Hello from Milan and Cortina, where we’re heading toward the homestretch of these Winter Games. Today in the quarterfinals of the men’s hockey tournament, three of the four games went into overtime. In the day’s final game, Quinn Hughes ripped the game-winning goal that gave Team USA a 2-1 win over Sweden. Our correspondents have…
Araxi CEO Bradley Sacks. JSE-listed payment solutions provider Araxi will acquire B2B payment solutions company Pay@ in a R1 billion deal, to be settled in cash. The consideration comprises R200 million from the Araxi Group’s existing cash reserves and R800 million in senior debt already committed. Forty percent of the shares of Pay@ are currently owned…
Fifteen skiers went missing on Tuesday following a massive avalanche in California’s Lake Tahoe region. One person remains missing but is presumed dead.
There is a website called RentaHuman.ai that exists to connect autonomous AI agents with human beings who can carry out physical tasks in the real world – things the agents cannot yet do themselves. Its tagline? “Clear briefs, no drama.” It sounds like science-fiction. It is, in fact, very real. More than half a million…
Nearly two thirds of all maternal deaths worldwide occur in countries marked by conflict or fragility, according to a report released on Tuesday by the World Health Organization (WHO) and partners. The risk of a woman who lives in a country affected by conflict dying due to maternal causes is around five times higher for…
Mr Price Foundation, in collaboration with Universities South Africa, have launched the Waste Innovation Challenge, a national initiative that invites university students and recent graduates to develop commercially viable solutions that address plastic waste. The launch is hosted at the Durban University of Technology (DUT) in Pietermaritzburg, in recognition of the institution’s ongoing work in…
Imagine walking into tall grass or working barefoot in a field … and suddenly feeling sharp pain on your foot. You’ve just been bitten by a snake. This is more than a moment of shock; it could be the beginning of a dangerous medical emergency. Not all snakebites involve venom, since less than 20% of…
A 17th century Swedish Navy shipwreck buried underwater in central Stockholm for 400 years has suddenly become visible due to unusually low Baltic Sea levels, marking the latest centuries-old vessel to be found in the country’s waters. The wooden planks of the ship’s well-preserved hull have since early February been peeking out above the surface…
Nvidia has announced a massive multiyear agreement to supply Meta Platforms with millions of its high-performance artificial intelligence chips. The deal covers a broad spectrum of Nvidia’s hardware, including the current Blackwell architecture and the forthcoming Rubin AI chips. Crucially, the agreement also includes Nvidia’s Grace and Vera central processing units (CPUs), signalling a direct…
For anyone who relies on coffee to start their day, coffee wilt disease may be the most important disease you’ve never heard of. This fungal disease has repeatedly reshaped the global coffee supply over the past century, with consequences that reach from African farms to cafe counters worldwide. Infection with the fungus Fusarium xylarioides results…
