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JEAN-PIERRE MURRAY-KLINE NUGGETS

(Bite size updates on the real important stuff related to Tech, Trends, Business and the Planet.)

28 NOVEMBER 2025

Highlights include:

  • Climate warming surpasses critical 1.5°C threshold.
  • Medical robots and enamel-regrowing gel advance.
  • Africa enters lunar helium-3 space race.
  • Wikipedia battles AI-driven content disruption.
  • Cape Town turns landfill gas into power.
  • and MORE!

31 OCTOBER 2025

Highlights include:

  • Smart toilets redefine hygiene innovation in Turkey.

  • Crowdfunding platforms offer quick financial lifelines.

  • China leads future tech; South Africa must adapt.

  • Angola launches national space agency for Africa.

  • Kouga Mummy reveals ancient South African history.

  • and MORE!

26 SEPTEMBER 2025

Highlights include:

  • Pig-to-human lung transplant sparks future organ debates.
  • South Africa embraces crypto towns and digital currency.
  • E-commerce set to exceed R150 billion by 2027.
  • Rooftop solar PV surpasses Eskom’s renewable capacity.
  • AI, bots, and global laws reshape digital futures.
  • and MORE!

29 AUGUST 2025

Highlights include:

  • Religion’s influence questioned amid future AI and space life.

  • Joburg monitors vehicle emissions with new TRUE project.

  • Green startups pitch at 2025 FNF GreenPitch Challenge.

  • Meta acquires Egyptian AI voice startup, PlayAI.

  • Cancer breakthrough: deep-sea bacteria compound shows promise.

  • and MORE!

25 JULY 2025

Highlights include:

  • Radiation-eating fungus found in Chernobyl.

  • Quantum chip integrates light and computing.

  • Denmark plans deepfake image copyright law.

  • Solar panels that harvest drinking water.

  • Brain emits light during thought processes.

  • and MORE!

27 JUNE 2025

Highlights include:

  • Africa sending spaceballs into orbit
  • Greta Thunberg’s global climate impact
  • Breakthrough HIV treatment using mRNA
  • China’s Tianwen-2 targets near-Earth asteroid
  • Congo creates world’s largest forest reserve
  • and MORE!

28 MAY 2025

Highlights include:

  • Nedbank cybercrime shows urgent need for awareness

  • 100+ endangered vultures poisoned in Mpumalanga

  • Stitch raises $55M to expand across Africa

  • SAA hit by major cyberattack, systems restored

  • Google search changes may reduce website traffic

  • and MORE!

25 APRIL 2025

Highlights include:

  • Ancient DNA links African Takarkori people to modern humans.
  • Webb Telescope detects possible signs of life.
  • Africa holds strong on climate goals.
  • China’s CATL launches game-changing EV battery.
  • New research suggests life on Earth may have sparked from microlightning.
  • and MORE!

28 MARCH 2025

Highlights include:

  • NASA shuts science offices, billionaire Jared Isaacman takes over.

  • Monaco ranks least stressed; nature helps well-being.

  • Rwanda pushes cashless economy with fintech growth.

  • Nigerian Pidgin AI voice recognition launched by ajala.ai.

  • and MORE!

28 FEBRUARY 2025

Highlights include:

  • AI water usage: AI consumes vast water resources for cooling.
  • African startups: Funding is rising, but challenges remain.
  • Cyber threats: Increased phishing and ransomware attacks in 2025.
  • Microplastics: Found in clouds, impacting air and water quality.
  • and MORE!

30 JANUARY 2025

Highlights include:

  • Global Trends for 2025
  • Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
  • Global Minimum Tax Act
  • Is the World More Violent?
  • South African E-Law
  • and MORE!

29 NOVEMBER 2024

Highlights include:

  • South Africa’s water crisis
  • Snowless Mount Fuji
  • Africans in space
  • JP’s ICASA interview
  • A massive freshwater reserve discovery
  • and MORE!

28 OCTOBER 2024

Highlights include:

  • Tooth regrowth
  • SpaceX’s ‘Mechazilla’ tower
  • Voice command movie creation
  • Stem cells and diabetes
  • Space ashes
  • and MORE!

30 SEPTEMBER 2024

Highlights include:

  • Plant poachers
  • Microsoft’s new AI data center
  • 3 new South African laws
  • AI collusion
  • Universal Basic Income Grant (UBIG)
  • WFF One Planet City Challenge
  • and MORE!

30 AUGUST 2024

Highlights include:

  • Growing habitats in space
  • 3D printing news
  • Astronauts stuck in space
  • Underground cave on the moon
  • All about carbon credits
  • and MORE!

23 JULY 2024

Highlights include:

  • What is WeeStand?
  • Space debris havoc!
  • Top 5 warmest countries
  • Hackers steal R300 million
  • AI lie detector
  • and MORE!

27 JUNE 2024

Highlights include:

  • Themes on Africa
  • Wonderful client feedback
  • All about cratons
  • Robotics
  • Jean-Pierre’s new book: A Tree, a Human and a Robot
  • and MORE!

23 MAY 2024

Highlights include:

  • Africa colonized the world
  • Ghana and blockchain technology
  • South Africa launches a military-focused AI hub
  • The world’s largest carbon capture plant
  • Feedback from Thuli Madonsela
  • and MORE!

24 APRIL 2024

Highlights include:

  • Global economic growth to slow
  • South African state entity Itac hacked!
  • Engineering without borders
  • What kills 8.34 million people per year around the World?
  • New universities opening in South Africa
  • and MORE!

29 FEBRUARY  2024

Highlights include:

  • Has your router been hacked for free Wi-Fi?
  • A mushroom growing on a frog
  • Prince William’s ‘Earthshot’ Prize is heading to South Africa
  • E-tolls & elections!
  • Jean-Pierre visited NASA
  • and MORE!

24 JANUARY  2024

Highlights include:

  • Hackers and your naughty photos
  • Micro nuclear batteries
  • GITEX AFRICA 2024 expo
  • A new EV car heading to South Africa
  • Lesotho and Eswatini
  • and MORE!

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