Robots not quite ready for intelligence

Fears of robots replacing humans are premature, writes ARTHUR GOLDSTUCK.

And your next phone is …

With the market changing so fast, what smartphone should you get next? It’s an increasingly complex...

Land Rover smartphone: smart car accessory

When Land Rover allowed its brand to be used on a smartphone, was it just a...

VR (almost) ready for the big time

Virtual reality games arcades are springing up around South Africa, and the technology behind it is...

Let the tablet wars begin

The tablet wars are here, with a dozen options on the South African shelves. ARTHUR GOLDSTUCK...

The sound of freedom

Gadgets often promise liberation but deliver only greater complexity. ARTHUR GOLDSTUCK finds freedom in a tiny...

Prepare for the future

From global equipment providers to local regulators, the groundwork for the 5G future is being laid....

Show Me the way to say Xiaomi

Samsung rose from unknown phone brand to market leader in barely a dozen years. With Huawei...

The next small thing

A localised WiFi hotspot in an SD card for cameras is not necessarily the next big...

Samsung unleashes the beast

Most new smartphone releases of the past few years have been like cat-and-mouse games with consumers...

Huawei steps into Samsung gap

Barely weeks after Samsung buried its latest large-format smartphone, Huawei stepped into the breach with its...

Customers enter new relevance era

A new study by Accenture shows that, heading into the third decade of the 21st century,...

Why RICA can’t work

Tens of millions of South Africans registered their SIM cards before the RICA deadline to help...

It’s no kiddie joke: You’ve been pwned

Computer users are in big trouble, and the threat is faced by consumers and the business...

Changing the rules of fintech

A whirlwind of investment is swirling around fintech startups in South Africa, as innovation in banking...

‘I am the Batman’: why VR is all the rAge

Virtual reality came into its own at the weekend’s annual rAge gaming expo, helping to cement...

The end of the small screen

The new Samsung Note 8 launched in New York last week heralds the end of the...

When a machine can be anything you want

A simple concept that could transform computing lies at the heart of the complex “new” tech...

Music goes miniature

The iPod has been the standard in portable music for so long, many assume it is...

Welcome to the high-tech World Cup

Video-assistance may well define the 2018 FIFA World Cup, but the technology shaping this year’s football...