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This Week’s Top 4 Google Searches Across Africa
Google Trends publishes the top searches for every day of the week and covers 4 African countries in which it sees the most activity, namely Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa. The top search trends from along the week provide an…
How to Choose a Gaming TV That’s Perfect for Your Next-Gen Console
TV features like a 4K display, HDMI 2.1, reduced input lag of 8.5ms, and 120 frames per second refresh rate would have made little difference to your gaming experience when Super Mario Bros became a global obsession in the 1980s.…
“Beautiful New Cosmic Puzzles” Revealed by SA’s MeerKAT Telescope
An international team led by a young South African researcher and UKZN alumnus, Dr Kenda Knowles, has just announced a comprehensive overview paper for the MeerKAT Galaxy Cluster Legacy Survey (MGCLS). The paper to be published in the Astronomy &…
South Africa Has a New AI-Powered Digital Transformation Advisor
An innovative local software development partnership between 4Sight Holdings and Bidvest Advisory Services has created 4MIA powered by ALICE TM, a first-of-its-kind AI-powered automated digital transformation advisor. Developed on the ALICE TM platform, the intelligent predictive solution Monitors, Investigates and…
31.5 Million Cyberthreats Targeted SA Users in the First Half of 2021
The increase in cyberthreats recorded by global internet security firm Kaspersky in the first half of this year across South Africa amounted to 31.5 million. “Threats can be categorised as criminal (80% of attacks), targeted (19.9%), and advanced (0.01%). The…
Could Vodacom Unseat Rival MTN After These 2 Massive Acquisitions?
Vodacom South Africa has announced two major acquisitions today – the buying of a 55% controlling stake in Vodafone Egypt, the North African country’s largest telecom, and a major move in SA’s local fibre market through a new deal with…
WhatsApp is Changing its Pricing – Here’s How Savvy Companies Can Take Advantage
WhatsApp is about to change its pricing model and those companies that don’t put the customer at the front will be paying for it with loyalty and money February 2022 marks the date that WhatsApp for Business will be changing…
MTN’s Takeover Plans for Telkom Would Need the Government’s Support First
South Africa’s MTN Group, the largest telecom in Africa and 2nd largest in its home nation has reportedly made a pitch to buy SA’s third largest telecom, Telkom. According to an anonymous insider who spoke to Bloomberg, Telkom has shown…
Microsoft’s Surface Laptop 4 Launches in SA – Pricing + Other Details
Microsoft is expanding its Surface device range in South Africa with the introduction and availability of the Surface Laptop 4, for both commercial and private customers. The device is now available for consumers in retail from Incredible Connection and Vodacom…
An NFT is Being Made for This Apartheid Struggle Legend
In an historic South African first, a spy “pen gun” once owned by anti-apartheid icon and former ANC President Oliver “OR” Tambo has been tokenized into a Non-Fungible Token (NFT). The spy pen gun is believed to have been gifted…
A Whole Week of Stage 4 Blackouts as SA Falls Deeper Into Power Crisis
The ending weeks of October and most of November so far has been marked by on-again off-again load shedding from South Africa’s power utility Eskom as a renewed power crisis takes hold of the Rainbow Nation. While SA had been…
How to Choose the Most Effective ELN for Your Laboratory
The majority of the academic labs and biotech companies are desperately looking for ways in which they can replace their paper notebook system with an ELN or electronic lab notebook. As there are numerous companies that offer ELNs, all claiming…
4 Compelling Ways that Technology Plays a Key Role in SA’s Economy
The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on South Africa’s already fragile economy. Add to that the riots and looting, the cost of recovery and Eskom’s load-shedding, and the current picture is bleak. So where to from here? One sector that…
What Squid Game Can Teach You About Crypto Investing
Netflix’s smash hit series Squid Game has prompted fans to create everything from reenactment videos to custom merchandise. The strangest creation by far, though, has to be SQUID, a crypto-asset inspired by the series. In less than a week, from…
A Dark Weekend for SA as Eskom Announces Stage 4 Load Shedding
South Africa is headed for a dark weekend as Eskom has just announced Stage 4 load shedding from 14:00 on Friday until 05:00 on Saturday – thereafter Saturday will be under Stage 2 load shedding, which will continue until 05:00…
Eskom: Stage 2 Load Shedding for SA & It Will Get Worse on the Weekend
Eskom, South Africa’s power utility, announced that the country will be put under Stage 2 load shedding at 11:00, the announcement came about an hour before the load shedding was to begin. According to Eskom, three generating units at its…
