May 21, 2018
Kathy Gibson reports – Since the first power looms heralded the start of the first industrial revolution, technology has been displacing people from jobs, and the current Fourth Industrial Revolution is continuing the trend – but on an unprecedented scale....
May 21, 2018
South Africans have had first-hand experience of deadly plastic pollution with the recent “nurdle” incident where hundreds of thousands of lentil-sized plastic pellets washed up on our beaches. These pellets are deadly poison to fish and marine mammals,...
May 21, 2018
As South Africa learns how much SAA has cost the taxpayer, and how much more needs to be ploughed into the carrier, Free Market Foundation researcher Chris Hattingh looks at what lessons we could learn from Air India. At the end of March, it was revealed that Air...
May 21, 2018
The integrated circuit was only six years old in 1965 when Gordon Moore articulated “Moore’s Law,” the principle that would guide microchip development from that point forward. Moore was director of research & development at Fairchild...
May 21, 2018
On 16 April, Kaspersky Lab researchers reporteda new Android malware distributed through a domain name system (DNS) hijacking technique and targeting mainly smartphones in Asia. Four weeks on, the threat continues to evolve rapidly and has now extended its target...
May 21, 2018
If ever there is an eleventh commandment, it should be “water must be paid for”, delegates were told on the last day of the African Utility Week. Chief manager investments and programmes in Kenya’s Water Services Trust Fund Willis Ombai roped in the...
