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The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic in March 2020. But it’s only in recent days, in May 2022,…

Satellites help run the internet and television and are central to the Global Positioning System. They enable modern weather forecasting,…

In his latest book sociologist Professor Roger Southall, a prolific researcher who has written extensively about political dynamics in Southern…

The first three coronavirus vaccines earned Emergency Use Authorization more than a year ago. To date, no other vaccines have…

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is much more than just a buzzword nowadays. It powers facial recognition in smartphones and computers, translation…

Agenda 2063 is the African Union’s long-term framework for socio-economic development, regional integration and the preservation of history and culture.…

Thousands of years ago, the blacksmith led a technological leap in sub-Saharan Africa. West Africa’s Nok culture, for example, switched…

The growth of the internet and smartphones has led to the widespread global use of dating apps, such as Tinder,…

On Sept. 1 and 2, 1859, telegraph systems around the world failed catastrophically. The operators of the telegraphs reported receiving…

As South Africa continues along the path of reconstruction and recovery, President Cyril Ramaphosa has called on investors, entrepreneurs and…

The importance of whistleblowers was highlighted again recently in South Africa. In one of the reports released by Judge Raymond…

Economists and policy-makers seem to have a blind spot when thinking about how the economy functions and what determines success.…

State of the nation addresses offer government an opportunity to speak directly to its citizens. It can offer reassurances that…

Which flavours and chemical compounds make a particular variety of fruit more appealing to consumers can be identified and predicted…

Scholars disagree about whether the formerly whites-only neighbourhoods of Johannesburg, South Africa’s largest and most economically important city, have become…

The essence of stand-up comedy is that you have a comedian performing to a live audience with the goal of…

For years, self-driving car technology has remained tantalizingly just beyond the horizon. Bold predictions notwithstanding, fully automated vehicles still haven’t…

People interact with machines in countless ways every day. In some cases, they actively control a device, like driving a…

Have you had the experience of looking at some product online and then seeing ads for it all over your…

Since the dying days of apartheid in the mid-1990s, and at several pivotal moments since, South Africans have yearned for…

Every disaster movie seems to open with a scientist being ignored. “Don’t Look Up” is no exception – in fact,…

With Lana Wachowski’s The Matrix Resurrections about to hit theatres, we’re going to see a lot of criticism interpreting siblings…

Log4Shell, an internet vulnerability that affects millions of computers, involves an obscure but nearly ubiquitous piece of software, Log4j. The…

Artificial intelligence and machine learning have the potential to contribute to the resolution of some of the most intractable problems…

Artificial intelligence (AI) was once the stuff of science fiction. But it’s becoming widespread. It is used in mobile phone…