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Business

Silver lining for braai lovers in South Africa

Today at 14:00 PM, via BusinessTech

South Africa’s poultry industry has seen a massive rise in production, while diseases are making a massive mark on the beef and pork industries.

Sport

Rain ends Ireland and Australia’s T20 hopes

Today at 14:07 PM, via BBC News

Ireland and Australia are both eliminated from the T20 World Cup as rain forced the cancellation of the Group B game between the Irish and Zimbabwe.

Education

Nigeria: Leo Stan Ekeh @70, Offers University Tech Scholarship to 1000 Indigent Nigerian Wiz-Kids

Today at 12:51 PM, via AllAfrica

[This Day] Africa’s foremost tech icon and Chairman of Zinox Group, Leo Stan Ekeh, who turns 70 on February 22, this year, has explained why he is not celebrating his 70th birthday with a mega party, preferring to offer University scholarships to additional 1000 Nigerian indigent wiz-kids to study Computer Science in Federal Universities so that the country’s private and public sectors could...

Science/Tech

LLMs mark the real AI tipping point

Today at 13:39 PM, via ITWeb

Language-driven systems represent a structural, irreversible change in how organisations access and apply intelligence, says STM Healthcare’s Vukosi Sambo.

Science/Tech

The Simplest Android App for Scanning Documents

Today at 13:30 PM, via Wired

Most scanning apps try to get you to buy a cloud storage subscription or pay for extras. Not FairScan, which is free and open-source, and has some powerful features.

Health

Vaccine Makers Curtail Research and Cut Jobs

Yesterday at 20:00 PM, via New York Times

Federal policies under Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that are hostile to vaccines have “sent a chill through the entire industry,” one scientist said.