Facebook and Google are spending billions trying to get more people online in Africa, but the Internet giants are facing a backlash from governments worried about technology being used to remove them from power.
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The Biden administration will soon have to settle a bitcoin fight it didn’t even start, and its decision could have far-reaching implications for the cryptocurrency industry.
Google and Facebook make a lot of noise about how their main services are free to use. And it’s true, they are. But what they don’t highlight is their role in making almost everything else we consume online more expensive.
Google is under growing pressure to pay for information that, for two decades, the search provider snipped from the Web – and made a mint from – without paying a penny.
National treasury has announced that Section 12J of the Income Tax Act will not be extended past its sunset date of 30 June 2021. This is a huge mistake. By Dino Zuccollo.
When the human genome sequence was completed 20 years ago, the scientific achievement was placed on par with the moon landings. But in the two decades since, the sequence has underwhelmed.
Facebook’s dramatic move to block Australian news-sharing has escalated a broader battle against global regulation. That gambit looks likely to backfire.
The road to eliminating Covid-19 is long and paved with uncertainty.
In a new study, researchers from Purdue University in Indiana, US have shown that pigs can use a digital screen and joystick, operated by their snout, to move a cursor around for rewards.
Tesla boss Elon Musk is a poster child of low-carbon technology. Yet the electric car maker’s backing of bitcoin could turbo-charge global use of a currency that’s estimated to cause more pollution than a small country every year.