Forget bitcoin. There’s a new digital currency that is surging as online drug dealers begin adopting it to conduct business with more anonymity. The two-year-old currency monero has more than quadrupled this month after gaining
Author: Agency Staff
Apple invited journalists to an event in San Francisco on 7 September where the world’s largest publicly traded company is expected to roll out a series of product upgrades. The invitation showed out-of-focus multicoloured
Finance minister Pravin Gordhan has fired “the political equivalent of a bazooka” at Eskom CEO Brian Molefe, Democratic Alliance MP David Maynier said on Monday after national treasury issued a statement saying that the state-owned power
South Africa’s credit rating would be cut and the rand would “buckle” if finance minister Pravin Gordhan is removed from his post, according to Goldman Sachs. The currency has slumped 6,2% since 23 August
A Cape Town duo is set to become one of the first bands in the world to produce a song in collaboration with a supercomputer. The electronica outfit Original Swimming Party is an
A power line inspection drone designed by local robotics engineers could be the answer to Eskom’s power cut woes, and has already piqued the interest of overseas governments. Durban engineers Trevor
The Gupta family has on Sunday pleaded with the Democratic Alliance’s David Maynier to stop using the family name “as a football in his party-politicking battles”. The family, in a statement, was responding to utterances
The Gupta family were like “rats abandoning a sinking ship in South Africa”, the Democratic Alliance’s David Maynier said on Sunday. His comment came after news broke on Saturday that the controversial family had
While Eskom said it remains committed to sign all of the remaining renewable energy independent power producer (REIPP) contracts under the current bid window, it reportedly backtracked on this pledge last week. Eskom CEO Brian Molefe
After leaving Earth more than five years ago, the space probe orbiting Jupiter has flown closer to the planet than any other spacecraft before, according to the US space agency. The space probe, named Juno, “soared close to the