It was late November and former Intel engineer Thomas Prescher was enjoying beers and burgers with friends in Dresden, Germany when the conversation turned, ominously, to semiconductors. Months earlier, cybersecurity researcher
A military satellite launched by Elon Musk’s SpaceX hasn’t been spotted in orbit by the US Strategic Command, creating a mystery about the fate of the classified payload and doubts about whether the mission was a success
oPro has hired investment bank JPMorgan Chase & Co to advise on a potential sale of the struggling wearable-camera maker, according to a person familiar with the matter. Earlier on Monday, the company unveiled plans to cut
What happens when fevered foreign-exchange speculation meets fake news at the same time a satellite that shares the name of South Africa’s president goes missing? You get the South African rand on Tuesday, which suddenly spiked more than
MTN has launched the first 5G trial in South Africa – and in the broader Africa – in partnership with networking equipment vendor Ericsson. Last November, the operator’s principal rival, Vodacom, said it would launch a 5G trial in
MTN on Monday took the wraps off the first 5G trial by a mobile operator in South Africa. The company was able to demonstrate throughput speeds of more than 20Gbit/s (that’s over 20 000Mbit/s!) in a controlled test environment
Nvidia, trying to spread its industry-leading graphics chip technology into new areas, has said Uber Technologies and Volkswagen will use its artificial intelligence expertise to help bring self-driving cars to the roads. Uber
The number of scripted TV shows released in the US swelled to a new high in 2017, reflecting the growing efforts of Netflix, Amazon and YouTube to steal viewers and advertisers from traditional networks. Streaming services accounted
Twitter has defended its decision to allow US President Donald Trump’s controversial tweets to remain on the service, saying that blocking a world leader or removing their tweets “would hide important information people should
President Jacob Zuma will face a fresh bid to force him from office when the ANC’s top leadership meets this week for the first time since he relinquished control of the party to his deputy, Cyril Ramaphosa