Google is rolling out a wave of AI features in Gmail, aiming to turn the e-mail service into a proactive “inbox assistant”.
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China’s AI sector is gaining confidence and risk appetite, but chip-making constraints still blunt ambitions to rival the US.
Silicon is transforming battery and charging technology, leading to thinner devices, larger capacities and faster charging.
Physical AI dominated CES this week, yet questions persist over affordability, usefulness and mass market demand.
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South African businesses have had to respond to the coronavirus and lockdown restrictions since March. At the same time, the country’s economy is in crisis. Here’s how companies are coping.
Blue Label Telecoms has sold its interest in Blue Label Mexico to its partner in the business, multinational bakery products company Grupo Bimbo, for $11.5-million.
Woolworths on Thursday published its results for the 52-week period ended 28 June 2020 and, despite a slump in earnings caused by the Covid-19 lockdown, online sales spiked higher.
Sony said its next-generation PlayStation 5 console would launch in November priced at $499.99 and $399.99 for a version without a disc drive, as it squares off against rival Microsoft’s new Xbox console.
GoPro has unveiled its latest device, the Hero9 Black, which the firm has labelled a “beast” of a product. The updated camera has a new sensor capable of capturing 5K resolution video and 20-megapixel photos.
South Africa will move to lockdown alert level 1 from midnight on 20 September. President Cyril Ramaphosa made the announcement during a live address to the nation on Wednesday evening.
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It took more than three hours on Tuesday morning to get Spotify trading publicly, in a stock sale as unorthodox as streaming digital music once seemed. Spotify Technology’s shares – sold via a direct
Spotify Technology shares climbed from their reference price after it began trading through a direct listing on Tuesday. The company skipped the traditional initial public offering process in favour of a route rarely
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg hit back at recent remarks by Tim Cook, calling the Apple CEO’s criticism of the social media giant “extremely glib”. Cook was asked about Facebook’s privacy crisis last month and
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said it will take “a few years” to solve the issues plaguing the social media company. “I wish I could solve all these issues in three months or six months, but I just think the
Cell C is like a new company. In a presentation to media on Wednesday morning, CEO Lars Reichelt set out a radical new strategy and unveiled a revitalised brand image for the mobile operator. It may still be SA’s smallest cellular network by market share — Telkom hasn’t launched its mobile business yet — but under Reichelt, who was appointed to the job last year, Cell C is fast becoming the market’s feistiest player.
Pay-TV operator Super 5 Media on Tuesday retrenched all of its remaining employees, more than 40 people in all, and is now facing the prospect of liquidation if it isn’t able to pay one of its biggest creditors by the end of the week. TechCentral, which last week broke the news of the problems at the company, has now learnt Super 5 Media is facing a claim of as much as R25m from Rothschild, an international investment advisory company.
