The Justice Department announced Wednesday that it had sent more than 20 subpoenas to doctors and clinics involved in “performing transgender medical procedures on children.” The department’s brief announcement did not name any of the 20 doctors or clinics, or say where they were. It also did not specify what constituted “transgender medical procedures,” but…
MultiChoice South Africa CEO Byron du Plessis MultiChoice is working on a huge overhaul of DStv, including revamping its channel bouquets, as it looks to stem subscriber losses in an increasingly competitive market. Key to the upcoming changes is figuring out how to attract younger viewers, whose media consumption patterns are radically different to older…
While the scoreboard reflected South Africa’s clinical edge, it didn’t fully capture the competitiveness of the encounter Ghana’s Black Queens will head into their second Group C fixture at WAFCON 2024 with mounting pressure, following a 2-0 defeat to reigning champions South Africa in their tournament opener. Despite a spirited performance and several missed chances,…
TLDR The SECO Startup Fund (SSF), backed by Switzerland’s State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO), has announced a new co-management structure with Seedstars and iGravity SSF is being relaunched with a refreshed strategy to support high-impact businesses in Swiss partner countries that lack access to traditional financing The fund will offer flexible, non-dilutive debt capital…
Watch: Donald Trump ducks after loud bangs heard during Pennsylvania rally The US Secret Service issued suspensions for six personnel over failings at one of Donald Trump’s rallies last year, during which a gunman attempted to assassinate the Republican, an official has confirmed. The gathering in Butler, Pennsylvania, when Matthew Crooks fired at Trump and…
A recent landmark ruling by a California court has delivered legal clarity on a defining question in the era of generative AI: can large language models (LLMs) be trained on copyrighted works without the rights holder’s consent? In Bartz v Anthropic, a United States federal judge in the Northern District of California held that training…
Namibia’s hopes of qualifying for the 2027 Rugby World Cup are still alive after they beat Senegal 55-17 in their opening match at the Africa Cup in Kampala yesterday. It took a while to break Senegal down, and when Namibia held a narrow 24-17 lead with a player in the sin bin midway through the…
Zimbabwe’s senior men’s rugby team, the Sables sent a resounding message to their rivals at the 2025 Rugby Africa Cup on Tuesday, dispatching Morocco with a dominant 43-8 victory in a quarter-final showdown at the Nelson Mandela National Stadium in Nambole, Kampala. The win not only confirmed Zimbabwe’s place in the semi-finals but reinforced their…
Tel Aviv — After five days of negotiations in Qatar and two meetings in Washington between Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Trump, there was still no ceasefire agreement for Gaza on Thursday, as Netanyahu prepared to leave Washington to fly back home. At the start of the week, the Trump administration sounded optimistic that a…
Nvidia headquarters, Santa Clara, California. Nvidia has reached the $4 trillion market capitalisation milestone, becoming the first company in the world to do so, as it outpaces the rest of the “Magnificent Seven” technology companies. The rise in the chipmaker’s share price – from $10 five years ago to more than $162 now – makes…
