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Reserve Bank exploring feasibility of digital currency for South Africa

The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) has announced that it has started a study to investigate the feasibility of a digital currency for the…

AI Media Group launches Deepfake Africa Challenge

The AI Expo Africa has launched the Deepfake Africa Challenge, a competition to raise awareness about deepfake technology. AI Media Group organised the challenge…

Vodacom builds 21 rural base stations for previously unconnected areas

Vodacom has switched on 21 new base stations in rural areas across the Northern Cape and Free State provinces as part of its Rural…

Google Woolaroo: How to use the indigenous language tool

Google has launched a new tool called Woolaroo to compile and preserve indigenous languages. The company announced the tool on 5 May. It features…

Woolworths launches ‘Virtual Try On’ service for makeup

Woolworths has launched a new virtual beauty service that lets you sample makeup online before buying it. The retailer announced the service on 6…

Government to help fund affordable internet solution for South Africa

The Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) has announced that it will help fund the development of an affordable, alternative internet solution for low-income…

Online bookings for private, R10k Table Mountain cable car rides open

The Table Mountain Aerial Cableway has launched a private car service for interested customers, with the ability to book tickets online. However, it doesn’t…

Cape Town dam levels surge nearly 20% in a wonderfully wet July

July was a particularly fruitful month for Cape Town and its surface water storage system. On the eve of yet another strong cold front,…

Elon Musk says Netflix and YouTube are coming to Teslas

“Netflix and drive” might become a thing now that Elon Musk revealed upcoming support for the streaming service and YouTube on his Tesla vehicles….

Pictures: Cold front brings snow to South Africa, and social media

Snow fell on Western Cape mountains after two cold fronts passed through the province on Monday and Tuesday, and South Africans didn’t miss the…

Cape Town dams now 65% full after rain from ‘intense’ cold front

All this rain in Cape Town has to go somewhere, right? According to the City, it seems that a fair amount has found its…

Update: two cold fronts, bringing snow and heavy rain, set to lash Cape Town on Tuesday

Update #6, Tuesday 23 July, 6pm: Looks like the bulk of the storm is largely over, at least for Cape Town. The latest satellite…

Taxi Live Africa brings Uber-like ehailing features to metered taxis

Since Uber arrived in South Africa in 2013, there’s been a fierce (and often violent) rivalry between those employing the technology and metered taxi…

Kenya is now home to Africa’s largest wind power project

Kenya is now home to Africa’s largest wind farm. Inaugurated on Friday, the Lake Turkana Wind Power Project located well north of capital Nairobi…

SAWS issues a flood warning for Cape Town from Thursday night into Friday

In case you thought shivering at the office was your only issue today in Cape Town, there’s a chance that you may be swimming…

Uber charged some US riders R18k for R180 trips thanks to a glitch

Imagine being charged R18 300 instead of R183 for an Uber trip across town. That’s exactly what some riders experienced in the States this…

New Ryanair 737 MAX 200 plane drops the ‘MAX’ from its name, goes with 737-8200 instead

A picture posted to Twitter on Sunday of a new Boeing 737 MAX suggests that the American plane manufacturer may be open to renaming…

South Africa is ripe for investment into transformative healthtech solutions [Opinion]

For the majority of South Africans today, quality healthcare is simply out of reach. People have to make do with informal and undersupplied clinics,…

Watch tonight’s total solar eclipse live on NASA TV right here

There’s a total solar eclipse today only visible across parts of South America and NASA will be streaming it live for the whole world…

Cape Town dam levels jump 2.7% after another weekend of heavy rain

It’s been another wet weekend for Cape Town, and all that precipitation has contributed to a bumper dam level report this week. According to…

SAA will fly newly-leased Airbus A350s on its New York-Johannesburg route

Rumours have been swirling around the internet about SAA’s fleet renewal programme, but on Sunday the carrier confirmed that it has acquired new Airbus…

Creator of DeepNude, an app that digitally strips women, thinks the world ‘is not ready’ for it

If, by some miracle, you still have traces of faith left in humanity six months into 2019, prepare to lose it all. A report…

Cape Town’s in for another rainy and bitterly cold weekend, SAWS warns

Looks like we’re in for another wet, bitterly cold and windy weekend, Cape Town. On Thursday, the South African Weather Service issued a set…

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