I grew up in a Kenyan village with dark skies and vivid stars. We admired the sky and listened to stories about it told by the elders. There were few expectations that the children in our village would ever understand the sky’s secrets
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There are strong indications that Eskom’s average electricity tariffs will increase by a mere 2,2% this year. While this sounds good from a consumer perspective, it would leave a big hole in the utility’s pocket that might
Nintendo’s new Switch gaming console is off to an underwhelming start. The new machine, a tablet-sized device with wireless controllers that can be used anywhere but also connects to TVs, will go on sale on 3 March at a
Zimbabwe’s telecommunications regulator has backed down over new floor prices for telecoms services, resulting in the country’s largest operator, Econet, reversing large price increases announced earlier in the week. In a statement, the country’s
The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research on Wednesday responded to a statement from Eskom in which the power utility appeared to cherry pick from a CSIR methodology developed to calculate the net cost
I never get tired of this: hold down the button and tell Siri to set a timer. It has, at the very least, made me a better cook. As Marco Pierre White said, cooking is part art and part exact chemistry, so measure and time precisely. I’m not alone, at least as far as
Xiaomi, one of China’s most valuable technology start-ups, is shooting for more than 100bn yuan (R190bn) of revenue in 2017, even as it pledged to slow its pace of business expansion and overhaul an online-focused retail strategy. CEO Lei Jun
As Norway switches off its FM radio network this week, other nations have abandoned similar plans, leaving the Scandinavian country a lonely beacon of digital-only broadcasting in a world that’s rapidly
Robert Mugabe’s government has been accused of using new regulated floor prices for telecommunications services as a way of making it unaffordable for Zimbabweans to use social media. The country’s telecommunications regulator
Facebook, struggling with its growing role as a distributor of news, is embarking on a project that includes stronger partnerships with media companies, greater support for local news and better efforts to educate