South Africa’s economy slowed for a third straight year in 2024, but dodged a recession in the final quarter as the agricultural sector rebounded following a drought, official data showed on Tuesday. The country’s gross domestic product (GDP) expanded 0.6 percent last year compared to 0.7 percent in 2023, according to the StatsSA statistics agency….
As South Africa continues to face a high-water crisis, the Minister of Water and Sanitation, Pemmy Majodina, emphasised that while the dams in Gauteng are full, there are still issues with supplying water to households, reported eNCA. ‘WE ARE NOT IN A CRISIS,’ SAYS MINISTER OF WATER AND SANITATION Majodina insisted that they were not…
Skip to content Image: Jon L. Jacobi At a glance Expert’s Rating Pros Good 10Gbps performance Handy thumb-drive form factor Type-C connector Free data recovery, Dropbox backup, and MyLio Cons Lags slightly behind the competition in testing Our Verdict Seagate’s Ultra Compact SSD 10Gbps USB thumb drive delivers far better performance than generic 5Gbps or…
Image: Baseus Power banks are the unsung heroes of our always-connected modern lives, and if you’re going to get one, you might as well purchase a model that can charge your phone, tablet, and laptop at once with ease. The Baseus Blade laptop power bank is perfect for that, especially now that it’s on sale….
Image: Samsung How fast is too fast for a monitor? If you ask Samsung, then 500 refreshes every second still isn’t too fast for PC gaming. That’s the speed of the latest OLED monitor panel the company is showing off in Barcelona at Mobile World Congress 2025. The 27-inch 1440p display is aimed right at…
Image: Google/uBlock Origin Over the past several months, Google has been taking greater action against adblock extensions in Chrome. With the introduction of Manifest V3, an update of the Chromium browser on which Chrome is built, more adblockers are apparently being killed off. Users of uBlock Origin, one of the most popular adblockers for Chrome,…
Image: Black_Kira / Shutterstock.com Data breaches and leaks are just one way your account info ends up in the hands of hackers. Sometimes they steal them the good old-fashioned way by using malware. Such infostealing software is behind a recent report about a massive data collection being sold on Telegram, with 23 billion entries containing…
By Sara Guaglione • March 4, 2025 • Nearly half of journalists surveyed in a new report said they are using generative AI tools not approved or bought by their organization. That’s according to a survey by Trint, an AI transcription software platform, which asked producers, editors and correspondents from 29 global newsrooms how they…
By Tim Peterson • March 4, 2025 • Subscribe: Apple Podcasts • Spotify Puck’s famed journalist-centric publishing model is changing. Sort of. The news outlet debuted in 2021 with its journalists as the company’s audience-facing focal point, not the publication. People would subscribe less so to Puck than to Matthew Belloni’s or Julia Ioffe’s newsletters…
By Alexander Lee • March 4, 2025 • Ivy Liu Twitch is expanding its monetization and moderation tools, and creators see the move as an attempt to regain ground lost to competitors such as Kick and YouTube. In an open letter penned by Twitch CEO Dan Clancy on Feb. 27, the company revealed a slew of…
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