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South Africa

KZN places rural development at centre of economic renewal drive

Today at 15:25 PM, via SAnews

KZN places rural development at centre of economic renewal drive

Agriculture and rural development took centre stage in KwaZulu-Natal’s economic agenda as Premier Thamsanqa Ntuli outlined wide-ranging interventions aimed at revitalising rural economies, improving food security and expanding employment opportunities.Delivering the State of the Province Address (SOPA) in...

Education

Liberia: U.S.$ 4 Million Dollar Lawsuit, Board Probe Deepen Crisis Over Law School Dux At University of Liberia

Today at 12:20 PM, via AllAfrica

[FrontPageAfrica] Monrovia — A dispute over academic honors at the University of Liberia has escalated into a legal and institutional standoff, as the announced dux of the Louis Arthur Grimes School of Law has filed a four million United States dollars libel lawsuit against exiled Liberian activist Martin K. N. Kollie, while the University’s Board of Trustees has suspended the official...

Science/Tech

Your Smart TV May Be Crawling the Web for AI

Today at 16:40 PM, via Slashdot

Bright Data, a company that operates one of the world’s largest residential proxy networks, has been running an SDK inside smart TV apps that turns those devices into nodes for web crawling — collecting data used by AI companies, among other clients — and most consumers have had no idea it was happening. The company has published more than 200 first-party apps to LG’s app store alone and still...

Science/Tech

OpenAI Raises $110 Billion in the Largest Private Funding Round Ever

Today at 16:00 PM, via Slashdot

OpenAI has closed what is now the largest private financing in history — a $110 billion round at a $730 billion pre-money valuation that more than doubles the $40 billion raise it completed just a year ago, itself a record for a private tech company at the time. Amazon invested $50 billion, SoftBank put in $30 billion, and Nvidia committed $30 billion, and additional investors are expected to...

Science/Tech

Living with hyperphantasia: ‘I remember the clothes people wore the day we met, the things they said word-for-word’

Today at 16:00 PM, via The Guardian

It’s hard to know what people can see in their own mind’s eye. But for Maddie Thomas there was no doubt: she had especially vivid mental imagery

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I close my eyes and picture a boat making its way towards the mainland. Lit only by moonlight, a silhouette walks towards a post box and mails three letters, one by one. Then, the familiar tune of ABBA’s...

Science/Tech

Memory Price Hikes Will Kill Off Budget PCs and Smartphones, Analyst Warns

Today at 15:00 PM, via Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: Ballooning memory prices are forecast to kill off entry-level PCs, leading to a decline in global shipments this year — and a similar effect is going to hit smartphones. Analyst biz Gartner is projecting a drop in PC shipments of more than 10 percent during 2026, and a decline of around 8 percent for smartphones, all due to the AI-driven...