MONDAY, 15 JULY 2019, 21:53
The new 2019 MacBook Air with a True Tone display, upgraded keyboard and a price cut has been out for a week already, but we’re finding out more about. The latest bit of information from Consomac confirms an unfortunate drawback: the SSD is slower than the previous 2018 model. From a report: The French site conducted some tests on the new 2019 MacBook Air using Blackmagic Disk Speed Test and it...
Neural analysis finds the brains of both sexes respond the same way to pornography
The belief that men are more likely to get turned on by sexual images than women may be something of a fantasy, according to a study suggesting brains respond to such images the same way regardless of biological sex.
The idea that, when it comes to sex, men are more “visual creatures” than women has often...
We’ve been hearing for quite some time that the traditional PC is dying, but it’s not quite dead yet. Business analyst firms Gartner and IDC tackle the numbers differently, but both agree that sales of traditional PCs were up — in some regions, way up — in Q2 2019. From a report: While both firms reported market growth in year-on-year PC sales, their actual figures differed. IDC reported a 4.7%...
We’re big fans of Amazon’s Kindles, and all three are on sale for Prime Day: Standard, Paperwhite, and Oasis. They’re as cheap as we’ve seen them.
You’ll be able to complete the trifecta of tiny 16-bit throwback systems on March 19, 2020, when Konami releases the TurboGrafx-16 Mini. From a report: It’ll include Dracula X, Bonk’s Revenge, Gradius and many more games, including many Japanese exclusives. Konami said last week that it will sell the device exclusively through Amazon, with preorders opening up on Monday, July 15 during the...
We catch up with CIO at Tymebank, Dieter Botha, about being SA’s first digital bank, its relationship with AWS and what the rest of 2019 has in store.
Eliminating hunger by 2030 is an immense challenge, say heads of UN agencies
More than 820 million people worldwide are still going hungry, according to a UN report that says reaching the target of zero hunger by 2030 is “an immense challenge”.
The number of people with not enough to eat has risen for the third year in a row as the population increases, after a decade when real progress was...
Fun and games on Facebook may have serious consequences for the foolish. That was the message delivered by the US Air Force, who have responded to a Facebook’s group’s efforts to have 450,000 people storm a top secret military base. From a report: Conspiracy theorists have always believed that Area 51 in Nevada holds information about extra-terrestrial activities on our planet, possibly...
The company, which will reveal findings of the ENSafrica investigation tomorrow, announces the resignations of three top executives.
The social network launched a complete visual overhaul of its website Monday. But will a fresh design be enough to save Twitter?
Old Mutual has released its Savings and Investment Monitor report for 2019, which measured the spending behaviour of South African consumers over the last year.
Ever felt like a sneeze could send you flying? Hayfever does just that.
sandbagger writes: Computer pioneer and codebreaker Alan Turing will feature on the new design of the Bank of England’s 50 pound note. He is celebrated for his code-cracking work that proved vital to the Allies in World War Two. The 50 pound note will be the last of the Bank of England collection to switch from paper to polymer when it enters circulation by the end of 2021. The note was once...
DuckDuckGo is trying to attract users with a privacy-focused search engine. But taking on an internet giant isn’t easy.
A Facebook post invited people to swarm the secretive military base in Nevada on Sept. 20. The Air Force said they’d better not.
Facebook’s stock went up after news of a record-breaking $5 billion FTC fine for various privacy violations broke last week. From a report: That, as The New York Times’ Mike Isaac points out, is the real story here: the United States government spent months coming up with a punishment for Facebook’s long list of privacy-related bad behavior, and the best it could do was so weak that Facebook’s...
Samsung’s latest monitor boasts a 240Hz refresh rate which means it should be great for gamers. So is it?
The solutions to today’s problems – with cheesy pics!
Earlier today I set you the following four puzzles:
1. You have a cube of cheese that measures 3 x 3 x 3 inches, and you want to slice it into 27 smaller 1 x 1 x 1 inch cubes, as shown below. If you have a straight knife, what’s the minimum number of slices you need to do it? You are allowed to rearrange the pieces after each slice.
The series, hosted by Marvel’s chief creative officer Joe Quesada, will ask everyone from Hugh Jackman to Johnny Weir how they tell stories.
It’s now in the top spot for the second straight week.
An anonymous reader shares a report: Europe’s Galileo satellite network — used by satnavs, financial institutions and more — is in the throes of a huge outage. The system has been down since Friday meaning that travelers (and others) in Europe have instead had to fall back on the American Global Positioning System (GPS) — or even Russia or Chinese systems. Galileo has been struck by what is...