Educated youth in high-income nations face growing automation risks as AI disrupts skilled entry-level roles.
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Sansa has warned that a powerful solar eruption could trigger severe geomagnetic storm conditions.
High mobile internet use may be masking a fibre broadband shortfall that is limiting South Africa’s economic growth.
Defence priorities, AI and a possible SpaceX IPO are fuelling renewed global investment in space technology.
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ACWA Power plans to bid in South Africa’s next green electricity auction. Interest from the Saudi-based company is a positive sign after lengthy delays in a process to procure green power.
The rand extended its gains to a new 27-month best, still supported by global risk demand as investors raised bets the US central bank would lend at low rates for longer.
The SABC’s fight with Sentech over tariffs is going from a skirmish to a full-blown public confrontation. The stakes couldn’t be higher – for both sides.
A Swiss-based investment management firm says the proposed share swap between Naspers and Prosus is an “idiotic idea” that is certain to increase the discount with Tencent.
Investigator Paul Holden has given a stupefying account of billions of rand paid from state-owned entities and other governmental organisations into a complex local laundromat.
South Africa’s spy agency is beefing up its economic intelligence unit so it can play a proactive role in supporting the nation’s companies as they expand beyond their home base.
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An online tool designed to combat fake news, used by Microsoft’s Edge Web browser, is warning users not to trust the MailOnline website.
Microsoft’s Bing search engine has been blocked in China, rendering yet another Western Internet service inaccessible to the world’s largest online population.
Jeff Bezos’s rocket company, Blue Origin, has launched Nasa experiments into space on a brief test flight. The New Shepard rocket blasted off from west Texas, hoisting a capsule containing the experiments.
GDPR rules are impeding innovation, harming small businesses, inhibiting growth, imposing needless costs, annoying consumers and accomplishing nothing.
The fourth of April this year is a red-letter day on SA’s investment calendar. It is the date on which international board members of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope will meet to decide whether the core site for the giant instrument will be built in SA or in Australia. Science & technology director-general
If the Competition Tribunal imposes a large fine on Telkom for anticompetitive behaviour, it will be “catastrophic” for the company and will “irretrievably jeopardise its viability”, leading to “disastrous consequences for the SA economy and government”. This is the stark warning the
