Following the recent release of the new iPad mini and the dual-screen iPhone Duo, Apple is slated to refresh the remainder of its tablet lineup early next year, according to reporting by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. The planned updates cover the entry-level iPad, the mid-range iPad Air, and the high-end iPad Pro, bringing architecture and display…
The demand for donkey hides has grown exponentially over the past 15 years, driven mainly by demand from China. Lauren Johnston is a specialist on China trade with Africa. She has spent several years looking into the donkey trade, and has just published a book, China, Africa and the Market for Donkeys. She answers questions…
Tando Luyaba, CIO at the Information Regulator, scooped the IITPSA President’s Award for IT Personality. (Photgraph by Lesley Moyo) Tando Luyaba, chief information officer (CIO) at the Information Regulator, was announced the winner of the 2026 Institute of Information Technology Professionals South Africa (IITPSA) President’s Award for IT Personality. Luyaba received the coveted award in…
Americans have gone all in on “maxxing”, making it the 2026 Word of the Year for Dictionary.com. Short for maximising, the term “can be used on its own or added to the end of any word to convey you’re doing something to the fullest or optimizing it as much as possible”, Dictionary.com said in a…
An employee at the Celsior Wadamachi supermarket in Yokohama, Japan, on Thursday, Jan. 15, 2026. Soaring food costs are a key component driving broader inflation higher, with data Friday expected to show consumer price growth has stayed above the central bank’s 2% target for four straight calendar years. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Japan’s core inflation…
Spotify has removed more than 50 million tracks that appear to have been created by artificial intelligence from its curated music recommendations so far this year, as the streaming giant works to keep AI-generated music from crowding out human artists. “AI-generated slop and spam don’t belong in your recommendations, and we’ve made changes to keep…
After many nominations from the ICT community, ITWeb Brainstorm’s judging panel has shortlisted finalists for its CIO of the Year awards. Run in association with First Distribution and Microsoft, the awards include two categories: Enterprise CIO of the Year and Public Sector CIO of the Year. The Enterprise CIO of the Year finalists are: Assaad…
The FlyDubai co-pilot whose alleged violent attempt to crash a flight to Israel last week and kill everyone onboard has a history of writing and sharing misogynistic remarks on social media using the rhetoric of the so-called manosphere, CBS News has found. Many posts written and shared by Hamam al Hamami on an X account…
One in five hits on an advert isn’t a genuine human interaction. (Graphic: Nicola Mawson | Magnific) South African advertisers could be being defrauded of between R2.8 billion and R12 billion a year through programmatic online advertising, according to TruthsetsOnline.com’s analysis of local campaigns. Marc Dhalluin, co-founder of TruthsetsOnline.com, estimates South Africa’s digital advertising market…
In a RootsToFoods Capital Series interview continuing Wave 2 of the series, Michael Meehan, founder of the Forum for Impact and former chief executive of the Global Reporting Initiative, argues that capital corridors are not built from scratch. They are recognized, then organized, and some of the most active ones now connect the Gulf, Europe…
