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Discovery at Monte Verde puts north-to-south expansion theory back at centre of heated debate on continent’s human history
A groundbreaking new study may have once again upended our understanding of human prehistory in the Americas.
For years, the predominant theory of how humans arrived in the western hemisphere centred around the Clovis culture, which crossed the Beringia land bridge from...
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A day after saying it would shut down its metaverse, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth announced the service will remain available in VR—with limited support.
OpenAI announced it’s acquiring developer tooling startup Astral to strengthen its Codex AI coding assistant, which has over 2 million weekly users and has seen a three-fold increase in user growth since the start of the year. CNBC reports: “Through it all, though, our goal remains the same: to make programming more productive. To build tools that radically change what it feels like to build...
Inspired by real immigrant stories, H1B.Life captures the uncertainty, trade-offs, and pure luck that shape the lives of people trying to build a future in the US.
Eskom board chairman Mteto Nyati says the utility’s new renewables entity is about long-term survival.
OpenAI plans to allow sexting with ChatGPT. A human-AI interaction expert warns of a privacy nightmare.
Walmart has secured patents for systems that use machine learning to forecast demand and automate pricing decisions, “pushing the U.S. retail behemoth into a debate over the use of algorithms to adjust product costs,” reports the Financial Times. From the report: In January Walmart obtained a U.S. patent for a “system and method for dynamically and automatically updating item prices” to carry...
Meta wants creators to “rediscover” Facebook, but a social media expert says viewers will not follow.
Meta announced changes that effectively leave Mr. Zuckerberg’s vision of an immersive digital world based in virtual reality only on life support.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Microsoft is considering legal action against its partner OpenAI and Amazon over a $50 billion deal that could violate its exclusive cloud agreement with the ChatGPT maker, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. Last month, Amazon and OpenAI signed several agreements, including one that makes Amazon Web Services the exclusive third-party...
Moxie Marlinspike says the technology powering his end-to-end encrypted AI chatbot, Confer, will be integrated into Meta AI. The move could help protect the AI conversations of millions of people.
A new homegrown digital platform is looking to transform how South Africans discover and participate in local events, while opening up economic opportunities in townships that have historically been overlooked. Born out of a personal challenge to access information about local events after relocating to Durban, the Kasi2Kasi App was developed to solve a widespread […]
Kilmer’s estate collaborated with the filmmakers to make a digital likeness of the actor, who died of cancer last year.
Cullinan Holdings CIO Ryan Porter shares his top five technology priorities for business leaders in 2026.
The fine includes £450,000 for lack of age checks to prevent children from seeing pornography.
Showmax Originals and select titles will move to DStv Stream, where they will have a dedicated section within the app, says Canal+.
Lightweight shoes now dominate the trails, so do you still need boots? Here’s how to choose the right footwear for your outdoor adventures.
Disney+ and Hulu dropped the official trailer for the highly anticipated “Hannah Montana 20th Anniversary Special.” “Hannah Montana 20th Anniversary Special” will be released on Disney+ and Hulu on Tuesday, 24 March — 20 years to the day that the original series debuted on Disney Channel. “Hannah Montana 20th Anniversary Special” is a love letter to fans, […]
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The probe comes just days after Adobe agreed to pay $150-million to settle a similar US government lawsuit.