IBM cooks up food for thought
Porcini mushrooms and bacon, powdered and wrapped in a meringue. That was going to be the dessert for our three-course meal, designed by a computer. But Thomas Hughes, the chef and a cofounder of the...
View ArticleDoomsday Clock moves closer to midnight
The second hand of the Doomsday Clock is now only three minutes to midnight. This is the closest to apocalypse we have come since 1984 - the coldest of Cold War years, just a year after Able Archer,...
View ArticleThe best April Fool’s pranks of 2015
You can’t have missed our article on Wednesday morning on government abandoning South Africa’s digital migration project. There’s no way it could have been true - there's too much riding on a...
View ArticleTelkom, Vodacom CEOs to sleep in the streets
They make millions every year. But Telkom CEO Sipho Maseko and Vodacom CEO Shameel Joosub have agreed to spend a winter’s night on the cold streets of Johannesburg - and will even stump up a large amount
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