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The musical life of Moses Molelekwa was one full of promise and unmatched genius. He changed the face of jazz…

In little more than a year from the onset of COVID-19, scientists successfully developed vaccines against the SARS-CoV-2 virus for…

Facebook officials had internal research in March 2020 showing that Instagram – the social media platform most used by adolescents…

Elon Musk announced a humanoid robot designed to help with those repetitive, boring tasks people hate doing. Musk suggested it…

Undergraduate training for data scientists – dubbed the sexiest job of the 21st century by Harvard Business Review – falls…

South Africa’s Constitutional Court has been a beacon of light during a decade-long period of political uncertainty and turmoil. Most…

South Africa has among the highest recorded levels of social protest of any country in the world. The reasons behind…

Imagine you’re having friends over for lunch and plan to order a pepperoni pizza. You recall Amy mentioning that Susie…

Warren Buffett, who turns 91 on Aug. 30, 2021, is a billionaire at a time when outrage over the excesses…

End-to-end encryption is technology that scrambles messages on your phone and unscrambles them only on the recipients’ phones, which means…

The typical Australian will change careers five to seven times during their professional lifetime, by some estimates. And this is…

South Africa’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout programme, outlined by the Ministry of Health, had three phases, starting with the most vulnerable…

You try to use your credit card, but it doesn’t work. In fact, no one’s credit card works. You try…

A major journalistic investigation has found evidence of malicious software being used by governments around the world, including allegations of…

Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids, laments the Rocket Man in Elton John’s timeless classic. In…

The mayhem of the last few days is a reminder of the danger that South Africa continues to live with,…

People have been panicking about COVID-19 in animals since the very start of the pandemic. There’s now plenty of evidence…

Information and communication technologies can dramatically improve healthcare delivery. They can make communication and exchange of information between healthcare professionals…

Headlines about molecular genetics being used to shed new light on old mysteries or even put criminals behind bars have…

I have a cellphone built into my watch. People now take this type of technology for granted, but not so…

If you use such social media websites as Facebook and Twitter, you may have come across posts flagged with warnings…

A defining characteristic of the way many people live today is persistent online connectedness. Since the introduction of smartphones about…

President Joe Biden’s cybersecurity executive order, signed May 12, 2021, calls for the federal government to adopt a “zero-trust architecture.”…

At the launch of bitcoin in 2009 the size of the potential of the underlying technology, the blockchain, was not…

With the proliferation of female robots such as Sophia and the popularity of female virtual assistants such as Siri (Apple),…