No proposal has reached the regulator on making midday power cheaper to soak up surplus solar in South Africa.
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M-Net and KykNet are leaving the confines of Premium, cricket is dropping to R399 and Compact Plus is disappearing altogether.
Mncane Mthunzi takes the role in an industry whose US exports have collapsed 74% and whose NEV transition is stalling.
UN human rights chief Volker Türk says advanced AI could pose an existential risk to humanity, and is calling for agreed red lines.
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Vantage Data Centers, the US company building a data centre campus in Midrand, has signed a 20-year energy supply deal with SolarAfrica.
The CSIR has painted a bleak picture of the state of Eskom and energy supply in South Africa in its annual statistics on power generation for 2021.
Dubai is considering handing over two Gupta brothers who are wanted in South Africa for allegedly masterminding the looting billions of dollars from state entities.
Eskom has warned that there is an elevated risk of load shedding in the “coming weeks” as a shortage of generation capacity persists.
Energy regulator Nersa appears to be stepping up the pace when it comes to approving the registration of new private power generation plants in South Africa.
Short-term insurer Santam has acquired the remaining 49% stake it doesn’t already own in JaSure for an undisclosed sum.
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Huawei’s billionaire founder intends to kick off a three- to five-year overhaul of the networking giant, creating an “iron army” that can help it survive an American onslaught while protecting its lead in 5G.
The People’s Bank of China is “close” to issuing its own cryptocurrency, according to a senior official.
China’s ByteDance has launched a search engine that bears a striking resemblance to Google’s clean, uncluttered homepage but produces heavily sanitised results.
Uber Technologies has instituted a hiring freeze for employees working on software and services across the US and Canada, as the ride-hailing company faces mounting losses.
The Hidden Wiki. Situated deep in the Internet’s underbelly, it is where you can apparently find everything you would need to take over a country, or break away from an existing one to form your own: contract killers, mercenaries, guns to arm them with and “how-to” manuals that advise exactly the strategy required
After considerable debate about this list between TechCentral’s editors, we have settled on our South African Newsmakers of 2012. These are the individuals, in ascending order from five to one, who we believe were the most newsworthy in the technology and telecommunications space this year. Also
