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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…

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…