The launch of 60 Starlink satellites by Elon Musk’s SpaceX has grabbed the attention of people around the globe. With Musk planning for up to 12 000 satellites in low-Earth orbit, this fleet could forever change our view of the heavens.
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The first message sent by Morse code’s dots and dashes across a long distance travelled from Washington, DC to Baltimore on Friday, 24 May 1844 – 175 years ago. Incredibly, the system is still used today.
The first great power rivalry of the 21st century has begun. It is not a re-run of the Cold War, however. Instead, this rivalry will look unlike any that has come before it.
But research conducted at Unisa has found there’s a huge disconnect between the privacy that consumers expect and are legally entitled to, and what organisations are doing to meet their obligations.
Mainstream financial institutions are adopting cryptocurrencies in what is perhaps the most profound development since the birth of bitcoin a decade ago.
Access-based consumption has obscured the rise of a range of fragmented ownership configurations in the digital realm that provide the customer with an illusion of ownership while restricting their ownership rights.
Music streaming has a far worse carbon footprint than the peak of records and CDs, new findings show.
The conventional wisdom is that a major restructuring of Eskom will address the crisis facing that state-owned utility and the country. But this is misleading.
Why do we exist? A new experiment at Cern’s Large Hadron Collider has taken us a step closer to figuring it out.
Facebook is reportedly preparing to launch its own version of bitcoin, for use in its messaging applications, WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram. There are good reasons to be sceptical about its potential.