AI data centres are starving the rest of the market of RAM and other components, pushing up the price of PCs, servers and everyday electronics.
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Investment is pouring into renewable energy, but grid expansion will determine whether momentum can be sustained.
Safety researchers warn touchscreen-heavy dashboards increase distraction, reaction times and crash risk for drivers globally.
Taiwanese prosecutors have issued an arrest warrant for the CEO of Chinese smartphone maker OnePlus.
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South Africa is considering the introduction of electronic “vaccine passports” to allow people access to public and private spaces and venues.
To say the last few weeks at TechCentral have been busy is to put it mildly. But what you’re looking at today is the fruit of that industry, and months of planning that came before it.
China’s Sinovac Biotech is in talks about setting up a vaccine production facility in South Africa with its local partner, the CEO of Numolux said on Friday.
Discovery will give adult members of its Vitality behaviour change platform 2 500 points for being fully vaccinated against Covid-19 this year.
The proliferation of Covid-19 variants in Africa, partly attributed to the low rates of vaccination on the continent, could lead to vaccine-evading mutations that complicate attempts to end the pandemic.
Tencent and NetEase shed more than $60-billion of value on Thursday as investor fears grow that Chinese regulators are preparing to tighten their grip dramatically on the world’s largest gaming industry.
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Apple’s Steve Jobs was singular in his ability to take a company “on a path to die” and turn it into the world’s most valuable – in part by “casting spells”, billionaire Bill Gates said.
Financial regulators must act fast to prepare for the push by US technology giants like Facebook into the financial system, according to European Central Bank executive board member Benoit Coeure.
This week’s Asia Blockchain Summit in Taipei highlighted how volatility is back, reviving the excitement around crypto trading.
Samsung Electronics’ quarterly profit more than halved after a global industry downturn and trade tensions hammered demand for its chips and high-end smartphones.
In an ordinary-looking house at 18 Dennesig Street in Stellenbosch in the Western Cape, a company called HealthQ Technologies has built a “metabolic chamber” — a device used for recording oxygen consumption and carbon-dioxide production for measuring human metabolic activity
Technology entrepreneur Stafford Masie spent two-and-a-half years working on the Payment Pebble smartphone payment device before it was unveiled last week by retail banking giant Absa. The device was engineered and built by Masie’s Centurion-based company Thumbzup, which he wants
