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Tech/Sci
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South African Ports Are Showing Improved Shipping Volumes
20 May 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Transnet announced on Friday that its container volumes had risen 10%, while bulk volumes and break-bulk volumes had increased by 5% and 17%, respectively.
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You Could Take A Trip In A Space Elevator Sooner Than You Might Think
20 May 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
The space elevator cable, which will stretch through the Earth’s atmosphere, will carry materials and people using wheeled lifts called “Climber”.
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East Rand Man Finds Billions Worth Of ‘Invisible Gold’ In Jozi’s Mine Dumps
20 May 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
Steve Chingwaru has calculated that approximately 420 tonnes of ‘invisible gold’ – with a value of $24 billion, nogal – is buried in the Witwatersrand’s mine dumps.
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Scientists May Have Finally Figured Out How Egyptians Built The Pyramids
17 May 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Surprisingly, it wasn’t aliens.
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Vatican To Hold Press Conference On ‘Apparitions And Supernatural Phenomena’ Not Aliens
17 May 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
You might have noticed a wave of tabloid headlines spread this week claiming the Vatican would be making an announcement about “aliens”.
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Thanks To Load-Shedding, South Africa Faces Looming Battery Recycling Crisis, Experts Warn
16 May 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
“Little thought has been given to what should happen to these batteries when they reach end of life.”
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Scientists Discover Amazing Use For Leftover Coffee Grounds
16 May 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Every year the world produces a staggering 10 billion kilograms of coffee waste and most of it ends up in landfills.
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Demo Video Of New ChatGPT Will Leave You Speechless – Like Scarlett Johansson From ‘Her’ Talking To You
15 May 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
“The system is uncanny to behold.”
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Saudi Arabia’s Latest OTT Project Envisions A Massive New Marina For Superyachts [Video]
14 May 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
Though its initial plans for the Line seem to have been scaled back – by a lot – Saudi Arabia’s wildly ambitious, and at times impractical, vision to remake the desert country into a tourist paradise is not over.
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Soon We Should Be Able To Grow Teeth Back, Thanks To Science
13 May 2024 by Maya-Rose Torrao / No Comments
The whole thing seems a little too magical to be true, but Japanese scientists based at Kyoto University Hospital have proven over the last decade that the possibility of tooth regrowth is realistically within reach.
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How Much Of This Year’s Electioneering In SA Is Backed By AI?
13 May 2024 by Maya-Rose Torrao / No Comments
One might giggle about load-shedding being put on pause while political parties try to get into voters’ good books, but we need to be aware of some electioneering techniques that are lingering in the proverbial dark.
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In Case You Missed The Southern Lights Show On Full Display Over Parts Of South Africa On Friday [Images]
13 May 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
Night skies were lit up by these bright colour lights in locations where they don’t normally shine as a severe solar storm supercharged the phenomenon.
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NASA Releases New Visualisation Of What It Would Be Like To Be Swallowed By A Black Hole [Video]
09 May 2024 by Tayla / No Comments
This new, immersive visualisation produced on a NASA supercomputer represents a scenario where a camera — a stand-in for a daring astronaut — enters the event horizon, sealing its fate.
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‘Societal Disruption In The Next Five Years’ – World’s Leading Climate Scientists Reckon The Chaos Is About To Begin
09 May 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
Now we know why billionaires are building bunkers.
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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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