5 Best Rain Jackets (2024): Cheap, Eco-Friendly, Hiking, and Running
When it rains, it pours. Here are our picks for cold, wet days—plus expert tips on deciphering product specs.
MONDAY, 06 MAY 2024, 11:49
When it rains, it pours. Here are our picks for cold, wet days—plus expert tips on deciphering product specs.
Outabox, an Australian firm that scanned faces for bars and clubs, suffered a breach that shows the problems with giving companies your biometric data.
Alphabet paid Apple $20 billion in 2022 for Google to be the default search engine in the Safari browser, according to newly unsealed court documents in the Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit against Google. From a report: The deal between the two tech giants is at the heart of the landmark case, in which antitrust enforcers allege Google has illegally monopolized the market for online...
Get your pictures off your phone and in front of your friends and family with these connected displays.
Sumatran ape applied sap and leaves to open cut after suspected fight with another male, say scientists
The high intelligence levels of orangutans has long been understood, partly due to their practical skills such as using tools to crack nuts and forage for insects. But new research suggests the primate has another handy skill in its repertoire: applying medicinal herbs.
Researchers say they...
Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications giant blacklisted by the US, is secretly funding cutting-edge research at American universities including Harvard through an independent Washington-based foundation. From a report: Huawei is the sole funder of a research competition that has awarded millions of dollars since its inception in 2022 and attracted hundreds of proposals from scientists around...
From the Move to the Beam, we’ve tested nearly every speaker from the venerable brand. We like them all—but here are the best picks to fit your lifestyle.
The electricity minister said Eskom’s EAF figure of 65.5% validates the viability of its fleet and “signifies the most efficient path to ending load shedding”.
The country has been pumping billions of rands into state-owned enterprises like Eskom, Denel, and SAA with almost nothing to show for it.
We’ve spent time with most of the available apps for making music on iPad, and this loop station, DAW, and sampler combo is the best free (and paid) app around.
Joshua Dean, a former quality auditor at Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems and one of the first whistleblowers to allege Spirit leadership had ignored manufacturing defects on the 737 MAX, died Tuesday morning after a struggle with a sudden, fast-spreading infection. Seattle Times: Known as Josh, Dean lived in Wichita, Kan., where Spirit is based. He was 45, had been in good health and was...
Here is one first-hand experience of what it is like to renew your passport via a Home Affairs branch in a bank.
Le Wand’s vibrator is an elegant reimagining of a sex-tech classic that can vibrate your jeans right off.
Elon Musk’s Starlink service is still operating in multiple unauthorised regions, including South Africa.
Scientists are forecasting 11 North Atlantic hurricanes this year, five of them being major. Here’s what’s turning the storms into increasingly dangerous behemoths.
When emoji and Memoji can’t fully capture your emotions, Stickers will do the trick.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Microsoft said on Thursday it will invest $2.2 billion over the next four years in Malaysia to expand cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) services in the company’s latest push to promote its generative AI technology in Asia. The investment, the largest in Microsoft’s 32-year history in Malaysia, will include building cloud and AI...
Mobile game apps had been rapidly evolving in the past few years and it has created a plethora of conveniences and most of this growth could easily be attributed to technological advancements. The ease of which effective communication could be done can almost be taken for granted and no one could have predicted it during […]
Although Ellies Holdings has been suspended from trading on the JSE, the group’s underlying businesses could yet be saved.
Registry Africa has renewed its Registry Operator Agreement with ICANN for ten years, ensuring it will continue to administer the .africa domain name moving forward.
This ultralight 14-inch laptop costs less than $1,000 and is a good option for students, if you can ignore the quirks.