
South African crisis worse than load-shedding is here
Water outages have replaced load-shedding as the biggest public service issue reported on the popular South African app EskomSePush.
MONDAY, 08 DECEMBER 2025, 15:05

Water outages have replaced load-shedding as the biggest public service issue reported on the popular South African app EskomSePush.

SATNAC 2025 was recently held, featuring discussions and talks by South Africa’s top ICT experts.

Bets on prediction marketplace Polymarket showed a 23% chance of Netflix closing the acquisition by the end of 2026, down from around 60% just before Trump’s comments.

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Sustainability is not optional, it is an imperative, especially in South Africa, says Marc Pillay, CEO of Konica Minolta SA.

With Google Workspace, Tibu Health’s teams are now more productive and better organised.

Wall Street’s sentiment toward companies associated with artificial intelligence is shifting, and it’s all about two companies: OpenAI is down, and Alphabet is up.

E-mail continues to overshadow other communication services for consistent adoption, mission-critical communications and as a reliable system of record, says Paul Cox, regional channel manager at Exclaimer.

The economy is showing recovery signs as key infrastructure reforms begin strengthening growth prospects.

Uber is facing a crisis in South Africa, with numerous complaints from customers and time running out to comply with the country’s e-hailing regulations.

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Observers in dark locations away from street lighting can expect to see more than 100 meteors an hour
The Perseid meteor shower in August often catches the headlines because of the warmer conditions associated with watching the display, but to many astronomers the Geminids put on the better show.
The Geminids have been active since 4 December and they reach their climax this week with the peak...

President Trump’s latest move is a new AI platform called “Truth AI.” While no details about the platform are available, it has arrived at the exact moment when crypto is fighting for direction. AI stocks have dominated the 2025 narrative, pulling retail interest and flows away from crypto. The real question is, will Trump’s AI […]

Today, ski resorts are high-tech ecosystems featuring NFC ski passes, GPS-tracking apps, IoT safety systems, and digital platforms for everything

What started as a fact-finding mission for Netflix culminated in one of the biggest media deals in the last decade.

Truecaller remains under investigation in South Africa, a spokesperson for the Information Regulator has told MyBroadband.

More than 1,000 words used as far back as 325BC to be collected for insight into past linguistic landscape
It is not likely to be a hefty volume because the vast majority of the material has been lost in the mists of time. But the remnants of a language spoken in parts of the UK and Ireland 2,000 years ago are being collected for what is being billed as the first complete dictionary of ancient...
An anonymous reader shared this report from Autoblog:Imagine walking out to your car, pressing the start button, and getting absolutely nothing. No crank, no lights on the dash, nothing. That’s exactly what happened to hundreds of Porsche owners in Russia last week. The issue is with the Vehicle Tracking System, a satellite-based security system that’s supposed to protect against theft....
Nuclear engineer Lonnie Johnson worked on NASA’s Galileo mission, has more than 140 patents, and invented the Super Soaker water gun.But now he’s working on “a potential key to unlock a huge power source that’s rarely utilized today,” reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. [Alternate URL here.] Waste heat…The Johnson Thermo-Electrochemical Converter, or JTEC, has few moving parts, no...
Phys.org republishes this article from The Conversation:On average, managers spend 23 hours a week in meetings. Much of what happens in them is considered to be of low value, or even entirely counterproductive. The paradox is that bad meetings generate even more meetings… in an attempt to repair the damage caused by previous ones… A 2015 handbook laid the groundwork for the nascent field of...
Friday six European Union countries “asked the European Commission to water down an effective ban on the sale of internal combustion engine cars slated for 2035,” reports ReutersThe countries have asked the EU Commission to allow the sale of hybrid cars or vehicles powered by other, existing or future, technologies “that could contribute to the goal of reducing emissions” beyond 2035, a joint...