State-owned power utility Eskom resumed rolling blackouts Friday after protesting employees blocked others from working and interfered with the electricity grid. Eskom, which generates almost all of the nation’s
In this episode, Duncan McLeod is joined on an Internet call by Bjorn Dingemans, founder and CEO of BlockMesh, a Somerset West-based start-up that wants to create what it calls “the world’s first decentralised, cost-free
State-owned power utility Eskom said it will start rolling blackouts for the first time since 2015 as protesting workers blockaded plant entrances and disrupted distribution networks. “Acts of intimidation and sabotage have
Bitcoin’s price was supposed to go to the moon. Yet over the past six months, from high to low, the linchpin of the entire cryptocurrency craze has shed 66% of its value. It’s an unravelling almost on par with the Nasdaq index
Dark Fibre Africa sees fifth-generation wireless broadband networks as a big growth opportunity as the infrastructure needed to power these networks will require extensive backhaul to a much denser network of base
Eskom confirmed just before 6pm on Thursday that it has been forced to implement stage-one load shedding. This is due to a strike by the utility’s workers which has involved “acts of intimidation and sabotage”. Spokesman
Bitcoin climbed on Thursday, erasing some of its 18% plunge since Friday as investors signaled the selloff may have been overdone. Hours after the world’s largest cryptocurrency closed at a fresh low for the year
A Martian dust storm covering a quarter of the planet threatens to end a 15-year exploration mission by Nasa’s Mars Opportunity rover. Operators at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory attempted to contact
Contactless card or “tap-and-go” payments are slowly gaining popularity as more banks and retailers adopt this method of payment. Shoppers with the technology-enabled cards are benefitting from the speed and
Janeffer Wacheke’s fresh vegetable stall in Nairobi uses technology that’s helping crack a problem Kenyan banks have so far failed to solve – measuring the creditworthiness of traders in the country’s R265-billion