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 Airways CEO Vuyani Jarana has quit the financially stricken state-owned company, citing a lack of funding and drop in government support for the carrier’s turnaround plan.
The labour union whose members contribute most to the funds overseen by South Africa’s state pension manager wants the institution to stop investing in the debt of Eskom.
The BBM messaging service was closed down on Friday, marking the end for the once crown jewel of BlackBerry’s phone business.
Apple’s developer conference beginning on Monday will move the company closer to a future in which the iPhone is no longer the central cog for other products and services.
Bitcoin has a lingering problem that few people are talking about amid the renewed exuberance of the recent price surge.
American Tower Corp has agreed to buy Eaton Towers for R27.2-billion as one of the few international providers of telecommunications infrastructure expands in the fast-growing African market.
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Internet Explorer has been sliding downhill in market share for the past few years, but recently mined stats show something the critics never expected to see: a small but significant uptick in IE’s numbers since the beginning of 2012. Data from NetMarketShare show that while IE had indeed been in a slump for quite some time
Credit card processor Global Payments released a statement on Monday admitting that its systems have been compromised. The announcement came after reports surfaced that thousands of credit card accounts had been breached through its machines. Last week, security researcher Brian Krebbs discovered Visa and MasterCard were alerting US banks
Cloud storage powerhouse Dropbox revealed on Monday that half of the popular rock band U2, Bono and The Edge, are investors in the company. Dropbox closed a jaw-dropping US$250m round in October 2011, so it appears Bono and The Edge were part of that round that also included names like Index Ventures, Sequoia Capital
Take a moment to digest this news: Ashton Kutcher, he of That ’70s Show,Dude Where’s My Car?, and now Two and a Half Men fame, is reportedly attached to play the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in an upcoming biopic. The indie film will simply be titled Jobs, according to Variety’s Jeff Sneider. Shortly after
