South Africa’s private sector returned to marginal growth in June, but business optimism sank to a five-year low.
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South Africa’s top universities have stopped policing AI and started redesigning how they teach, assess and certify.
Graduate unemployment in South Africa has risen to 12.2%. The problem is a skills mismatch, not qualifications.
BlackBerry lost while it was winning. South Africa’s would-be IoT platforms should heed the warning.
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Crypto has traditionally been user-agnostic. But there’s a bigger dose of reality here for its utopian narrative of “borderless” and “stateless” money as bombs rain down on Europe’s doorstep.
About 100 000 doses of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine are at risk of being destroyed by the end of this month due to slow uptake by citizens.
Starlogik, a telecommunications specialist founded by South African technologists, has secured a top award at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Norway and the UK will spend R600-million developing renewable energy projects in South Africa.
Microsoft plans to help accelerate the growth of 10 000 start-ups in Africa over the next five years through various financing and support mechanisms.
Taiwan saw regional blackouts across the island on Thursday in the latest sign its electrical grid is struggling to meet rising demands from technology manufacturers.
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Scientists have captured a photograph for the first time of a phenomenon which Albert Einstein once described as “spooky action at a distance”.
Huawei is planning to cut jobs at its US subsidiary as the Chinese technology giant continues to struggle with its American blacklisting, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Bitpoint suspended all services after losing about ¥3.5-billion (R445-million) in a hack that involved ripple and other cryptocurrencies.
President Donald Trump on Thursday night warned Facebook over its plan to create a digital currency, the libra, a move that poses a new obstacle to the company’s cryptocurrency ambitions.
If newspaper reports this week are to believed, Telkom’s mobile arm, branded in the consumer market as 8ta, may be soon be merged with third mobile operator Cell C. But analysts caution it’s too early to get carried away. With cabinet yet to consider communications minister Dina Pule’s
How would you like Eskom to replace the lights in your home with expensive but energy-saving light emitting diode (LED) alternatives? The electricity utility is planning to do exactly that and it’s promising to do it at no cost to you. The move – Eskom is planning to kick off the programme within a matter of weeks – forms
