Nasa sending iPhones on Moon mission
The iPhone is going further than any smartphone has travelled before.
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Jacques du Toit | meteorology | Science | Vox | Vox Weather | Weather
The successful online weather channel run by one of South Africa’s top Internet providers
Since rolling out in September 2021, Vox Weather has amassed hundreds of thousands of followers across social media platforms and has entered partnerships with major publications and sports events.
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Banking | Fireblock | Louis Koekemoer | Science | Standard Bank | Trending
Batteries catch fire at Standard Bank offices in South Africa
A fire broke out in a container housing lithium-ion batteries and other equipment supporting the solar power system at Standard Bank’s Constantia office complex in Roodepoort this week.
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Space agency warns possible severe solar storm could hit South Africa
The South African National Space Agency says the country could see a geomagnetic storm reaching G4/Severe conditions in the next 24 hours.
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Brenda du Plessis | Charmaine Koning | Cyril Ramaphosa | Jan Scheepers | Kruger National Park | Science
South African Air Force helicopter unused for two years saves 18 in flood disaster
Many areas in eastern Limpopo have recorded rainfall of more than 400mm in a week, causing widespread flooding and some rivers rising to their highest levels in 46 years.
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The South African inventor behind speed guns in sports
South African engineer Henri Johnson invented the world’s first Doppler radar speed gun specifically for ball tracking in sports.
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Amazon founder’s rocket company makes space history
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin completed a suborbital joyride Saturday with a six-person crew, including the first wheelchair user to reach space and one of SpaceX’s first engineers.
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Uber and Bolt have very different car standards in South Africa
MyBroadband compared the ways in which Bolt and Uber assess whether vehicles are suitable for their ride-hailing services.
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CFAM AgriTech | Crime | farm attacks | farm murders | HerdTrack | Science
Tech fighting a rural crime bigger than farm attacks in South Africa
While farm attacks and murders are undoubtedly a serious problem, another crime occurs hundreds of times more frequently in rural areas.
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40km of fibre, 23km of water pipes, and enough tar to cover four rugby fields — South Africa’s new university takes shape
The developer behind Solidarity’s private Afrikaans university campus has detailed the sheer scale of the infrastructure that will be rolled out at the R3.2-billion facility over the next two years.