Icasa must rule out private companies storing fingerprints and let operators compete to stop fraud.
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Higher turnout suggests ANC voters showed up but backed other parties, says Oxford Economics Africa.
Gene editing and AI are behind several of this year’s medical advances, but not all.
EXSA, already licensed to trade locally, now wants to move electricity across Southern African borders.
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As Microsoft, Google and — now — Amazon.com blaze ahead in the race to deploy advanced chatbots like ChatGPT, one rival remains nowhere to be seen.
Zimbabwe will soon introduce a gold-backed digital currency, according to central bank governor John Mangudya.
Initiatives by the private sector to save municipalities from load shedding have been dealt a blow by a judgment in favour of Eskom in the high court.
Icasa has met twice with SpaceX officials over the possible launch the Starlink internet service in South Africa.
The Starship test flight is a hallmark of a strategy that sets Elon Musk’s company apart from traditional aerospace firms.
President Cyril Ramaphosa is facing increasing pressure to hand powers to his new electricity minister.
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Amazon.com has agreed to pay over $1-billion to buy self-driving start-up Zoox, according to a report. It would would expand its reach in autonomous vehicle technology.
Naspers affiliate Tencent is buying certain assets of iFlix, a struggling streaming platform with about 25 million users focused in South and Southeast Asia.
Google will begin paying select media outlets featured in a yet-to-be released news service later this year, a major business shift for the search engine.
The Trump administration has determined that top Chinese firms, including Huawei and Hikvision, are owned or controlled by the Chinese military, laying the groundwork for new financial sanctions.
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
On 9 September, U2 released their new album, Songs of Innocence, but not quite in the normal style: they are offering it as a free download to all 500m iTunes users. Lead singer Bono described the release as “kind of mind blowing”. He said: “The most personal album we’ve
