The Ekurhuleni metro is auctioning off a bunch of impounded cars if nobody claims them. About one hundred seventy-three vehicles will go under the hammer by the end of January, a move to clear city pounds and recoup storage costs from unclaimed property. Owners have a final chance to reclaim their cars or trucks by settling outstanding fines and providing proof of ownership at EMPD pounds.
These vehicles, including sedans and bakkies, were impounded for reasons like unpaid traffic fines, accidents, or abandonment. The city follows a standard process, issuing public notices to give owners a last warning before selling the assets. Past auctions have brought in millions for the municipal budget, offering bargain hunters cheap wheels while...
A nasty storm wrecked homes in KwaZulu-Natal, leaving a trail of damage. The thunderstorm hit the Midlands with heavy rain, strong winds, and large hail, destroying around fifty houses and affecting over one hundred fifty households across the Amajuba and Umzinyathi districts. Five people were injured and required hospital treatment, though no fatalities were reported as disaster teams assessed the full scope of the destruction.
Areas like Utrecht and Dannhauser saw the worst impacts, with numerous homes flattened and trees uprooted. The provincial disaster management authority coordinated a response, providing temporary shelter and supplies to displaced families. This severe weather event follows a pattern of intense summer storms in...
Joburg's plan for hijacked buildings sparked a fight between the ANC and Herman Mashaba. The political clash centers on the city's strategy to negotiate with tenants before eviction, which ActionSA's leader called a dangerous deal with criminals. The ANC fired back, defending the approach as a housing and development necessity, not just a law enforcement issue, highlighting the deep divide over fixing Johannesburg's inner-city crisis.
Mashaba, a former mayor, criticized the tactic as reckless, pointing to past tragedies like the deadly Usindiso Building fire. He advocated for expropriation and privatization to create affordable housing instead. The ANC rejected his view, accusing him of ignoring the plight of poor residents and...
Cable thieves ruined Christmas for a whole lot of people in Pretoria. A power outage lasting three days hit areas like Olievenhoutbosch, Thatchfield, and Highveld after a fire at the Olivenhoutbosch Substation caused by cable theft on Christmas Eve. Residents spent the holiday without electricity for cooking or cooling, dealing with spoiled food and mounting anger over the repeated vandalism hitting the city's infrastructure.
Technicians worked through the holiday to fix the damaged transformers and lines, with power fully restored days later. The incident highlights a constant problem for Tshwane, where copper cable theft costs millions and causes widespread blackouts. Local frustrations point to a need for better security around...
A former health official's family says he wanted to clear his name before he died. The relatives of Brian Hlongwa, the late Gauteng Health MEC, are pushing back against a corruption report from the Special Investigating Unit, stating he always intended to prove his innocence in court. Hlongwa passed away after a short illness, leaving unresolved fraud and money laundering charges linked to over one point two billion rand in alleged graft during his tenure.
The SIU report detailed corrupt relationships and irregular contracts within the department, implicating Hlongwa and other officials with a company called 3P Consulting. He had denied the allegations for years. Political tributes from the ANC remembered him as a dedicated public...
A woman got stabbed, and her dog was killed during a hike on Signal Hill. The violent robbery happened on the lower slopes above Cape Town's Noon Gun area, leaving the victim with a non-life-threatening arm wound and overwhelming grief after the attacker also murdered her pet. Police are hunting the unidentified knife-wielding man who stole her cellphone and fled, with no arrests made yet despite an active investigation and appeals for witnesses.
The Boxing Day attack underscores persistent safety problems in the Table Mountain National Park, a popular spot with a history of muggings and assaults. The victim, who was hiking alone with her dog, required hospital treatment and now faces a tough emotional recovery. This incident follows...
NVIDIA's next Feynman chips might stack LPU units using advanced bonding tech. An expert theory suggests the company could use TSMC's hybrid bonding, similar to AMD's 3D V-Cache, to attach separate LPU dies packed with SRAM onto a main A16 process compute die. This move follows NVIDIA's IP deal with Groq and aims to dominate the AI inference market by combining GPU flexibility with deterministic LPU throughput.
The proposed design would place large SRAM banks on dedicated LPU dies bonded to the Feynman die containing tensor cores and control logic. This approach supposedly saves expensive silicon area since SRAM does not scale well on advanced nodes. TSMC's bonding tech would provide a wide, low-power connection, while backside power...
Samsung might be testing a monster battery while its phones keep using small ones. Leaks suggest Samsung SDI is working on a dual-cell silicon-carbon battery with a total capacity of twenty thousand milliamp hours, a huge jump aimed at catching Chinese rivals using similar tech. This experimental design reportedly has a primary twelve thousand milliamp hour cell and a secondary eight thousand milliamp hour cell, but it's still unstable, with one cell swelling by eighty percent in tests.
Silicon-carbon batteries use a special anode that can hold way more lithium ions than standard graphite, allowing for much higher capacity in a thinner package. This tech explains how some affordable phones already ship with batteries nearing ten...
ASUS is dropping a new line of NEO motherboards at CES. The teaser shows refreshed AM5 platform boards across their ROG, TUF Gaming, and ProArt series, with model names likely just adding "NEO" at the end, like a board labeled with WIFI7 NEO.
This appears to be a minor update, not a full next-generation launch, focusing on tweaked features like improved connectivity. The video does not reveal specific specs or major changes, suggesting these are revised versions of existing eight-hundred series models. ASUS is joining other hardware vendors showcasing new products at the upcoming event.
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