Category: Technology

You may have been partying too hard to notice, but space history was made in the early hours of yesterday. As the Earth rang in 2019, four billion miles away a Nasa probe was taking a photo of a minor planet called Ultima Thule. Little more than a big rock and described as resembling a […]

Taiwan’s Foxconn, Apple Inc’s iPhone assembler, is in the final stages of talks with the local government of the Chinese city of Zhuhai to build a chip plant there with a total investment of about $9 billion, the Nikkei business daily reported on Friday. The total investment could add up to around 60 billion yuan, […]

The City of Johannesburg’s Health Department has had to destroy an unspecified amount of critical vaccines at the Westbury clinic in Johannesburg. This was due to a power failure caused by cable theft. The department says the vaccines must be stored in refrigerators at specific temperatures, but the fridges were affected  after experiencing the power […]

A cyber attack caused major printing and delivery disruptions on Saturday at the Los Angeles Times and other major US newspapers, including ones owned by Tribune Publishing Co such as the Chicago Tribune and Baltimore Sun. The cyber attack appeared to originate outside the United States, the Los Angeles Times reported, citing a source with knowledge of the situation. The attack […]

President Donald Trump is considering an executive order in the new year to declare a national emergency that would bar US companies from using telecommunications equipment made by China’s Huawei and ZTE, three sources familiar with the situation told Reuters. It would be the latest step by the Trump administration to cut Huawei Technologies Cos Ltd and ZTE […]

Many CenturyLink customers across the U.S. were without internet Thursday amid a lengthy outage that even affected some Verizon customers. The outage began early in the day but by late Thursday night, the company tweeted that its engineers had identified a “network element” that was affecting services and expected to fully restore services within hours. […]

Billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to blast off on Thursday after two cancelled launches earlier this week due to last-minute technical problems, but poor weather is looming as a potential problem. The rocket will carry a roughly $500 million global positioning system (GPS) satellite built by Lockheed Martin Corp and is […]

Thuli Mthethwa and Elmarie Pereira each got fed up by crime after being affected in different ways – and deciding enough was enough. They are now partners in MeMeZa Shout Crime Prevention, a tech-heavy social startup aimed at providing communities terrorised by crime with low-cost and innovative security systems. The initiative recently landed $250,000 (about R3.5 […]

Instagram announced that it will be bringing new features to its Stories format. Features such as a new countdown sticker and question stickers that can be used in Live videos and to share music recommendations are being added. Instagram said in a blog post: ” You’ll see new ways to interact with your friends and form a […]

Uber Technologies Inc received approval from Pennsylvania to resume self-driving car testing on public roads this week, state records show, nine months after it suspended the program following a deadly accident in Arizona. A company spokeswoman said on Tuesday Uber has not yet resumed testing. In November, Uber said it was seeking permission from Pennsylvania […]