Innovation

South African learners place in top 5 at international robotics contest

Two teams of Reddford House learners from South Africa were among the top five winners of the recent Inspired Builds 2021 robotics competition. The…

How technology can make us more creative

Technology gets a lot of criticism for taking away our creativity. This is understandable – with screens producing countless forms of entertainment for us,…

Checkers Rush: Shoprite launches automated, cashierless concept store in Cape Town

The Shoprite Group has announced the launch of an automated concept store in Cape Town called Checkers Rush. The store has no cashiers and…

SA property company becomes first to test cryptocurrency rental deposits

Property manager Quorum Holdings has announced it is testing and accepting rental deposits in the form of cryptocurrency from tenants. The company announced on…

Woolworths to launch Tap & Go points in stores to order, sample products

Woolworths has announced it will launch Near Field Communication (NFC) technology in its stores to let customers order products, as well as sample them,…

UCT to launch online high school in 2022

The University of Cape Town (UCT) has announced it will launch an online high school next year to create new opportunities for learners. The…

Observing supercooled atoms could improve semiconductor technology

Atoms — the building blocks of all matter — remain as complex and mysterious as ever. Science, in general, remains this way due to…

5 amazing technologies that are yet to find their killer apps

The history of innovation is essentially a love story. For any new technology to be embraced and find mainstream success, it first must find…

Solar Impulse 2: a momentous creation for human aeronautics

Back in the early 1900s when Wilbur and Orville Wright took off in the world’s first powered and sustained airplane, man knew that they could…

The mall of the future: how to build smarter, digital shopping districts

Since The Mall of Africa, South Africa’s biggest single-phase shopping mall development opened its doors on 28 April, it has dominated social media chat…

Stopping the ‘killer robots’: Memeburn interviews AI specialist Toby Walsh

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a topic not many can say they’re experts in, and even fewer actually are. Enter Professor Toby Walsh, a world-renowned…

5 ways innovation will change the job market, for everyone

Digitally-enabled innovation is coming to every corner of the world, and no old business model or way of life will remain undisrupted. This means…

Chariot for Women, an Uber-like service for women launches this month

Uber trips can be rather hair-raising for women if recent news reports are anything to go by. So it’s rather refreshing to see one…

5 Megatrends driving the second wave of inclusive digital innovation

Technological innovations, particularly in digital and mobile platforms, have boosted inclusive growth in developing African markets over the past several years. Inclusive growth is…

SA ranks 30th globally in fostering innovation

Attend enough South African tech events and you’ll inevitably hear someone say that South Africa needs to do more to foster innovation. As it…

Can a real fighting lightsaber be built with current technology?

The Star Wars saga borrowed (some say outright stole) its mythological theme from Budo (the art of the warrior) which was the societal philosophy…

Elon Musk’s Tesla Motors to set up office in South Africa

Major US automotive and energy storage company Tesla Motors plans to set up shop in South Africa, the birthplace of its CEO Elon Musk….

Is Ethereum the world computer that could just change it all?

Do you want to know how to build a better democracy in under a 100 lines of code? Or what about building your own…

4 fascinating uses of Microsoft Excel: artistic, uber-geeky, life-saving, and paranoid

What if you could only have one productivity software program? It might surprise you that your most versatile electronic tool is already loaded on…

Is your bank really about to experience Uber-style disruption?

To the average person on the street, Uber is amazing and has done more to change the face of transportation than any vehicle manufacturer…

10 Reasons why 2001: A Space Odyssey stands as the best Sci-Fi movie ever made

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968, MGM) was filmed before man stepped on the moon (1969, Neil Armstrong), before the use of Computer-Generated Imagery (1973,…

Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, others join to fast track clean energy innovation

Founder of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg and Microsoft’s Bill Gates — alongside a group of 26 other powerful business leaders — have launched an initiative…

How VR Meditation Apps Like Realms of Flow and Others Are Redefining Our Connection with Reality

How forex trading is transforming startup investment strategies

How One Energy Project Could Reshape Climate Action

South Africa’s online grocery boom signals digital shift

Microsoft launches new Surface devices in new AI era

Honor Magic V3 launches, four things to know

Honor Magic V3, a Guinness world record attempt

Trump wins – Tesla goes beyond $1 Trillion

Vivo update – a big safety gain

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