As the battle to succeed President Jacob Zuma as leader of the ANC grows increasingly fractious, party treasurer-general Zweli Mkhize is emerging as a possible compromise choice to keep the continent’s oldest
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Amazon.com is looking to an ageing technology to continue its push to digitise and connect the home: the landline phone. At an event in Seattle in the US on Wednesday, Amazon unveiled a $35 device that plugs into existing
Amazon.com has debuted a new high-end version of its Echo speaker with a smart-home hub system built in, stepping up a fight with Google and Apple for digital control of people’s homes. The upgraded device, called the Echo Plus
Apple is facing production delays to its top-of-the-line iPhone X due to problems with the 3D sensor manufacturing process, according to a series of news reports. Makers of the components, used in facial recognition
Inventor James Dyson confirmed on Tuesday that his eponymous company, best known for its vacuums, is building an electric car. The project has been almost 30 years in the making, the billionaire wrote in an e-mail
Twitter, struggling to attract new users, will lift its 140-character limit on tweets in an experiment with a small group that may expand to the entire social media platform. The test announced on Tuesday will let users
Dyson, best known as a manufacturer of vacuum cleaners, hand driers and air filters, will build an electric car by 2020, founder James Dyson said on Tuesday. The company is investing £1bn to develop the car, plus the
Elon Musk’s ambitious plan to surround the Earth with thousands of Internet-beaming satellites is encountering turbulence from regulators concerned about interference with competing systems. SpaceX, the rocket start-up Musk
Apple’s latest smartphones, the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus, have more expensive parts, but the company will still make significant profits because it raised prices for the devices, according to research firm IHS Markit
Advances in artificial intelligence should be used to help humans and machines work together, rather than to create competition between them in everything from chess matches to the job market, Microsoft