Collaborate Disseminate
Officials are posting data from individual houses to try and convince people to conserve water—at the cost of their privacy. Continue reading Cape Town Is Surveilling Residents to Shame Them Into Using Less Water
Facing a water shortage, residents can no longer wash their cars with municipal water. And bars are cutting frozen margaritas from the menu. Continue reading Cape Town Residents Tell Us What It’s Like Living in the Shadow of ‘Day Zero’
We can’t get enough of hacker-con badges. BSides Cape Town, held Last December, featured an IR-equipped badge that immersed attendees in a game while they chatted.
A group led by [Andrew MacPherson] and [Mike Davis] designed the badge around an ESP8266 and 128×64 OLED display, with eight buttons, an IR receiver and transmitter, five “level” LEDs, an RGB LED, and a 600 mAh LiPo that charged over USB.
The hardware was designed specifically to play an organic game so that the organizers could watch the interaction between the badges in real time. Each badge was randomly sorted into a faction, …read more
When these two data centers come online in South Africa in 2018 that will bring the companies total number of global Azure facilities to 40. They are also the first company to expand into this region of the world.
