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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M-Pesa and Visa have launched a virtual payment card in a bid to capture some of Africa’s $40-billion/year subscriptions market.
Government has signed power purchase agreements for 150MW of capacity from private projects by developer Scatec that were selected a year ago.
Computicket, the ticketing agency owned by Shoprite Group, has agreed to pay an R11.3-million “administrative penalty” to South Africa’s competition regulator.
Wiocc, one of the original investors in the Eassy submarine cable system, is gearing up for rapid expansion in data centres across Africa.
Former MTN South Africa CEO Godfrey Motsa has been appointed as the “non-life” CEO at insurance group Telesure Investment Holdings.
The R135-billion Medupi power plant won’t ever make a profit because of delays, design defects and increasing opposition to coal-fired electricity generation, one of its funders said.
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US President Donald Trump has once again accused Google of amplifying negative news stories about him, this time citing an ex-employee who claims he was fired for conservative bias.
The wealthiest 500 people on Earth lost 2.1% of their collective net worth on Monday as US stocks plunged in their biggest drop this year.
Shares of the biggest videogame makers tumbled on Monday after President Donald Trump blamed the industry for contributing to a culture of violence in the US.
Apple shares had their biggest one-day slump in more than two months amid the latest escalation of trade tensions between the US and China.
It’s been a good year for most technology stocks listed on the JSE. One notable exception is Gijima, whose share price has tumbled by more than two-thirds in the past 12 months as investors fret about the company’s future. It’s lost nearly half its value since it published its annual results in
In an ordinary-looking house at 18 Dennesig Street in Stellenbosch in the Western Cape, a company called HealthQ Technologies has built a “metabolic chamber” — a device used for recording oxygen consumption and carbon-dioxide production for measuring human metabolic activity
