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If you believe the optimists, self-driving cars will dominate our roads within a couple decades. This will reduce or even eliminate such human-created ills as traffic jams and fatal accidents. I’m not so

The Yara Birkeland isn’t an ordinary cargo ship. If all goes well then the vessel, currently being built for a Norwegian agricultural fertiliser company, will become the world’s first fully autonomous

The JSE’s AltX is set to get a new technology listing. 4Sight Holdings, which recently acquired Digitata Mauritius for an undisclosed sum, will head to the AltX in October, the company said. The holding company

If the embattled South Africa Social Security Agency makes good on its promise, the South African Post Office will be contracted to take over social grant payments from incumbent Cash Paymaster Services in the next seven

Vodacom shares tumbled almost 8% on Wednesday after parent, the UK-headquartered Vodafone, said it had sold a chunk of its shares worth almost R15bn to meet the JSE’s 20% free-float requirement. Vodafone said it sold about

The secret to switching the global energy system entirely to renewables may lie in the universe’s most abundant substance. Hydrogen has drawn backing from big energy companies from Royal Dutch Shell to Uniper in addition to

Could bitcoin be the next gold? The idea has a lot of intuitive appeal. Gold bugs and bitcoin fetishists tend to share a deep distrust of fiat currency and the nation state, an impregnable bullishness about their favoured asset class