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Pick n Pay’s asap! app is adding Penny, a Gemini-powered assistant that builds your basket by conversation.
Conversation versus replenishment: Enrico Ferigolli on Penny, Gemini and how Pick n Pay is taking on Sixty60.
Payments giant Visa has detailed how AI agents, richer tokens and blockchain settlement will reshape commerce.
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Eskom plans to propose that some of the funding to help tackle climate change take the form of loans to the government that could be converted to equity in the utility when needed.
Odd radio circles, or ORCs, have puzzled astronomers. But new data from South Africa’s MeerKAT telescope is helping to solve the mystery.
A court hearing on Tuesday will determine whether South Africa can move forward with a project to top up its energy capacity after a year of record power blackouts.
Last week, government concluded the auction of high-demand spectrum for mobile telecommunications. This is a significant milestone in our reform agenda.
The high court has halted construction of Amazon.com’s new Africa headquarters after some descendants of South Africa’s earliest inhabitants said the land it would be built on was sacred.
Following the cyberattack on credit bureau TransUnion, banking risk centre Sabric has said it is working with banks to protect consumers.
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Cloudflare, a US Internet firm that helps websites protect and distribute content, said it is terminating support for 8chan after the gunman in a mass shooting allegedly drew inspiration from members in the online messaging forum.
Facebook has announced the removal of hundreds of accounts from the social network originating in the Middle East.
US President Donald Trump has abruptly escalated his trade war with China, announcing that he would impose a 10% tariff on a further $300-billion in Chinese imports.
IBM has fired as many as 100 000 employees in the last few years in an effort to boost its appeal to millennials, according to a deposition from a former vice president in an age discrimination lawsuit.
As has become customary at this time of the year, TechCentral is pleased to present its lists of who it considers the biggest technology newsmakers over the past 12 months, both internationally and in South Africa. We kick it off, as always, with the five people the
Pretoria and Cape Town are home to two of the most advanced forensic laboratories in the world, but the biggest limitation to their efficacy is the lack of a national and standardised DNA database. Major-general Adeline Shezi of the South African Police Service’s forensic services division says the country has
































