Fifty years ago, a University of California Los Angeles computer science professor and his student sent the first message over the predecessor to the Internet, a network called Arpanet.
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With over 2.3 billion monthly active users around the world, it’s not a stretch to imagine that Facebook could have great influence over who pays whom, and how.
The Volkswagen Golf went on a record-breaking run of more than 35 million units sold to date. But in the 45 years since the first one rolled off the line, the ground has shifted.
Tuesday’s dramatic hostile counter-bid for the British Internet takeout company Just Eat arrived almost fully baked. But the new offer isn’t that tempting – it needs a big dollop of dessert to make it irresistible.
Eskom remains the single largest fiscal threat to South Africa. And despite many promises from the president, he is yet to release a restructuring plan or appoint a permanent CEO of the utility.
Some researchers continue to insist that simulating neuroscience with computers is the way to go. These efforts as doomed to failure because consciousness is not computable.
You can mitigate some of the effects of load shedding through a range of solutions, some of them cheap and simple, some complex and expensive.
The late Oracle co-CEO was a relentless hustler and loved the art of doing business more than just about any other executive. By Ashlee Vance.
While the immediate causes of the generation crisis at Eskom are well known, the emergency it found itself in this week has been some time coming.
As South Africa enters its third day of blackouts, investors are still awaiting word from President Cyril Ramaphosa’s administration on how it’s going to fix the ailing state power company.