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  "id": 3718411,
  "title": "The real story behind Iris, South Africa’s classroom robot",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/27/the-real-story-behind-iris-south-africas-classroom-robot",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-27T10:27:22.000Z",
  "source": {
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    "url": "https://techcentral.co.za/the-real-story-behind-iris-south-africas-classroom-robot/285433/"
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  "summary": "Equipping every public school would cost R14.5-billion. Despite public backing, government has not considered funding it.",
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      {
        "outlet": "TechCentral",
        "title": "South Africa’s ‘clean coal’ plan is a bet against arithmetic",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/27/south-africas-clean-coal-plan-is-a-bet-against-arithmetic",
        "published": "2026-08-27T09:15:18.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}