South Africa’s energy crisis has many dimensions, from political and economic to technical and environmental. Recently, the country’s power utility, Eskom, has been generating only about 60% of its capacity and has had to restrict usage to prevent a regional blackout.

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Late last year South African mobile service operators Vodacom and MTN were instructed to drop the prices of… well, everything from calls to data. They were given 60 days in order to do so and as of today, those 60 days are up.

It’s like a tale from a Hollywood movie. The crown prince and future ruler of the wealthiest oil-rich Middle East country uses the most popular messaging service in the world to send malware to the phone of the CEO of the largest retailer on the planet.

Have you ever wondered why the coffee you make at home tastes different from the drinks you buy in cafes?…

The annual Consumer Electronics Show produces both groundbreaking and strange tech every year. This time around we saw everything from a hellishly expensive self-heating lunchbox to an automated Segway chair. But the PC maker Lenovo had other plans. 

If you’re looking to snag a pair of running shoes this year, there are many brands jostling for your attention. Under Armour’s looking to jostle just a little harder than everyone else, if its newly unveiled-in-SA HOVR Machina running shoes are any indication.

Fear of missing out, or FoMO, is commonly described as that anxious feeling you get when you think other people might be having a good time without you. Excessive FoMO is closely related to symptoms of behavioural addiction. It often leads to undesirable behaviour such as the constant checking of social media, even in an inappropriate context, like while driving, and becoming overly preoccupied with reactions to online posts and messages.

Many young people spend significantly more time using screens than is recommended by health professionals. Excessive screen time has been blamed for several ills, including obesity and poor mental health. To mitigate these negative effects, we need to understand the things that encourage children to spend lots of time in front of a screen.

Samsung’s long had things its own way in one very specific section of the smartphone market — the Galaxy Note…