Physical AI dominated CES this week, yet questions persist over affordability, usefulness and mass market demand.
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South Africa’s electricity supply has entered 2026 in its strongest position in at least five years, Eskom has said.
China’s AI sector is gaining confidence and risk appetite, but chip-making constraints still blunt ambitions to rival the US.
Silicon is transforming battery and charging technology, leading to thinner devices, larger capacities and faster charging.
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Where did you get my telephone number? Seldom has such a simple question elicited such a frantic response.
South Africa is seeking cheap finance for more than R400-billion of electricity infrastructure as part of its plans to move away from heavily polluting coal.
In the real world where real people live, Facebook has been causing significant damage. Mark Zuckerberg seems to think the best response to all of this is cosmetic.
Metrofile has agreed to buy 70% IronTree Internet Services from the founding shareholders, with the remaining tranche to be bought in 2024.
Mobile operators in Eswatini have been told to suspend access to Facebook and its messenger app after protests against the king flared up.
Vodafone said it would add nearly 7 000 software engineers to its workforce by 2025 to develop more of its own digital services across Europe and Africa.
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Technology firms are “robot vacuum cleaners” sucking up valuable data in a way that can undermine competition, European Union antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager said in a speech on Tuesday.
Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron’s governments have struck a deal to end a feud over France’s tax on some tech giants, the French president said.
Beyond Meat has another high-profile fast-food partner – KFC – to help the faux meat maker tackle a plant-based substitute for a different major protein source: chicken.
US President Donald Trump said China has asked to restart trade talks, hours after Beijing’s top negotiator publicly called for calm in response to a weekend of tit-for-tat tariff increases that sent global stocks plunging.
Mobile operators are reporting a sharp increase in Sim-swap fraud, where fraudsters request the companies to swap out Sims so that they can get the one-time Pins needed to perform transactions using Internet banking. Criminals do this to compromise consumers
Communications minister Dina Pule has levelled sensational allegations against three of South Africa’s top investigative journalists, but has failed to provide evidence to back up her claims, including that one of the journalists, Mzilikazi wa Afrika, attempted to blackmail her. Pule told
