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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…

There needs to be some reward for South African scientists having identified the new COVID-19 variant. Besides the recognition that…

When you enter your personal information or credit card number into a website, do you have a moment of hesitation?…

Patrice Motsepe-backed ARC Financial Services Holdings (ARC FSH) and Ethos Mid-Market Fund I buy South Africa’s innovative FinTech player Crossfin…

The World Health Organisation and the COVID Vaccines Global Access (COVAX) initiative announced in mid-2021 that they were working with…

Nigeria recently became the first African country to introduce a digital currency. It joins the Bahamas and the Eastern Caribbean…

South Africans are facing another round of power cuts despite promises from South Africa’s power utility, Eskom, that it would…

In conversation with my teenage daughter last week, I pointed out a news report which flagged concerns over the use…

Facebook’s smart glasses ambitions are in the news again. The company has launched a worldwide project dubbed Ego4D to research…

On paper, privacy rights for citizens of countries throughout Africa are well protected. Privacy rights are written into constitutions, international…

Some have called NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope the “telescope that ate astronomy.” It is the most powerful space telescope…

Suddenly and inexplicably, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and Oculus services were gone. And it was no local disturbance. In a…

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…