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Durban student creates app to map SA’s municipal service failures — and the fixes

Keyuren Maharaj, a final-year mechanical engineering student at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, has patented the app and the ...
Science Daily

Using artificial intelligence to speed up and improve the most computationally-intensive aspects of plasma physics in fusion

Researchers are using artificial intelligence to perfect the design of the vessels surrounding the super-hot plasma, optimize heating methods and maintain stable control of the reaction for ...
Tech Xplore on MSN

Is this your AI? ZEN framework cracks AI black box

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems power everything from chatbots to security cameras, yet many of the most advanced models ...
TechCrunch

Spotify says its best developers haven’t written a line of code since December, thanks to AI

Has AI coding reached a tipping point? That seems to be the case for Spotify at least, which shared this week during its fourth-quarter earnings call that the best developers at the company “have not ...
ZDNet

I tried a Claude Code rival that's local, open source, and completely free - how it went

Free AI tools Goose and Qwen3-coder may replace a pricey Claude Code plan. Setup is straightforward but requires a powerful local machine. Early tests show promise, though issues remain with accuracy ...
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Here’s how West Northamptonshire Council have been using their £184,000 JCB Pothole Pro machine

West Northamptonshire Council (WNC) have responded to questions on how they have been using their £184,000 JCB Pothole Pro machine. West Northamptonshire Council purchased a JCB Pothole Pro machine in ...
Nature

Does AI already have human-level intelligence? The evidence is clear

Eddy Keming Chen is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, San Diego, California, USA. Mikhail Belkin is a professor of artificial intelligence, data science, ...