Midstream Estate in Gauteng is generating roughly one gigawatt-hour or a million kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity through solar panels every month. The solar power is sufficient to meet roughly ...

European regulators have warned that Temu and Shein are selling hazardous products, including shoes, lingerie, and nail polish containing carcinogens, flammable children’s pyjamas, toxic slime ...

Hangzhou-based AI startup DeepSeek, owned by Chinese hedge fund High-Flyer, recently shook up the artificial intelligence space with the launch of its DeepSeek-R1 and DeepSeek-V3 large language ...

Eskom has warned that homeowners and businesses that have installed rooftop solar systems should register them or face penalties, and South Africans could be looking at paying well over R50,000 as ...

The South African Broadcasting Corporation’s (SABC) new leadership is seeking a service provider to revive its brand image and “restore trust among its audiences.” This is according to a ...

South African ride-hailing platform Twytch uses blockchain technology to improve passenger and driver safety by verifying both users’ identities while ensuring that this private data is not ...

After operating in South Africa for over eleven years, Uber is collapsing, with customers reporting problems with driver behaviour, poorly maintained cars, and torpid customer support. When Uber ...

Public safety tool Community Wolf plans to use artificial intelligence to inform law enforcement and security companies about how to allocate their resources more effectively. Speaking to the SABC ...

The National Lotteries Commission (NLC) paid almost half a million rand in 2020 to a private company to investigate a computer breach that never happened. Neo Solutions, headed by controversial ...

My colleagues and I at Purdue University have uncovered a significant imbalance in the human values embedded in AI systems. The systems were predominantly oriented toward information and utility ...

MyBroadband recently got a tour of Freedom Won’s impressive factory in Edenvale, one of the three biggest battery assembly plants in South Africa. Freedom Won was founded by Lizette Kriel and ...

Eskom’s reliance on load reduction as a cover for load-shedding, instead of fixing overloaded substations and incentivising alternative energy solutions, is prolonging South Africa’s power crisis.