Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama, who splashed her signature polka dots on paintings, sculptures and museum installations around the world, has died, her studio said Thursday. She was 97. Kusama died Aug. 14 at a hospital in Tokyo, Yayoi Kusama Studio said. “She continued to paint until her final days, never setting aside her brush, and…
Dolly Parton, the American singer, songwriter, actress and philanthropist whose career spanned more than six decades, died on Tuesday, August 25, at the age of 80. Parton died in Nashville, Tennessee, after a brief battle with cancer, according to her family and representatives. Her nephew, Bryan Seaver, announced her death in a video posted to…
Blu Label co-CEO Brett Levy MTN’s stated intention to deal directly with South Africa’s banks on airtime sales comes down, for Blu Label Unlimited Group, to one account: Capitec. MTN South Africa CEO Ferdi Moolman said at a media briefing on Tuesday – the same one at which he disclosed that the industry pushes up…
Addis Ababa — Former Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn said Ethiopia’s experience in financing and building the he Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) demonstrates how African countries can drive their own development through self-reliance and greater ownership. Speaking at the Africa Mindset Reset Forum in Kigali, Hailemariam said Africa must increasingly shape its development through…
Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani is due to visit Tehran on Thursday for talks on de-escalating tensions and reviving dialogue between Iran and the United States. A spokesman for Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the visit in a statement on X on Wednesday. Recommended Stories list of 4…
Connecticut-based streamer Warren Pandiscia has filed a class-action lawsuit against Twitch and its parent company Amazon, accusing the platforms of using creator content without permission to train artificial intelligence models. First reported by Courthouse News, the complaint alleges that the tech giants harvested live streams and recorded videos without licensing or compensation, utilizing them as…
Employees work on the assembly line of an intelligent factory of SERES Automobile Co., Ltd in Chongqing, China on July 19, 2022. Vcg | Visual China Group | Getty Images China’s industrial profits growth in July slowed to its weakest pace this year, expanding 11.2% from a year earlier, according to National Bureau of Statistics…
AI can help identify potential unrest weeks ahead by triangulating social media information with other data sources. (Image created via Gemini) The South African Special Risks Insurance Association (SASRIA) is using artificial intelligence (AI) to analyse social and behavioural signals in an effort to forecast potentially destructive events. This was revealed by Muzi Dladla, executive…
Two weeks after a total solar eclipse wowed skywatchers in southern Europe, a near-total lunar eclipse is set to put on a show Thursday night for people across North and South America. Lunar eclipses occur when Earth slips between the sun and the moon and casts a shadow on the lunar surface. During this week’s…
The legal shield around South Africa’s most valuable scientific instrument does not reach the objects most likely to interfere with it. The Karoo Central Astronomy Advantage Area (KCAAA), established under the country’s Astronomy Geographic Advantage Act, protects MeerKAT and the Square Kilometre Array-Mid (SKA-Mid) telescope now under construction from ground-based interference. Satellites sit outside it….
