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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Vodacom has launched Easy2Own, a new offering that it said will make it easier for poorer consumers to afford smartphones.
By many counts, 2021 was the year cryptocurrencies were finally embraced by institutions. Now those same money managers say the asset class is ripe for a big selloff.
Omicron’s ability to evade vaccine and infection-induced immunity is “robust but not complete”, South African researchers said.
Equinix is acquiring Nigerian data centre and submarine cable operator MainOne in a deal that gives MainOne at an enterprise value of $320-million.
Chinese Internet giant Tencent Holdings has invested in South African digital bank TymeBank.
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Netflix is selling bonds as it continues to bolster its original content in the face of expanding competition.
The head of Facebook’s libra project said that it could use cryptocurrencies based on national currencies like the dollar, rather than the synthetic one it initially proposed.
Hikvision warned it may lose customers in overseas markets because of its US blacklisting, underscoring the extent to which curbs on the sale of American technology may hurt the world’s largest video surveillance business.
The day before disgraced former communications minister Dina Pule was reprimanded and apologised to parliament, the men who brought her to book were taken to task by their ANC counterparts for the way in which they handled the matter. Angry ANC MPs sympathetic to
Former communications minister Dina Pule has been reprimanded in parliament as part of the punitive measures enacted against her after parliament’s joint committee on ethics and members’ interests found her guilty of abusing her position to benefit her boyfriend, Phosane Mngqibisa, and misleading the
