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.
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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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A striking number of mid-sized companies in South Africa that have been hit by ransomware attacks are paying the attackers, new research has found.
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Eskom on Monday warned that its system is again under “severe” pressure, and that load shedding during the evening peak is a distinct possibility.
South African miners are battling a growing threat kilometres underground in the world’s deepest platinum shafts.
Eskom said it would reduce load shedding to stage 1 from 10pm on Friday evening, even though plant breakdowns remain high at 16GW of capacity.
The developers of the R4.6-billion property that would house Amazon.com’s Africa headquarters in Cape Town have been denied leave to appeal an interdict stopping construction.
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China said new US export restrictions targeting companies including Huawei Technologies may threaten the global supply chain.
Facebook is acquiring Giphy, a popular website for making and sharing animated images, or GIFs, and will integrate it with its rapidly growing Instagram photo-sharing app.
The Trump administration on Friday moved to block shipments of semiconductors to Huawei Technologies from global chip makers, in an action that could ramp up tensions with China.
Hon Hai Precision Industry’s profit plunged by the most on record after the coronavirus disrupted its China production and walloped global smartphone demand.
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The technology distribution business in South Africa has become “massively overtraded” and competitors are in a “race to the bottom” if they can’t diversify by entering complementary business areas. That’s the view of Miles Crisp, CEO of
