Visa is integrating stablecoins into its payments network, positioning itself as the bridge to global merchant acceptance.
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Consumers are reshaping online payments as merchants race to meet growing demand for flexible digital options.
Solar parks and grid-scale batteries are set to deliver significant new capacity to South Africa’s grid in 2026.
The Wikimedia Foundation has secured deals with Microsoft, Meta and Amazon to monetise content for AI training.
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The Internet Service Providers’ Association has strongly criticised communications regulator Icasa for attempting to “micromanage” the sector.
A little-known digital token linked to the cardano blockchain has just become the third-largest virtual currency in the world as network developers look to ride the boom in decentralised finance.
Eskom has denied a media report that the company is actively recruiting new employees, saying it is “not hiring any new staff” and that there is “no recruitment drive”.
Pakamile Pongwana, an ICT industry veteran who led Icasa as CEO before a controversial exit four years ago, passed away last week, TechCentral has learnt.
Health department director-general Dr Nicholas Crisp has expressed concern that the demand for Covid-19 vaccines has decreased.
The total market value of cryptocurrencies has risen above $2-trillion again as bitcoin continued to climb and the likes of cardano, XRP and dogecoin advanced as well.
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Huawei has filed a motion in a US court challenging the constitutionality of a law that limits its sales of telecommunications equipment, the latest action in an ongoing clash with Washington.
Facebook says there are still “many open questions” about how it will use and keep data such as users’ Internet protocol addresses as part of its years-long plans to focus on privacy through messaging and groups.
Forget drones. The future of deliveries may be robo-vans. A Chinese start-up called Neolix has kicked off mass production of its self-driving delivery vehicles.
The US and Japan will “dramatically expand” their cooperation in outer space, with missions to Mars and the moon coming “very soon”, US President Donald Trump said.
This was not your typical car race. There was no revving of engines at the starting line, no screeching of tyres — just a gentle silent forward movement and they were off. We had gathered at the northern gate of the CSIR in Pretoria for the start of the Sasol Solar Challenge. For the next two weeks, 13 solar-powered
SA is waiting anxiously to hear what Eskom’s latest round of tariff hikes will be. But besides the tariff increases to pay for its current construction programme – the building of the Medupi, Kusile and Ingula power stations – the big question is how it is going to fund new generation capacity after that. The country’s

































