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Cryptic Crossword JDE 525

Today at 18:37 PM, via Mail & Guardian

Welcome to the only South Africanised weekly cryptic crossword.Clue of the week:28 Pain is mostly pang in aorta (6)

Sport

Top Springbok jets off to Japan

Today at 18:16 PM, via The South African

Another leading Springbok has confirmed his “emotional” decision to head overseas in what has been described as a move for family reasons.

Education

Weekend students at 15 universities in England told to return loans and grants

Today at 17:49 PM, via The Guardian

Student Finance England tells about 22,000 students their universities wrongly told them they were eligible

More than 20,000 university students in England who received government maintenance loans and grants worth thousands of pounds have been told they will have to pay them back because their universities wrongly told them they were eligible for the money.

About 22,000 students studying for...

Lifestyle

Grim future predicted for emperor penguins

Today at 15:35 PM, via The South African

The emperor penguin has been declared an endangered species as climate change pushes the icon of Antarctica a step closer to extinction.

Science/Tech

Waymo Is Offering To Help Cities Fix Their Potholes

Today at 19:00 PM, via Slashdot

Waymo is launching a pilot with cities and Google’s Waze to share pothole data collected by its robotaxis, giving local transportation departments a new way to find and fix road damage more quickly. “We realized, hey, once we’re at scale, we can actually share this data with cities, which is something that they’ve asked for and something that we collect at scale,” said Arielle Fleisher, Waymo’s...

Science/Tech

Is space exploration worth the money and effort? | Letters

Today at 18:11 PM, via The Guardian

Readers respond to an article by Zoe Williams in which she argued the space race was pointless

Zoe Williams speaks for many of us when she notes that the US space mission is pointless (Let’s stop going into space. There’s nothing to see and no one to talk to, 7 April). Unfortunately, it is worse than that. With a $100bn budget, the Artemis programme represents a truly spectacular...

Science/Tech

Skilled Older Workers Turn To AI Training To Stay Afloat

Today at 18:00 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian: [Five skilled workers aged 50 and older spoke] to the Guardian about how, after struggling to find work in their fields, they have turned to an emerging and growing category of work: using their expertise to train artificial intelligence models. Known as data annotation, the work involves labeling and evaluating the information used to...

Health

Escaping the manosphere

Yesterday at 19:26 PM, via BBC News

Will Adolphy helps men and boys escape the influence of the online manosphere.