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How safe is flying…on your credit card?

Air travel may be statistically safer than other forms, but what about the transactions that surround it? According to Airports Company South Africa (ACSA)…

#FeesMustFall, Mxit, Singularity University: 5 Memeburn articles you loved this week

After the tumultuous student protests which rocked South African universities, parliament, and the Union Buildings last week, the past few days have seemed pretty…

Have domains arrived at their ‘twerking moment’?

The Internet namespace experienced a shift over the past year. Gone are the days of fighting over coveted .com addresses or settling for strangely…

POPI: are you clear and compliant?

While only certain sections of the Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act have been implemented since the Act was made law on 26 November…

5 big reasons everything is moving to the cloud

Notwithstanding the soft-edged depiction of “the cloud” on network diagrams, it is neither a fuzzy (ill-defined) nor a fluffy (hyped) concept. It is easy…

Google to launch hundreds of internet-enabled balloons in 2016

Google’s Project Loon never seizes to impress. Though the initiative started testing about two years ago, the US internet giant’s moonshot of sending internet-beaming…

Microsoft to merge calendar app Sunrise with Outlook

Microsoft has finally revealed its plans for Sunrise, the calendar app it acquired in February this year for US$100 million. Microsoft is going to…

Marissa Mayer unveils revamped Yahoo! Advertising [CES2014]

If Yahoo! really is to rise from the ashes in 2014, advertising is undoubtedly one of the areas it has to get right. And…

Our vote for best digital fitness device at CES 2014: Skulpt Aim

Squint your eyes while looking at the lineup of fitness gadgets at International CES this year, and they become almost indiscernible — that’s because…

Here’s how some of tech’s biggest stocks fared in 2013

2013 was a fascinating year for the technology sector in the stock market. We witnessed Apple’s share price fall from grace in the most…

Things heat up as Valve reveals 14 Steam Machines [CES2014]

Steam Machines are a go. Today at CES 2014 Half Life 2 creator Valve announced its lineup of Steam Machines, PCs custom-fitted to run…

It’s time for a change as revamped Pebble goes Steel [CES2014]

Last year this time, people were blown away by the quirky looking e-paper watch, Pebble, which is compatible with iOS and Android devices. Pebble…

Sony drives home its 4K commitment [CES 2014]

Sony has just finished its press conference at this year’s CES and largely continued the overarching story, which, so far, has been all about…

Michael Bay freaks out at Samsung’s CES 2014 press conference

Proceedings took a strange turn at Samsung’s press conference today, when director Michael Bay abruptly left the stage after a teleprompter apparently failed during…

Samsung: ‘We have UHD TVs too, and they can bend’ [CES2014]

Samsung’s International CES 2014 press conference just wrapped and as expected with didn’t see any trace of a Galaxy Gear 2 or the Samsung…

Beast mode: Asus unveils world’s first quad-mode, Dual-OS laptop [CES2014]

After some 4K TV announcements by LG, Panasonic and Sharp at International CES today, Asus Chairman Jonney Shih jolted us awake with his usual…

LG reveals its plans for 2014: texting your washing machine [CES2014]

Lenovo had its moment in the sun last night and this morning it was LG’s chance to woo the press. TV A packed room…

KEECKER is the closest thing to R2-D2 we’ve seen yet [CES2014]

You’ll have to look hard to find this one at CES 2014, but it’s a jaw-dropper. Imagined and brought to life by ex-Googler, Pierre…

Is 2014 the year BlackBerry makes its big comeback?

To many, BlackBerry is well and truly dead. While the company still exists in the same form it has in its heyday, it’s a…

Put down the cookie: iFit Active band sees and tracks all [CES2014]

CES 2014 seems to be the launchpad for a bunch of fitness apps and hardware. Take the newly announced and originally named iFit Active…

The coolest gadgets of CES 2014 so far [CES2014]

The press got a sneak peek at what will be unwrapped in the coming week. We battled through the crowd to find the most…

GPT 5.2 lands in the API and could reshape how SA builds with AI

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

HONOR’s customer first strategy is reshaping South Africa’s smartphone market

GTA 6 Is Officially Coming in 2026: The New Date, the Delays and the South African Reality Check

The Gaming Gear South Africans Are Actually Buying This December

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TDK enhances IMUs for extreme temps

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