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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Spar is gearing up to take on Shoprite Group’s Checkers Sixty60 and Pick n Pay asap! in online grocery shopping in South Africa.
Apple wants to power the dashboard of your next car, but first it must convince vehicle manufacturers they will not end up surrendering future profits to the iPhone company.
Vantage Data Centers, the US company building a data centre campus in Midrand, has signed a 20-year energy supply deal with SolarAfrica.
The CSIR has painted a bleak picture of the state of Eskom and energy supply in South Africa in its annual statistics on power generation for 2021.
Dubai is considering handing over two Gupta brothers who are wanted in South Africa for allegedly masterminding the looting billions of dollars from state entities.
Eskom has warned that there is an elevated risk of load shedding in the “coming weeks” as a shortage of generation capacity persists.
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Brazil’s central bank has suspended Facebook’s WhatsApp messenger payment feature in the country, the app’s second biggest market with more than 120 million users.
Twitter placed a warning notice on a tweet by US President Donald Trump threatening “serious force” against protesters in the US capital, the second time it has used the label.
A supercomputer developed by Fujitsu and Japan’s Riken research institute was ranked the world’s fastest in an independent survey, beating US and Chinese rivals.
Microsoft is closing down Mixer, its live streaming service for games, and shifting users to Facebook Gaming, the technology giant’s Xbox division said on Monday.
This year saw the 43rd anniversary of e-mail. Compared to a human working life, e-mail has after more than four decades on the job now reached retirement age. Is it time for e-mail to step aside to allow us to embrace the alternative? Every minute in 2012 saw 168m e-mails sent around the world
Imagine launching a robotic spacecraft on a 10-year mission to land on a comet 600m kilometres from Earth knowing that you will not be able to make any physical repairs to the craft during the journey. This daunting engineering challenge has been the ultimate goal of the European Space Agency’s Rosetta
