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This video shows how quickly Hurricane Harvey became a monster

Hurricane Harvey is a name you’ve probably heard a lot of this weekend, and for good reason. It’s the strongest storm to make landfall…

South African online auction to sell 264 pieces of rhino horn

South Africa’s first online rhino horn auction is all set to sell 500 kilograms of rhino horn this Wednesday after a Constitutional Court ruling…

Sandstorm hits Johannesburg as South Africans dust off their memes

There’s a sandstorm currently sweeping across Johannesburg, and no, we’re not talking about that sandstorm. Around 2pm, residents in Johannesburg’s city centre noticed the…

City of Cape Town wants users to turn their taps down low

A stopcock, desalination or groundwater extraction plant, is coming to a suburb or household near you, according to the City of Cape Town. While…

Stats SA: over 30.4m South Africans live below poverty line

Statistics South Africa is today publishing its second poverty trends report, shedding light on the country’s wealth brackets. It’s also posting snippets of the…

‘Joke of the century’: South Africa responds to ANN7, The New Age sale

Gupta-owned Oakbay has announced the sale of its two media companies — ANN7 and The New Age — for R450-million. Purchasing the duo is…

4 tweets that explain South Africa’s current weather situation

While Cape Town received a healthy dose of rain on Tuesday and this morning, it isn’t the only weather phenomenon occurring in South Africa…

YouTube Kids debuts next week to focus on family entertainment, elearning

With a new app in the pipeline, YouTube is gearing up to tap into the online family entertainment sector, which is reportedly showing four…

District 9’s Neill Blomkamp will direct the next sci-fi horror Alien film

South African / Canadian filmmaker Neill Blomkamp — the director behind sci-fi jaw-droppers District 9, Elysium and soon-to-be-released Chappie — announced that he’ll direct the…

WorldRemit raises $100-million in funding to drive its global growth

WorldRemit, an online money transfer service, is making a vigorous entry into the African mobile money service market. The service has completed a funding…

Vodacom launches e-school portal aimed at giving learners access to curriculum content

African cellular giant Vodacom has launched an e-school portal which will enable any learners who are Vodacom subscribers to access curriculum content through their…

HTTP is getting its first upgrade since 1999. Here’s what you can expect

While the web has gone through a lot of changes since it first came into existence in the early 1990s, the fundamental tech behind…

New technology sections introduced in Business Day and WSJ: here’s why

Most probably by coincidence, both South Africa and Wall Street’s most authoritative business newspapers introduced brand-new dedicated technology sections to their newspapers today. Times…

Liquid Telecom secures $150m funding for Africa-wide fiber network expansion

Independent data, voice and IP provider Liquid Telecom Group has announced it has secured additional funding totalling US$150-million to finance the expansion of its…

These 5 South Africans have been shortlisted to go colonise Mars in 2024

South Africans Divashen Govender, Kobus Vermeulen, Adriana Marais, Edwin le Grange and Alexandra Doyle have been shortlisted as part of a group of 100…

Why David Carr was the finest tech journalist of his time

Journalism’s biggest “fan of disruption” passed away last week, resulting in many eulogies and memories of one of the greatest voices writing about the intersection of technology and media…

Facebook looking for Sub-Saharan Africa Head

In the latest sign that Facebook is about to step up its African presence, the social networking giant has put up a job posting…

Apple iWork, iCloud now available to everyone

Anyone with an Apple ID can now access productivity tools like Pages, Keynote and Numbers for iCloud, regardless of their device. This cross-pollination of…

#SONA2015 reached 30 tweets per second in SA’s first true social TV event

Aside from its political ramifications, last night’s events inside Parliament led to unprecedented numbers in local social media interactions. Focusing primarily on Twitter usage around…

Facebook, WordPress to sponsor West-African hackathon

Facebook’s Internet.org and WordPress are set to sponsor a major Ghanaian hackathon aimed at come up with solutions to some of West Africa’s biggest…

Ahead of SoNA, government expands ‘two-way conversation’ using social media and apps

You might regard it as a simple change to regular SABC programming or, if you’re Capetonian, the worst traffic nightmare imaginable. Government is however…

12 Uber cars impounded during J&B Met; UberYACHT launched

Cape Town’s traffic department impounded 12 Uber vehicles during the J&B Met, one of South Africa’s most prestigious horse racing events of the year. Following media…

How eSIM and Dual SIM Can Save You Money in South Africa

Tapping Into Africa’s 230-Million AI Jobs Opportunity

Innovate47 Launches Global Food & Agri Accelerator to Back Climate-Smart Startups

Simbi Wabote’s 10-Year Roadmap: How Nigeria Achieved 54% Local Content Growth

Records Tumble In Best Year Yet For South Africa’s Hedge Fund Industry

Acer Unleashes Beastly New Predator BiFrost and Nitro GPUs with AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series

Philips Evnia Drops Jaw-Dropping QD OLED Monitors: 240Hz, Ambiglow, and All the Good Stuff

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TDK enhances IMUs for extreme temps

Data centres and defence are reviving diesel