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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Karpowership said some government agencies have stalled its projects and their conduct isn’t conducive to creating an attractive investment environment.
The Solana blockchain is back up and running after a software glitch caused an outage of more than four hours.
In a surprise development, Werner Kapp has stepped down as CEO of Dimension Data. He is being replaced in the role by Alan Turnley-Jones.
MultiChoice Group has dropped four e.tv channels from DStv after the Competition Tribunal ruled against e.tv parent eMedia in a dispute with the pay-television operator.
MTN Group has appointed Tim Pennington, until recently chief financial officer of Millicom International Cellular, to its board of directors.
Eskom has completed unit 4 at the Kusile power station, the long-delayed coal-fired power station, with the unit handed over to the company’s generation division on Tuesday.
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Japanese electronics firm NEC has unveiled a flying car which hovered steadily for about a minute. The test flight of the large drone-like machine with four propellers reached as high as three metres.
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.
Technology entrepreneur Stafford Masie spent two-and-a-half years working on the Payment Pebble smartphone payment device before it was unveiled last week by retail banking giant Absa. The device was engineered and built by Masie’s Centurion-based company Thumbzup, which he wants
If you play music outside of your home or car and there are other people around to hear it, technically you owe the Southern African Music Rights Organisation (Samro) money. And it doesn’t matter if the music is recorded or from the radio. The same holds true if you run































