UN human rights chief Volker Türk says advanced AI could pose an existential risk to humanity, and is calling for agreed red lines.
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Huawei and Xiaomi have launched new flagship foldable smartphones, stepping up competition in the premium handset market.
M-Net and KykNet are leaving the confines of Premium, cricket is dropping to R399 and Compact Plus is disappearing altogether.
Mncane Mthunzi takes the role in an industry whose US exports have collapsed 74% and whose NEV transition is stalling.
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Debris believed to be from a Russian rocket used to resupply the International Space Station created a fiery display in the night sky over Johannesburg on Sunday evening.
Nedbank’s “super app” Avo will now sell Apple products after the bank was appointed as an Apple authorised reseller for the South African market.
The heady, decades-long era of rapid sales gains, boundless jobs growth and ever-soaring share prices is coming to an end.
Analysts and developers will be scouring between the lines for any hints about how a future mixed-reality headset might work.
Standard Bank’s head of IT engineering has “resigned with immediate effect” following a series of IT outages that have embarrassed the financial services giant.
Macrocomm has signed an agreement with Germany’s Bosch to build internet of things devices and sensors at Bosch’s manufacturing facility in Brits.
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Even by the standards of Uber Technologies, $5-billion is a lot to lose in three months of doing business. Yet, that’s the amount analysts expect to see for the second quarter.
Apple has been sued over claims that the privacy of Siri users was violated when human reviewers listened to customer recordings.
Walt Disney Co is pricing a new bundle of streaming services at a surprisingly low $12.99/month, challenging Netflix with a package that includes family programming, live sports and a deep library of television shows.
The escalating trade war between the US and China is nudging the world economy toward its first recession in a decade with investors demanding politicians and central bankers act fast to change course.
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
