Tech gives traffickers a devastating new weapon

Tech gives traffickers a devastating new weapon

Women and children are the most vulnerable to trafficking. (Graphic by Nicola Mawson, using GenAI and Freepik) Hundreds of thousands of women and children – society’s most vulnerable – are being trafficked, lured into financial extortion and sextortion by criminals who are increasingly weaponising technology to find, trap and silence them. Artificial intelligence (AI), the…

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South Africa’s new weapon against grocery inflation

South Africa’s new weapon against grocery inflation

As grocery prices continue to squeeze household budgets, a new app called Grocify is aiming to give South Africans the upper hand. Developed by Johannesburg-based software engineer Ethan Stander, the app allows users to compare real-time prices across the country’s four largest retailers in a single interface. Read: SALT telescope solves the mystery of the…

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Tulsi Gabbard now says Iran could produce nuclear weapon ‘within weeks’

Tulsi Gabbard now says Iran could produce nuclear weapon ‘within weeks’

Sofia Ferreira Santos BBC News Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images The director of national intelligence had previously said Iran was not building nuclear weapons Tulsi Gabbard says Iran could produce nuclear weapons “within weeks”, months after she testified before Congress that the country was not building them. The US Director of National Intelligence said…

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