The AI extinction risk may be real, but the cure on offer looks more like the leading labs building a competitive moat.
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The finance minister says workshops and road maps have replaced delivery on technology policy.
JSE-listed fintech Optasia’s own full-year target implies second-half revenue could come in well below the first half.
A stronger rand has absorbed almost all of Apple’s US price increase – but only at the cheaper storage tiers.
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Standard Bank Group’s goal of adding at least 10 million customers ahead of a 2025 deadline has set the stage for a tug-of-war over Africa’s wealthiest clients.
A global surge in initial public offerings, especially in the technology sector, has so far eluded sub-Saharan Africa.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has expressed his condolences on the passing of Hlengiwe Mkhize, the former deputy minister of communications.
An EV uses the same rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that are in your laptop or mobile phone, they’re just much bigger and much more expensive.
The first all-civilian crew ever to circle the Earth from space blasted off from Florida on Wednesday aboard a SpaceX rocket ship and soared into orbit.
The US, Germany, France and the UK will send a delegation to South Africa as soon as next week to seek a deal to begin closing the country’s coal-fired plants.
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Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund is in talks that could see it becoming a significant investor in Tesla as part of Elon Musk’s plan to take the electric car maker private, according to a person with direct knowledge of the fund’s plans.
The Spotify app will be available when customers set up their new Samsung phones, a deal that could boost the music streaming service’s user base.
Google may be about to pair all that data it has on users’ Web browsing with the ads displayed on public billboards. Creepy? Maybe. Inevitable? Almost certainly.
Two days after Elon Musk vowed on Twitter that he had “funding secured” for a spectacular $82-billion deal to take Tesla private, he has offered no evidence to back up the statement
Telkom says the deadline for unbundling the local loop, the “last mile” of copper cables that connects consumers to its network, is “unrealistic”. Telkom’s chief of corporate governance, Ouma Rasethaba
The salesman at the solar power shop told me: “You have no idea how stupid batteries are.” That comment made me wonder about his intelligence, so it took me some time to realise the canny wisdom of this apparently dim statement
