Lyu Jae-cheol has been appointed as new CEO of LG Electronics to strengthen the fundamental competitiveness of its core businesses.

Parents are paying premium fees for education models that can’t match what online home schooling delivers.

HERMANUS, CAPE TOWN – In an address at the SATNAC 2025 conference, Openserve’s Chief Network Officer Robert Jorge laid out a critical imperative for the telecoms industry: the future belongs to networks that are not just bigger, but smarter, greener, and inherently more agile. The core message was clear: to meet explosive connectivity demands and […]

Samsung’s unveiling of its first trifold smartphone marks another escalation in the foldables arms race – and another moment where Apple is conspicuously absent.

Social media users have called the luxury Italian fashion brand’s artificial intelligence-made adverts “cheap” and “lazy”.

NCP Chlorchem has embarked on one of South Africa’s biggest private industrial solar deployments.

PayShap adoption grows, but inconsistent bank fees and limited access still hinder its inclusion ambitions in South Africa.

In today’s newsletter: As suppliers get ready to meet policy makers and space agencies at the industry’s largest gathering, a look at the exploration and exploitation of space

Good morning. This week Glasgow hosts one of the UK’s largest ever gatherings of the space industry at Space-Comm. With representatives of Nasa, the UK and Scottish governments and the UK space agency among 2,000 space...

As the digital asset market experiences dramatic volatility, Evan Mills, a financial data analyst in California, is just one of countless ordinary investors. He’s not a full-time trader, nor does he have a Wall Street background. His story is worth telling because his experience represents the broadest segment of the digital asset market: cautious, with […]

For North Ridge Capital, a Massachusetts-based quantitative investment firm, entering the digital asset market was not an impulsive move, but a strategic decision made after two years of research and testing of more than a dozen solutions. “We’re not here to speculate; we’re here to build long-term strategies,” said the firm’s head. “And only a […]

In the Twitch world of live streaming for the past decade, the unwritten rule was straightforward: you ground out in anonymity for years, hoping for that Big Break of virality, or you “cheated.” “Cheating” in the streaming world meant “viewbotting.” It was the industry’s dirty little secret. “For just a few dollars, streamers hired third-party […]

Samsung Electronics has unveiled its first multi-folding smartphone, the Galaxy Z TriFold.

For much of November, the DeFi sector has looked bruised. Decentralized finance has watched almost $60 billion wiped from total value locked (TVL) since October 7, plunging from roughly $172 billion to around $113 billion in just 45 days. That drop has weighed most heavily on the sector’s blue-chip protocols. Aave still leads the pack, […]

Against the backdrop of a continent at an inflection point, the message from the Southern Africa Telecommunications Networks and Applications Conference (SATNAC) 2025 was unequivocal: Africa’s future will not be imported. It will be built. Hosted by Telkom under the theme “Africa’s Ascent: Towards a Sustainable and Resilient Future,” the conference became a test  for a […]

Conch-shell trumpets discovered in Neolithic settlements and mines in Catalonia make tone similar to french horn, says lead researcher

As a child, Miquel López García was fascinated by the conch shell, kept in the bathroom, that his father’s family in the southern Spanish region of Almería had blown to warn their fellow villagers of rising rivers and approaching flood waters.

The hours he spent...

Like the narco-state, a ‘scam state’ refers to countries where an illicit industry has dug its tentacles deep into institutions and transformed the economy

For days before the explosions began, the business park had been emptying out. When the bombs went off, they took down empty office blocks and demolished echoing, multi-cuisine food halls. Dynamite toppled a four-storey hospital, silent...

Ethereum price news has turned more hopeful this week, with ETH holding the key $3,000 region just as Remittix (RTX) trading volume jumps on its Black Friday 200% bonus event. For many traders, that combo says a lot about where the market is heading: large caps like Ethereum still carry the narrative, but high growth […]

The latest activity around Ripple has drawn strong attention across the crypto market as traders watch how XRP reacts to tightening ranges and renewed discussion around utility. Market sentiment shifted this week after conversation picked up around network performance, upcoming regulatory clarity, and concerns about how traditional payment assets stack up against rising competitors.  Ripple […]

EU’s Copernicus monitoring service hails ‘reassuring sign’ of progress observed this year in hole’s size and duration

The hole in the ozone layer over the Antarctic this year was the smallest and shortest-lived since 2019, according to European space scientists, who described the finding as a “reassuring sign” of the layer’s recovery.

The yearly gap in what scientists have called “planetary...