:06 AM, via MyBroadband

South Africa’s petrol prices reached as high as R25.68 per litre in 2023. Here’s how much less motorists are paying to fill their tanks in January 2026.

Is your body really full of microplastics? – podcast

Yesterday at 07:00 AM, via The Guardian

Studies detecting microplastics throughout human bodies have made for alarming reading in recent years. But last week, the Guardian’s environment editor, Damian Carrington, reported on major doubts among a group of scientists about how some of this research has been conducted.

Damian tells Ian Sample how he first heard about the concerns, why the scientists think the discoveries are probably...

The truth about health patches: can they really treat stress, spots and lost libido?

Yesterday at 07:00 AM, via The Guardian

For three weeks, I wore stickers on my skin supposed to address all sorts of conditions. Are they a panacea, problem or performance?

This morning, I woke up feeling a little groggy. My go-to remedy is usually a coffee and cold-water face plunge, followed by a compulsive phone scroll. But today called for something more, so I unpeeled a small, yellow “energy” patch the size of a walnut,...

The Fastest Human Spaceflight Mission In History Crawls Closer To Liftoff

Yesterday at 05:30 AM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Preparations for the first human spaceflight to the Moon in more than 50 years took a big step forward this weekend with the rollout of the Artemis II rocket to its launch pad. The rocket reached a top speed of just 1 mph on the four-mile, 12-hour journey from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space...

The World’s Longest-Running Lab Experiment Is Almost 100 Years Old

Yesterday at 04:30 AM, via Slashdot

alternative_right shares a report from ScienceAlert: It all started in 1927, when physicist Thomas Parnell at the University of Queensland in Australia filled a closed funnel with the world’s thickest known fluid: pitch, a derivative of tar that was once used to seal ships against the seas. Three years later, in 1930, Parnell cut the funnel’s stem, like a ribbon at an event, heralding the start...

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