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As South Africa navigates ongoing energy constraints and rising electricity costs, attention is increasingly turning to a less visible but significant contributor to electricity demand – residential water heating. “Electric geysers are the largest energy loads on residential developments, accounting for up to 40% of all electricity consumption,” says Matthew Whalley, Managing Director of...
Morris pursued dual passions of zoology and surrealist art, presenting BBC documentaries and hosting exhibitions
The zoologist Desmond Morris, perhaps best known for his book the Naked Ape and his work on the ITV programme Zoo Time, has died aged 98.
Morris’s son Jason paid tribute to him after his death on Sunday, praising his many professional achievements as well as his role as a father...
The brand’s new European 300-mile urban EV hatchback has great interior space and driving smarts, but a lot of competition.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The winning runner at a Beijing half-marathon for humanoid robots finished the race today in 50 minutes and 26 seconds — significantly faster than the human world record of 57 minutes recently set by Jacob Kiplimo. […] [T]he winning time is a massive improvement over last year’s race, when the fastest robot finished in two hours and 40...
Study shows signature changes more pronounced in people with genetic risk, raising hopes for new therapies
Changes to microbes that live in the gut can identify people at greater risk of Parkinson’s disease long before symptoms develop, according to work that also raises hopes for new therapies.
Researchers discovered signature changes in the gut microbiome that are more pronounced in people...
Vox, a well-established retail ISP, is expanding its services to the wholesale market through aggregation.
The pasta-sauce company has partnered with the nonprofit StoryCorps on a device designed to record family conversations around the table and save them for all time.
The move by NTT Data comes as hyperscalers expand their Johannesburg footprints to serve cloud and AI workloads.
The panel will also be used to support the needs of the National Traffic Information System, says the Road Traffic Management Corporation.
Whether the tech billionaire will attend the interview requested by Paris prosecutors remains to be seen.
There’s been a few complaints about Amazon’s drone delivery service. “The automated mailmen are dropping off packages from 10 feet in the air,” reports the New York Post, “rendering the contents of each box susceptible to crashing and smashing.” One example? Tamara Hancock filmed a drone delivering a bottle of Torani flavoring syrup to her home in Arizona (as a test of how Amazon handled...
The Bose QuietComfort Ultra 2 have the best active noise cancellation on the market, and they very rarely get cheaper.
Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey have different visions for how to use AI for management purposes, but both imagine a system of heightened control.
A total of 41 new research chairs will boost SA’s national system of innovation, amid signs of regression in the ecosystem.
Scientists at Wits University have designed South Africa’s first app to warn residents of pollution levels.
Solid8 Technologies and partner Anomali will present at the ITWeb Security Summit 2026 and tackle burning questions for business leaders.
Fixed wireless access gains traction alongside fibre, driven by rising data use and demand for faster network rollout, says Opensignal.
Whether Anthropic’s new Mythos model lives up to the hype or not, South Africa is not prepared for what’s coming.
Audit-driven security and fragmented tooling are leaving South African organisations exposed, cybersecurity experts warn.
Years before the figure skater became an Olympic superstar, a Chinese operative tried to stalk her father and monitored other US residents deemed dissidents against China. And that’s just the beginning.
The Direct Marketing Association points to implementation challenges, while legal experts warn of a conflict with POPIA.