Food prices rocket on weak rand, high inflation and interest rates
OPINION: These key economic parameters affect low-income households and the poor the worst, writes Joseph Kau.By Joseph KauTHE TRIPLE-burden of a depreciating rand, rocketing...
Tyre-makers under pressure as too much rubber hits the road
Tyre-makers are under pressure to almost literally reinvent the wheel as regulators turn their scrutiny to tyre pollution that is set to surge with...
He’s lived underwater for over 75 days. He thinks others should,...
A Florida medical researcher and professor has lived underwater without depressurisation for more than 75 days - a world record. He plans to make...
The world’s bat lands are under attack, seeding risk of a...
For millennia, bat viruses posed little threat to humanity. Undisturbed wildlife habitat provided a protective barrier between pathogens and people. But human incursions have...
Making the four-day week work for Britain. The world is watching
What may seem an eccentric experiment is one of a number of trials of four-day working that has drawn interest from economists and businesses...
Fans went to admire El Salvador’s gang crackdown – and got...
El Salvador’s millennial president Nayib Bukele’s crackdown on violent, gang-driven crime, launched last year with a “state of exception” that suspends key civil rights,...
Can ChatGPT be trusted? Just ask it
OPINION: Perhaps the most important cautionary tale is that chatbots do not exercise human judgement, writes Shaun Read.By Shaun Read “TRUST but verify” was...
Scientists sent balloons into the stratosphere – and found a mystery
The muffled, staticky whispers, recorded by research balloons flying at 70,000 feet, defy explanation.AT FIRST listen, Earth's stratosphere seems calm and quiet. But when...
ChatGPT get-rich-quick schemes are flooding the web
The internet is filled with videos promising AI can make you rich. But there is little evidence to prove it can.BASIL Chatha wanted to...
Vice files for bankruptcy, the latest digital-media pioneer to fall
The once high-flying Vice Media Group filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday. The Chapter 11 filing follows successive rounds of gruelling lay-offs at the...
