Q&A: What is bitcoin?
Bitcoin has carved out a name for itself as the world's most popular cryptocurrency since arriving on the scene more than ten years ago.
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What a failed Johannesburg project tells us about mega cities in Africa
Six years ago a major development was announced in South Africa. Billed as a game changer, it was meant to alter the urban footprint of Johannesburg, Africa's richest city, forever.
Environment
Mar 6, 2019
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Ford pulls out of S. America truck business, closes Brazil plant
US automaker Ford said Tuesday it was pulling out of the commercial heavy truck business in South America, closing a plant in Brazil employing 2,800 workers that has been operating for half a century.
Automotive
Feb 19, 2019
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What a major offshore gas find means for South Africa's energy future
Many South African politicians, economists and specialists in the energy sector are celebrating the news that a promising show of natural gas has been discovered in deep water south of Mossel Bay. It was found in an offshore ...
Energy & Green Tech
Feb 13, 2019
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NASA looks at Tropical Storm Funani's rainfall
Tropical Storm Funani (formerly classified as 12S) continued to affect Rodrigues Island in the South Pacific Ocean when the GPM satellite passed overhead and analyzed its rainfall.
Environment
Feb 6, 2019
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Plastic in the oceans is not the fault of the global south
Our oceans are littered with plastics. Indeed, we are regularly exposed to images and stories of whales and sea turtles choking to death on plastic trash. Ocean plastic is clearly a problem but what is the solution?
Environment
Feb 1, 2019
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Mobile app spend soars with China a top market: report
Mobile app downloads are surging around the world with growth in smartphone use, with nearly half coming from China, a market tracker said Wednesday.
Business
Jan 16, 2019
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Global warming has already raised the risk of more severe droughts in Cape Town
Between 2015 and 2017 South Africa's South Western Cape region experienced three of its lowest rainfall years on record. This led to the progressive depletion of water supply reservoirs and by the summer of 2017/18 there ...
Environment
Dec 19, 2018
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Why do people in Indonesia still live in disaster-prone areas?
The earthquakes and tsunami in Central Sulawesi that killed more than 2,000 people in September 2018 did not only leave a deep sorrow. It made us rethink the relationship between humans, technology and nature in Indonesia.
Environment
Dec 19, 2018
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Researchers suggest broiler chicken is the hallmark of the Anthropocene
A team of researchers from several institutions in the U.K. and one in South Africa has come to the conclusion that the broiler chicken offers perhaps the most striking evidence of the rise of the Anthropocene. In their paper ...
