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Sport

Another Springbok suffers serious injury

Today at 08:04 AM, via The South African

The Springboks’ ever-increasing injury list will be starting to become a real cause for concern for coach Rassie Erasmus.

Education

I’m out of a job after issues at the schools I worked for. Is it my fault? | Annalisa Barbieri

Today at 07:00 AM, via The Guardian

It feels as if your work and your identity are fused. You’ll get through this, but you may have to use this time to consider other careers

I’ve been a teacher for more than 20 years and loved it. I had promotions every couple of years and was happily making my way up the ladder. This year, however, I was made redundant because of restructuring and this has thrown me into a feeling of complete...

Education

A federal program has helped Native Hawaiian medical students for 35 years. It’s now being sued for discrimination

Yesterday at 16:00 PM, via The Guardian

Do No Harm, a conservative group, wants the scholarship, which has helped islands’ underserved communities, declared unconstitutional

Doctors and health experts in Hawaii say a decades-old federal program meant to support Native Hawaiians through medical school and better serve some of the islands’ most underserved communities is under attack after a conservative group filed suit.

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Science/Tech

40 Years After the Chernobyl Disaster, More Countries Are Turning To Nuclear Power

Today at 09:34 AM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader shared this report from the Associated Press:The 1986 Chernobyl disaster fueled global fears about nuclear power and slowed its development in Europe and elsewhere. Four decades later, however, there’s a revival around the world, a trend that has been given a big boost by war in the Middle East. Over 400 nuclear reactors are operational in 31 countries, while about 70 more...

Science/Tech

The remarkable turnaround at Intel

Today at 09:30 AM, via TechCentral

Soaring demand for AI inference workloads has seen Intel selling stockpiled CPUs once written off entirely.

Science/Tech

UK departments at odds over energy demands of AI datacentres

Today at 09:00 AM, via The Guardian

Discrepancy in forecasts raises questions over government planning for net zero

One vision of the UK’s future involves a decarbonised economy powered by clean, renewable energy. Another involves making the UK an AI superpower.

The government departments responsible for these two visions do not appear to have agreed on their numbers.

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Science/Tech

The tortoise and the hare: will China beat the US in the race back to the moon?

Today at 08:00 AM, via The Guardian

The rival superpowers are ramping up preparations for a crewed lunar landing nearly six decades after the first moon walk

The world watched earlier this month as Nasa sent four astronauts around the moon – but to actually land on the surface the US is once again in a space race, this time with China. And China may well win.

Both countries plan to build inhabited lunar bases – the first...