Seacom opened the taps for South Africa’s broadband industry, allowing cheaper and even uncapped consumer products to come to market.

The more storage, the better, and this locker looks as good as it performs.

Not much is new with Xiaomi’s latest flagship phones, but I still love the quad-lens camera on the Ultra.

Over time, she was able to more readily accept the impact of ADHD on her life without labelling this as a character flaw

The modern mind is a column where experts discuss mental health issues they are seeing in their work

A central tension in psychotherapy is the interplay between acceptance and change. People usually seek therapy because they wish to alter some aspect of their lives. Yet, at...

This high-end modern cassette player is better than vintage for tape heads.

Government ministers who are members of the ANC are fuming at their fellow party member, Deputy President Paul Mashatile, accusing him of backing communications minister Solly Malatsi’s withdrawal of the SABC Bill.

An unsettling new book advocates a closer relationship between Silicon Valley and the US government to harness artificial intelligence in the name of national security

Oscar Wilde’s quip, “Life imitates art far more than art imitates life”, needs updating: replace “art” with “AI”. The Amazon page for Alexander C Karp and Nicholas W Zamiska’s new book, The Technological Republic: Hard Power,...

Some eager product designers have replaced the toaster’s familiar buttons, levers, and dials with screens and automated software. The results are rather stale.

Under the sea ice during the Arctic’s pitch-black polar night, cells power photosynthesis on the lowest light levels ever observed in nature.

At Mobile World Congress 2025, the company also teased a solar-powered laptop and an accessory that adds two extra screens to your portable PC.

Johannesburg wants to impose a by-law that will make it unlawful for residents to share footage of crimes or criminal suspects on social media, community police forums, or neighbourhood watch groups.

I suggest to my son that the object of going to the planetarium should be for him to learn something, not to catch the scientists out

Since it was half-term, I took the boy out for the day. My choice was the planetarium at the Royal Greenwich Observatory, which melds my two great loves: space and having to traverse the entirety of London, with a chatty six-year-old, twice in one wet afternoon....

President Ramaphosa has tabled a compromise VAT hike to satisfy opposition parties in the GNU, who have vowed to fight tax increases in the budget and instead called for spending cuts.

Academics and medics are working to understand why hamstring injuries are keeping players sidelined for longer

The sight of a player pulling up with a hamstring injury has become all too familiar in the Premier League. Weary muscles are being stretched to the limit by an expanding calendar, but dealing with more games is not the only challenge for medical departments.

It is not that there has...

Five years on from March 2020, millions of people still face debilitating symptoms, with huge repercussions on public health and productivity. But politicians are starting to pretend the pandemic never happened

On 20 March 2020, Rowan Brown started to feel a tickle at the back of her throat. Over the next few days, new symptoms began to emerge: difficulty breathing, some tiredness. By the...

Uber South Africa has downplayed complaints on online platforms about its declining safety and service quality standards.