Stellenbosch University’s Thinus Booysen and Arnold Rix explain what the power grid is and what keeps it stable – or not.
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Since 2015, government has granted waivers from emissions limits to Eskom and Sasol. The impact on people’s health and the environment has been grim.
Where does Elon Musk get his ideas from? What is he trying to achieve and who does he want to be? Many of us are desperate to understand the world’s richest man.
What Sam Peurifoy and his Guild are doing in the game Axie Infinity offers an early glimpse into the future envisaged by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
An extremely expensive game of one-upmanship is being played out in the semiconductor industry where the winners will look like heroes and the rest may not even survive.
Facebook employees have warned for years that it was failing to police abusive content in countries where such speech was likely to cause the most harm, according to internal company documents.
Moya, an instant messaging and payments app developed in South Africa, has notched up 6.5 million monthly active users and now has market leader WhatsApp firmly in its sights.
The techno-anarchist pioneers of cryptocurrencies believed they were creating a new form of unregulated, decentralised money. They couldn’t have been more wrong.
The world’s richest countries are courting South Africa as a model of how to transition to a more climate-friendly future from a dependency on coal. It’s a pity about the politics, then.
Nasa’s James Webb Space Telescope is the most powerful space telescope ever built and a complex piece of mechanical origami that has pushed the limits of human engineering.