US government agencies have been hit by a widespread campaign of cyberattacks by hackers who were suspected of exploiting a flaw in the update of a US software company.

UK engineers will soon begin work on a comet-chasing spacecraft that will track down and map one of the celestial objects in three dimensions.

Social network firm Reddit said on Sunday ithat t would buy short-video platform Dubsmash, becoming the latest company to expand in a space dominated by Chinese-owned TikTok.

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South African industry is already starting to wind down for the Christmas holidays, yet Eskom can’t keep the lights on — on a weekend!

Though Amazon.com is staying mum for now on details of its planned “utility-scale” renewable energy project in South Africa, it has emerged that it will source the power from a giant solar farm to be built in the Northern Cape.

ABB will repay R1.56-billion to Eskom, the latest international company to return money after being ensnared in corruption probes in the country.

Hyundai Motor Group has agreed to buy a controlling stake in Boston Dynamics in a deal that values the mobile robot firm at $1.1-billion.

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