Sci-tech

How Facebook undermines privacy protections for its 2bn WhatsApp users

peter elkind & jack gillum & craig silverman & propublica 8 Sep 2021

WhatsApp assures users that no one can see their messages — but the company has an extensive monitoring operation and regularly shares personal information with prosecutors

South African discovered dinosaur could help demystify the life of the famous T-Rex

Sally Evans 4 Sep 2021

Q&A Sessions: Google’s SA country director tells us about his first 17 months in office

Sarah Smit 1 Sep 2021

Tiny dinosaur with big eyes and ‘ears’ hunted in the dark

boitumelo kgobotlo 23 May 2021

Let’s race with, not against, the machine

daniel le roux 30 Apr 2021

Your smartphone is probably spying on you

Boitumelo Kgobotlo - 29 Apr 2021

The spy in your pocket: Granting microphone and camera permission to certain apps does not mean they are only active during use

The war on women in video game culture

Eyaaz Matwadia - 11 Apr 2021

Women and girls make up almost half of the gaming community but are hardly represented and face abuse in the industry

Facebook users can use phone numbers to check if their data was breached

Eunice Stoltz - 9 Apr 2021

Private data from more than 530-million Facebook accounts was placed onto an unsecured public database. This tool allows users to use their phone number to see if they were among the victims.

Why handwriting is still important in the age of tech

Boitumelo Kgobotlo - 9 Apr 2021

Your brain remembers differently when using tech or simply pen and paper

Anteosaurus: Savage pre-mammalian hunter was no slowcoach

Boitumelo Kgobotlo - 26 Mar 2021

Evolutionary studies find that the Anteosaurus, previously assumed to be a sluggish animal, was actually a savage hunter

Electric vehicle battery manufacturing: Why SADC needs to act now

Edem Foli - 10 Feb 2021

All the minerals are here, so a golden opportunity exists if our governments provide incentives

Sounding the alarm on shack fire losses

Sarah Smit - 25 Jan 2021

A tech solution to fires in informal settlements comes with insurance that pays out the victims of these blazes

Wikipedia wants you to join the good side of the internet

Sarah Smit - 14 Jan 2021

The collaborative online encyclopedia, which has become a reliable source amid a flood of misinformation, turns 20 today

Who is that face behind the mask?

Tshegofatso Mathe - 19 Dec 2020

A local scientist has devised a method to identify people even when their faces are partly obscured

Africa has a new Fifa king

Eyaaz Matwadia - 5 Nov 2020

This week’s Gaming Corner looks at how the VS Gaming final played out and what it took for Abubakar Akhalwaya to walk away as Africa’s best

Nokia and Nasa to install 4G on the Moon

Agence France Presse - 23 Oct 2020

Installing a wireless network on the Moon is just one step toward establishing a long-term human presence there

Epic fail: Africa’s Fortnite battle

Eyaaz Matwadia - 22 Oct 2020

Forced onto the backfoot by poor ping and overseas servers, African gamers are getting creative in an attempt to play one of the biggest competitive games. In the second instalment of our gaming corner, we chat to some of the innovators

Why AI needs a physical body to reach its full potential

Mark Lee - 11 Oct 2020

Robots will have to learn from scratch, like babies, if they are to have a sense of self and proper social interactions

No ‘I’ in team – but there is an ‘EA’

Eyaaz Matwadia - 26 Sep 2020

With internet lag keeping them from global competition, local gamers have settled on a format for EA’s FIFA 2020 allows 11 people to play as a team. And the prize money in local leagues is growing. Eyaaz Matwadia boots up for the first instalment of Gaming Corner

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