Satellite broadband promises to weaken authoritarian regimes’ ability to shut down the internet and silence dissent.
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Educated youth in high-income nations face growing automation risks as AI disrupts skilled entry-level roles.
Data centre operator Teraco has expanded its executive management team following a period of rapid growth.
The move comes amid a feud between Sentech and the SABC over the former’s fees for signal distribution.
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Eskom will implement rolling blackouts nationwide at stage 2 from 4pm on Monday, the state-owned utility said in a statement.
Cedric Miller, the chief financial officer at JSE-listed technology group Altron, has resigned. He will leave on 30 June, Altron told investors.
The City of Johannesburg plans to take over electricity distribution in part of the city from Eskom, a move that will be very costly for business, the Association of South African Chambers has warned.
President Cyril Ramaphosa extended a nighttime curfew and reduced the permissible size of public gatherings to contain the spread of the coronavirus after a surge in infections.
Apple is readying a revamp of its entry-level AirPods for this year and a second generation of the AirPods Pro for next year, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
Huge Group, it seems, doesn’t give up without a fight. The telecommunications specialist has dramatically increased its all-share offer for Adapt IT.
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Facebook has been criticised for not acting quickly enough in the fight against fake news and lacking transparency on its progress.
Apple has reported a decline in both revenue and profits in its latest quarterly financial results, as the company feels the pinch from slowing demand for its star product, the iPhone.
China has called on Washington to “stop the unreasonable crackdown” on Huawei after the US…
The former UK deputy prime minister, hired by Facebook last year to lead the company’s lobbying efforts, used his first speech since taking the job to explain how it wants to repair its reputation and be accountable for its impact on society.
Give thanks, for once, to the law of unintended consequences. Too often, it seems, the secondary effects of policy decisions turn out to be at least perverse, if not downright detrimental. But in the case of last week’s congressional vote to extend America’s emergency payroll tax-cuts, the knock-on effects look
If you worked for five years on one project and had little to show for your efforts, would your boss fire you? The government has been plugging away at the digital terrestrial television migration now for half a decade and the broadcasting sector says the building blocks are still not in place. So what went wrong? And, why
