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THE ASHES OF AQUAMATION “Ashes to ashes, dust to dust” is something that we often say when someone passes away, and figuratively means that we will once again become the elements of the earth once we pass on. However, for many people this is a literal transformation due to the process of cremation, which is a popular method for disposing of a body after a funeral or memorial service. The resultant ashes can then be scattered in a meaningful or memorable place to that person, kept, or placed in a memorial wall or site. Some people even plant the ashes under trees or have them compressed and turned into jewelry so that they can remain close to the deceased long after they have [...]

INSTAGRAM LOOKS TO TEST-DRIVE NFTS Non-fungible tokens or NFTs as they are more commonly referred to as, gained significant traction in 2021 with some such as Jack Dorsey’s original tweet NFT going for a whopping $3 million, however that seems to have slowed in 2022 with the hype around them less prominent this year with the same NFT unable to even achieve $25,000 at auction a year later. The tokens act as form of financial investment or security that is comprised of digital data that is stored in blockchain. Cryptocurrencies such as Ethereum and Bitcoin are used to support NFTs, however the NFTs store extra information that differentiate it from typical cryptocurrencies. Unlike Bitcoin or cryptocurrencies, NFTs are ‘non-fungible’ which means that one [...]

LIFE IS PLASTIC AND NOT SO FANTASTIC By now, we’ve all heard of the ever-pervasive issues around microplastics and the prominent role that these play in planetary pollution. The reason they are so problematic is largely due to their increasing prominence in spaces that have a direct impact on us as human beings – whether that is the products that we use and consume on a daily basis, our ‘natural habitat’, food sources, and now for the first time – scientists have actually discovered them within the human body, therefore demonstrating just how inescapable and present they are in our everyday lives and the things we come into contact with on a daily basis. Microplastics, as the name might suggest, are miniscule plastic [...]

IS TESLA’S ELON MUSK TAKING OVER OR TAKING DOWN TWITTER In a truly shocking takeover, Tesla boss Elon Musk finally acquired Twitter on the 25th of April 2022 after a $44 Billion bid was successful. Musk, who is nothing if not strategic when it comes to business – started the acquisition process early in January 2022 when he first started accumulating shares in the company. Before his bid to buy Twitter came to light, Musk was one of the largest shareholders of the company having accumulated just over 9% of the shares in the public company by March of this year. Many questioned Musk’s motives for doing so, with many believing that his goal would be to acquire the company – which he [...]

In celebration of Charlotte Maxeke’s 151st Birthday On the 7th of April 2022, Google along with the rest of South Africa, celebrated what would have been Charlotte Maxeke’ s 151st birthday. While South Africa has its own acknowledgments of the South African social and political activist and religious leader through the likes of the Charlotte Maxeke hospital – which has made headlines for all the wrong reasons as of late. Outside of her namesake Johannesburg-based Academic Hospital, there is also a submarine in the South African Navy named after her as she is often acknowledged as the “Mother of Black Freedom in South Africa” due to her ground-breaking political and social activism. There is also a statue of Charlotte Maxeke in Pretoria’s Garden [...]

Tesla taking over Twitter a few shares at a time? It seems that there are few areas of business and industry that aren’t of interest to South-African born intrepid entrepreneur and tech-preneur Elon Musk. Musk is already the co-founder and owner of numerous companies including the likes of The Boring Company which is aimed at developing alternate channels or in this case tunnels for pedestrian, cargo and electric vehicle travel in order to eliminate unnecessary congestion on roads. Outside of The Boring Company, Musk also heads up NeuraLink which is working on creating “implantable brain-machine interfaces” in the hopes of giving people with paralysis some of the capabilities they may have lost. Even though Musk resigned from Open.AI in 2018 after cofounding the [...]