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In August 1955, a group of scientists made a funding request for $13,500 to host a summer workshop at Dartmouth…

2022 has been a rollercoaster. I don’t think any of us could have predicted what was coming. The constant through…

In the four years since an experiment by disgraced scientist He Jiankui resulted in the birth of the first babies…

I’m sorry Dave. I am afraid I can’t do that.  Die-hard science fiction fans might get the reference from the…

We’ve all had some kind of interaction with a chatbot. It’s usually a little pop-up in the corner of a…

Type “Teddy bears working on new AI research on the moon in the 1980s” into any of the recently released…

The NBA was recently rocked by footage of Golden State Warrior teammates involved in a fistfight during practice. It is…

Usually when one thinks about fraud at a company, the first thing pictured is an outside intruder. Or it might…

For some companies, selling and servicing their products digitally is relatively simple. You upload your products into an online store…

South Africa has notoriously high levels of violence against women. The latest police figures show that 10,818 rape cases were…

Speech by Dr. Liang Hua, Chairman of board, Huawei Technologies at Huawei Sustainable Development Forum in Shenzhen. Welcome to today’s forum.…

What do a cybersecurity researcher building a system to generate alerts for detecting security threats and vulnerabilities, a wildfire watcher…

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea My colleagues and I have developed…

Why should your geographic location limit your ability to send and receive money? Why should it affect your ability to…

Around the developing world, informal retail continues to be a powerful social force, employing millions of people who might otherwise…

If an alien were to look at Earth, many human technologies – from cell towers to fluorescent light bulbs –…

The past few years have been immense for the African tech space. Thanks to substantial infrastructure investments, connectivity has become…

MTN realised early that there would be a growing need for more personalised solutions to match the increasingly segmented tastes…

Music is part of our lives in different ways. We listen to it on our commutes and it resounds through…

Infobip, a global cloud communications company and a leader in omnichannel engagement, recently hosted a webinar on how digital transformation…

The world of financial services is changing – for the better. A multitude of virtual banking and payment options, cardless…

Since the emergence of Bitcoin in 2009, cryptocurrency has gained significant traction in popularity over the years, with more and…

The advent of Google Maps and Waze as a downloadable application changed the way people travelled daily, all over the…

By Zeblon Vilakazi, University of the Witwatersrand We live in a world characterised by inequality, poverty, economic volatility, globalisation, climate…

It’s an alarming thought, but South Africans have a serious climate change problem. As the world’s 14th largest emitter of…