As the US and China threaten to impose tariffs on goods from aluminium to wine, the two nations are waging a separate economic battle that could determine who owns the next wave of computing. Chinese universities and US
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Despite the enormous run-up in global technology stocks in the past five years – and the recent stomach-churning volatility – the market isn’t repeating the dot-com euphoria of 1999 and South African investors would
Meet the CEO is a new, weekly feature on TechCentral. The aim is to introduce our readers to the people behind the news by providing insights into the leaders shaping South Africa’s ICT industry. Our fifth interview
The term “fake news” has gained prominence in recent years thanks to US President Donald Trump’s attacks on the media during the 2016 US election. In 2017, it was one of Collins English Dictionary’s 2017 words of
The fresh disclosures about the Cambridge Analytica affair are dismaying for Facebook, and they were getting a lot of deserved attention on Wednesday. But what happened at the shadowy political consulting
Meet the CEO is a new, weekly feature on TechCentral. The aim is to introduce our readers to the people behind the news by providing insights into the leaders shaping South Africa’s ICT industry. Our fourth interview in the
At Microsoft’s Dutch research facility at the Delft University of Technology, several large cylindrical metal tubes hang from the ceiling. Each tube – a dilution refrigerator used to cool circuits down to temperatures colder than
Mark Zuckerberg is making it easier to tear digital pages out of your Facebook. But that doesn’t mean he wants to. At first glance, it’s a sincere reaction to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Under the rubric
Timothy Berners-Lee, credited with inventing the World Wide Web, tweeted up a storm on Thursday, reassuring Internet users that they could reassert control over their data – and the Web’s future – after the Cambridge
Public concern about Facebook’s power in society – and in politics – has skyrocketed in the wake of revelations that users’ data was analysed by a UK-based marketing firm and used to construct highly targeted political