Physical AI dominated CES this week, yet questions persist over affordability, usefulness and mass market demand.
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South Africa’s electricity supply has entered 2026 in its strongest position in at least five years, Eskom has said.
China’s AI sector is gaining confidence and risk appetite, but chip-making constraints still blunt ambitions to rival the US.
Silicon is transforming battery and charging technology, leading to thinner devices, larger capacities and faster charging.
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Eskom will implement stage-2 load shedding until at least next Saturday as the state-owned utility continues to struggle with plant breakdowns.
Exclusive | The communications regulator is moving to defuse the looming court battle over its planned withdrawal of Covid-19 temporary spectrum.
Two Eskom employees and a supplier to the embattled state-owned electricity utility have been arrested and charged with theft, fraud and corruption.
MTN Group’s shares surged in Johannesburg after it moved a step closer to getting a licence to operate lucrative mobile money services in Nigeria.
Eskom will implement stage-4 load shedding from 2pm on Friday until 5am on Saturday, with the power cuts to continue all weekend.
Telkom has launched prepaid fibre, saying consumers who previously couldn’t apply for a broadband fibre line for credit-vetting reasons can now do so.
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Oracle said CEO Mark Hurd will take a leave of absence for health-related reasons. Founder Larry Ellison and Safra Catz, who shares the CEO role with Hurd, will assume Hurd’s responsibilities during his absence.
Apple’s decision to skip support for the latest wireless standard on its new iPhones may cost the company a chance at capturing China’s biggest smartphone replacement wave in years.
SpaceX is weeks away from flying a second batch of satellites into orbit for a broadband Internet project Elon Musk is racing to set up before fellow billionaire Jeff Bezos.
Uber Technologies is dismissing 435 employees, the second major staff cut in recent months, as the company faces mounting losses and a declining stock price.
Google’s planned US$12m (R120m) investment in a US$260m solar photovoltaic (PV) power plant near Kimberley in the Northern Cape is simply a sound investment decision and will generate good publicity for the cash-rich online giant, according to industry analysts. On Thursday, Google announced that
Therapy, on Johannesburg’s Juta Street, was once a nightclub in the heart of gay Braamfontein. Today the building stands unused. The loud interiors and labyrinthine back rooms hint at a former wild life. The music got turned down for the last time in 2010. Now this part of the inner-city neighbourhood
