TUESDAY, 13 JANUARY 2026, 00:44
South Africa enters 2026 with high commodity prices, reliable electricity, stable finances, and lower interest rates, creating the strongest foundation for growth in over a decade. Progress on three critical priorities will determine whether this momentum translates into sustained 2%+ growth: transforming logistics through rail and port concessioning, fixing local government service delivery,...
As companies harness tools like OneDrive, Teams and SharePoint, they also drive a growing data governance headache within company, says Thys Fourie, COO at Exponant.
The Electoral Commission is inviting bids for public website hosting as it prepares for elections later this year.
India has proposed requiring smartphone makers to share source code with the government.
Walmart’s online shopping experience is getting the Gemini treatment.
The era of SABC TV licences, introduced in 1975, will likely soon come to an end.
Recorded in cave drawings as far back as 1000BC, this is one of the oldest zodiacal constellations to be recognised in its modern form
Taurus, the bull, is our focus this week. One of the oldest constellations to be recognised in its modern form, it was recorded as the bull of heaven in Babylonian records from about 1000BC, but cave drawings from Lascaux, France, suggest that humans may already...
An anonymous reader shared this report from It’s FOSS:Jenny Guanni Qu, a researcher at [VC fund] Pebblebed, analyzed 125,183 bugs from 20 years of Linux kernel development history (on Git). The findings show that the average bug takes 2.1 years to find. [Though the median is 0.7 years, with the average possibly skewed by “outliers” discovered after years of hiding.] The longest-lived bug, a...
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South Africa returns to work with a significantly more stable and predictable electricity supply, marking a turning point after years of severe load-shedding. This improvement is a direct result of Eskom’s Generation Recovery Plan, launched in April 2023, which has delivered a structurally stronger power system. Compared to January 2025, an additional 4,400 MW of […]
January 2026 has been a hot month for the crypto market, with both the Shiba Inu price and the price of Ethereum seeing steady growth. Despite this, many traders are now turning their attention to Digitap ($TAP). This crypto presale gem is in its third round but has already sold over 180 million $TAP tokens. […]
South Africa’s driving licence cards may become more expensive if their validity is extended.
South Africa’s electricity supply has entered 2026 in its strongest position in at least five years, Eskom has said.
Neuroscientist Ben Rein is on a mission to show that being around others not only feels good, but can even improve recovery from strokes, cancer and heart attacks. So why are so many of us isolated and glued to our phones?
‘I hate it.” I’ve asked the neuroscientist Ben Rein how he feels about the online sea of junk neuroscience we swim in – the “dopamine fasts”, “serotonin...
Bloomberg reports on Amazon listings “automatically generated by an experimental AI tool” for stores that don’t sell on Amazon. Bloomberg notes that the listings “didn’t always correspond to the correct product”, leaving the stores to handle the complaints from angry customers:Between the Christmas and New Year holidays, small shop owners and artisans who had found their products listed on...
An anonymous reader shared this report from CNET:Finland-based IXI Eyewear has raised more than $40 million from investors, including Amazon, to build glasses with adaptive lenses that could dynamically autofocus based on where the person wearing them is looking. In late 2025, the company said it had developed a glasses prototype that weighs just 22 grams. It includes embedded sensors aimed at...
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang “said one of his biggest takeaways from 2025 was ‘the battle of narratives’ over the future of AI development between those who see doom on the horizon and the optimists,” reports Business Insider. Huang did acknowledge that “it’s too simplistic” to entirely dismiss either side (on a recent episode of the “No Priors” podcast). But “I think we’ve done a lot of damage with...
“The clock is ticking” on the Hubble Space Telescope, writes the space news site Daily Galaxy, citing estimates from the unofficial “Hubble Reentry Tracker” site (which uses orbital data from the site space-track.org, created by tech integrator SAIC):While Hubble was initially launched into low Earth orbit at an altitude of around 360 miles, it has since descended to approximately 326 miles,...
China’s AI sector is gaining confidence and risk appetite, but chip-making constraints still blunt ambitions to rival the US.
More large donations from wealthy Silicon Valley figures are expected as they try to marshal opposition to a proposed ballot measure that would impose a new tax on billionaires.
Alphabet-owned Wing “is expanding its drone delivery service to an additional 150 Walmart stores across the U.S.,” reports Axios:[T]he future is already here if you live in Dallas — where some Walmart customers order delivery by Wing three times a week. By the end of 2026, some 40 million Americans, or about 12 percent of the U.S. population, will be able to take advantage of the convenience,...