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At his recent State of the Nation Address, President Ramaphosa outlined plans for the new Lanseria smart city in Gauteng, which will be developed over the next 10 years. This is what we know so far : ...

Imagine being able to go to a hospital and get spare parts for your body, as you would go to a spares shop to buy parts for your car. Do you need a new nose, ear, kidney or heart? Or maybe you need a ...

A group of Japanese companies is developing a suitcase-shaped robot that uses AI to help visually-impaired people to travel independently. Tech giant IBM, in partnership with four other companies, is ...

Late last year, Facebook was caught listening to and transcribing private Messenger chats to improve it’s speech recognition software. The platform now says it will pay up to $5, via Paypal, for...

“Dear Sir. A long-lost relative of yours has died and has left an inheritance of $150 000 to you. Kindly forward your banking details for transfer of funds.” Nearly everyone who has a mobile phone or ...

Sadly, just as soon as it started, it is ending. The internet giant’s global free public Wi-Fi initiative is coming to a close, four years after it started its operations in 2016. In November last yea...

With the outbreak of the coronavirus in China, the world’s attention has been drawn towards the future of health care, specifically disease prevention. Since its outbreak in December the virus has bee...

Last week, Medical researchers at Osaka University in Japan have for the first time successfully transplanted lab-grown heart cells into a human heart, in what may be a major breakthrough for cardiova...

Now, I don’t mean this in a creepy, conspiratory way like in the Matrix movies, where we are all living in a computer simulation controlled by an evil AI system. We are definitely living in a real, ph...