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Chiefs don’t need any new players — Petersen

Today at 05:00 AM, via SowetanLIVE

Kaizer Chiefs skipper Brandon Petersen sees no problem with Amakhosi not buying any players so far in the January transfer window and insists the players they have are capable of carrying the team for the remainder of the season.

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MTN Foundation Donates Digital Devices to Support DBE Back-to-School Campaign

Yesterday at 21:49 PM, via iAfrica

MTN South Africa, through the MTN SA Foundation, has renewed its support for education by donating digital learning devices to selected schools nationwide as part of the Department of Basic Education’s Back-to-School Campaign. The initiative, launched at the start of the 2026 academic year, is aimed at improving access to digital learning tools, particularly for […]

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OpenAI to Test Ads in ChatGPT for Free, Go Users in U.S.

Yesterday at 21:47 PM, via iAfrica

OpenAI will begin testing limited advertising in ChatGPT for users in the United States, expanding its revenue strategy while keeping access free for some customers. In a blog post published Friday, OpenAI said ads will roll out to its free tier and its Go tier. Go accounts, priced at $8 a month, were introduced globally […]

Science/Tech

EHT Astronomers Will Film Swirling of a Supermassive Black Hole for the First Time

Today at 05:05 AM, via Slashdot

“Astronomers are preparing to capture a movie of a supermassive black hole in action for the first time,” reports the Guardian:The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) will track the colossal black hole at the heart of the Messier 87 galaxy throughout March and April with the aim of capturing footage of the swirling disc that traces out the edge of the event horizon, the point beyond which no light or...

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Porsche Sold More Electrified Cars in Europe Last Year than Pure Gas-Powered Models

Today at 03:04 AM, via Slashdot

Porsche made an announcement Friday. In Europe they sold more electrified Porsches last year than pure combustion-engined models, reports Electrek:in Europe, a majority (57.9%) of Porsche’s deliveries were plug-ins, with 1/3 of its European sales being fully electric. For models that have no fully electric version but do have a PHEV (Cayenne and Panamera), the plug-in hybrid version dominated...

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Young US College Graduates Suddenly Aren’t Finding Jobs Faster Than Non-College Graduates

Today at 02:04 AM, via Slashdot

U.S. college graduates “have historically found jobs more quickly than people with only a high school degree,” writes Bloomberg. “But that advantage is becoming a thing of the past, according to new research from the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.””Recently, the job-finding rate for young college-educated workers has declined to be roughly in line with the rate for young...

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SpaceX Launches New NASA Telescope to Help JWST Study Exoplanets

Today at 00:29 AM, via Slashdot

Last week a University of Arizona astronomy professor “watched anxiously…as an awe-inspiring SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried NASA’s new exoplanet telescope, Pandora, into orbit.” In 2018 NASA had approached Daniel Apai to help build the telescope, which he says will “shatter a barrier — to understand and remove a source of noise in the data — that limits our ability to study small exoplanets...