The recent announcement by Tesla of Powerwall, its new lithium-ion-based residential battery storage system, has caused quite a stir. It even raises the possibility of going off the grid, relying upon solar panels to generate electricity, and storing it with their
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Telecommunications & postal services minister Siyabonga Cwele presented his budget vote speech last week and concealed among the details is a ticking time bomb that’s about to go off on mobile operators, broadcasters and Internet service providers
There’s a hole in the protection surrounding some of the Internet’s supposedly secure websites. A group of researchers has discovered that cyber criminals and other hackers can attack websites that
South Africa’s big three mobile operators have taken a “short-term view to satisfy their shareholders” by increasing the price of their post-paid packages, a decision that could come back to haunt them in the longer term. That’s one of the conclusions
“This is the way the world ends,” writes TS Eliot in The Hollow Men, his masterful poem about death and dying. I’m sitting in the load shedding-induced silence, thinking about this remarkable poem
There’s this guy that’s pretty sure the thing you’re looking at right now is one of the greatest threats to humanity. No, he’s not talking about our growing obsession with staring at sheets of digitised glass, and the unhealthy sedentary existence associated
A tiny cube, slightly smaller than a loaf of bread, is the new manna to heaven, as the number of nanosatellites being hurled into orbit is increasing substantially. Nanosatellites are small satellites weighing between 1kg and 10kg. CubeSats are box-shaped
Young black South Africans with entrepreneurial ambitions may well find that studying computer programming or software developing provides the springboard they need to grab the eye of a venture capital funder. With an inherent bias towards
MTN is below par when it comes to customer satisfaction, while Telkom’s mobile arm is a leader among mobile operators, new research purports to show. The South African Customer Satisfaction Index (SAcsi) surveyed more than
The man who runs state education in South Africa’s richest province has no time for old-fashioned classroom accessories. In January, Panyaza Lesufi, who heads the education portfolio in Gauteng