Vodacom Group’s unit in the Democratic Republic of Congo has petitioned the nation’s top administrative court to reverse a government order withdrawing its 2G licence.

IBM is starting up so-called camps across Africa to train hundreds of engineers and scientists in quantum coding as the US tech giant readies to take hold of commercial opportunities on the continent.

Communications minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams has welcomed the first meeting of the Presidential Commission on the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) as a step towards achieving its objectives.

Facebook has launched a new app that will pay users to allow the social network to collect data on how people use their device and the apps downloaded to it.

Messaging platform Telegram has confirmed it was the target of a cyber attack but said it was aimed at disrupting the service rather than an attempt to steal user data.

If there is to be a Cold War 2.0, it’s set to be radically different from the original, with any new “digital Iron Curtain” looking more like spaghetti than iron.

Facebook uncovered e-mails that seem to show CEO Mark Zuckerberg was aware of potentially problematic privacy practices at the company, the Wall Street Journal reported.

A typical person may be ingesting 5g of microplastics every week, or the equivalent of the weight of a credit card.

Microsoft said a new service that will let users play videogames from their Xbox consoles on their smartphones will be offered for free.

Slack Technologies is expected to be valued by investors at $16-billion to $17-billion when it lists its shares publicly next week, according to people familiar with the matter.