Toby Shapshak
Contributor at Forbes
Columnist at Financial Mail
Editor in Chief and Publisher at Stuff (South Africa)
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1 day ago |
stuff.co.za | Toby Shapshak
Checkers has updated its excellent Sixty60 app to make the service more user-friendly for blind and visually impaired people – after local organisation Blind SA approached the retailer with a list of improvements. The Sixty60 team listened, did their own research on accessibility, and have now implemented the first batch of enhancements. Many of these features use the phone’s own ability to read aloud, or what’s known as voice-overs.
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5 days ago |
stuff.co.za | Toby Shapshak
An unlikely hit show, The Penguin proves that good writing, good acting, and particularly good direction can make the sideshow even bigger than the main event. It happened with Better Call Saul, an offshoot that vies for supremacy with the masterful Breaking Bad that spawned the prequel. And now it’s happening with Colin Farrell’s sideshow performance as the iconic Penguin in Matt Reeves’ The Batman, and I’m loving it.
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1 month ago |
stuff.co.za | Toby Shapshak
In a stunning about-face over crippling trade tariffs against Chinese imports, US President Donald Trump managed to shoot his tough-guy-act in the foot as he kept iPhones from skyrocketing in cost. Such unpredictability in Trump is not unprecedented, as many have all experienced first-hand in the last maddening few months. This month’s shock tariffs wiped $5tn off US stock markets in the first two days alone, including $1tn from the so-called Magnificent Seven.
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1 month ago |
stuff.co.za | Toby Shapshak
Eddie Redmayne is one of the greatest actors of this generation. If his unforgettable Oscar-worthy performance while filming the utterly remarkable life story of physicist Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything wasn‘t confirmation enough, then his performance in The Day of the Jackal should seal it.
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1 month ago |
stuff.co.za | Toby Shapshak
Elon Musk has a Nazi problem. Since he bought Twitter and rebranded it X, he has allowed right-wing extremists, hate speech, antisemitism, and islamophobia to run rampant on the platform. Now Musk – after deliberately doing a Hitler salute twice after President Donald Trump’s inauguration – is the Nazi. At least in the minds of a new backlash against his various companies, especially Tesla, which have become known as “Swatsticars” or “Swastikars” in memes online.
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