The plan is to send postal packages from the UK’s Kirkwall delivery office via drone flight to remote areas. From there, postal workers will embark on their delivery routes as usual.
Trade across the oceans is one of the oldest forms of commerce, so it’s only natural that it would be in need of an AI overhaul. With this in mind, Rolls Royce recently released its view of what autonomous shipping would look like, calling it “the next step.”
Last night the sky was adorned with a ‘Sturgeon Moon’ supermoon, which was visible across the world including South Africa. This is just the beginning: we can expect another one on 30 August to end off the month’s sky-show.
Since 21 July, the pioneering probe has been unable to receive commands or send back data to Nasa’s Deep Space Network – an array of giant radio antennae across the world – and the spacecraft is not receiving commands from ground controllers.
For some, this might give comfort and lessen the paranoia in a seemingly ever-hostile world. For others, it reeks of George Orwell. Both may just have a point.
Thanks are due to Mr Premier for warning Cape Town citizens, but it’s hard to feel optimistic when we’re facing the darkest nights before the dawn.
X let Ye back in. If you’re not up to date with the plethora of name-changes to floundering careers and teetering tech giants, this simply means that Kanye West has been allowed back into the echo chamber that was once called Twitter, but now just marks the spot where jobs were buried.
Among the items found in the dodgy illegal lab were one thousand bioengineered mice, of which about two hundred were dead and the rest carrying an assortment of contagious infections.
Every year, retired cruise ships and bulk carriers are sold to ship-breaking yards in Turkey and India where thousands of workers painstakingly cut up the massive vessels and sell their parts for scrap.
Apparently the goal is to use the iris-scanning devices to create a global financial network in which users’ ‘humanness’ can be verified with one glance.
If you’re a fellow space-geek, the four-part Netflix docuseries Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine should be entering your personal orbit.
You can always rely on the Dutch to come up with clever ideas. Perhaps living below sea level has instilled a respect for the fragility of our species, but they seem to be ahead of the curve when it comes to sustainability.
Scientists have recorded sea temperatures of 37.8°C for two days in a row off the coast of Florida this month, and they are now wondering if this is the hottest seawater ever recorded.
The clip that allegedly features Botha making racist remarks about shoppers at a mall has raised the cackles of Azapo deputy president, Kekeletso Khena, but Botha denies the recording, saying that it is AI-generated.
Have you ever looked at the wonders of the James Webb Space Telescope and thought, ‘I wish I could do that’?
Her thirsty male followers compliment everything about her, including her smile, her dress, the bikini she’s in, and her “wonderful lovely sexy elegant legs”.
The fact that they were braaiing means it’s likely a South African vessel, but with dodgy Russian ships loading and offloading something in the night, and the SA Armed Forces apparently not being able to keep a canteen running, we can be forgiven for being curious.
TikTok for people who can read? Why not. The video streaming app that brought us the bottle-flip says it will offer text-only posts as competition between social media giants heats up.
Laurika Rauch’s favourite beach is predicted to lose close to 112 metres of shoreline by 2100 as climate change begins its slow drowning of worldwide coastal areas.
According to research, the ‘habit replacement strategy’ involves touching skin gently, such as by lightly rubbing fingertips together or rubbing the palm or back of the arm, at least twice a day.
While defence Minister Thandi Modise has admitted that SANDF is becoming ever more unsustainable, defence expert Helmoed Heitman believes the country’s almost nonexistent defence systems are making us vulnerable.
This kind of research will likely result in a lot of fringe benefits, but if we look at the affordability of healthcare for the average guy, we have to wonder who will benefit the most. Does the world really need another two hundred years of Mark Zuckerberg and the Kardashians?
Many South Africans have immigrated to Australia in the last few decades, be it to avoid load shedding, crime, or any of the myriad of issues we are dealing with. Few of them were however prepared for the wildlife freakshow that awaited them down under, something the eager immigration consultants never talk about.
A German report found that a South African Airways flight crew temporarily lost control of an Airbus 340-346 on a commercial flight from Johannesburg to Frankfurt with 259 people on board in 2018.
Everyone is wondering the same thing; could this be Christopher Nolan’s best film so far?
Often, all we do when our broadband is sluggish is switch the router off and on again, move it around, fiddle with the cables, and hope for the best. But have you heard of the famous beer can trick?
Images predicting how 10 popular tourist destinations around the world could be hit by the climate crisis in just a matter of years are haunting and bleak.
Marble floors and light-filled atriums connect over 4,700 office spaces, dining, retail, wellness, and conference facilities. The development also houses 131 elevators and has office space for 65 000 professionals.
This is most likely the best news you’ll hear today, but it turns out that a pizza could be counted as one of the five-a-day fruits and vegetables.
Christopher Nolan has drawn a dramatic comparison between the rapidly developing technology of artificial intelligence and his new movie about the creation of the atomic bomb.