Every year, disasters kill an average of 60,000 people, affect 200 million and cause US$150 billion in damage. To combat these…
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Last year, according to a United Nations report published in March, Libyan government forces hunted down rebel forces using “lethal autonomous weapons…
The proliferation of child sexual abuse material on the internet is harrowing and sobering. Technology companies send tens of millions of reports per…
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg recently announced the tech giant will shift from being a social media company to becoming “a metaverse…
Dark patterns are design elements that deliberately obscure, mislead, coerce and/or deceive website visitors into making unintended and possibly harmful…
What does it mean to be an inventor? In patent law, designed to protect the intellectual property of inventors, officials…
At first glance, a recently granted South African patent relating to a “food container based on fractal geometry” seems fairly mundane. The…
There are significant disparities in South Africa’s education system. Schools are divided into quintiles, from one to five; the poorest, in quintile…
If you ask children what their favourite dinosaurs are, the answers will undoubtedly include T. rex, Triceratops and maybe Brachiosaurus. Those children answering the…
You try to use your credit card, but it doesn’t work. In fact, no one’s credit card works. You try…