Recreational golfers’ performance on the course worsens when they use their smartphones for work-related activities but their devices don’t affect their game when used for personal reasons, a study showed.

The case depicted Google as a technological bully that methodically thwarted competition to protect its search engine.

South African artificial intelligence research firm Lelapa AI has launched a language model available in five different African languages called InkubaLM, which has some of the same functionalities as platforms like ChatGPT.

People in South Africa are still illegally accessing Starlink services despite threats from the satellite internet provider to cut users off in April this year.

Google has been taking incremental steps over the past year to increase the prevalence of zero-click searches, says Geoff Cohen.

With a growth rate of 1%, the economic pie is not getting any bigger and entrepreneurs are forced to compete with each other and navigate increasingly narrow operating margins, say Sejeng Matlhako and Stanley Hlamalani Godi.

Big South African firms recovered quickly from the CrowdStrike IT outage on Friday, which brought down global IT systems on an unprecedented scale.

From fearmongering about a looming “World War 3” to false narratives linking a cabal of global elite to a cyberattack, a torrent of online conspiracy theories took off Friday after a major IT crash.

Behind a massive IT failure that grounded flights, upended markets and disrupted corporations around the world is one cybersecurity company: CrowdStrike Holdings.

A global tech failure disrupted operations across multiple industries on Friday, halting flights and forcing a number of broadcasters off-air, as the outage upended everything from banking to healthcare systems.

Microsoft users were unable to access various Microsoft 365 apps and services on Friday morning. Earlier, a Microsoft cloud services outage grounded planes in the US.

South Africans are due to miss out on the massive Amazon Prime Day sales being run this week in every other country with a dedicated Amazon Marketplace.

Research from fintech group Altron has shown that the overall ability of SA’s households to take on and service debt deteriorated in the first three months of 2024.

It’s the next chapter for the controversial USS Zumwalt.

How will the rest of the world respond?

Using a chip-based optical frequency comb, researchers transmitted almost double the global internet traffic in a single second.

We spoke to a cybersecurity expert about what to do in this highly ironic situation.

As hurricane-force winds knock out traditional utilities, distributed energy systems with less points of failure can pick up the pieces.