University of Cape Town (UCT) vice-chancellor Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng has been named the winner of the inaugural Africa Education Medal, launched this year by T4 Education and HP in collaboration with Intel and Microsoft. Professor Phakeng was chosen from among...

Thirty-eight Chinese cities have reduced their emissions of planet-warming carbon dioxide (CO2) despite growing economies and populations for at least five years - defined as proactively peaked cities, a new study reveals. A further 21 cities have cut CO2 emissions as...

Electronic skin patches could well be described as the ultimate wearable electronic devices. They deploy electronic components, including sensors and actuators with appropriate processing, energy storage and communication, directly onto the body, typically attached...

Philip Odango, award-winning international cosplayer, designer, producer and author from the US, will be participating in Comic Con Africa 2018 and will be one of the international judges for this year's Cosplay Championships. Odango makes his own costumes and is...

The key barriers to entry in the IoT space - battery power and cost - have fallen away with the arrival in South Africa of low-cost, low-power solutions. "While machine to machine (M2M) solutions have been in use in some sectors in South Africa for several years, many...

In a study by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Fortinet in 2017, over 400 global decision-makers across a wide variety of industries, responsible for the security of their organisation's critical infrastructure, were asked about the security risks they are facing and...

The instability of the global economy, together with the low growth in the country and most recently, the petrol and VAT increases over the past two month are seeing South African consumers faced with the challenge of finding effective ways to manage their money and...

Liquid Telecom has partnered with AfriLabs, a network organisation of 100 innovation centres across 30 African countries, to explore new ways to support local start-ups and promote sustainable innovation across Africa. From digital skills training and workshops to...

The South African Reserve Bank Amendment Bill, 2018 (Private Member's Bill) will be introduced by Julius Malema. Richard Grant, Professor of Finance & Economics at Cumberland University and Publications Editor of the Free Market Foundation, has issued the...

Facebook has come under fire again, this time for a blocking bug that has potentially affected as many as 800 000 users. Erin Egan, chief privacy officer at Facebook, says the company will start notifying more than 800 000 users about a bug in Facebook and Messenger...