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As the holiday season draws near, it’s time to hit the stores and surprise your loved ones. Whether it’s the…

The emergence and growing popularity of Electric Vehicles (EVs) is generating exciting opportunities for the Eastern Cape province, which already…

The rise of IT contracting offers many benefits. The field of IT is rapidly evolving, and with companies embracing digital…

Given South Africa’s economic capability compared to many other foreign territories in this part of the world, there are a…

Welcome to 4IR, or the Fourth Industrial Revolution, an era of rapid progress in science and technology as well as…

by Bruce Schneier, Harvard Kennedy School and Nathan Sanders, Harvard University If you ask Alexa, Amazon’s voice assistant AI system,…

Technology has revolutionised the way we live, and parenting is no exception. Millennials (born between 1981-1996) are the largest group…

by Catherine Coveney, Loughborough University and Eric L Hsu, University of South Australia From sleep trackers to wakefulness drugs, the…

by Dennis Hirsch, The Ohio State University and Piers Norris Turner, The Ohio State University The rush to deploy powerful…

As the world shifts away from disposable techn and towards sustainable, eco-friendly options, refurbished cell phones and laptops are increasingly…

By 2029, there will be 3.6 million computing jobs in the U.S., but there will only be enough college graduates…

By Daniel Merino, The Conversation and Nehal El-Hadi, The Conversation ChatGPT burst onto the technology world, gaining 100 million users…

South African early-stage venture capital firm, 4Di Capital, has today announced the second closing of its new $25 million or…

Global tech company Zoho announced today that it will be opening a new office in Johannesburg to accommodate its growing…

Google is opening a product development centre in Africa. The investment comes from Alphabet Inc’s Google who are investing in…

The South African state is, by some distance, the country’s largest single employer. It employs more than 1.3-million people, including…

While there has been headway toward greater workplace diversity in recent years, there is still much more work to be…

Telviva CTO Antony Russell says that when one walks into the Mobile World Congress (MWC) you expect to be surrounded…

As historians, we have both been immersed for many years in trying to understand and write about South Africa’s complex,…

Volvo Cars has invested in the optical and imaging technology start-up Spectralics through the Volvo Cars Tech Fund, the company’s…

Platzi, a professional education platform in Latin America, has raised $60 million (R955 million) in Series B funding led by…

Cape Town brings to mind the magnificent mountain, beautiful beaches and Instagram-worthy natural splendour first and foremost. But increasingly the…

There is no shortage of disciplines and industries rife with sexism. The STEM fields – science, technology, engineering and mathematics…

2020 was a disruptive year, not only for the global population and businesses but for the tech industry too. As…

South Africa finds itself at a difficult moment. Unemployment has hit a record high of more than 30% according to…