Solar parks and grid-scale batteries are set to deliver significant new capacity to South Africa’s grid in 2026.
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Software developer jobs are booming in South Africa, but too few qualified candidates are applying, Pnet data shows.
Iran’s crackdown on dissidents is shaping up as one of the toughest security tests yet for Elon Musk’s Starlink.
Consumers are reshaping online payments as merchants race to meet growing demand for flexible digital options.
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South Africa’s plan to build gas-fired power plants has become outdated with renewables becoming cheaper, Meridian Economics has found.
Africa’s technology-dominated start-ups will continue to attract investment, even if at a slower pace, following record venture capital funding last year.
Eskom warned on Monday of a high risk of load shedding, especially during the evening peak from 5pm, due to a “continued shortage of generation capacity”.
Bitcoin snapped a 12-day slide on Sunday after a record-breaking string of declines. Analysts cautioned the respite may be brief.
The range of technologies and uses for tiny robots is broad, from drones to pills, and from surveillance and rescue to biomedicine.
People living in Johannesburg were earlier this month subjected to pungent smells in the air similar to rotten eggs – and it’s not the first time.
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Spotify Technology breached the mythical $50-billion market valuation barrier on Thursday. Unfortunately, investors seem a little out of tune with the music streaming service’s real potential.
As US authorities ready the biggest antitrust case of the new century, there are lessons to be learnt from Europe’s attempt to inject more competition into search, one of the most lucrative digital markets.
Uber said on Monday it would buy Postmates in a $2.65-billion deal, looking to expand its reach into the food-delivery market as the coronavirus crisis upends its core ride-hailing business.
The head of the French cybersecurity agency Anssi said there would not be a total ban on using equipment from Huawei in the roll-out of the French 5G telecommunications network.
Alan Turing is one of the world’s best known mathematicians, and probably the best known in the past century. This is partly for his work on cracking German codes in World War 2, and partly for his arrest, conviction and punishment for homosexuality in the 1950s. The mathematics that made him
Stafford Masie, the South African technology entrepreneur behind the Payment Pebble, introduced earlier this year by Absa, will on Monday takes the wraps off a radical new design of the mobile point-of-sale (M-POS) system. Instead of merchants
