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After spending years and hundreds of millions of dollars, Johnson and Johnson has won FDA approval for its new surgical robot Ottava. Can it challenge the dominance of competitors who entered the race years earlier, or is the market already spoken for? (Source: Bloomberg)

After spending years and hundreds of millions of dollars, Johnson and Johnson has won FDA approval for its new surgical robot Ottava. Can it challenge the dominance of competitors who entered the race years earlier, or is the market already spoken for? (Source: Bloomberg)

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) will construct a new medical building and its 10th constituent college near the city’s technology hub in Pak Shek Kok to boost its research capabilities, aligning with government plans to improve transport connectivity in the area. Dennis Lo Yuk-ming, CUHK

A typical 100-megawatt data centre employs hundreds of workers to build it, although it needs only dozens to eventually operate it, according to a University of Southern California Climate Centre report

SA Asks: Will SpaceX buy a major US wireless carrier?

SA Asks: Will SpaceX buy a major US wireless carrier?

Medicare Advantage plans could be the winners of a decision by the Trump administration to put an early end to a program that kept the cost of Medicare prescription drug plans lower.

The current strain has so far killed 1,587 people, and there is currently no approved vaccine or treatment.

Students are forging intergenerational bonds while planning game nights and teaching gym classes, but “by 7:30 or 8, things get pretty quiet here.”

A scientific expedition is underway in Greenland to study the island’s rapidly melting ice. A team of researchers will spend six weeks investigating whether the loss of glaciers could disrupt a major Atlantic Ocean current system, potentially affecting Europe’s climate. Catherine Viette has more.