Global demand for smartphones, PCs and gaming consoles is expected to shrink this year amid surging RAM prices.
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As storage prices fall, South Africa’s renewables are pivoting from variable output to dependable, dispatchable power.
Astronomers have solved a cosmic mystery surrounding one of the most extreme stars ever observed.
South Africa is endowed with minerals needed by the tech industry, but they are not being exploited to their full potential.
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Two of South Africa’s biggest fibre providers, Vumatel and Dark Fibre Africa, are being folded into a new infrastructure holding company to be led by Vuma CEO Dietlof Mare.
A celebrated experiment that combined maths and software to get a digital currency to behave like a dollar is crashing in dramatic fashion.
Scientists on Thursday provided the first look at the monster lurking at the centre of our Milky Way galaxy.
Vodacom is now offering consumers access to unsecured personal loans through its VodaPay “super app” as it deepens its push into fintech.
The National Institute for Communicable Diseases on Wednesday reported 10 017 new Covid-19 cases, the highest since January.
Eskom chief operating officer Jan Oberholzer has pleaded for an end to talk shops and for an urgent start to building new electricity generation capacity.
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson is planning to reduce Huawei’s involvement in Britain’s 5G network in the wake of the coronavirus crisis, the Daily Telegraph newspaper reported.
Samsung Electronics has begun building a cutting-edge chip production line intended to help it take on TSMC and Intel in the business of making silicon for external clients.
A Facebook rally pushed shares of the social media company to a record on Wednesday. Facebook rose as much as 6% to $230.33, extending a winning streak to the fifth consecutive day.
The US senate overwhelmingly approved legislation on Wednesday that could lead to Chinese companies such as Alibaba Group and Baidu being barred from listing on US stock exchanges.
In a few short years, voice telephony will effectively be free of charge for both contract and prepaid users. That’s the view of MTN South Africa’s newly appointed CEO, Ahmad Farroukh, who says the industry will in future need
Technology group Altech, part of the JSE-listed Altron stable, on Thursday evening announced that it is making a big play into the video-on-demand and home automation markets with a new, satellite-based home entertainment product called the Node that it hopes will become a
