F5.5G Leap-forward Development of Broadband in Africa The Africa Broadband Forum 2024 (BBAF 2024) was successfully held in Cape Town, South Africa recently, under…
Google wants women to also be professionally represented with emojis
Google’s on a mission to makes emojis more inclusive, and that starts with a new set of proposed Unicode emojis representing women in the…
Mobile phones don’t cause brain cancer, massive 30-year Australian study finds
Good news, selfie addicts. A new study published in the medical journal Cancer Epidemiology suggests that mobile phones, or excessive use of the critters,…
Joburgers can now order electric Ubers
If you’re in Johannesburg, your next Uber ride could be in an electric car. That’s thanks to a partnership between the private ride-hailing service,…
Apple loses exclusive rights to ‘iPhone’ name in China
This has to be one of the strangest legal battles of the year, but Apple has now lost a case against a company in…
Kung fu joins CG animation in the coolest thing we’ve seen today [video]
Kung Fu is one of those mythical and extremely spiritual things that us human beings can do, along with singing in the shower, roughly…
UJ students use tech to strike a blow against tender corruption
A group of four University of Johannesburg (UJ) students have struck a blow against corruption in the tender space with an app developed as…
SA publishers join up to create digital co-operative
Like it or not, programmatic advertising is going to play an increasingly large role in the digital publishing landscape. South Africa is not immune…
The world is finally learning not to trust the internet
For most of the internet’s recent history, people have been more than happy to share their personal information online. But thanks to numerous hacks,…
Shuttleworth Foundation on the hunt for social innovators
The Shuttleworth Foundation is on the hunt for social innovators to join its 2016 Fellowship intake. This year, the foundation says, it’s particularly interested…
SA developers, creatives invited to take part in NASA Space Apps Challenge
Space is cool. That’s a simple statement of fact. And even though we can’t all be astronauts, we can all play a part in…
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