Educated youth in high-income nations face growing automation risks as AI disrupts skilled entry-level roles.
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Sansa has warned that a powerful solar eruption could trigger severe geomagnetic storm conditions.
High mobile internet use may be masking a fibre broadband shortfall that is limiting South Africa’s economic growth.
Defence priorities, AI and a possible SpaceX IPO are fuelling renewed global investment in space technology.
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MTN Group said on Monday that its South African unit plans to hire 150 “digital experts” to meet what it calls “growing demand” for digital services.
A new book offers an historical overview of scientific ideas, practices and institutions in South Africa over more than three centuries.
The labour department has filed court papers against the South African unit of Huawei for allegedly violating employment rules.
Former Post Office CEO Mark Barnes has penned an open letter offering to buy a majority stake in the deeply troubled Post Office.
Government has published proposed changes to the Electricity Regulation Act that will facilitate the opening of the national power grid to private generators.
Do the skills in government’s updated critical skills list match the reality of what’s needed on the ground, especially in South Africa’s ICT industry?
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US President Donald Trump is poised to sign a deal with China on Wednesday that for the first time would punish Beijing if it fails to deliver on pledges related to its currency, intellectual property and the trade balance.
US President Donald Trump called for Apple to “step up to the plate” and suggested the company unlock iPhones used by the gunman behind the 6 December terrorist attack on a Florida Navy base.
Apple and the US government are once again at odds over access to iPhones involved in a terrorist attack, putting the world’s largest technology company under renewed pressure to weaken privacy features.
Tencent Holdings analysts, who have a history of being too bullish, have now been caught off guard by a rally that’s gathering pace in Asia’s biggest stock.
In 2012, when the South African Social Security Agency (Sassa) awarded a crucial social grants contract, its R10bn decision turned mostly on a “key feature” — something that had been offered by just one of the bidders. The contract was for the payment of about 15m in government grants every month
South Africa, where 80% of the adult population owns a cellphone but the median income is a mere R3 000/month, poses specific challenges to tech companies trying to make inroads into the cellphone market. For many, the solution has come in the form of apps that allow
