Four import-export licences are out, but the electricity regulator’s import and export rules are not.
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Two incidents at City Power’s Mayfair substation left the public broadcaster relying on generators for days.
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.
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The US and about 60 other nations on Thursday signed a political commitment to push rules for the Internet that are underpinned by democratic values. South Africa was conspicuous by its absence.
Outa is challenging the energy regulator’s decision to approve the construction of floating gas power stations in three South African ports.
Sony has revealed the South African launch date and pricing for PlayStation Plus, its rival to Microsoft’s popular Xbox Game Pass subscription service.
Showmax, the streaming video service in the MultiChoice Group stable, has introduced a new “max data saving” mode that uses only 50MB of data per hour.
Veteran journalist Moshoeshoe Monare has been appointed as SABC group executive for news and current affairs.
South Africa’s efforts to wean itself off coal will require funding of more than R1-trillion by 2030, a top government official said on Tuesday.
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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said rules like Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation have had a positive impact on the technology industry.
Nasa has criticised India’s satellite destruction test for endangering astronauts on board the International Space Station.
A new tool will enable users to see how the site’s mechanisms decided to rank a post based on their Facebook habits.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg says licensing agreements could be a way for the social network to help pay for quality journalism.
“Ideas so simple,” reads a cartoon on an elevator door, “that they feel like the completion of a thought,” continues its twin. Similar doodles adorn the walls of HTC’s headquarters in Taoyuan, near Taipei, and business cards carried by the smartphone-maker’s staff. John Wang, the chief marketing officer, lays out a set of four: concentric
MTN is facing a storm over claims that it helped the Iranian government to spy on local subscribers and assisted the regime in its brutal crackdown on protesters in 2009 and 2010. In court papers lodged in the US last week, rival mobile operator Turkcell alleged that MTN told its Iranian military-linked partners it

































