South Africa ranks second globally for education spending but near the bottom for digital skills and outcomes.
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Government’s draft AI policy has proposed the creation of seven new institutions to govern AI in South Africa.
Meta, Amazon and Google are bankrolling advanced nuclear reactor projects to secure power for AI data centres.
Researcher BMIT forecasts 5G will account for two-thirds of all residential wireless broadband connections by 2029.
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The Competition Commission will investigate Canal+’s post-takeover decisions involving MultiChoice Group.
Zimi and Charge Holdings have signed a deal to support electric freight operations along the N3 highway.
iOCO is shifting from survival to growth mode with a new acquisition and strong interim results.
Mastercard is buying stablecoin infrastructure firm BVNK for up to $1.8-billion as it pushes into blockchain payments.
A powerful new iPhone exploit could affect hundreds of millions of Apple devices, researchers have warned.
Lekker.build says the internet should be for everyone, not just those who can afford a web designer or navigate code.
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Nvidia on Wednesday surprised Wall Street with accelerating growth after several quarters of slowing sales.
Cloudflare has restored its services after an outage prevented millions of people from accessing major internet platforms.
Soaring prices for memory chips, driven by data centre demand, threaten to increase the costs of smartphones and computers.
Europe’s telecommunications operators are set to gain access to the bulk of key spectrum coveted also by internet providers.
While appealing for some, artificial selective intelligence is of limited practical use. Unintended hallucinations are one thing, but deliberate delusions are another.
JB5 is a 30MW data centre that will house Teraco’s first at-scale artificial intelligence workloads. CEO Jan Hnizdo gave TechCentral a tour.
