
Canada and Mexico can avoid tariffs before Saturday’s deadline, says Trump’s commerce pick | Trump administration
Donald Trump’s nominee to run the commerce department, Howard Lutnick, said on Wednesday that Canada and Mexico can avoid looming US tariffs if they act swiftly to close their borders to fentanyl, while vowing to slow China’s advancement in artificial intelligence. Lutnick, a billionaire Wall Street CEO, at his US Senate confirmation hearing said he…
NVIDIA says it’ll likely run out of RTX 5090 and 5080 cards due to ‘significant demand’
NVIDIA just warned consumers that it might be pretty difficult for its upcoming . The company says it expects “significant demand” for the cards and that “stock-outs may happen.” The term “stock-out” is business speak for “we ran out of the thing you want.” The official launch is January 30, so many gamers could find…

Lammy tells Rwanda it is putting $1bn in aid ‘under threat’ in DRC invasion | Rwanda
Rwanda has put $1bn of global aid under threat by taking part in the invasion of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the UK foreign secretary, David Lammy, has said. He made the direct warning in a phone call to the Rwandan president, Paul Kagame, on Sunday after also speaking to the US secretary of…

Freeze your nuts – but not your mushrooms! 28 thrifty, fabulous ways to use your freezer | Food
Almost all of us have a freezer of some size, and yet so few of us maximise its potential. If you’re like me, it’s sat there filled with nothing more than a bag of peas, a half full sack of oven chips, a tray of ice cubes and some pre-pandemic fish fingers. But it’s always…

The kindness of strangers: after a nasty bike accident in Turkey, a local dropped everything to care for me | Australian lifestyle
I was cycling in rural Turkey – I couldn’t tell you where. My plan that day was to ride until I reached a village with somewhere I could stay. I needed people because, unlike other bike tourists, I didn’t have a tent. I thought not bringing one would mean I had more adventure – maybe…