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      13 October 2026
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      9 October 2026
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      5 October 2026
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      29 September 2026
      The steam engine lesson AI doomsayers keep missing - Sam Clarke

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      28 September 2026
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      21 September 2026
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    Netflix is buying its first production studio, the New Mexico facility used to make The Avengers and Sicario, to accommodate its growing output of original movies and television shows.

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    President Cyril Ramaphosa appointed former central bank Governor Tito Mboweni as his finance minister on Tuesday, replacing Nhlanhla Nene.

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    The end of MTN’s free Twitter promotion may have led to a huge reduction in the volume of tweets by the users of that service, but it doesn’t seem to have had a significant effect on the volume of activity on the social network in South Africa.

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