THURSDAY, 18 DECEMBER 2025, 23:08
Bitcoin’s Layer-2 expansion narrative is turning into one of the strongest market drivers of late 2025. Activity across scaling ecosystems has increased sharply as users and developers migrate toward faster and cheaper infrastructure without leaving the Bitcoin security layer. Transaction roll ups, smart contract sidechains, and Lightning based settlement layers are beginning to form an […]
Sanral has stopped supporting magnetic stripe payments at toll plazas ahead of the busy holiday period.
The deal with a company owned by Embraer gives Beta Technologies an additional source of revenue as it develops its own electric aircraft.
The central bank says US stock price valuations are their most stretched since the dotcom bubble burst.
HERMANUS, CAPE TOWN – The conversation around Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Africa is rapidly shifting from “if” to “how.” While the potential is universally acknowledged, the path to tangible, scalable, and locally relevant implementation remains the critical challenge. At the SATNAC 2025 conference, the focus was squarely on this practical execution, with industry leaders outlining […]
Thyspunt in the Eastern Cape and Bantamsklip in the Overberg are the proposed sites for a new nuclear power plant.
Trump’s renomination of billionaire astronaut Jared Isaacman is a tale of politics, ambition and vanity
It used to be that once your star had fallen in Donald Trump’s orbit, it was destined never to rise again. Any number of discarded former allies stretching back to Trump’s first term of office could testify as much.
One who has emerged from a political black hole to return to the...
Standard Bank now has the second-lowest PayShap fees in the country behind TymeBank, where they remain free.
Cristina Dorador is on an urgent mission in the world’s highest desert, the Atacama in Chile. As the rise of drug-resistant superbugs kills millions per year, Cristina has made it her mission to uncover new, life-saving antibiotics in the stunning salt flats she has studied since she was 14. Against the magnificent backdrop of endless plains, microscopic discoveries lead her team of...
The Southern African Large Telescope near Sutherland is celebrating 20 years of observing the sky.
It will be able to monitor changes in brain function just minutes after weapon use, scientists say.
Several new start-ups are building replicas of sites so A.I. can learn to use the internet and maybe replace white-collar workers.
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.
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...
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...