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Business

Huge swing for the rand

Today at 08:32 AM, via BusinessTech

The rand has taken a sharp turn as markets celebrated a two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran, averting potential disaster in the Middle East—for now.

Lifestyle

[Watch] Checkers Sixty60 drivers in fist fight

Yesterday at 21:34 PM, via The South African

From speeding to sparring: Watch these Checkers Sixty60 drivers come to blows with each other on the pavement of a busy road…

Science/Tech

Planet Labs Tests AI-Powered Object Detection On Satellite

Today at 09:00 AM, via Slashdot

BrianFagioli writes: Artificial intelligence has now run directly on a satellite in orbit. A spacecraft about 500km above Earth captured an image of an airport and then immediately ran an onboard AI model to detect airplanes in the photo. Instead of acting like a simple camera in space that sends raw data back to Earth for later analysis, the satellite performed the computation itself while...

Health

How Psychedelics Affect the Brain

Yesterday at 22:45 PM, via New York Times

An analysis of hundreds of images from several studies shows how hallucinogenic drugs drive activity in various regions of the brain.