More than 1,000 images of bodies flash across the screens in a sequence that feels endless. Many are swollen, have darkened skin or bear the marks of injuries, making identification difficult. Families search for any trace that might help identify their loved ones – a tattoo, a bracelet, a piece of clothing, or an item…
Maureen Costello, VP for UK, Ireland and Sub-Saharan Africa at Google Cloud, with Discovery founder and group CEO Adrian Gore. Google’s Johannesburg Cloud Region is expected to contribute $90.6 billion (R1.7 trillion) in additional gross economic output and support almost 315 000 jobs in SA by 2030. This, as African businesses accelerate the adoption of…
Dozens of diamonds spell out two giant letter “T” next to the Stars and Stripes and “1776” and “2026.” Dozens more frame the numbers 45 and 47 in the shape of Superman’s logo. A diamond-winged eagle carries a ruby shield and clutches an olive branch of emeralds, below a radiant “250” and atop the phrase…
Universities around the world – and in South Africa – are having an identity crisis, and generative AI is the trigger. More than three years after ChatGPT walked into the lecture hall, the debate has moved well past cheating. In a recent piece in New York magazine, a Columbia undergraduate boasted of using AI to…
Every year on 16 June, readers around the world celebrate Bloomsday, the annual commemoration of Irish writer James Joyce‘s landmark 1922 novel Ulysses. The date marks the single day on which the novel unfolds: 16 June 1904, when its protagonist, Leopold Bloom, wanders through the city of Dublin. What began as a literary observance has…
Gaborone — Botswana and South Africa enjoy smooth relations, with emerging issues resolved efficiently and effectively through close collaboration, says President Advocate Duma Boko. Speaking during a farewell courtesy call by the outgoing South African High Commissioner to Botswana, Ms Thaninga Shope-Soumah in Gaborone on Monday, President Boko said Botswana was grateful for the role…
DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, Electoral authority solidifies right-wing Fujimori’s narrow victory over leftist Roberto Sanchez. Right-wing candidate Keiko Fujimori has been declared the winner of Peru’s presidential race by the country’s electoral authority. The announcement on Friday comes weeks after the June 7 run-off election against leftist rival Roberto Sanchez. Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend…
Steve Jobs famously declared that touchscreens on laptops were “ergonomically terrible” and simply “don’t work.” For over a decade, Apple stood firmly by that philosophy, steering users who wanted a touch interface toward the iPad. However, the company has apparently changed its tune. Read: Rocket Lab acquiring Iridium for $8 billion to challenge Starlink A…
Reacting to the decision by Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger to deposit formal notifications of withdrawal from the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Marceau Sivieude, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for West and Central Africa, said: “This decision by the governments of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger threatens to deny thousands of victims the…
Last month, Mombasa made history as the first African city to host the Our Ocean Conference (OOC) – an international convening to protect and conserve the ocean, gathering well over a hundred countries. Yet the significance of the conference went far beyond where it was held. It demonstrated why Africa is increasingly becoming one of…
