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X is only allowing “verified” users to create images with Grok. Experts say it represents the “monetization of abuse”—and anyone can still generate images on Grok’s app and website.
Abstract of a paper on NBER: We construct an international panel data set comprising three distinct yet plausible measures of government indebtedness: the debt-to-GDP, the interest-to-GDP, and the debt-to-equity ratios. Our analysis reveals that these measures yield differing conclusions about recent trends in government indebtedness. While the debt-to-GDP ratio has reached historically high...
Eric and Wendy Schmidt are backing a start-up-like approach to building a giant space telescope and powerful ground observatories.
Results of research offer hope to older women – but it will be several years at least before technique is approved
Human eggs ‘rejuvenated’ in an advance that could boost IVF success rates
It is a rollercoaster of emotional extremes that will be familiar to many who have gone through IVF treatment: hope and joy turns to despair and back again. This is especially true for women over 35, the age...
Late Thursday, Mr. Musk’s chatbot, Grok, limited requests for A.I.-generated images on X to paid subscribers of the social media site amid an outcry from victims and regulators.
The world’s oceans absorbed yet another record-breaking amount of heat in 2025, continuing an almost unbroken streak of annual records since the start of the millennium and fueling increasingly extreme weather events around the globe. More than 90% of the heat trapped by humanity’s carbon emissions ends up in the oceans, making ocean heat content one of the clearest indicators of the climate...
DALLAS, Dec. 30, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Cango Inc. (NYSE: CANG) (“Cango” or the “Company”), a leading Bitcoin miner leveraging its global operations to develop an integrated energy and AI compute platform, announced that Enduring Wealth Capital Limited (“EWCL”) increased its investment in the Company with a US$10.5 million commitment. EWCL will subscribe for additional Class […]
Capitec co-founder and South African billionaire Michiel le Roux says he could never have foreseen the success the bank has had.
Physical AI dominated CES this week, yet questions persist over affordability, usefulness and mass market demand.
MyBroadband found that it was possible to get through to a human customer support agent on all the mobile networks in around 2 minutes.
The National Consumer Commission has issued a recall for 372 Volvo EX30 vehicles in South Africa due to a potential battery fault. The recall affects certain 2024-2026 EX30 models sold in Gauteng from December 29, 2025. According to Volvo, the high-voltage battery in these cars may, in rare cases, overheat when charged above a certain […]
“This is a story about how a tool can be used to try to affect politics and in particular to minimize women, denigrate them and push them out of the conversation.”
Alabama passed a 10 percent porn tax last year, as Utah and Pennsylvania eye similar bills. Half the country has enacted age-verification laws to prevent minors from viewing porn.
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What the latest tech-marketing buzzword has to say about the future of automotive.
This negative-oxygen-ion-generating purifier claims to create a “forestlike atmosphere” in your bedroom.
Umalusi CEO Mafu Rakometsi has warned that the learners involved in the 2025 matric exam leak could face severe consequences.
Johannesburg – A selected group of 50 South African students is travelling to study e-commerce in China. The graduates selected from 21 Technical, Vocational and Education Training (TVET) colleges will receive training in e-commerce and global exposure in international retail standards and trade trends. The students will depart from OR Tambo International Airport on Monday, […]
We’ve already geoengineered the planet through the careless release of greenhouse gases. Now we need a plan to manage the risks we’ve set in motion
A few months ago, Marjorie Taylor Greene, then a Georgia representative, held a hearing on her bill to ban research on “geoengineering”, which refers to technological climate interventions, such as using reflective particles to reflect away...
Aurora Therapeutics, cofounded by Nobel Prize–winning scientist Jennifer Doudna, plans to use gene editing and a new FDA regulatory pathway to commercialize treatments for rare diseases.
MyBroadband recently found that Cell C allows WASPs to send USSD-based pop-up advertisements to customers on its network.
alternative_right shares a report from ScienceAlert: At the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST), physicists successfully exceeded what is known as the Greenwald limit, a practical density boundary beyond which plasmas tend to violently destabilize, often damaging reactor components. For a long time, the Greenwald limit was accepted as a given and incorporated into fusion...