This will be published after South Africa’s election, which we certainly hope has only been manipulated by the usual political forces and not online trolls using Facebook, as happened in the Great Brexit Scandal and the US presidential elections of 2016
Facebook started rolling out a new tool in April 2019. Under updated procedures, the social media website would request ID verification for people who wish to advertise or promote political posts or ads. The announcement received very little publicity, but it can be interpreted as Facebook’s latest attempt to curb Russia’s anticipated interference in EU elections and prepare to manage any meddling in the 2020 US presidential elections.
Google’s annual I/O generally includes a focus on either hardware or software, but this year we got a healthy combination of the two.
The Competition Commission last week confirmed what all South Africans have been telling each other for years: the cost of…
These days you can’t be too safe with data phishing attacks, and now a developer has found that even Chrome for Android is susceptible.
In 2004 at a Nokia event in Helsinki a nerdy engineer showed off a fancy new concept that he hoped…
Co-founded by a South African based in New York, podcast company Pippa has today announced it’s being acquired by Acast for an undisclosed sum.
I wanted Green Lantern’s ring, Wonder Woman’s bracelets, Captain America’s shield and of course Batman’s batsuit. I never imagined then that 30 years later, as National Superhero Day approaches, I’d be designing components of my own supersuits.
Quantum mechanics is a branch of physics that attempts to understand and apply mathematical, verifiable rules to the behaviour of nature at the smallest end of the spectrum – on the scale of atoms, electrons and photons. It was first developed at the beginning of the 20th century, and has been very successful in describing systems on the microscopic level.
The most astounding thing about Uber’s long-awaited announcement of its listing is not its expected $100bn valuation but the admission that it “may not achieve profitability”.