Category: Science/Technology

“Things will become even tougher for us,” Uber dri...

“I have been with Uber for many years,” he told TechCabal. “It is sad they have to go, and it will affect my line of business beca...

In today's edition: Uber ends operations in Nigeria and Uganda || Win for Uber and Bolt in Kenya || Pick n Pay’s grocery app had a...

With Uber gone, Bolt says Nigeria “remains an impo...

Uber’s departure leaves Bolt as the other major international ride-hailing platform serving Nigeria.

Capitec’s $33.8 billion business joins A2X as it e...

It also comes as Capitec evolves beyond traditional banking into a digital platform spanning payments, connectivity, devices, insu...

How To Use Vibe Coding To Make Money

The tech landscape is undergoing a monumental shift. Gone are the days when building functional software required years of compute...

Healed fang wound found on 520-million-year-old ap...

Something took a bite out of one of the biggest predators in Cambrian seas, an extraordinary fossil shows – and it could well be c...

Should we all be taking low doses of lithium to pr...

Animal studies have shown that lithium orotate could help stave off dementia, and a human trial is about to start to see if the ef...

How our bodies adapt to extreme temperatures – unt...

No matter where you’re from, there are things you can do to cope better with extreme temperatures. But it takes work to stop our b...

The best new science-fiction books of September 20...

From China Miéville to Brandon Sanderson via a tribute to Ursula K. Le Guin, there are some really huge names with new sci-fi nove...

Mountain warming means there will be more disaster...

Mountainous regions across the planet are warming especially fast, melting the ice that glues rocky slopes and glaciers together

The UK just had its hottest summer ever 

The average temperature in the UK in June, July and August 2026 has eclipsed the record set in summer 2025, and the record-breakin...

The first signs of dark matter particles may final...

Most of the matter in the universe is dark matter, but for decades physicists haven’t been able to directly observe it – that may ...

How Ukraine created world-leading prostheses amid ...

Injuries from the war in Ukraine have forced the country to develop highly advanced prostheses and fit them in record numbers. Wha...

Are you made of real-world quarks or virtual-world...

Is it possible we’re living in a virtual simulation? Professor Catherine Heymans, the Astronomer Royal for Scotland, does the math...

Can we really reverse global warming after oversho...

A UN report says it’s possible to get global temperatures back down to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels by the end of the century...

This Viking Dress Survived for 1,300 Years, Protec...

Such delicate textiles typically decompose within a few years The post This Viking Dress Survived for 1,300 Years, Protected by It...

New Test for Broken-Heart Syndrome Offers Insights...

It could prevent unnecessary invasive procedures The post New Test for Broken-Heart Syndrome Offers Insights into the Mysterious D...

The Extinct Tasmanian Tiger’s Bite Was Unlike Any ...

Which makes its extinction even more tragic The post The Extinct Tasmanian Tiger’s Bite Was Unlike Any Other Predatory Mammal’s ap...

Memory Decline Starts Earlier Than You Might Think

Middle-age memory slips are a bit strange The post Memory Decline Starts Earlier Than You Might Think appeared first on Nautilus.

A Meteorological Rarity: Snow Across the Atacama D...

Two snow dumps in just a few days The post A Meteorological Rarity: Snow Across the Atacama Desert appeared first on Nautilus.

Your Ability to Cope with Stress Changes with the ...

Stress resilience is a dynamic balance rather than a fixed trait The post Your Ability to Cope with Stress Changes with the Season...

Schizophrenia’s Cruel Roulette Wheel

Genetics and stress can combine in ways we don’t yet fully understand The post Schizophrenia’s Cruel Roulette Wheel appeared first...

Your Organs Age at Different Paces—And They’re Coo...

Your colon and prostate may have synchronized their watches The post Your Organs Age at Different Paces—And They’re Coordinating ...

Why the Recent Total Eclipse Looked Unusual

The corona in Spain was particularly golden The post Why the Recent Total Eclipse Looked Unusual appeared first on Nautilus.

New Heart Attack Definitions Could Lead to Better ...

Uncommon heart attack causes disproportionately affect them The post New Heart Attack Definitions Could Lead to Better Care for Wo...

Inside Law Roach’s Net Worth And Career Milestones...

Law Roach did not follow the traditional path into high fashion.

Florida’s First HBCU Just Recorded Its Highest Fal...

Edward Waters University (EWU), Florida’s first Historically Black College and University (HBCU), recorded its highest fall enroll...

Will There Be A Federal Mandate Requiring Surveill...

There is controversy around the launch of surveillance technology in new U.

Here’s How Much Dolly Parton Made From Whitney Hou...

It would be hard to consider the legacy of the late Dolly Parton without “I Will Always Love You.

AMP, The Streaming Group That Includes Kai Cenat, ...

AMP is proof that if you want to go fast, go alone, and if you want to go far, go together.

The sucker’s dilemma

In a world filled with scams, being wary makes perfect sense. But health, trust and decision-making can suffer when the fear of ge...

Artificial intelligence boosts automated biolabs

AI and machine learning are kicking synthetic biology up to new levels of innovation. Researchers see huge potential for novel dru...

What can we learn from Australia’s social media ba...

The Aussie experiment comes amid a lack of clear evidence that the apps harm the majority of adolescents. It may take a dramatic r...

Volcanoes that made history

Long after the lava stopped flowing, enormous eruptions altered Earth’s climate and societies all over the globe

Why is the DOJ investigating Andreessen Horowitz’s...

Andreessen Horowitz has two partners sitting on the boards of companies that now compete with each other: Ben Horowitz at Databric...

Waymo hands over documents in NHTSA’s child collis...

The responses to NHTSA's questions so far are redacted entirely, citing "confidential business information."

Tesla’s solar roof is dead — here’s what went wron...

Tesla's solar roof was an experiment that never really caught on for the company. But does that mean the concept of roof-integrate...

Last chance: Save up to $300 on your TechCrunch Di...

If you’ve been circling around Disrupt, then now’s the best time to lock in your pass and start getting ready to join the rest of ...

Nvidia just showed that the harness, not the AI mo...

Nvidia research shows that AI agents can perform well, and not go off the deep end, through fine-tuning, even if the AI model isn'...

The wild, gripping story of the psychedelic secret...

Kimon de Greef's The Ego Trip chronicles the rise of a potent psychedelic drug, from the toads that secrete it to the man who clai...

It is finally time to talk about the impact of flu...

For decades, women have felt the need to hide the impact of changes in their hormones, while scientists have excluded women from r...

This sci-fi novel is a riveting tale of an oppress...

A rich widow, a disillusioned cop and a dim hypersled driver are caught in the machinations of the oppressive party ruling the Dec...

Stunning image of a polar bear with an outsized sn...

Roie Galitz's breathtaking shot is one of the winners of the 2026 World Press Photo Contest, praised for its unusual perspective a...

Twisteddoodles on distribution graphs (with added ...

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Tom Gauld on popularity in the lab

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Don’t be an archaeologist in a movie if you want t...

Josie Ford Feedback is our weekly column of bizarre stories, implausible advertising claims, confusing instructions and more ...

This week’s new questions

Why do humans have a common sense of beauty for things like sunsets, and do other animals share this appreciation? And why can’t w...

Are flies following a strategy when they keep hitt...

Answers continue to pour in as New Scientist readers ponder this question, with one reader widening it out to consider dragonflies...

Suggesting that ADHD is a myth is pseudoscientific...

ADHD is a real condition that can have serious consequences if undiagnosed. An ill-informed documentary that suggests it is a mode...

Why Is It Absolute Hell to Buy a Movie Ticket Now?

Overwhelmed theater apps and a scarcity mindset around exclusive big-screen formats for blockbusters like Dune: Part Three and The...

Google Pixel 11 Pro and Pixel 11 Pro XL Review: Sm...

Google’s new voice typing is pure magic, but subpar gaming performance and a useless rear LED keep these flagships from true great...

Google Pixel Watch 5 Review: More Health, More AI

With smarter gym tracking, new health alerts, and offline Gemini, the Pixel Watch 5 fine-tunes a winning formula—for a price.

Coders Say They Already Found Workarounds to Claud...

Anthropic announced last week it would include invisible watermarks in AI-generated content to comply with new EU rules. Within ho...

I Saw the Future of AI in a Robot That Can Learn o...

During a recent visit to Generalist AI, I watched a robotic arm improvise and use a banana as a tool.

Hospitals Are Getting So Hot That Surgeries Are Ge...

Raincheck on that critical surgery? The post Hospitals Are Getting So Hot That Surgeries Are Getting Canceled and Staff Are Fainti...

In New Low, Flock CEO Insists His AI-Surveillance ...

"There's no doubt in my mind." The post In New Low, Flock CEO Insists His AI-Surveillance Cameras Could Have Solved the Nancy Guth...

If You Thought Pervert Glasses Were Bad, Wait Till...

"You're the Flock camera now." The post If You Thought Pervert Glasses Were Bad, Wait Till You See Apple’s Leaked AirPods appeared...

Department of Homeland Security Seeking Humanoid R...

"If drones and watchtowers were able to solve for everything, why do we still have humans at the border?" The post Department of H...

Journalist Alarmed When His Tesla Running FSD Trie...

"My girlfriend, sitting in the passenger seat, screamed in fear." The post Journalist Alarmed When His Tesla Running FSD Tries to ...

Report on Cultural Roadblocks to Digital Infrastru...

Report on Cultural Roadblocks to Digital Infrastructure Revisited: What Happened Next in Niger State In February 2026, I sat in th...

Phone Privacy Settings: 12 Settings You Should Tur...

Phone Privacy Settings: 12 Settings You Should Turn On in 2026 Your smartphone probably knows more about you than you realise. It ...

The Hidden Price of Free: How a Global Industry Ex...

The Hidden Price of Free: How a Global Industry Extracts Value from the People Who Can Least Afford It In 2021, Chinedu needed cas...

Beyond visibility: What Africa’s digital economy o...

Beyond visibility: What Africa’s digital economy owes its women leaders By Kadi Diallo, Head of Content for Africa Tech Festival L...

12 new movies and shows to stream this week (Augus...

See 12 new movies and shows streaming August 18–25, including Toy Story 5, Outer Banks season 5, Good Fortune and Mother Mary.

The scammer at your doctor’s office may already kn...

Scammers hide malicious QR codes in medical offices, Medicare mail and parking signs. Learn how to spot the trap before you scan.

Protect Your Money From Today’s Biggest Threats | ...

Join CyberGuy’s free Protect Your Money class and learn 5 smart steps to guard against AI scams, fraud, identity theft and financi...

Best Back-to-School Tech and Supplies for 2026

Prepare for the school year with these tech tools designed to enhance learning, creativity, and safety for every student.

You can save $168 on this 8TB Seagate IronWolf NAS...

Don't be fooled by Best Buy's huge Seagate IronWolf saving — the same 8TB NAS drive is even cheaper at Newegg at $41.25 per teraby...

From experimentation to execution: why AI in B2B m...

How marketers can embed AI strategically to improve performance, strengthen creativity and demonstrate measurable ROI.

Bluesky reveals recent outage was caused by major ...

Iranian state-backed threat actors claim responsibility, but Bluesky did not confirm it.

iPhone owners urged to sell current models ASAP to...

Existing iPhones are soon set to massively fall in price, with the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max likely to be the worst affected.

‘Not every student has someone at home who can hel...

ChatGPT for Teens may be most useful when it refuses to simply do the homework for them.

Views of the total solar eclipse from parts of Eur...

A total solar eclipse was visible in parts of Europe for the first time since 1912. Rob Marciano reports.

A summer of extremes: Weathering a hotter world

July was the hottest month ever in the Lower 48 States – another escalation of our world into a hotter, more dangerous planet, whe...

Satellites are watching us — and each other

Above Earth's atmosphere, an arms race is unfolding. Thousands of miles above the ground, satellites from different companies and ...

The iNaturalist app – Mixing science with fun

The iNaturalist cellphone app not only helps users identify plant, animal and insect species; it also provides invaluable data to ...

Why are airlines banning humanoid robots from flig...

Four major U.S. airlines have quietly changed their policies to ban humanoid and animal-like robots from their flights.

Discord suspends livestreams in Brazil amid backla...

Popular American chat app Discord says it suspended livestreams in line with a Brazilian government order, amid fierce criticism o...

Meta's federal trial begins over child social medi...

The lawsuit accuses the social media giant of contributing to the youth mental health crisis by deliberately designing features th...

Monierate expands Rate Radar with Textile, Gate Ex...

The additions widen Monierate's coverage of the FX market, giving fintechs, treasury teams, and cross-border businesses a more com...

Standard Bank moves to buy Opay stake ahead of US ...

Standard Bank Group, Africa’s largest bank by assets, is in discussions to acquire a stake in OPay before…

Fixing ₦80B losses

Kano State to install 13,200 computers at ICT, CBT...

The Kano State Government has awarded contracts worth N27.8 billion to construct Information and Communication Technology (ICT) an...

Terra Industries names former SpaceX director Ben ...

Terra Industries, a defence technology company building autonomous security systems for critical infrastructure across the Global ...

Neanderthals may have trekked through the Saudi Ar...

Stone tools from a lakeside site in Saudi Arabia hint that Neanderthals were adapted to the arid Arabian interior, not just to col...

'Beyond human intuition': AI designs chip componen...

Three new AI-designed chip components are just a few micrometers long and go beyond what human engineers have previously envisaged...

Body found at bottom of Scottish well may be from ...

An Iron Age grave has been discovered in the Scottish Highlands. The person was buried within what may have been a ritual well.

Diagnostic dilemma: A joyful wedding nearly broke ...

A 65-year-old woman arrived at the ER with textbook signs of a heart attack — but the real trigger turned out to be joy, not a blo...

Peptides are the latest wellness fad. What are the...

An FDA advisory panel has recommended making six unapproved peptides more accessible through compounding pharmacies — but scientis...

West Virginia University researchers turn polluted...

West Virginia University researchers are extracting critical rare earth minerals from polluted mine water, creating a potential U....

MouthPad lets your tongue control a computer

The MouthPad is a custom-fit hands-free touchpad that sits inside your mouth, letting you control a cursor with your tongue or hea...

Robot learns to dismantle broken machines

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology researchers built a robotic disassembly system that adapts when screws get stuck or parts go mis...

'The Odyssey' streaming scam could steal your bank...

Fake streaming sites promise free access to Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" but steal credit card details through bogus free tri...

SignalTrace can link device signals to your car

SignalTrace by Leonardo detects wireless signals from your devices and links them to license plate data, creating electronic finge...

Medicare and Social Security scams: Warning signs ...

Medicare and Social Security scams use spoofed caller ID, AI-cloned voices and urgent threats to trick older adults into sharing s...

8 things we learned from Google's Pixel 11 event

Google's Pixel 11 lineup introduces Magic Capture, HiLight notifications and proactive Gemini features designed to reduce screen t...

iCloud Private Relay leaks can expose your real IP

iCloud Private Relay can be bypassed by three WebKit features, potentially exposing your real IP address to websites while browsin...

World's first solar-powered ambulance brings healt...

Stella Juva, built by Solar Team Eindhoven students, functions as a solar-powered mobile clinic with medical equipment headed to K...

Amazon job scam texts are spreading again with a n...

A fake Amazon remote job text promises $600 a day for 90 minutes of work. Here are the red flags and what an Amazon spokesperson s...

Tesla files plans for proposed $10.1B Texas solar ...

Tesla, led by Elon Musk, is looking to build a massive solar panel factory just outside Houston, Texas, according to documents fil...

Flock Safety instituting new privacy measures in r...

Facing backlash over mass surveillance and police misuse, AI camera firm Flock Safety is overhauling its system by cutting data re...

Waymo gets regulatory approval to scale up robotax...

Waymo's robotaxi service expands across Northern and Southern California after CPUC approval, adding Sacramento and San Diego as n...

Meta heads to trial over alleged social media addi...

Attorneys general from California, Colorado, Kentucky and New Jersey allege Meta misled the public about the risks its platforms p...

Supreme Court rejects Verizon effort to get $46.9M...

Verizon's $46.9 million FCC penalty remains in place after the Supreme Court denied rehearing in a dispute over customer location ...

Absa’s digital push comes with a $540 million pric...

The numbers suggest African banks may be swapping the costs of physical infrastructure for an expensive technology stack.

Redmi 15C vs Redmi 17C: Full comparison

Both phones share the same chipset and a close price range, but the newer 17C cuts corners in places you might not expect.

Millions earn daily. This Cameroonian startup want...

In Central Africa, millions of people earn daily but struggle to access formal credit. BEE is building financing infrastructure ar...

Kuda was the ‘bank of the free.’ Now it wants to b...

That makes the new identity feel more like a brand trying to insert itself into the life around the transactions people make with ...

Nigeria’s new cloud policy puts government at the ...

On Monday, Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy released the National Digital Cloud Policy...

Magic Johnson Admits WNBA’s Los Angeles Sparks Own...

Patience is key, especially in the investment world, and Magic Johnson knows this all too well.

A Former Google Employee Created An ‘AI’ Chatbot A...

Former Google product engineer Tucker Bryant is behind ChatTJB, an unconventional chatbot with an actual human on the other end.

Founder Ryan Williams Raises More Than $10M In See...

Founder Ryan Williams is on a mission to help talented first-time or emerging managers operate private credit funds with the same ...

HBCU Bowie State University Rolls Out Bachelor Of ...

Bowie State University continues to champion new STEM pathways.

This Nonprofit Backed By MacKenzie Scott Launched ...

An Oakland, CA, nonprofit has doubled down on its commitment to support Black communities despite the federal government’s anti-DE...

Fibermaxxing? Your microbes (and your health) say ...

Scientists are making progress understanding how a fiber-rich diet can help with chronic disease

How scientists are perfecting chocolate

Researchers are probing cocoa’s confections to better understand flavor, crystals and bloom

Now Rippling is counter-suing tiny startup Runlaye...

This lawsuit follows one filed last month by Runlayer that accused Rippling of stealing its product ideas. It's a seller- and buye...

Google co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 m...

California's Prop 40 would impose a one-time 5% tax on the net worth of the state's billionaires.

Jeff Bezos might finally get his hands on a sports...

Jeff Bezos is reportedly close to buying his first stake in a sports team: the U.K.'s famed Liverpool Football Club.

As AI-led attacks multiply, OpenAI launches a new ...

OpenAI is expanding its AI cybersecurity defense program Daybreak, and rolling out a new cyber-trained AI model with it.

OpenAI reportedly completed a $7 billion employee ...

San Francisco's housing market is in trouble again.

The AI Slop Backlash Is Actually Having an Impact

Platforms are finally recognizing that people don’t want to consume AI slop. A growing number of sites and apps now have tools and...

A California Program Is Bringing Down the Cost of ...

The approach is like a Costco for heat pumps, and it’s helping make installations more accessible as heat waves worsen.

The Outlaw Chemist Teaching People How to Make Dru...

Willy Myco has made over 120 videos showing people his exact process for making everything from LSD to DMT vapes. Not everyone’s a...

The Best Portable Solar Panels: My Take After Year...

Clean, free power from the sun is easier and more affordable to capture than ever with the best portable solar panels.

Orange Crush: TAG Heuer Drops a Bright Revamp of t...

The solar-powered limited edition may be here to mark the final Dutch Grand Prix taking place in Zandvoort, but it’s the juicy ico...

OpenAI risks White House relationship with hiring ...

Ball infuriated Trump AI officials last month after claiming that the White House should create “regulatory risk” -- or new rules ...