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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President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Thursday that South Africa needs fundamental change to revive economic growth.
Government is in talks with potential investors in green hydrogen projects, with Germany having identified the country as a key source of the fuel.
Tshwane has begun cutting off electricity and other services to customers whose outstanding debts it said have grown to unsustainable levels.
Even as Telkom heads to court, South Africa’s auction of broadband spectrum will take place next month, President Cyril Ramaphosa said in his state of the nation address.
The JSE has censured two former directors of Ayo Technology Solutions, publicly berating them and banning them from serving as directors for five years.
The news earlier this week that Apple plans to allow merchants to accept contactless payments directly on iPhones has stirred a great a deal of interest.
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The global PC market is expanding again, for the first time in seven years, according to preliminary data from analyst house Gartner.
Boris Johnson said he would not risk Britain’s security when upgrading the UK’s 5G communications network, but said critics of Chinese technology firm Huawei must come up with an “alternative” provider.
Porsche shrugged off widespread industry malaise, reporting record deliveries for last year and predicting that its first all-electric model Taycan will foster further growth in 2020.
Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos is likely to be greeted by an unprecedented show of opposition during his short India visit this week, after thousands of small retailers pledged to protest its pricing practices.
While all the focus at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain this week was on the announcements from big names in mobile, such as Samsung, Nokia and Sony, plenty of other interesting developments were happening on the show floor
Controversy-plagued SABC acting chief operating officer Hlaudi Motsoeneng is going nowhere if his boss — the only person who can fire him — has her way. SABC board chairman Ellen Tshabalala said this week: “Hlaudi is diligent and very capable. The members of the board are right behind
