South Africa’s chloroquine supplies were temporarily depleted amid speculation that the drug could be used to treat the coronavirus and additional supplies to treat lupus sufferers had to be procured from India.

The economic meltdown has seen the world's leading central bankers including the South African Reserve Bank come under pressure to bail out their respective economies in the form of interest rate cuts. They've been urged to fund governments, an idea that central bank governor, Lesetja Kganyago, says is tantamount to a client instructing their banker to do the same.

Minister of Public Enterprises Pravin Gordhan briefed a joint meeting of Parliament's Portfolio and Standing Committees on Public Enterprises on Wednesday evening.

From bicycle culture to electric vehicles, the automotive industry is changing and Covid-19 may be accelerating the pace of change.

Prasa estimates revenue losses for the year of R757 million, due to the impact of the lockdown.

Minister of Public Enterprises Pravin Gordhan would not have committed to the framework of his 'Leadership Compact' if he did not know where the money would come from, the Labour Court heard.

South African banks are holding off on any further layoffs as they prepare to help the shrinking economy survive a potential jobs bloodbath.

The Covid-19 lockdown only had a marginal effect on the results of Kaap Agri for the interim period until the end of March 2020, the group announced on Thursday. But it opted not to pay a dividend, in the interests of managing cash flow.

The horse racing authority is pleading for a partial restart of the industry under Level 4 of the lockdown, warning that a prolonged suspension of activity could lead to massive financial impact and job losses.

Patel was appointed editor of the weekly investigative newspaper in October of 2016.

Newly appointed provisional liquidator of SA Express is in the process of investigating affairs of the state-owned regional airline.

If you have lost your income due to the lockdown, your options are limited.

Members of the South African Airways Voyager loyalty programme will temporarily not be able to redeem miles earned for awards.

Microsoft hopes to improve its software through AI research while OpenAI can take full advantage of the Azure cloud.

The Naples processor is designed to compete with Intel's Xeon offerings for the data center.

The internal Windows 10 builds that leaked last week ended up revealing a brand new edition of the OS Microsoft is planning for power users.

An Epyc server can contain up to 4TB of memory and 128 lanes of PCIe, making it a worthy Intel Xeon competitor.

The Chinese government is getting local ISPs and cloud service providers to practice taking websites offline quickly when they are deemed harmful.

The deal will help Marvell generate $3.4 billion in annual revenue, Marvell says.

Only a few vendors are the best for routing your internet signals and storing your files at the office. Here are PCMag readers' top picks.

Originally announced in February 2015, Apple is giving up on trying to build the new facility.

Microsoft realizes you can use the sea as a giant heatsink and save a small fortune in cooling costs.

The high-end discrete graphics cards will reportedly target the PC gaming market and data centers, putting pressure on AMD and Nvidia. Intel hired a former AMD exec to lead the effort.

The access was being sold on a Russian-language marketplace. The affected airport system was available on the open internet and may have been secured with a weak password.

While it won't be ready until 2022, it will create hundreds of jobs, run on 100 percent renewable energy, and be the first data center to take advantage of a new StatePoint Liquid Cooling system that promises a 50 percent reduction in water use.

Bloomberg says People's Liberation Army operatives added tiny, nefarious microchips to server motherboards made by Super Micro and used by Apple and Amazon, among others. All three companies pushed back hard on the story.

Dell has some Doorbuster Deals that will not last long. Also, the Instant Pot DUO60 is back at $49.99. Plus, Prime members can grab a Ring Video Doorbell Pro and Echo Dot for $169.

The Dell PowerEdge T30 is back at $299, the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2920X is just $382, and the 55-inch LG B8 OLED 4K TV is only $1,047.

The old NATO bunker in Germany was acquired in 2013 and then turned into a heavily-secured data processing center for illegal activities linked to organized crime and the dark web.

Use the coupon code below to get this $788 server for less than $300.

South Carolina grants Google permission to pump up to 549 million gallons of groundwater every year to cool servers at its Berkeley County data center.

The Heritage Foundation says current federal programs supporting things like after-school centers don't work and their funding should be redirected for education savings accounts.

The House appropriations committee voted Wednesday to advance a bill providing a slight funding increase for the U.S. Department of Education, bringing overall funding to about $71 billion.

An after-school program in North Carolina teaches teenagers to collaborate and problem-solve by tasking them with real work-world problems drawn from their community.

A research-practice partnership examines how urban after-school programs can support positive youth development.

A community-based organization's partnership with researchers creates a 'knowledge neighborhood' supporting after-school programs.

Authorities say the single victim of a shooting this week at a high school in North Las Vegas, Nev., was an 18-year-old student.

Through a city-school partnership in Nashville, Tenn., after-school programs are using data to tailor lessons to students' learning needs.

Elev8 Baltimore sees the impact relationships and out of school time programs have on one student's life.

Education Week catches you up on the week gone by with a thoughtful look at recent news in K-12 education.

Faced with a push for academic programming, after-school providers are deploying new strategies to train and recruit effective educators.

Educators are invited to write about their experiences teaching online in the age of COVID-19.

A handful of districts and other groups are reshaping the after-school space to provide a wide range of social and linguistic supports for newcomer students.

With schools shut down, social distancing in place, and parents at home, after-school programs are laying off staff and switching gears to meet families' needs.

I've read several articles that mentioned the north magnetic pole has been moving more in the past few decades, than in the previous few hundred years. And as a Map Guy, I knew I just had to plot this data on a map, and see it for myself! I provide [...]

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The COVID-19 Coronavirus outbreak has been in the news a lot lately, and everyone is probably looking for a quick/easy way to see the data. The best visualization I've seen so far is this dashboard by Johns Hopkins. Here's a screen-capture: But before we dive into the data analysis, let's [...]

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Ridgeline plots are useful for visualizing changes in the shapes of distribution over multiple groups or time periods. Let us look at an example of how we can create this plot using the SGPLOT procedure that is part of the ODS Graphics Procedures. For this example, we will plot the [...]

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I'm a bit of a boat paddling enthusiast, as you might have guessed from some of my previous paddling blog posts. The amount of exertion in race-paddling is similar to running - the longest race I've paddled in a race so far was 13 miles (half-marathon distance). But in the [...]

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Everyone's thinking about the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), and wondering if there are any cases near where they live. I recently used SAS Software to create a dashboard with a world map showing which countries had reported cases. And now that the virus has spread around the world, a world/country-level [...]

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