NewsFeed Cuba was hit by its second nationwide power outage in five days after the national grid collapsed again, millions are left without electricity as the island’s deepening energy crisis worsens. Published On 11 Jul 202611 Jul 2026 Click here to share on social media share-nodes Share googleAdd Al Jazeera on Googleinfo
South African companies are operating under sustained financial pressure in 2026. The Small Business Growth Index found that only 38% of South African small and medium enterprises (SMEs) surveyed in 2025 could survive more than a year under current cost pressures without external support. Now imagine these SMEs are hit by unexplained connectivity downtime. Both…
AstraZeneca‘s failed late-stage trial for Wainua was never expected to have a major financial impact on the company. Most analysts estimate the trial miss wiped just 2-4% from their valuation models. Yet the shares lost roughly twice that in a single session, suggesting the market reaction reflected more than just the loss of one drug,…
Wojtek Piorko, MD for Africa at Vertiv. Artificial intelligence has moved rapidly from experimentation to core infrastructure, bringing with it new demands on data centres worldwide. Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, the AI conversation has accelerated dramatically – evolving from early curiosity to a strategic priority for organisations across industries. “In just…
LOS ANGELES — Actor Randolph Mantooth, best known for his role as firefighter and medic John Gage in NBC’s “Emergency!” television series in the 1970s, has died at age 80 after a long illness, his family said Friday. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Mantooth’s role and…
OpenAI has showcased a new AI agent meant to help white-collar workers access the power of coding tools without the price shock. The agent, called ChatGPT Work, combines OpenAI’s popular chatbot with its AI coding tool, Codex, to create documents, presentations and websites, the company said. The service is powered by OpenAI’s most advanced AI…
Meta has abruptly taken down a new feature that allowed people to use its artificial intelligence (AI) tool to make fake images from user content on Instagram. The feature was part of a broad rollout of Muse Image, a new AI image generation tool Instagram’s parent company released on Tuesday. It allowed users of the…
Tidiane Lo, VP for the MEA region at Westcon-Comstor. (Image supplied) Westcon-Comstor has confirmed an Africa-wide distribution deal with identity security provider BeyondTrust. Tidiane Lo, VP for the MEA region at Westcon-Comstor, said the agreement enables a unified distribution strategy across 51 countries, expanding scale, partner reach and market coverage. The deal applies to all…
Iranian officials privately told Trump advisers that they made a mistake in shooting at commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz, that the attacks stemmed from an “errant” sect of hardliners who are trying to undermine negotiations, and that they want to keep talking, senior U.S. officials said on Friday. The White House wants the…
Rain South Africa and Huawei are jointly accelerating the deployment of a sub-1GHz massive Mimo 5G network across South Africa, with plans to scale it to a multi-thousand-site commercial network. The move marks a major breakthrough in wireless communications and opens a new chapter in the evolution of 5G, aiming to deliver ubiquitous, high-quality 5G…
