Social media giants will face scrutiny this week over allegations that their platforms are fuelling a youth mental health crisis.
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Outa has warned homeowners not to rush rooftop solar registration as Eskom and municipal rules remain unclear and contested.
Amid stiff competition, DStv is cutting hardware costs and letting households split subscription payments.
ASML’s grip on EUV chip-making technology is fuelling the global AI boom – and soaring profits.
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South African identity management platform provider Intergreatme has raised R27-million, R3-million more than its original target, in a crowdfunding effort.
Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference keynote will happen on 3 June, with the iPhone maker planning to unveil new software features aimed at hanging onto its loyal customers in a stagnant smartphone market.
AI virtual assistants such as Alexa and Google Assistant reinforce gender stereotypes which portray women as “subservient” by relying on female voices, a UN report has said.
As speculation swirls about plans to deal with Eskom’s crippling debt load, one group of stakeholders hasn’t been consulted: owners of the company’s R243-billion of bonds.
Huawei Technologies made a pitch to app makers last year: build software for a new Huawei app store outside China, and we’ll help you inside the world’s most populous nation.
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Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt channelled famed futurists like Ray Kurzweil and Michio Kaku in his keynote at the Mobile World Congress on Tuesday. What started as an overview of new features in Chrome for Android turned into a powerful discourse on the power of technology and what it means for the
IBM is announcing on Tuesday that it has made major advances towards creating a practical, full-scale quantum computer, a fabled, theoretical machine that relies on the tiniest atomic properties to compute problems faster than any supercomputer that exists today. Scientists at IBM Research said that their
Terry Lundgren and Kevin Ryan know and like each other. But when it comes to the future of retailing the boss of Macy’s, an American department-store giant, and the chief executive of Gilt Groupe, an online retailer, disagree wildly. Lundgren remains a firm believer in an empire of bricks and mortar. Ryan is betting big
“We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run,” observed Roy Amara, an American futurologist. This is certainly proving true of retailers and their attitude to the Internet. After a panic at the turn of the millennium about the impact on their
