
Cash-strapped South Africans turn to emergency airtime
What was once marketed as a short-term convenience is now a lifeline for hard-pressed consumers and a lucrative revenue stream for telcos.
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What was once marketed as a short-term convenience is now a lifeline for hard-pressed consumers and a lucrative revenue stream for telcos.

Small, iterative improvements bring serious performance gains to Razer’s Viper V4 Pro.

Tune into live broadcasts from your Windows desktop with Trdo, a free and open-source application.

Travel eSim is Truecaller’s first move beyond spam protection in 15 years of operation, but it’s entering a crowded market.

The Oukitel WP61 Plus and Oukitel WP61 Ultra have the same rugged platform but solve different operational challenges.

Cyber security today means protecting a constantly moving ecosystem, says Bottomline IT.

The recognition strengthens KineticSkunk’s ability to help organisations assess workloads, reduce risk and build stronger cloud environments aligned to AWS best practices.

IPO filing from Elon Musk’s company reveals closer look at finances, cosmic ambitions and tech empire’s quirks
SpaceX publicly released an investor prospectus on Wednesday as part of its plan for a $1.75tn debut on the US stock market next month, revealing unseen details about the finances and future plans of Elon Musk’s flagship company. In addition to new information on operating costs and...

Hyperscalers are pushing the Gulf to rethink internet infrastructure as AI raises the stakes of cable disruptions.

South Africa’s national treasury is not regulating crypto into submission. It is regulating itself into irrelevance.

A former tower technician has been convicted of vandalising and stealing critical MTN and Vodacom infrastructure.

Most programmes promise exposure and mentorship. BBD’s promises something rarer: real work from the start.

Signal jamming has turned connectivity itself into the target, exposing a critical design flaw, says Sigfox South Africa.

Misleading information online is often treated as a technical glitch, something that better algorithms or stricter moderation can fix. But research points to a more complex reality. That is, the rise of “misfluencers”, individuals who shape how information is interpreted, shared and trusted across digital platforms. Whether acting deliberately or not, they tap into emotion, […]
A new Oxford Longevity Project report argues that individuals bear at least 80% of the responsibility for ill health in old age. “The report (PDF), launched at the Smart Ageing Summit in Oxford last week, argues that individuals have far greater control over their longevity than is commonly understood,” reports The Guardian. “The authors call on the government to take legislative action on...

The Kusuma Neolithic Hall, based on Durrington 68 site, will allow visitors to ‘step back in time’ into the lives of those who built the stone circle
It may have been a place for ceremony or a barn for pack animals. It could have been a place for weary labourers to rest their heads. Or perhaps there was no building at all.
English Heritage has unveiled a 7-metre-high reconstruction of what a...

We didn’t heed cyber security warnings, especially the one in 1994 of a theoretical but profound threat to the encryption standards of the age.

Generative AI (GenAI) is a type of artificial intelligence that creates new content – like text, images, or ideas – by learning patterns from existing data. GenAI, particularly through large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT and DeepSeek, is rapidly becoming part of everyday urban design research and practice. The models can summarise literature in […]

The future of outsourcing will not be determined by labour cost alone, says Zandile Myeni, growth and marketing executive, SoluGrowth.

Policies don’t stop attackers, but preparation changes outcomes, says Cyanre MD Professor Danny Myburgh.

Faster speeds, greater reliability and uncapped data drive a shift that is reshaping SA’s home internet landscape.