Hyperloop Transportation Technologies test facility in 2019 in Toulouse, France. Photo: Wikipedia user Ryn88668, 19 June 2019, under CC BY-SA 4.0 International licence In 2013, PayPal mafia don and head of Tesla and SpaceX Elon Musk got caught up in the libertarian opposition to California’s overdue, over-budget and under-delivering high-speed rail project. He called it…
Israel is investigating how ballistic missiles got through the country’s sophisticated air defences.
Aalia Manie and Kiera Bracher. Unless you have been living under a rock, you would have heard the warnings from Dario Amodei (Anthropic CEO) that AI could eliminate half of all entry-level white-collar jobs in the next five years, or from Sam Altman (OpenAI CEO) that AI will probably lead to the end of the…
As the war with Iran enters its fourth week, much of its stockpile of enriched uranium is believed to lie buried deep inside the Isfahan Mountain complex. CBS News national security correspondent David Martin talks with physicist David Albright, president of the Institute for Science and International Security, about the risks of seizing that near-weapon…
HyperDev’s Anton Moulder Vibe coding tools have made it trivially easy to build an app. But almost nobody is turning those apps into actual businesses — and a South African start-up thinks it knows why. HyperDev is an AI-powered software development tool that aims to address gaps in the vibe coding market — such as…
NewsFeed Francia Marquez called for stronger Latin America–Africa ties to boost growth and challenge colonial legacies. Published On 22 Mar 202622 Mar 2026 Save Click here to share on social media share2 Share facebooktwitterwhatsappcopylink googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo
Harold van Graan, chief revenue officer, Solid8 Technologies. Let’s kick off with an obvious question, namely: what is online fraud? Fraud is variously defined as a deception or misrepresentation; a perversion of truth to convince someone to part with something of value or surrender a legal right. Online fraud encompasses both financial fraud and identity…
Europe’s Ariane 6 rocket takes off, in Kourou, French Guiana, July 9, 2024. European Space Agency ESA | Via Reuters A new layer of critical infrastructure is emerging above our heads. Low Earth Orbit (LEO) — which NASA defines as the stretch of space at an altitude of 2,000 km or less — is rapidly evolving from…
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. Remo Casilli/Reuters In 2014, Amazon introduced its first smartphone, hoping to take on Apple and Samsung. Instead, the Fire Phone, overseen directly by founder Jeff Bezos, was scrapped in barely over a year, one of Amazon’s highest-profile flops. Now, Amazon is dialling up a new phone. The latest effort, known internally…
INTERVIEW | Prof Gordon Gray says US–Israel strikes on Iran have led to a full-scale regional war Prof Gordon Gray at the 2011 Independence Day reception at U.S. Embassy Tunis. PHOTO/ U.S. Embassy Tunis. Eyewitness Africa Editor Patrick Mayoyo posed questions to Professor Gordon Gray, Kuwait Professor of Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Affairs at the…
