SpaceX has launched its heftiest rocket with 24 research satellites. The rocket is also carrying a deep-space atomic clock, a solar sail, clean and green fuel, and even human ashes.

Promoted | Disruptor Storex, specialists in multi-vendor infrastructure lifecycle extension management, says that on average most displaced OEM estates have not even reached 40% of the potential capacity before being replaced.

Boosted in part by escalating US tensions, one Chinese upstart, PingCAP, is stepping in, winning over tech giants, start-ups and financial institutions to its enterprise software.

Promoted | XDN Office (Xerox) recently partnered with Glenwood High School, which has a rich history in KwaZulu-Natal education, as a service provider for all its printing requirements.

TechCentral editor Duncan McLeod spoke to Naspers CEO Bob van Dijk about the group’s acquisition, through Naspers Foundry, of a stake in SweepSouth, the controversy over the group’s dual shareholding structure, and more.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has said his “greatest mistake ever” was allowing Google’s Android, rather than his own company’s software, to become the world’s biggest mobile operating system.

SpaceX’s latest launch, due to be launched on Tuesday morning South African time and billed by Elon Musk as the company’s most difficult ever, has the potential to be extraordinary for a whole host of reasons.

Much of the commentary about Facebook’s proposed libra coin has focused on its defects as a cryptocurrency. It’s more interesting to examine the process for creating libra rather than specific technical features.

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Facebook failed to fend off a lawsuit over a data breach that affected nearly 30 million users, one of several privacy snafus that have put the company under siege.