Crypto firm accidentally sends R700-billion in bitcoin to its users
Bithumb accidentally gave away $44-billion worth of bitcoin to customers as promotional rewards.
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Bitcoin Traders Seek Deeper Perp Liquidity As On-Chain Volumes Hit New Highs
After two years of complete dominance, it finally seems like the crypto industry is ready to move on from meme coins and the meme coin meta. Whether or not this divorce is voluntary is a different matter entirely, of course. From all indications, the split is merely down to economic reasons following the events of […]
Best Wireless Earbuds (2026): Apple, Sony, Bose, and More
Ready to cut the cord? These are our favorite buds that will never, ever get tangled.
Brookhaven Lab Shuts Down Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC)
2001: “Brookhaven Labs has produced for the first time collisions of gold nuclei at a center of mass energy of 200GeV/nucleon.” 2002: “There may be a new type of matter according to researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory.” 2010: The hottest man-made temperatures ever achived were a record 4 trillion degree plasma experiment at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York… anointed the...
AI chatbots are coming to Apple CarPlay
Apple is reportedly preparing to allow voice-controlled AI apps from other companies in CarPlay.
4 Best AI Notetakers (2026), Tested and Reviewed
A growing collection of pocket-sized gadgets lets you record your meetings and extract value from them. Here are our favorites.
The Shoes and Brooms Transforming Curling at the 2026 Winter Olympics
Halfway between chess and bocce, curling is experiencing an evolution thanks to technology. From brooms to stones to footwear, here’s everything you need to know about the game’s gadgets.
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I Have Fallen in Love With Open Earbuds (and You Should Too)
From jogging and cycling to multi-tasking or puttering around the house, open earbuds are an excellent way to jam out in the real world.
Best Vacuum Cleaner (2026): Cordless Vacuums, Robot Vacuums, Dysons
Looking for all our top recommended vacuums? Here are our favorites in every style we’ve tested, from stick vacs to robot vacuums.
Top South African investment manager warns about AI “bubble”
In an interview with Business Times, Ntseare said that there has been “big talk” that investment in AI solutions was mimicking a “bit of a bubble.”
For $4,550, Would You Buy a Single Premium Watch or a Swarm of Affordable Ones?
You could go all in on one pricey, luxe watch or assemble a collection of lower-budget timepieces. Let’s crunch the numbers.
These A.I. Dreamers Don’t Fit the Stereotype
Young tech entrepreneurs in San Francisco are hoping to cash in, even as they wonder how artificial intelligence will affect society.
Have We Been Thinking About Exercise Wrong for Half a Century?
“After a half-century asking us to exercise more, doctors and physiologists say we have been thinking about it wrong,” writes Washington Post columnist Michael J. Coren. “U.S. and World Health Organization guidelines no longer specify a minimum duration of moderate or vigorous aerobic activity.”Movement-tracking studies show even tiny, regular bursts of effort — as short as 30 seconds — can...
Volkswagen South Africa boss sounds alarm over Chinese and Indian car import taxes
Volkswagen agrees with BMW that increasing import duties on cars will only create more problems for the local vehicle industry.
The Rise of Virtual Items: How Digital Assets Became Valuable
Virtual items existed as temporary extra features which developers created to provide visual effects for characters and to deliver short-term entertainment. Presently these items serve as the main component of a digital economy that keeps expanding. Players from different genres and platforms devote their resources and emotions to digital items which only exist in virtual […]
Eskom threats to people with solar panels in South Africa
An energy sector veteran has advised South African households to ignore Eskom’s pressure to register their residential solar power systems.
Are Big Tech’s Nuclear Construction Deals a Tipping Point for Small Modular Reactors?
Fortune reports on “a watershed moment” in American’s nuclear power industry:In January, Meta partnered with Gates’ TerraPower and Sam Altman-backed Oklo to develop about 4 gigawatts of combined SMR projects — enough to power almost 3 million homes — for “clean, reliable energy” both for Meta’s planned Prometheus AI mega campus in Ohio and beyond. Analysts see Meta as the start of more Big...
A New Era for Security? Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 Found 500 High-Severity Vulnerabilities
Axios reports:Anthropic’s latest AI model has found more than 500 previously unknown high-severity security flaws in open-source libraries with little to no prompting, the company shared first with Axios. Why it matters: The advancement signals an inflection point for how AI tools can help cyber defenders, even as AI is also making attacks more dangerous… Anthropic debuted Claude Opus 4.6, the...
The World’s First Sodium-Ion Battery in Commercial EVs – Great at Low Temperatures
Long-time Slashdot reader Geoffrey.landis shared this report from InsideEVs:Chinese battery giant CATL and automaker Changan Automobile are preparing to put the world’s first passenger car powered by sodium-ion batteries on public roads by mid-2026. And if the launch is successful, it could usher in an era where electric vehicles present less of a fire risk and can better handle extreme...
Is the ‘Death of Reading’ Narrative Wrong?
Has the rise of hyper-addictive digital technologies really shattered our attention spans and driven books out of our culture? Maybe not, argues social psychologist Adam Mastroianni (author of the Substack Experimental History):As a psychologist, I used to study claims like these for a living, so I know that the mind is primed to believe narratives of decline. We have a much lower standard of...
Washington Post C.E.O. Will Lewis Steps Down After Stormy Tenure
Mr. Lewis will be replaced in the interim by Jeff D’Onofrio, formerly the chief financial officer, the company said.