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Steenhuisen spearheads bid to curb FMD in Ekurhuleni

Today at 06:20 AM, via SowetanLIVE

Agriculture minister John Steenhuisen and Gauteng MEC for agriculture and rural development Vuyiswa Ramokgopa were in Ekurhuleni over the weekend to spearhead continuing efforts to curb the Foot-and- Mouth Disease (FMD).

World

Masked fan unplugs VAR monitor in German match

Today at 02:13 AM, via BBC News

A masked fan unplugged a VAR monitor in a German second division match as the referee was went to the pitchside screen to check a penalty award.

Education

History Makers

Yesterday at 13:55 PM, via New York Times

On this International Women’s Day, we’re writing about a project to unearth stories of remarkable women.

Education

What Does School Choice Really Mean?

Saturday at 14:00 PM, via New York Times

Readers respond to a guest essay that argued that more school vouchers would improve public education.

Lifestyle

Joburg woman rants about water shortages

Yesterday at 22:56 PM, via The South African

A Johannesburg resident has ranted about experiencing daily water shortages in her neighbourhood for over a year…

Entertainment

Welcome to SA’s dry… humour

Today at 06:45 AM, via The Citizen

This airport water shortage was, apparently, not some act of God or an Iranian missile.

Science/Tech

Scientists Just Doubled Our Catalog of Black Hole and Neutron Star Collisions

Today at 06:34 AM, via Slashdot

Colliding black holes were detected through spacetime ripples for the first time in 2015 by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), notes Space.com:Since then, LIGO and its partner gravitational wave detectors Virgo in Italy and KAGRA (Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector) in Japan have detected a multitude of gravitational waves from colliding black holes, merging...

Science/Tech

Judges Find AI Doesn’t Have Human Intelligence in Two New Court Cases

Today at 03:34 AM, via Slashdot

Within the last month two U.S> judges have effectively declared AI bots are not human, writes Los Angeles Times columnist Michael Hiltzik:On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to take up a lawsuit in which artist and computer scientist Stephen Thaler tried to copyright an artwork that he acknowledged had been created by an AI bot of his own invention. That left in place a ruling last year by...

Science/Tech

Could Home-Building Robots Help Fix the Housing Crisis?

Today at 01:49 AM, via Slashdot

CNN reports on a company called Automated Architecture (AUAR) which makes “portable” micro-factories that use a robotic arm to produce wooden framing for houses (the walls, floors and roofs):Co-founder Mollie Claypool says the micro-factories will be able to produce the panels quicker, cheaper and more precisely than a timber framing crew, freeing up carpenters to focus on the construction of...

Science/Tech

Recreational drugs can more than double risk of stroke, study suggests

Today at 01:01 AM, via The Guardian

Medical data from 100m people shows risk 122% higher for amphetamine users, 96% higher for cocaine and 37% higher for cannabis

Recreational drugs can more than double the risk of stroke, with some of the most concerning impacts seen among younger people, a major review suggests.

Scientists analysed medical data from more than 100 million people and found that the risk of stroke was 122% higher...