Google is under growing pressure to pay for information that, for two decades, the search provider snipped from the Web – and made a mint from – without paying a penny.
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National treasury has announced that Section 12J of the Income Tax Act will not be extended past its sunset date of 30 June 2021. This is a huge mistake. By Dino Zuccollo.
When the human genome sequence was completed 20 years ago, the scientific achievement was placed on par with the moon landings. But in the two decades since, the sequence has underwhelmed.
Facebook’s dramatic move to block Australian news-sharing has escalated a broader battle against global regulation. That gambit looks likely to backfire.
The road to eliminating Covid-19 is long and paved with uncertainty.
In a new study, researchers from Purdue University in Indiana, US have shown that pigs can use a digital screen and joystick, operated by their snout, to move a cursor around for rewards.
Tesla boss Elon Musk is a poster child of low-carbon technology. Yet the electric car maker’s backing of bitcoin could turbo-charge global use of a currency that’s estimated to cause more pollution than a small country every year.
Elon Musk’s decision to invest US$1.5-billion of Tesla’s cash in bitcoin is financial dynamite that unites two speculative bubbles. There’s plenty to suggest the move is inadvisable
Twitter is building a subscription product as a way to ease its dependence on advertising – a plan that has taken on a heightened priority given the pandemic and pressure from activist investors to accelerate growth.
No one has visited the moon since 1972. But with the advent of commercial human spaceflight, the urge to return is resurgent and generating a new space race.