He will be the distributor’s third CEO since mid-2025, after Emile Burger left in July following just 14 months in charge.
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Controlling fibre’s light patterns electrically could open a new route to optical computing.
The internet is roasting Nvidia Jensen Huang over his affair with Alice Huang using generative AI.
Four import-export licences are out, but the electricity regulator’s import and export rules are not.
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Vodacom South Africa will buy much more of the electricity it needs for its operations from renewable energy sources within the next three years.
Webafrica is pulling the plug on its physical offices, with its more than 500 employees to work completely remotely, making it one of the biggest companies to do this.
If Elon Musk gets his wish, then even more of us will be paying attention to him and his companies.
EOH Holdings CEO Stephen van Coller is considering a sale of the IT services firm after returning the group to profitability, sources said.
Eskom has had four fewer days of load shedding in 2022 to date, compared to the same period in 2021, though the extent of the rolling power cuts has been more severe.
Zoom Video Communications is expanding its South African office and has appointed First Distribution as a partner in a major channel sales push.
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Astronomers are expected to reveal the first close up images of a monster black hole on Wednesday. Eight radio telescopes around the world have been pointed at two of the cosmic behemoths.
The US is urging allies to ban networking products from countries without independent court systems, an approach intended to block China’s Huawei and ZTE from competing for new 5G networks in Europe and Asia.
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey received his first salary since returning to the chief executive officer role four years ago: 140 US cents.
New Zealand’s official privacy watchdog has described Facebook as “morally bankrupt” and suggested his country follow Australia’s lead by making laws that could jail executives over streamed violence.
Using a 3D printer is like printing a letter; hit the print button on a computer screen and a digital file is sent to, say, an inkjet printer which deposits a layer of ink on the surface of a piece of paper to create an image in two dimensions. In 3D printing, however, the software takes a series of digital slices through a computer-aided design and
The first industrial revolution began in Britain in the late 18th century, with the mechanisation of the textile industry. Tasks previously done laboriously by hand in hundreds of weavers’ cottages were brought together in a single cotton mill, and the factory was born. The second industrial revolution came in the early 20th century, when

































