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Tech/Sci
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Apple Just Released The Next Generation Of iPads
08 May 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
At its ‘Let Loose’ event on Tuesday, Apple couldn’t help gushing over how cool their new tablet line is.
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Another Canister Of Radioactive Material Found At Local Scrapyard
08 May 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
The scene has been made safe and the radioactive material secured.
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Western Cape Users Warned To Update Their Pre-Paid Electricity Meters To Avoid “Load-Shedding On Steroids”
08 May 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Failure to complete the reset will leave residents unable to buy electricity and municipalities unable to generate revenue from the sale of prepaid electricity or water.
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Scientists Have Identified A ‘Six Degrees Of Kevin Bacon’ Gene
07 May 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
The degrees of separation is a real-world thing.
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Amazon South Africa Is Now Live
07 May 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
With little fanfare, Amazon South Africa has gone live.
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A ‘Mutated’ Indonesian Tribe Has Genetically Adapted To Being Underwater [Video]
06 May 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
The Bajau people can dive repeatedly for eight hours a day, spending about 60% of their time underwater.
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Da Vinci Surgical Robots Have Performed More Than 600 Surgeries At Groote Schuur And Tygerberg Hospital
06 May 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Since the da Vinci machines are used for advanced diseases that are difficult to remove without a large incision and extended theatre hours, they have had an immense impact on patients and the health system.
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Second Boeing Whistleblower Dead In Two Months [Video]
03 May 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Dean was among the first whistleblowers to accuse Spirit AeroSystems leadership of ignoring defects on the 737 MAX.
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New 6G Wireless Tech Is Set To Be 500 Times Faster Than Average 5G
02 May 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
We’re looking at being able to stream eight or nine Netflix films every single second. That’s moer fast.
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With No Rudders Or Flaps, This Bonkers New X-Plane Uses Holes In Its Wings To Hit Mach Speeds
30 Apr 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
It sounds like sci-fi, but it’s just the latest mad offering from the US government’s long-running experimental X-Plane series.
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Elon Musk Is Snuffing Out Starlink Internet In South Africa
29 Apr 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
The Elon-Musk-owned company is not going to hook South Africans up with super fast internet anymore because they didn’t want to share ownership with locals per the government’s requirements.
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Miss AI: The World’s First Beauty Pageant For AI-Generated Women
26 Apr 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Interesting experiment on how we define beauty, or toxic example of how unrealistic beauty standards have become?
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China’s Futuristic Public Toilets Analyses Urine To Measure Your Health
25 Apr 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
For only R52 a pee, you can now have your urine analysed for any potential health issues at one of China’s new futuristic public urinals.
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New OLED iPads Will Be The Focus At Apple’s “Special” Event In May
24 Apr 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
The event will mark the end of the longest wait for new iPad models since Apple first introduced them into the product category.
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Austrian Company Wants To Build Submersible Superyachts That Can Stay Underwater For A Month
24 Apr 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
A Bond villain’s wet dream.
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South Africa’s New Remote Gambling Bill Aims to Make Online Betting Less Harmful
24 Apr 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
The Democratic Alliance (DA) is introducing the new Remote Gambling Bill (B-11-2024), aiming to set out the first regulations for remote gambling in the country.
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Cool Video Clip Shows The Engineering Genius Of The Panama Canal
23 Apr 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
The Panama Canal is perhaps one of the biggest engineering projects ever constructed and one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World.
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The Karoo Telescope That’s Transformed Our Understanding Of The Cosmos
23 Apr 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
As South Africa’s largest scientific infrastructure project of the last 30 years since democracy, MeerKAT has become a beacon of space innovation and opportunity on the African continent.
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Saffas Spend More Time Staring At A Screen Than Any Other Country
23 Apr 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
South Africans continue to lead the world in screen time, with the average local spending 56.80% of their daily waking hours looking at a screen.
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The New AI Paintball-Blasting Home Security Camera Is Quite Happy To Choose Violence [Video]
19 Apr 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Taking ‘enter at your own risk’ to a whole new level, the new AI-powered smart security camera is ready to blast tear gas projectiles at unwanted visitors or in-laws.
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Scientists Say They Have Found New Evidence Of An Unknown Planet In Our Solar System
19 Apr 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
If Earth was the size of a marble, the edge of our solar system would be 11 kilometres away. That’s a lot of space to hide a planet.
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The Sorry State Of Johannesburg’s Water And Sanitation Infrastructure Could Become A Full-Blown Crisis
18 Apr 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
The collapse of the city’s water and sanitation grid appears to be imminent thanks to a lack of funds available to maintain and replace the ever-ageing infrastructure.
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Redditors Catch Giant Antarctica ‘Black Hole’ Weather Anomaly Near Cape Town
17 Apr 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
The massive ‘black hole’ weather anomaly that materialised over Cape Town in the early hours has left many puzzled.
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Siri’s Glow-Up – Apple Could Be Bringing AI To iPhones Soon
16 Apr 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
Apple is widely expected to unveil new AI features for the iPhone this year at its Worldwide Developers Conference on 10 June.
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Uber Teen Launches In South Africa, Allowing 13 To 17-Year-Olds To Hail Rides Monitored By Guardians
16 Apr 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
Putting your child in a stranger’s car is enough to send you down a deep and winding anxiety spiral, but now, at least, you’ll be able to have some semblance of control over what is happening in the car when they’re sent away.
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James Webb Telescope’s Newest Find Suggests We’ve Misunderstood The Universe
16 Apr 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
This might be the only time that a mistake in understanding is considered exciting.
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Incredible Moment Hundreds Of Baby Penguins Jump From Ice Cliff Into Antarctic Ocean For Their First Ever Swim [Video]
16 Apr 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
While scientists have witnessed the spectacular moment before, this is the first time the event was filmed.
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Nigeria’s Creaking Power Grid Collapses After Raising Tariffs For ‘Wealthier Consumers’ By 230%
16 Apr 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
The head of the Nigerian electricity regulator said tariff increases would “end grid collapses and bring investment into the sector”. Sounds familiar.
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A Line Too Far? Saudi Arabia’s ‘The Line’ Cut Short Due To Finances
15 Apr 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
The 170-kilometre-long city of the future, is now expected to only reach 2.4 kilometres by 2030. That’s like reaching for the moon and ending up at the local KFC.
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Sharenting Is One Online Trend The Kids Didn’t Ask For
15 Apr 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
As a society, we’ve always jumped onto trends before really understanding the long-term effects it could have on us.
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