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The economic value added to the continent’s GDP by mobile technologies and services will be worth $155-billion by 2025. Transactions on mobile money platforms reached $490-billion in 2020. YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP via Getty Images)

Is mobile money the answer to financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa?

The increased adoption of the latest digital technologies in developing countries has heightened speculation and optimism concerning bridging the gap between the relatively rich…

Keysoff Summer Sale: How to get a genuine Windows 10 Pro license for only $6.22

Keysoff guarantees that the licenses it sells are 100% authentic, with no security concerns

Organisations like Partners Against Piracy, a campaign to protect the livelihoods of content creators by raising awareness about piracy, are gaining traction.(Photo by Roberto Machado Noa/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Educate people about how piracy robs Africa’s artists, musicians and actors

Organisations like Partners Against Piracy, a campaign to protect the livelihoods of content creators by raising awareness about piracy, are gaining traction

Moves: Babusi Nyoni created the Vosho app for fun, but found that it could be used to diagnose Parkinson’s disease that, among other things, affects movement. (Photos: Courtesy of Babusi Nyoni & Lusanda Worsley)

Dance to diagnosis: The app that can diagnose Parkinson’s

By seeing how people move, the app can tell if they are in the first stages of the neurological disorder

Software tools can take multiple languages to entirely new spaces. Zubada/Shutterstock

Connecting isiXhosa, isiZulu to the digital age

Software tools for South Africa’s Nguni languages may assist with redress and effective communication.

Hackers were able to reach large numbers of websites by infecting a commonly used “plug-in

Thousands of websites infected by ‘crypto mining’ malware

Researchers have been warning in recent weeks about this kind of malware, which can deliver profits without being obvious to users.

Hardware? Software? Who cares?

Right now a tectonic shift is under way in one of the world’s most important industries: information technology.

How to recycle your PC

Getting a shiny new computer often means figuring out what to do with the old one. And dispensing of an old or unneeded computer is no trivial task.