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 […]

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

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...

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...

Agreement also calls for NHS to increase net price it pays for new medicines by 25%

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The UK government has sealed a deal with Donald Trump guaranteeing that zero tariffs will remain on the imports of UK pharmaceuticals into the US and commits Britain to higher spending on NHS drugs.

The agreement, announced on Monday, secures continued investment by UK pharma...

A loss of key channels, including the Discovery Channel, could impact already falling subscriber numbers at DStv.

WHO urges countries to make drugs such as Mounjaro more accessible to people and asks drugs companies to lower prices

Weight loss drugs such as Mounjaro offer huge potential to tackle soaring obesity globally that will affect 2 billion people worldwide by 2030, the World Health Organization has said.

Their proven effectiveness in helping people lose weight means the medications represent “a...

The increasing use of AI in content production is not good news for Cape Town’s film production sector.

The label claims Haven’s dance hit I Run was made using AI trained on the award-winning singer’s voice.

Unprotected injuries or incidents disrupt livelihoods and weaken the resilience of the communities workers serve daily.

Groupe Canal+ aims to use group synergies to deal with the ongoing subscriber losses afflicting MultiChoice.