BRASILIA: The spread of COVID-19 in the Americas driven by the Omicron variant of the virus has reached levels of transmission never before seen during the pandemic, with cases doubling to 6.1 million over the past week, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said on Wednesday (Jan 12). Omicron has reached nearly every country in…
Sports streaming service DAZN is nearing a deal to acquire Britain’s BT Sport in an estimated US$800 million transaction that will give it access to sought-after rights to the English Premier League and UEFA Champions League matches, four sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. A deal is expected to be reached as soon as…
There have been reports that the Malian team has suspended training in the restive south West region of Buea after sporadic shooting this morning between the military and separatists fighters. The team was training at the Molyko stadium in Buea. Separatists vowed the AFCON games will not be held in the region. Two games are…
I welcome the announcement by the Speaker of the Western Cape Provincial Parliament, Masizole Mnqasela, that the State of Province Address (SOPA) this year will be held at the Velddrif Town Hall, in Velddrif in the West Coast District of our province. It will take place on Tuesday, 15 February 2022. I am excited that…
Villagers in Elim, Limpopo have been without water since boreholes in the area ran dry more than a year ago. This week about a hundred protesters blocked roads near the mall to demand that the Vhembe District Municipality, which is responsible for water supply, fix their boreholes and truck in water to communities. Waterval police…
The Department of Health has noted with concern a video clip circulating on social media platforms depicting a male patient suffering from what looks like a throat cancer, claiming this to be the result of a COVID-19 vaccine. The Department would like to remind and call upon all people who experience any adverse events following…
The Nigeria Agricultural Quarantine Service (NAQS), has once again warn that Donkey Hide remains on the Export Prohibition List in the country. In view of this, according to the NASQ, resumption of the certification of the commodity for export hinges on the rebound of the Nigerian donkey herd, which is still classified as an endangered…
Home News Computing (Image credit: Future) Whether it’s for work or for play, laptops have come a very long way in cementing themselves as a mainstay for getting by in our day-to-day. From ultrabooks to 2-in-1s, gaming laptops to business notebooks, there’s so many different flavours of portable computer available on the market today that it…
Home News Computing (Image credit: Shutterstock) If you’re using cheat programs when playing games on PC, you could be putting your computer at risk as vulnerabilities in signed drivers are most commonly used by game cheat developers to circumvent anti-cheat mechanisms.However, they have also been observed being used by several advanced persistent threat (APT) groups…
Home News (Image credit: ESA) Planets are typically round bodies in space that orbit stars, at least most of the time anyway: We’ve just gotten our first look at an exoplanet that has been deformed by its star’s gravity into a rugby ball-like body.While it sounds weird as heck, this isn’t unexpected — but it…
