Using observations spanning a period of four years, a team of researchers from Italy found evidence of a large lake of salty water, buried 1.5km beneath Mars’s southern polar cap. But does it contain life?
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There’s a great deal of uncertainty about how the uptake of automation technology may further drive inequality and preserve the asymmetry in South Africa’s economy.
Tencent has become one of the most aggressive promoters of pro-gaming. And it’s hard to overstate the mania that’s gripped China in particular.
Technology is everywhere we look, so it’s no surprise that the films and TV we enjoy are similarly obsessed. That’s not to say they manage to get it right.
Eskom no longer conjures a picture of an organisation to be proud of but rather a dilapidated, hollowed out shell with perpetual problems.
Online disinformation and the spread of deceptive political messages are pernicious, but they aren’t necessarily the worst abuse of social networks by governments and political actors.
The risks of innovations such as artificial intelligence and 3D printing wielded by nimble competitors from Silicon Valley or China are shaking up Germany’s engineering-led economy.
Tencent’s strategy for expanding WeChat Pay globally is pretty straightforward: follow the (tourism) money. It’s a smart strategy. But it’s also decidedly unambitious.
Microsoft’s earnings report and forecast cheered investors, providing further evidence the company can increase cloud sales and squeeze more profit from the area while cutting into Amazon.com’s massive industry lead.
The European Commission had solid antitrust reasons for fining Google €4.3-billion for violations including the bundling of certain apps with the Android operating system – and for not going after Apple for similar behaviour. Yet, from a consumer’s point of view, Apple should get the same kind of attention.