Tokyo Olympics: how athletes are using ice vests, parasols and slushie machines to cope at the hottest Games ever: Tales of fainting archers and volleyballers burning their feet on baking sands have seen a flurry of claims that the Tokyo Olympics are the hottest to date. This has come as no shock. In 2019, already, …
Spain wants to fine Franco apologists – the latest example of using laws to address uncomfortable history: If you get to Spain this summer, watch your tongue. A careless word that could be construed as sympathetic to General Francisco Franco, who ruled Spain from his victory in the country’s civil war (1936-9) until his death …
More Nigerian banks are using chatbots to serve customers, but with mixed results: Chatbots can be utilised to enhance customer experience. PIUS UTOMI EKPEI/AFP via Getty Images Chatbots are becoming an integral part of service provision around the world. Chatbots are computer programs designed to simulate a conversation – both voice and text – with …
South Africa in the news: Rassie Erasmus’ active social media presence coming under suspicion for using a Twitter burner account: Now the former coach and Water boy is under suspicion for using a ‘burner account’, a fake profile used to voice opinions that one would be unwilling to express publicly, in order to highlight …: …
Enter invisible passwords using this Python module: Passwords are particularly problematic for programmers. You’re not supposed to store them without encrypting them, and you’re not supposed to reveal what’s been typed when your user enters one. This became particularly important to me when I decided I wanted to boost security on my laptop. I encrypt …
COVID-19: kids are using soft drinks to fake positive tests – I’ve worked out the science and how to spot it: Can you really fake a covid test with soft drinks? K321/Shutterstock Children are always going to find cunning ways to bunk off school, and the latest trick is to fake a positive COVID-19 lateral …
How I build my personal website using containers with a Makefile: The make utility and its related Makefile have been used to build software for a long time. The Makefile defines a set of commands to run, and the make utility runs them. It is similar to a Dockerfile or Containerfile—a set of commands used …
Heart block: cause of condition which affects endurance athletes identified in study using racehorses: Most young athletes with heart block typically don't experience any symptoms. lzf/ Shutterstock Endurance athletes (such as triathletes, footballers, or marathon runners) can be some of the healthiest people in society. Yet paradoxically, some can also be prone to developing a …
South Africa in the news: Diamond smugglers on a wing and a prayer: Child miners try to sneak out priceless stones from African mines using homing pigeons. Now MATTHEW GAVIN FRANK tells their …: If they are caught smuggling diamonds out, child miners’ fingers will sometimes be cut off, writes MATTHEW GAVIN FRANK. Pictured: A …
South Africa in the news: Child miners try to sneak out diamonds from African mines using homing pigeons: If they are caught smuggling diamonds out, child miners’ fingers will sometimes be cut off, writes MATTHEW GAVIN FRANK. Pictured: A child miner in the Central African Republic.: “South Africa” – BingNews Alun Wyn Jones warns that …
South Africa in the news: Omniolytics using IBM to provide data platform for African poultry farmers: Agriculture digital technologies startup Omniolytics is helping to transform poultry farming through digital platforms that use sensors and information technology multinational IBM Watson running in …: “South Africa” – BingNews Jan Smuts bust falls at UCT: UCT student activists …
China is using mythology and sci-fi to convince the world it belongs in space: The Wandering Earth is a Chinese sci-fi film which the government promoted abroad. Netflix On the morning of June 17, China launched its long-awaited Shenzhou-12 spacecraft, carrying three Chinese astronauts – or taikonauts – towards the Tianhe core module. The module …
Cern: how we’re probing the universe’s origins using record precision measurements: Cern has measure a tiny mass difference by colliding huge amounts of particles. Jurik Peter/Shutterstock What happened at the beginning of the universe, in the very first moments? The truth is, we don’t really know because it takes huge amounts of energy and precision …
Sinopharm COVID vaccine: the world needs to keep using it, even if it’s less effective than Pfizer: In western countries, attention has understandably focused on which of the western-made COVID-19 vaccines people are likely to receive. But globally, these are far from the only products available. China, for instance, has developed multiple COVID-19 vaccines, and …
South Africa in the news: Rubella seroprevalence using residual samples from the South African measles surveillance program: South Africa has yet to incorporate rubella vaccines (RCV) into its scheduled immunization programme. When adopting RCV, the target demographic should be chosen with the ages of vulnerable individuals …: “South Africa” – BingNews WTO to start vaccine …
Identify security properties on Linux using checksec: Compiling source code produces a binary. During compilation, you can provide flags to the compiler to enable or disable certain properties on the binary. Some of these properties are relevant to security. Checksec is a nifty little tool (and shell script) that, among other functions, identifies the security …
South Africa in the news: Did you know? Rohit Sharma scored his first international half-century using Dinesh Karthik’s bat: Indian opener and vice-captain Rohit Sharma had scored his first international half-century by using Dinesh Karthik’s bat in 2007. Rohit played a match-winning knock against South Africa.: “South Africa” – BingNews Covid-19: India’s second wave ebbs …
Get started with Kubernetes using chaos engineering: Kubernetes is turning 11, so I’ll be celebrating its birthday by giving you some open source tools that will help you cause chaos. Chaos engineering is part science, part planning, and part experiments. It’s the discipline of experimenting on a system to build confidence in the system’s capability …