SADC officials met with World Bank leaders yesterday to plan new economic pathways across Southern Africa. They designed a SMART Integrated Economic Corridors program that merges infrastructure growth with industrial development. The North-South Corridor will serve as their test model before they expand to other regional routes. SADC Executive Secretary Elias Magosi talked with World Bank Acting Vice President Amit Dar during their Washington meeting.
During their talks, they also discussed energy projects. The Regional Energy Transmission, Trade, and Decarbonization Project will replace older energy initiatives. This project received approval earlier this year with $1.26 billion in funding. The money aims to increase electricity...
People looking for good luck during tests or job interviews might want to carry amber as a charm. Amber joins other objects that can help bring fortune when someone needs it most. Astrologer Anastasia Starun tells people the Chinese calendar names this year after the Snake, linked to Yin Wood energy. The Rat and Horse connect to this element as symbolic stars. She suggests using pictures or small figures of these animals when facing tough challenges.
Black obsidian works as another powerful charm this year because it shares energy with these special animals. People can keep these items in their pocket or place animal figures in the southern part of their home. A small horse statue running at full speed works well when displayed in this...
Police caught a driver who hit a fence, struck two people walking on a sidewalk, and tried to run away. The crash happened where Liteiny Prospekt meets Nekrasov Street in St. Petersburg. A Peugeot slammed into a barrier at high speed, hitting a 40-year-old man and his 8-year-old daughter. Officers quickly found the driver after he left the scene.
The 33-year-old man from Central Asia appeared drunk when police caught him. Law enforcement wrote several tickets against him for breaking the rules. He waits in a special jail cell as the case moves forward. The crash barrier between the road and sidewalk saved the father and daughter from worse injuries. Police did not share details about how badly the pedestrians were hurt.
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Famous actor Mikhail Boyarsky left the hospital after falling at the theater. The 75-year-old star broke a rib and bruised his lung during the accident on April 14. He went home but must return for medical procedures.
A theater source told TASS news agency that Boyarsky plans to perform on April 27 and 29. He has appeared in several plays at the Lensovet Theatre, such as "In This Sweet Old House," "Romeo and Juliet," and "Theatrical Romance." The veteran performer appears less often in movies because he finds few interesting roles.
Medical staff treated him after he fell backstage nearly two weeks ago. His fans worried about his health following the incident. Doctors cleared him to go home after seeing enough improvement in his...
St. Petersburg officials found four people with active tuberculosis who refused medical care. These residents from the Nevsky district have infiltrative tuberculosis but stopped visiting doctors for treatment. Their actions put other city residents at risk of catching the dangerous disease.
The city prosecutor's office investigated these cases after learning about the patients. They filed legal papers asking courts to approve forced hospitalization. Judges agreed with prosecutors that these individuals needed immediate medical attention. Police officers took all four patients to specialized hospitals against their will.
Local health authorities worry about TB spreading through public spaces when infected people avoid treatment. The...
Russia opened a new probe into a clash between a math teacher and a migrant student at a St. Petersburg bus stop. The fight happened on April 17 near School No. 338 in the Nevsky District, according to local news source Fontanka. The student's mother claims the teacher started everything inside the school building before things escalated outside.
The mother said her ninth-grade son heard the teacher yelling and using bad language toward female students. When her son responded to the girls' call for help, the teacher allegedly told him he had no right to be there because he was a migrant. They were supposed to meet with the principal after classes ended. The mother reports that the teacher tried to leave, but her son grabbed his...
Someone posted the first picture of the chip inside Nintendo's Switch 2 online. The image shows NVIDIA's Tegra239 chip marked as "T239" on its surface. This confirms earlier rumors about what powers the new gaming system. The discovery matches Nintendo's known partnership with NVIDIA for custom Tegra chips in their consoles.
Previous reports suggest the chip comes with eight Arm Cortex-A78C cores. Its hybrid graphics unit mixes parts from NVIDIA's Ada Lovelace and Ampere designs with 1536 CUDA cores. The processor runs between 1.1 GHz and 1.5 GHz, depending on whether the console sits in its dock. It works with LPDDR5 memory through a 128-bit interface for faster data transfer.
The Tegra239 supports DLSS upscaling technology, which...
Chinese AI companies started selling their RTX 4090D graphics cards as demand for AI computing power falls. These firms once modified consumer GPUs with extra memory to boost computing abilities when advanced chips were hard to find. Server usage rates dropped to about 20 percent for many businesses. They need to sell extra computing resources to stay profitable during this slowdown.
The current market shows these specialized RTX 4090D 48 GB cards priced around $6,000 in local shops. Prices might decrease as more AI firms unload their hardware. Regular computer users might benefit from this trend, though prices will take time to return to normal levels. AI companies learned they need less computing power than they thought to meet...
Minisforum showed off new AMD Ryzen products at the Japan IT Spring Week. The company plans to release items with Fire Range chips in the next few months.
The F1FGM motherboard is mATX in size with full heatsinks. It can hold a Ryzen 9 9955HX chip with 16 cores and 32 threads based on a Zen 5 design. This chip runs at 5.4 GHz top speed with 64 MB cache. Users can boost power from 55W to 160W for better performance. The board has four DDR5 memory slots that fit up to 256 GB of RAM. It offers PCIe 5.0 slots, USB4 ports, a 5 GbE network connection, and Wi-Fi 7.
The MS-A2 Mini PC also uses Fire Range CPUs. It improves on the earlier MS-A1 series that had Ryzen 8000G chips. This small computer has three M.2 storage slots, 10 GbE networking...
