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 CEO Jensen Huang over his affair with Alice Huang using generative AI.
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The rand weakened the most in five months as rolling power cuts, flood damage and signs of a Covid comeback added to worries about the economic outlook.
Stewart van Graan will replace Mteto Nyati as CEO of Altron on 1 July, albeit on an interim basis.
New research shows that MTN has South Africa’s fastest mobile network and that the company is running rings around rival Vodacom when it comes to 5G performance.
The Competition Commission has approved US-listed Digital Realty’s acquisition of 55% of South African data centre group Teraco.
A nine-week high in the positivity rates and increasing incidence of virus fragments in wastewater point to a resurgence of Covid-19.
The latest bout of load shedding could end by Friday, but Eskom isn’t making any promises. Meanwhile, RMB CEO James Formby wants rules changed to promote investment in renewables.
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Uber Technologies is set to announce a $3.1-billion cash-and-share deal to acquire its Dubai-based rival Careem Networks as early as this week, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
The White House sent its point man on cybersecurity to Berlin this week to drive home US President Donald Trump’s warnings over Chinese telecommunications equipment maker Huawei.
Uber Technologies has selected the New York Stock Exchange for its imminent initial public offering, handing the trading floor what could be one of the five biggest listings of all time, a source says.
Facebook disclosed a flaw on its social network that made passwords of hundreds of millions of users visible to employees and said the issue has now been fixed.
Whether or not we agree with it, we’re all pretty used to the idea of genetic engineering. Our food chain is full of GM crops and pretty soon we may be genetically modified ourselves. But synthetic biology takes the idea even further. Instead of merely modifying existing organisms, synthetic biology aims to create entirely new organisms
You wouldn’t think Travis Rich was about to disrupt the entire communications industry. A lanky MIT student with sandy brown hair and an easy smile, Rich looks like just another eager college kid. But he has the kind of idea that is as revolutionary as it is simple
































